Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities | 
 enlarge | Author: David Silver
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 12083
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0470107421
Dewey Decimal Number: 659.2
EAN: 9780470107423
ASIN: 0470107421
Publication Date: May 18, 2007
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Praise for Smart Start-Ups
"Silver's new book is a masterpiece of clarity concerning the next great entrepreneurial wave, and my only problem with it was the charley horse in my elbow I got turning the pages."
-Robin Richards, founding President, MP3.com, and CEO, Notification Technologies Inc.
"Silver is a modern-day Prometheus. For community entrepreneurs, Smart Start-Ups contains the secrets of fire from the heavens. If you work with communities of any kind, you ignore this book at your own peril."
-John Szeder, former senior game developer, Digital Chocolate, Inc., and CEO, Mofactor, Inc.
"Silver dives in and pulls the naked truth out of the world of online communities. There's nothing like it on the shelves. He speaks with the best and brightest in the mobile and online community markets."
-Sean Malatesta, founder, Yack Media Services, and Vice President, Indiagames, Inc.
"Smart Start-Ups is a must-read for any aspiring Internet entrepreneur. Silver cuts right to the heart of the important fact that communities are like entire nations, but without geographic borders, and they're creating the greatest transformation since the Industrial Revolution."
-Clarence Briggs, founder and CEO, AIT.com
"Silver's book is an excellent, captivating, ingenious, and essential read for anyone who wants to know how to create wealth by starting an online community. One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way; Silver certainly succeeds in that respect."
-Kyle E. Gillman, founder and CEO, Forgefinder, Inc.
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 Much ado about nothing July 20, 2008
'Smart Start Ups' does start up smart: interesting possibilities to consider. But then, page and page is spent trying to convince you that the future is this one way street of online communities. Only in the final chapters does the author begin to unravel what you need to know the most: the 'how to do it' part. But once the book is finished you will still find yourself wondering how to get started.
 Invaluable for all entrepreneurs! May 19, 2008
After reading countless books that all seem to re-hash the same general "nuts-and-bolts" information, this book blew me away. David goes as far as telling you what to do, how to do it, why you should do it, and how to make millions doing it. Truly a one-of-a-kind book and author. I recommend this book to all entrepreneurs, whether starting or running an online, or offline business. The insight is pricesless.
One of the best books I've ever read May 19, 2008
This book is a phenominal book. If you are an entrepreneur and looking to build a cutting edge company, this is a must read!!!!! The ideas described and the central theme of where the Internet and Mobile age is moving is dead on. David provided some very insightful examples that, given some thought, can be applied to many different areas of business. I have read the book a few times and it keeps getting better and better each time I read it. If you don't read this book before embarking on your new journey, you will be short-changing yourself in a monumental way. Keep it up David. Looking forward to the next book!!!!!
Wow! May 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think this book is going to change my life.
Q: How many books truly have that potential?
A: Not many.
Buy this book. You won't regret it.
Page Turner May 5, 2008
When the desire to start a social network hit, i began scouring the web for information, how to's and how not to's. As an entrepreneur information overload can cause you to burn out. David Silver's book is an eye opener and a page turner, giving the essence without fluff. I read through all the reviews before I purchased his book and it was the one stars that convinced me that the book was worth a read as the reason the reviewer gave the one star was what i wanted. Excellent, Excellent book for any one who has their eye on the future
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