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A classic, but skip Apress’ awful paperback edition

ByAlan Hoganon December 7, 2015

This book contains great interviews by an insightful and influential person. While I haven’t finished it yet, I am writing this review mostly to be able to add some product images. I was horrified by the quality of the printing of this book! Apress, the publisher, ought to be ashamed. I have uploaded images showing how poorly the printed word looks in the paperback edition. Note the awful dithering (fuzziness). None of the letters are crisp. It almost looks like a cheap photocopy on a bargain-basement laser printer.

I do not know if the hardcover edition has this problem or not.

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but the terrible print quality(soft cover) - the main text of the ...

ByX. Guoon October 10, 2015

My 1-start rating isn't for the content of the book, but the terrible print quality(soft cover) - the main text of the book is printed in a font that's not a solid block but with some pattern, which makes it appear out of focus - very uncomfortable to read. I have decided to return the book.
Was trying to get the Kindle version as many reviews are based on that, but somehow it's no longer available :(

Attached is a picture I took with a page from this book. It actually reads worse than that due to the out of focus effect.

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Too much tech!

ByJon Stantonon October 13, 2015

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

The interviews were fine but having every single interview be from a start-up from Silicon Valley at the height of the technology bubble seemed to get a bit old fast. Every one of them seemed to have no problem getting funding and that is not the case with a very high majority of entrepreneurs. I guess I am a bit jaded because I had this book for a master level entrepreneurship class and all of the analyses of the cases seemed to be the same.

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Mostly rambling

ByT.J. Morettoon November 1, 2011

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

There are some small areas of interesting dialog in this book, but most of it is meaningless, in-the-weeds babble. The book could have been great, but the questions posed to the founders are so open-ended and random that nothing but rambling comes out the other end. Not worth the time it takes to pick out the good parts from all of the junk.

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No more manufacturing??

ByAmazon Customeron June 8, 2016

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

It was all about people that developed software or e.com., businesses. I was hoping that it would be about people that started manufacturing companies.

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