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Zero to one : notes on startups, or how to build the future Cover Image Book

Zero to one : notes on startups, or how to build the future

Thiel, Peter 1967- (Author). Masters, Blake (Blake G.) 1986- (Added Author). Buck, Matt (illustrator.).

Summary: "EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS HAPPENS ONLY ONCE. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange. Zero to One is about how to build companies that create new things. It draws on everything I've learned directly as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and then an investor in hundreds of startups, including Facebook and SpaceX. The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas. Ask not, what would Mark do? Ask: WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING? "--

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  • ISBN: 0804139296
  • ISBN: 9780804139298
  • Physical Description: print
    210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Business, [2014]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
1 Challenge of the Future 5 -- 2 Party Like It's 1999 12 -- 3 All Happy Companies Are Different 23 -- 4 Ideology of Competition 35 -- 5 Last Mover Advantage 44 -- 6 You Are Not a Lottery Ticket 59 -- 7 Follow the Money 82 -- 8 Secrets 93 -- 9 Foundations 107 -- 10 Mechanics of Mafia 118 -- 11 If You Build It, Will They Come? 126 -- 12 Man and Machine 140 -- 13 Seeing Green 152 -- 14 Founder's Paradox 173.

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New business enterprises
New products
Entrepreneurship
Diffusion of innovations

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  • 10 of 14 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
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