Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future||
Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
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| 17 of 17 people found the following review helpful  A new perspective on starting a business & measuring monopoly. A decent read for entrepreneurs, Verified Purchase(What is this?) This review is from: Zero to One: Note on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future (Paperback) The book gives a completely new perspective on how businesses should be run or rather on what basis one should even start a company. Discusses mostly about monopoly - and a definition for it. I have come across this measure of monopoly for the first time. The author emphasizes the importance of salesmen. Says the real selling is when customers are not even aware that the selling is happening. And goes on to sell his product, his current investment to the readers - not sure how many realised this. At the end, there was too much focus on trivial and uninteresting things like how founders are eccentric - may be he wants to show the audience that how cool he is. No credit was given to Sean Parker who introduced Zuckerberg to Thiel - the first major outside investment in Facebook. Instead Parker was portrayed as a villain who didn't know what he was doing. It ends with a philosophy called Singularity where there is infinite hope for the future. And according to the author, technology is... Read more 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful  Recommended for every entrepreneur and entrepreneur-in-the-making, By R. Sampathkumar (Chennai, India) - See all my reviews Verified Purchase(What is this?) This review is from: Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future (Kindle Edition) There are so many good ideas and so much good advice in this book, that I find it hard to not recommend it to entrepreneurs. If you're considering starting a business, please evaluate your ideas critically, with the ideas in this book. Creating a new firm is a challenge and an activity like no other - this is the zero to one that Thiel refers to and examines in such detail. There are great passages all through the book. For me personally, the chapter on sales was eyeopening, and the passages around the two sources of ideas - from society and from the physical world - towards the middle of the book were great. 13 of 13 people found the following review helpful Must-Read!, By Verified Purchase(What is this?) This review is from: Zero to One: Note on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future (Paperback) This is one of those must-read books for everyone, especially for Startups and Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but this book does put light on the fundamentals of starting a business. |
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