Full name: Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet

Author: Michael Wolff Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Business Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780684848815 0684848813

Michael Wolff's wickedly funny chronicle of his rags-to-riches-to-rags adventure as a fledgling Internet entrepreneur exposes an industry powered by hype, celebrity, and billions of investment dollars -- and notably devoid of profit-making enterprises. As he describes his efforts to control his company's burn rate -- the amount of money the company consumes in excess of its income -- Wolff offers a no-holds-barred portrait of unaccountable successes and major disasters, including the story behind Wired magazine and its fanatical founder, Louis Rossetto; the rise of America Online, perhaps the most dysfunctional successful company in history, and the humiliating inability of people such as Bill Gates to untangle the intricacies of the Web. Similar books: dot.bomb by J. David Kuo Dot.con by John Cassidy Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe The Perfect Store by Adam Cohen The New New Thing by Michael Lewis Amazon.com by Robert Spector The Google Story by David A. Vise Small Business For Dummies by Eric Tyson Business adventures by John Brooks The Search by John Battelle Daring Greatly by Brene Brown The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham Getting Noticed by Lindsay Teague Moreno How to Win at the Sport of Business by Mark Cuban Opportunity Screams by Tom Asacker The Essays Of Warren Buffett by Warren E. Buffett Trump by Donald J. Trump Ice Breakers! by Tom Schreiter Beach Money by Jordan Adler