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An edition of High stakes, no prisoners (1999)

High stakes, no prisoners

a winner's tale of greed and glory in the Internet wars

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"High Stakes, No Prisoners is a sharp, insider's account of the way Silicon Valley really works: the sharks, powerful incumbents, and old-boy networks who play hardball all the time and the geniuses who make the products that have changed the world."--BOOK JACKET.

"Charles Ferguson started Vermeer Technologies and turned his very cool, very big idea into FrontPage, the first software product for creating and managing a website. A mere twenty months after starting the company, he sold it to Microsoft for $133 million, making a fortune for himself and his associates. FrontPage now has millions of users and is bundled with Microsoft Office. But getting there wasn't always fun."--BOOK JACKET.

"High Stakes, No Prisoners is the book about the Valley and reflects Ferguson's unique experience not only as a successful entrepreneur but also as a policy analyst, computer industry consultant, and academic."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Times Business
Language
English
Pages
392

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Table of Contents

Starting the company
The internet awakens as the giants sleep, 1990-94; the invention of the Web and Mosaic, Netscape's first browser, Vermeer gets a strategy, and much, much more
First-round funding
Vermeer, Fall 1994-Summer 1995; making a beautiful machine and preparing it for war
The industry, January-August 1995; Netscape lights its roman candle, Bill Gates wakes up, and AOL rolls with the punch
Wins and losses; or, no more Mr. Nice Guy
Wins and losses, continued; or, things get really complicated
The making of a deal
Speaking ill of the dead; a strategic analysis of Netscape's failure and the future of internet software
The Microsoft question
The future, and some large questions

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Other Titles
High st@kes, no prisoners

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.7/61004/092, B
Library of Congress
HD9696.2.U63 C354 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 392 p. ;
Number of pages
392

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24747031M
Internet Archive
highstakesnopris00ferg
ISBN 10
0812931432
ISBN 13
9780812931433
LCCN
99034560
OCLC/WorldCat
41439746

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15836949W

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