Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley
Author: Casey Kait, Stephen Weiss
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ISBN: 0066209234
Publisher: Regan Books (22 May, 2001)
Sales Rank: 245,156
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 1 out of 5
Boring - lost interest
This book is snippets of conversations from people who were influences in the .com era. Unfortunately, there are so many people, I have no idea who JOHN is or what project he was related with. And I don't care. The book does nothing to tell a story. Its not really a book...its more like journal someone would use to write a book.I am very interested in the real-life stories of .com businesses...how they got started, how big they got and how they fell from grace.
This is not one of those books.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Content interesting but structured badly
The content of this book is interesting and even fascinating at times. However, the way the content is structured makes it difficult to read and understand. Essentially, the authors have conducted many interviews of the key players of Silicon Alley companies in New York. The interviews provide a story of the rise of Silicon Alley from 1995 to 2000. What makes the story so interesting is the rapid rise of the companies such as theglobe.com and then in 2000 the rapid fall. There are many companies stories in the book and also a description of New York culture through-out the period. The whole book would be more interesting if it had been organised in chapters according to each company. Instead the book is organised by themes like "The New Worker". The chapter then contains partial segments of interviews from many interviews conducted which help to understand the theme. This causes quite a bit of confusion, because it is similar to skipping from one music track to another very quickly . It would have been better for the authors to do as little work as possible an simply presented the interviews as they were created. This would have turned the book into a narrative of easy and historically fascinating reading.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Really NOT worth reading.
This 'book' is nothing but a collection of stutters from too many people. There is no central character to follow. Its really hard to stay motivated in reading this. Similar Products
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