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  Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple : A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future

  by John Sculley, John A. Byrne

  The chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, with the aid of a Business Week editor, vividly describes how, after working as an executive for Pepsi-Cola, developing winning strategies in the Cola Wars, and being promoted to president at age 38, he abandoned a "second-wave" company to join Apple, a "third-wave" firm epitomizing flexibility, creativity, and innovation. Sculley tells of his mistakes, failings, and... (more)
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  Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams

  by David A. Kaplan

  In "the best book to date on the subject" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), prize-winning journalist David A. Kaplan brings to life the culture and history of Silicon Valley. The symbol of high-tech genius and ineffable wealth, a place that competes with Hollywood and Washington in the zeitgeist of success and excess, the Valley is the epicenter of the New Economy. Depending on yesterday's stock market close, roughly a... (more)
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  Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure

  by Jerry Kaplan

  In 1987, Jerry Kaplan embarked on every aspiring entrepreneur's dream--he formed his own company. Startup is Kaplan's riveting and insightful story about what it takes to create and maintain a company in he computer industry--and how to handle its remains when the world is not ready to accept what it proposes. This is both an inspiring personal account and a thrilling adventure story of what goes on behind the... (more)
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  The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

  by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond

  Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet -- for free. Today Torvalds is an international folk hero. And his creation LINUX is used by over 12 million people as well as by companies such as IBM. Now, in a narrative that zips... (more)
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  The Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley

  by Po Bronson

  As a novelist and writer for Wired and other publications, Po Bronson has earned a reputation as the most exciting and authentic literary voice to emerge from Silicon Valley. In his national bestseller The Nudist on the Late Shift he tells the true story of the mostly under-thirty entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries, who see the Valley as their Mecca. Taking us... (more)
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  Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

  by Michael A. Hiltzik

  In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created several monumental innovations that triggered a technological revolution, including the first personal computer,... (more)
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  The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest

  by Po Bronson

  Dazzling and outrageous, Po Bronson's The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest is a knowing, eye-opening, and unrelentingly funny insider's look at the ultimate millenial adventure: the gold rush in Silicon Valley. It is a novel that brazenly opens up the American dream and lays out its twisted circuitry for all to see.
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  The Monk and the Riddle : The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

  by Randy Komisar

  What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life . . . ? It's a question most of us consider only hypothetically-opting instead to "do what we have to do" to earn a living. But in the critically acclaimed bestseller The Monk and the Riddle , entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real. The book's timeless advice-to make work pay not just in cash, but in experience,... (more)
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  by John Sculley

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  Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, Collector's Edition

  by Paul Freiberger

  A book not to be missed, just plain good reading about the drama of the Kids next door turning their dreams into millions. --The New York Times Swaine and Freiberger capture the communal spirit of the early computer clubs, the brilliance and blundering of some of the first start-up companies, the assortment of naivete, noble purpose and greed that characterized various pioneers, and the inevitable... (more)