The Internet Entrepreneurs

The Internet Entrepreneurs

Author: Christopher Price

Publisher: FT Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0273649213

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In a short space of time, they have become some of the richest men and women in America today. Their actions are creating new markets and shaping entire industries.


Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa

Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa

Author: Nicolas Friederici

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2020-07-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 026236283X

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The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems. In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley-influenced narratives of boundless opportunity and exponential growth, in which internet-enabled entrepreneurship allows Africa to "leapfrog" developmental stages to take a leading role in the digital revolution. This book contrasts these aspirations with empirical research about what is actually happening on the ground. The authors find that although the digital revolution has empowered local entrepreneurs, it does not untether local economies from the continent's structural legacies.


Founders at Work

Founders at Work

Author: Jessica Livingston

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2008-11-01

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 143021077X

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Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover? Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done. But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businesses do—create value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.


The Digital Business Start-Up Workbook

The Digital Business Start-Up Workbook

Author: Cheryl Rickman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-05-09

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0857083058

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How do I know if my idea will work? How do I decide on the business model? How do I find my audience? Your digital business start-up journey begins here. From the bestselling author of The Small Business Start-up Workbook, Cheryl Rickman brings you a thoroughly practical guide to starting up a digital business, covering the full journey from idea to exit, with easy-to-implement strategies to make your online venture an ongoing success. With a combination of tips, exercises, checklists, anecdotes, case studies and lessons learned by business leaders, this workbook will guide you through each step of digital business. Learn how to: • Assess whether your business idea will work online/digitally • Choose the right business model for your proposition and avoid wasting time • Assess demand, viability and uncover untapped needs and gaps in the market • Build a usable, engaging website and mobile app • Create a buzz using social networking • Drive high quality traffic to your site and convert visitors into paying customers • Use search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM) tools effectively • Raise finance and protect your business • Build and maintain a strong brand • Recruit and retain a strong team • Sell the business or find a suitable successor. Reviews for the book: “If you want advice on starting your own internet business, don’t ask me, read this book instead. It is more up-to-date and costs far less than a good lunch.” Nick Jenkins, Founder of Moonpig.com “This book excels in providing practical guidance on how to create a successful digital business which exceeds customer expectations and keeps customers happy each step of the way.” Scott Weavers-Wright, CEO of Kiddicare.com, and MD of Morrison.com (non-food) “If you read just one book on digital business, make it this one... It is inspirational, informative and interactive in equal measure. Highly recommended!” Rowan Gormley, Founder and CEO of NakedWines.com “Interspersed with inspiring and useful stories from successful entrepreneurs, this book can help aspiring business owners through a step-by-step process of refining their start-up ideas and building a solid business.” Elizabeth Varley, Founder and CEO of TechHub


Internet Entrepreneurs

Internet Entrepreneurs

Author: Stuart A. Kallen

Publisher: Referencepoint Press

Published: 2016-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781682820285

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Internet entrepreneurs have changed the way people shop, communicate, learn about current events, and navigate the world. Profiled in this book are founders of the world's most popular Internet destinations: Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post), Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Perry Chen (Kickstarter), and Travis Kalanick (Uber).


