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Zero Gravity 2.0: Launching Technology Companies in a Tougher Venture Capital World, Second Edition [Hardcover]

Steve Harmon (Author), Ann Winblad (Foreword)
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Book Description

June 2001 Bloomberg Personal Bookshelf
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.


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"Read Zero Gravity 2.0 or you'll get zero traction in your fundraising efforts." -- Guy Kawasaki, Founder and CEO of Garage

"The standard has always been building profitable, DURABLE companies, something that Zero Gravity 2.0 emphasizes now more than ever." -- Vinod Khosla, Chairman, Asera Inc. and General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

I wish this book had been around when I co-founded Netscape....must-read for any entrepreneur looking at the Internet opportunity. -- Marc Andreessen, Co-founder, Netscape

Steve explains better than anyone the new metrics for success in the high velocity Internet Economy. -- Ann Winblad, founding partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

[A] "how-to guide" that no entrepreneur should be without. -- Bob Davis, President and CEO, Lycos, Inc.

About the Author

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

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomberg Press; Revised edition (June 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1576600858
  • ISBN-13: 978-1576600856
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,784,857 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Zero Velocity, May 14, 2001
This review is from: Zero Gravity 2.0: Launching Technology Companies in a Tougher Venture Capital World, Second Edition (Hardcover)
Readers who have followed Mr Harmon in his role as a columnist for internet.com (Internet Stock Guru) will find little new here. Harmon fills too many pages with quips and similes (and re-statements of the obvious) instead of insight or research.
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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Dribble, June 13, 2001
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"solsen1" (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zero Gravity 2.0: Launching Technology Companies in a Tougher Venture Capital World, Second Edition (Hardcover)
Wow this is a stinker. The only thing worse than the pointless musings in the book, is the revisionist history slant that is present throughout the text, pointing out that the author did not _really_ buy the internet hype. Well Harmon, you got Caught UP.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars What a disappointment, April 20, 2004
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Dirk Puslich (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This book is pure rubbish. Even worse than the first Zero Gravity book (I should have learned my lesson). If what you want is mindless anecdotes, shameless name dropping, and little substance, this is the book for you. For shame.
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THERE'S NO BETTER time than now to start a technology company. Read the first page
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venture backing, venture unit, million valuation, venture firms, term sheet, venture money, venture investors, venture network, portfolio companies, business services
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Menlo Park, United States, New York, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, Kleiner Perkins, Sand Hill Road, San Francisco, Wall Street, Marc Andreessen, Hummer Winblad, Jim Clark, John Doerr, Ann Winblad, Sun Microsystems, Time Warner, Vinod Khosla, Bill Gates, Critical Path, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Will Hearst, Accel Partners, Avici Systems, Digital Impact, General Partner
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