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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (2007) is a book written by Jessica Livingston composed of interviews she did with the founders of famous technology companies concerning what happened in their early years.
Chris Sherman in his review for Booklist said that "Fletcher captures perfectly the humor, irritations, and sadness of life in a large, close-knit family and makes Cliff a sympathetic and thoughtful narrator, occasionally bewildered by his siblings' antics but always a completely believable older brother. The comedy in the final chapter will ...
The novel introduces I. M. Fletcher, a journalist and former Marine camping undercover on a beach watching the drug culture for a story. He wants to find the origin of a dealer's seemingly endless supply of drugs before publishing an exposé.
As a hobby business, Fletcher Jones became involved in the breeding and racing of thoroughbred horses. In 1966, he acquired a 3,912-acre (15.83 km 2) property near Santa Ynez, California that he named Westerly Stud Farms. In addition to a large home, he built a U-shaped main barn, breeding sheds, and other service buildings, as well as a half ...
Prescott viewed the book as reminiscent of Austin Tappan Wright's Islandia and E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros and Mistress of Mistresses, though not "in a class with them." He felt the author "quite wonderful [in] creating a world of his own and competent enough [in] telling a story of heroic action" but "no hand at characterization," with ...
With a gentle nod to Margaret Wise Brown, the child's morning is the moon's setting Ca sleepy head winking/ falling/slow motion/ onto its pillow"), and the book ends appropriately with the girl bidding, "Good night, harvest moon."" [3] Kirkus Reviews said "Fletcher tracks that moon's nocturnal path in language rich in metaphor: "With silent ...
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses is a book by Eric Ries published in 2011 which describes his proposed lean startup strategy for startup companies. [1]
In the late 1940s he began to turn his business into a co-operative, named Fletcher Jones & Staff Pty Ltd. Initially the Jones family had a two-thirds interest and the staff one-third, but the balance gradually swung so that by the 1970s the staff held over 50 per cent of the shares.