High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars

High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars

by Charles H . Ferguson (Author)

Synopsis

Charles Ferguson started Vermeer Technologies and turned his very big idea into FrontPage, the first software product for creating and managing a website. 12 months after starting the company he sold it to Microsoft for $133 million. This is his personal account of how Silicon Valley and technology start-ups really work - the sharks, networks, money, geniuses and what it takes to win in the Internet industry. where any speed below warp nine doesn't get you to takeoff.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Publisher: Texere Publishing
Published: 18 Jan 2001

ISBN 10: 1587990652
ISBN 13: 9781587990656

Author Bio
Charles H. Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies in 1993. He consulted for the White House, agencies in the US government, and leading high-tech companies. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Physics from Boston University. He has written for the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and Foreign Policy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign relations. He lives in Cambridge, MA.