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Zero Gravity Version 2.0: Launching Technology Companies in a Tougher Venture Capital World by Steve Harmon β€” book cover

Zero Gravity Version 2.0: Launching Technology Companies in a Tougher Venture Capital World

by Steve Harmon, Ann Winblad
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Overview

Zero Gravity quickly became one of the defining books during an unprecedented period in entrepreneurship. But, the world it described and helped shape changed dramatically in the spring of 2000. Now, noted Internet stock analyst Steve Harmon provides an even more penetrating look into the quicksilver world of Internet venture capital and its lasting role in the world enterprise economy.

Version 2.0, revised in concept and content like a major new software update, confidently capitalizes on the best of the old and the new. It features insightful analysis of the 1999-2000 dot-com correction, which affected the portfolios, psychology, expectations, and metrics of venture capitalists. Harmon looks at emerging trends from the vantage point of an entrepreneur. He also shares his perspective on the prospects for obtaining early-stage money over the next several years, now that the first Internet wave has crested.

Version 2.0 also includes new sections on Web incubators, long-term trends, and other recent dotcom developments, plus updated statistics, tables, and resources. And Harmon offers a thought-provoking analysis of the dark underbelly of e-commerce: backlashes by copyright holders and regulators to some Internet business models, new roadblocks in broadband data capacity, and more.

Zero Gravity is written from an insider's point of view. It's packed with insights from top Internet venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, features a new foreword by Ann Winblad, and is the perfect plug-in to the world of e-commerce start-ups.

A noted Internet stock analyst takes a penetrating look into the quicksilver world of Internet venture capital and its lasting role in the world enterprise economy.

Synopsis

A noted Internet stock analyst takes a penetrating look into the quicksilver world of Internet venture capital and its lasting role in the world enterprise economy.

Ann Winblad

Steve explains better than anyone the new metrics for success in the high velocity Internet Economy.

About the Author, Steve Harmon

Harmon is Vice President, Business Development, Senior Investment Analyst, Mecklermedia, The Internet Media Company.

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Editorials

Ann Winblad

Steve explains better than anyone the new metrics for success in the high velocity Internet Economy.

Bob Davis

[A] "how-to guide" that no entrepreneur should be without.

Marc Andreessen

I wish this book had been around when I co-founded Netscape....A must-read for any entrepreneur looking at the Internet opportunity.

Book Details

Published
January 1, 2001
Publisher
Bloomberg Press
Pages
311
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781576600856

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