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

by Steve Harmon (Author), Ann Winblad (Foreword) "THERE'S NO BETTER time than now to start a technology company..." (more)
Key Phrases: venture backing, venture unit, million valuation, Menlo Park, United States, New York (more...)

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Review
"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.

Product Description
The handbook for the next phenomenal period of venture capital. 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. Zero Gravity 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. Zero Gravity 2.0 also includes new sections on Web incubators, long-term trends, and other recent dot-com 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.

Key Features:
• In-depth coverage of the current operating climate of technology start-up companies
• Definition of the outlook for venture capital in the evolving, sobered-up, dot-com business environment
• The pros and cons of Web incubators; a snapshot of the top incubators and rising stars
• Updated "little black book" of venture capital
• New foreword by Ann Winblad, cofounder of the prominent venture capital firm Hummer Winblad
• Centric vs. Internet-enabled business models; how the model makes all the difference. Includes a list of which public companies fall into which category

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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: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,369,064 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Zero Velocity, May 14, 2001

By	J. Hartmann (New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Dribble, June 13, 2001

By	"solsen1" (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a disappointment, April 20, 2004

By	Dirk Puslich (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

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.