High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars: Amazon.de: Charles Ferguson: Englische Bücher

Gebundene Ausgabe: 400 Seiten
Verlag: Crown Business (13. Oktober 1999)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0812931432
ISBN-13: 978-0812931433
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 16,8 x 3,6 cm

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If you've ever gone out to lunch with a coworker and suddenly found yourself witness to a savage stream of unflattering assessments of bosses, wicked gossip, and the-emperor-has-no-clothes analysis of your industry, you'll know what it's like to read High Stakes, No Prisoners. Ferguson, an MIT PhD., started up a company called Vermeer Technologies in 1994, a rough time for start-ups in Silicon Valley. The country was coming out of a recession, the stock market was stagnant, and the Internet wasn't yet taken seriously by those with money to invest. Vermeer had a software program called FrontPage that only someone who understood the coming power of the Net could appreciate. Even in Silicon Valley, few were so prescient.

Most of High Stakes is the story of Vermeer, from its start-up to its sale to Microsoft. (Now bundled with Microsoft Office, FrontPage is used by more than 3 million people worldwide.) Along the way, Ferguson met the players in the Valley and formed strong opinions of them. He describes Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale as an egomaniac and technological dolt in way, way over his head. Oracle founder Larry Ellison is "severely warped." One of his best lines sums up Silicon Valley as a place where "one finds little evidence that the meek shall inherit the earth."

But this isn't just the technological equivalent of WWF trash-talking. Ferguson is very tough on himself, too, and details his own shortcomings as a person and a businessman. Mostly, it's a gloves-off account of how things really get done in high technology today, as refreshingly honest and acerbic an account as you'll ever read. --Lou Schuler -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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If you've ever gone out to lunch with a coworker and suddenly found yourself witness to a savage stream of unflattering assessments of bosses, wicked gossip, and the-emperor-has-no-clothes analysis of your industry, you'll know what it's like to read High Stakes, No Prisoners. Ferguson, an MIT Ph.D., started up a company called Vermeer Technologies in 1994, a rough time for startups in Silicon Valley. The country was coming out of a recession, the stock market was stagnant, and the Internet wasn't yet taken seriously by those with money to invest. Vermeer had a software program called FrontPage that only someone who understood the coming power of the Net could appreciate. Even in Silicon Valley, few were so prescient.

Most of High Stakes is the story of Vermeer, from its startup to its sale to Microsoft. (Now bundled with Microsoft Office, FrontPage is used by more than 3 million people worldwide.) Along the way, Ferguson met the players in the Valley and formed strong opinions of them. He describes Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale as an egomaniac and technological dolt in way, way over his head. Oracle founder Larry Ellison is "severely warped." One of his best lines sums up Silicon Valley as a place where "one finds little evidence that the meek shall inherit the earth."

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This book is really stupid... not worth reading. 25. Oktober 1999

Von E. Mathewson

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High Stakes, No Prisoners. should be titled, In Over My Head. Charles Ferguson uses this book to skewer everyone in the Tech World. Particularly those who weren't patient listening to his paranoid rants. Charles had a good idea with the Frontpage product and it was successful despite his pathetic management. He was very luck to align himself with some talented people who worked very hard to mitigate his damage. The few times that Charles is right in this book is when he calls himself names! The other time was when he states that he was the only Vermeer employee that did not get a job offer from Microsoft when they were sold. In fact, Microsoft paid him to stay silent for 18 months just to make sure he wouldn't undermine the whole purchase. Don't waste your money on this book.

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What They Forgot to tell you About Business Start-ups 19. September 2000

Von Jacob Ludington

I'm currently involved in launching an Internet company right here in Des Moines, Iowa. One of the people we asked to sit on our board of directors said, "Read High Stakes, No Prisoners and then ask me." Whether he chooses to accept the board position or not, that was some of the most relevant business advice we've received. There are many parallels between what Charles Ferguson went through at the beginning of Vermeer and what our team is experiencing now.

High Stakes points out any number of potential traps that start up companies can fall into from the development of concept to the actual product launch. Ferguson analyses what Vermeer did do and suggests how different and sometimes better outcomes would have been achieved if he and his team would have looked at issues from other angles.

The book clearly spells out what to look for and what to avoid in areas like finding the right legal counsel, negotiating with venture capitalists and hiring executives. Sections covering these topics will be invaluable to anyone launching a company.

Ferguson also offers some brilliant insight into the Microsoft/Netscape browser war. He clearly points out where Netscape stumbled and how Microsoft capitalized on Netscapes' for gone opportunities.

I could have done without the last three chapters of the book covering Ferguson's opinions of the Microsoft antitrust case and the future of the Internet. He could have stopped at the point where Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft. However, the first 8 chapters of the book should be required reading for anyone seeking to launch an Internet company.

Good book by a jerk; but he's smart! 14. Juli 2000

Von Ein Kunde

I totally enjoyed this tale of Ferguson's experience in building this company. It is a well chronicled, candid account of virtually everything that goes in to making a startup company go, including identifying the initial concept, recruiting talent, attracting venture money, going to market, and ultimately being acquired. Ferguson honestly portrayed himself as a driven visionary with great ideas, lots of energy, and full of human flaws. What Ferguson doesn't cop to is his narcissism and intellectual arrogance. Absolutely EVERYBODY of any consequence in this story is evaluated based on how "smart" they are ("he was very smart"; he was smart but very arrogant"; "he wasn't very smart";). God that was tiring. But not unexpected based on the type of a**hole Ferguson seems to be. More than once he talks of his total disdain for any type of small talk, pleasantries, or any sort of normal conversation. You can't help but get the feeling that he's an intellectual snob, and absolutely the last person you'd want to be stuck in an elevator with. I'll bet he's a MENSA member.