Secrets of Online Entrepreneurs

Secrets of Online Entrepreneurs

Author: Bernadette Schwerdt

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0730320367

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Discover the secrets of success behind Australia's top online businesses and maximise your own online potential Secrets of Online Entrepreneurs is the ultimate ‘how to' guide for creating, building, and selling an online business. Packed with inspiring stories of how some of Australia's most successful online entrepreneurs built their businesses, these internet mavericks will reveal the secrets of their success and provide valuable insights into how anyone with a hobby, passion, or innovative business idea can take advantage of the vast opportunities that a global market now offers. Whether you want to build an online business from scratch or amplify your existing online presence, these hard-hitting interviews will give you the practical tools, tips, and strategies you need to fast-track your business idea and take it from concept to completion. You'll discover what industries are ready for disruption, how to spot a profitable niche, how to growth hack a database, why most online businesses fail, how to access a vast array of free tools to help you get your online idea off the ground, and much more. Most importantly, you'll discover why there's never been a better time to launch an online business. Discover the 7-step process for building an online business that will exponentially increase your likelihood of success Learn how to measure, test, and evaluate demand for an online product or service before you launch it Access the templates, cheat sheets, websites, and apps used by the entrepreneurs to build their businesses and learn how you can apply them to your business too. Don't miss this next wave of industry disruption. Get on board the internet express and snare a slice of the pie for what promises to be one of the most transformational times in business history.


Net Entrepreneurs Only

Net Entrepreneurs Only

Author: Ernst & Young LLP

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2001-09-04

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0471436887

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Featuring Winners of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards In their own words . . . Jay S. Walker-priceline.com Mike McNulty and Mike Hagan-VerticalNet Christina Jones-pcOrder William Porter and Christos Cotsakos-E*Trade Gregory K. Jones-uBid Russell Horowitz-Go2Net Ken Pasternak-Knight/Trimark William Schrader-PSINet Pierre Omidyar-eBay Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner-broadcast.


Digital Entrepreneurship

Digital Entrepreneurship

Author: Ronny Baierl

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-08-02

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 3030201384

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Digital technologies have become a new economic and social force, reshaping traditional business models, strategies, structures, and processes. Digital entrepreneurship, which focuses on creating new ventures and transforming existing businesses by developing novel digital technologies or their novel usage, is seen as a critical pillar for economic growth, job creation, and innovation by many countries. Further, digital technologies have also enabled the growth of the sharing economy, linking owners and users and disrupting the previous dualism of businesses and customers.This volume discusses the management of new technology-based firms and technology projects initiated in academic or industrial contexts. The contributions feature new theoretical concepts, ethical considerations, empirical data analysis (qualitative and quantitative), archival and historical methods, design science approaches, action and field research, as well as management science methods, informatics and cybernetics.


Digital Entrepreneurship

Digital Entrepreneurship

Author: Mariusz Soltanifar

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-13

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 3030539148

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This open access book explores the global challenges and experiences related to digital entrepreneurial activities, using carefully selected examples from leading companies and economies that shape world business today and tomorrow. Digital entrepreneurship and the companies steering it have an enormous global impact; they promise to transform the business world and change the way we communicate with each other. These companies use digitalization and artificial intelligence to enhance the quality of decisions and augment their business and customer operations. This book demonstrates how cloud services are continuing to evolve; how cryptocurrencies are traded in the banking industry; how platforms are created to commercialize business, and how, taken together, these developments provide new opportunities in the digitalized era. Further, it discusses a wide range of digital factors changing the way businesses operate, including artificial intelligence, chatbots, voice search, augmented and virtual reality, as well as cyber threats and data privacy management. “Digitalization mirrors the Industrial Revolution’s impact. This book provides a complement of perspectives on the opportunities emanating from such a deep seated change in our economy. It is a comprehensive collection of thought leadership mapped into a very useful framework. Scholars, digital entrepreneurs and practitioners will benefit from this timely work.” Gina O’Connor, Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College, USA “This book defines and delineates the requirements for companies to enable their businesses to succeed in a post-COVID19 world. This book deftly examines how to accomplish and achieve digital entrepreneurship by leveraging cloud computing, AI, IoT and other critical technologies. This is truly a unique “must-read” book because it goes beyond theory and provides practical examples.” Charlie Isaacs, CTO of Customer Connection at Salesforce.com, USA "This book provides digital entrepreneurs useful guidance identifying, validating and building their venture. The international authors developed new perspectives on digital entrepreneurship that can support to create impact ventures.” Felix Staeritz, CEO FoundersLane, Member of the World Economic Forum Digital Leaders Board and bestselling author of FightBack, Germany