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| Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 | 
| Author: Sarah Lacy
Publisher: Gotham
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (34 reviews)
Sales Rank: 50887
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 1592403824
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.4700670979473
EAN: 9781592403820
ASIN: 1592403824
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Book, illustrating and educating on the Web 2.0 August 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a great book. I enjoyed it while learning about how the old and new VC work. Really inspiring stories on how the web 2.0 got build.
Social Networking Start Ups should be required to read this book! August 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Once your lucky, twice your good...by Sarah Lacy.... A MUST READ, for any internet start up!
I LOVE this book i am only half way through but had to share my feelings about it thus far. As an online web entrepreneur, i speak with thousands of potential "mega stars" each year and listen to ideas, dreams and plans on how to "make it", this book easily shares insights into a world most of us business types only dream of as well as gives you a glimpse into the lives of some of the internet's brightest starts. This book has ignited by passion for what I do. Thank you Sarah!
sandy rowley
www.megastarmedia.com
custom social networks
The best book about the people that made the social web happen August 7, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Since John Battelle's "The Search," I haven't had such a good read about people that make web technologies happen. But his book was very focused on a single technology, while Sarah Lacy has chosen to deal with a whole period in Silicon Valley's history: the emergence and glory days of Web 2.0 (arguably those days are not over yet).
Sarah has a provocative style, she knows what she is talking about and she knows the folks that play the game. Her writing flows like the words in her columns, which she has been writing for nearly ten years now. In the course of the book, she carefully weaves a tale that lets the reader see where all the pieces fall: where each Web 2.0 entrepreneur (or "nontrepreneur" as she refers to Blogger's and Twitter's Evan Williams) connects with the next one and where did he get the inspiration (or the funding) from to pursue the next big thing.
Throughout the book's eleven chapters, I found myself referring back to a very useful diagram that she included in the beginning, which shows at a very top level companies and people, showing who was founder, investor and employee of which.
You do not need to be a geek to enjoy the book, but you will if you are. You certainly do not have to live in Silicon Valley to know what she is talking about, but you will get a kick out of local references if you live or work in the stretch of 101 between San Francisco and San Jose. You do not need to be a web entrepreneur to want to devour the book, but if you are, you will find yourself flipping through the pages in search of yet more interesting and passionate anecdotes from the people that made Web 2.0 what it is today.
Sarah Lacy's book is a must read for anyone using the social web today: in case you didn't realize it, that means every one of us!
 what's happening in the Web 2.0 space August 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
a great book on what's happening in the Web 2.0 space in Sillicon Valley. why bubbles happened and will happen again in the valley, why LinkedIn.com could become one of the first stand-alone $ 1bn plus companies to come out of the Web 2.0, who launched three billion-dollar-plus companies, how cheap starting a Web business became in just a few years and in great detail about the Zuckerberg phenomenon. while the stories are heavily skewed towards well-known Web 2.0 names, it's a great read for anyone who wants to know what's happening in the Web 2.0 space in Sillicon Valley ... and L.A. ;-)
The New Webs August 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The author describes new profit opportunities for the
world wide web. For instance, there are new web companies,
social networks, myspace, utube, the facebook online
picture directory and a plethora of other modalities.
These new companies and processes are natural outgrowths
of Silicon Valley. Digg.com provides a practical
way of voting on important news issues of the day.
Slide provides for a customized or virtual self.
The work will provide an important business perspective
to the new web technologies available to the public
in virtually every area of expertise.
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