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Summary: Reads like a novel!
Review: A fine attempt, but it comes up lacking. First, the book is short and reads quick. I had the feeling that this would have been better off being a Washington Post 3 part series (boring series though). All characters are sketchy and I never found myself caring about any of them. I found dot.bomb a much better read.
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Summary: Would make a great article for the New York Times Magazine
Review: A fine attempt, but it comes up lacking. First, the book is short and reads quick. I had the feeling that this would have been better off being a Washington Post 3 part series (boring series though). All characters are sketchy and I never found myself caring about any of them. I found dot.bomb a much better read.
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Summary: Excellent Book on the Burst of the Internet Bubble
Review: I found it reprehensible that the author (who was invited by the individual he ended up attacking) to have a look at the working of a man's business and social life, would choose to make so many irrelevant personal criticisms. His entire piece (and it is but a piece being a very small book) is suspect when he makes comments such as Mr. Conway is somehow intellectually limited because he reads only business publications and books even when he is vacation. I guess I had better hide this book in a Tom Clancy novel when I'm at the beach. His personnel attacks became much more pointed and are not worth repeating. There probably is a sensational business story within this subject but since the story was tarted up with such cheap shots at Mr. Conway that this author's objectivity comes into in question. Perhaps Mr Rivlin would have preferred that everyone keep a low profile and just buy another beach house instead of hosting lavish parties and wantonly throwing money at children's health charities.
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Summary: A great read!
Review: Rivlin has written a marvelous, entertaining peek into the strange alice-in-wonderland world of high tech finance. Rivlin didn't allow himself to be co-opted by his subjects and the result is a frank and honest view that will make some insiders wince, but delight anyone trying to understand what makes Silicon Valley tick.
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Summary: Reads like a novel!
Review: The dot-com rise and fall that you can read in a couple of sittings. Rivlin does a really good job of telling the story of the madness of the dot-com bubble, and then its precipitous fall, through the story of one man, Ron Conway, who invested in more Internet startups (240) than anyone else. Rivlin has a good eye for detail, and his descriptions of some of the crazier ideas that Conway funded alone are worth the price of the book. You know things are going to end badly but that's the fun of this book, Rivlin somehow manages to make it all suspensful.
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Summary: Can't help but watch the car wreck...
Review: This is a fast, easy read. Perhaps it's a bit cruel to kick a man while he is down. But it sure is something to watch the action as he accelerates down the dot-com highway and then crash horribly. Read this book, learn very little, but what's a few hours in a down economy?
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