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An edition of New New Thing, The (1999)

The new new thing

a Silicon Valley story

1st ed.

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" ... describes a vast paradigm shift in American culture: a shift away from conventional business models and definitions of success, and toward a new way of thinking about the world and our control over it. The rules of American capitalism--how money is raised, how the spoils are divided--have been drastically rewritten according to a single entrepreneur's vision of the future of the Internet ..."--Jacket.

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W. W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
268

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Subjects

Computer software industry, Businessmen, Biography, History, Industrie et commerce, Hommes d'affaires, Biographies, Histoire, Logiciels, Industrie, Netscape Communications Corporation, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Businesspeople, biography, Microelectronics industry, california, santa clara valley (santa clara county), Entrepreneurship, Clark, Jim (1944- ), Jim Clark, Computer industry, Businesspeople, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Industries, Service, Computerindustrie, Clark, Jim, 1944-

People

Jim Clark (1944-)

Places

United States, États-Unis

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First Sentence

"The original plan, which Lord knows didn't mean very much when that plan had been made by Jim Clark, was that we would test the boat quickly in the North Sea and then sail it across the Atlantic Ocean."

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The boat that built Netscape
2. The accelerated grimace
3. The past in a box
4. Disorganization Man
5. Inventing Jim Clark
6. The boom and the mast
7. Throwing sand in capitalists' eyes
8. The great brain quake of August 9, 1995
9. The home of the future?
10. God mode
11. How chickens become pork
12. New new money
13. Cheese sandwiches for breakfast
14. Could go either way
15. At sea in the home of the future
16. Chasing ghosts
17. The turning point
18. The new new thing
19. The past outside the box
Epilogue
Acknowledgments.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.4/70053/092, B
Library of Congress
HD9696.63.U62 C585 2000, HD9696.63.U62C585, HD9696.63.U62 C585 2000eb, HD 9696.63 U62 C585 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
268 p. ;
Number of pages
268

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7451657M
ISBN 10
0393048136
LCCN
99043412
OCLC/WorldCat
42038497, 44957594
LibraryThing
25947
Goodreads
1063574

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OL7944808W

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