起業家ジム・クラーク [単行本]

From the cofounder of Netscape and the inspiration for Michael Lewis's bestselling "The New, New Thing," comes a thrilling insider's account of the race to beat Microsoft for control of the Internet.
Netscape was a tiny start-up company that ultimately revolutionized business and communications for the entire world. Jim Clark tells the fascinating story of how he, Marc Andreessen, and a core group of programmers turned an esoteric computer program into a visionary new technology used by millions. Challenged from the start by competition, a seemingly bottomless pit of expenses, and a need for secrecy from the roving eye of Microsoft, Clark's programmers spent days at a stretch in front of their computer screens, rushing to produce their revolutionary Web browser under the enormous pressure of time. Clark vividly re-creates the tense, thrilling atmosphere of the start-up company in a nail-biting tale of drama and suspense. Netscape Time is also an inspiring manual for anyone who wishes to take advantage of the endless business possibilities of today's technology. Indeed, Clark, the only person ever to found three multibillion-dollar start-ups, is perhaps more qualified than any businessman today to show how it's done.
As a business book, as a reflection of our technology culture, and as a purely enjoyable read, "Netscape Time" is perhaps the most significant book about the rise of the Internet ever to be published.
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シリコングラフィックス、ネットスケープ、ヘルシオンを創業・株式公開に成功。時代を先駆けるビジネス・モデルを生み続ける天才起業家が自ら語る10億ドル企業の作り方。

シリコングラフィックス社、ネットスケープ社、そして最近話題の医療ソフトサービス会社ヘルシオン社を創業、更にナスダック市場において店頭公開させた類まれなる起業家が、ネットスケープ社の創業から店頭公開までを語る。

Sitting at your desk, not getting much done, you finally give in to the temptation and click onto www.coolwaytokilltime.com. Little do you know, as you check on the price of cattle futures in Bolivia, that you have Jim Clark to thank for this wonderful research tool and time waster. Clark didn't invent the Internet (that was the Pentagon, looking for an inscrutable way to transmit classified information--or Al Gore, if you can believe him) or even the World Wide Web (that was a Swiss researcher named Tim Berners-Lee). Nor did he invent the first Web browser with a graphical interface; that was a pair of University of Illinois computer geeks named Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. What Clark did was team up with Andreessen to create Netscape, and their first product, Netscape Navigator, made the Net more universally accessible than it had ever been. It also made a lot of people really rich, a fact Clark dwells on in perhaps too much detail.

The story of Netscape alone is thrilling enough, but Clark also gives tremendous insight into the real way American business operates nowadays--the speed, the risks, and the hatred for rivals (lots of hatred, mostly for Microsoft and Bill Gates.) Most of the book covers the founding of Netscape Communications, but there's an epilogue, too, discussing the merger of Netscape with America Online, the ongoing battle with Microsoft, and, most important, the impact the Web has had on everyday life. Clark makes a sound argument that Netscape had a lot to do with that. Oh, and did you know it made him rich? --Lou Schuler
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In this sharply written account, Clark provides the ultimate insider's look at Netscape from its launch in summer 1994 to its sale to America Online in late 1998. Netscape's origins can be traced to when Clark was forced out of the first company he founded, Silicon Graphics. Bolstered by a "minor fortune" of $15 million, Clark was determined to do financially better for himself in his next venture. At the suggestion of a colleague, Clark met with Marc Andreessen, a recent graduate of the University of Illinois who had led the team that developed the Mosaic Web browser. The two hit it off, and after some false starts, they decided to form a company dedicated to building a "Mosaic killer." With the decision made, events moved at a rapid pace (what he calls "Netscape Time"). As Clark tells Netscape's story, he sheds light on the different mindsets of managers, programmers and venture capitalists. Of his programmers he writes: "these were my rock 'n' roll stars. I wasn't about to make them unhappy by telling them to grow up." His tale of keeping them all togetherAand of recruiting Jim Barksdale to be CEOAas Netscape headed for its famously successful IPO is one of the most engrossing parts of the book. There's even a villain: Microsoft. Clark charges that monopolistic practices (i.e., bundling its Web browser with Windows) allowed Microsoft to weaken Netscape to the point where it was forced to merge with AOL. Clark's hatred of Microsoft is evident throughout the book, but that doesn't mar a heady tale of one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories. Author tour. (June)
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From the cofounder and chairman of Netscape, a thrilling insider's account of the race to beat Microsoft for control of the Internet

It was not so long ago that the Internet, as we know it today, lay beyond the imaginations of all but a small core of scientists, programmers, and academics. The last four years have witnessed the remarkable growth of the Net, from a relatively minor research and communications tool to the single-most important media, commercial, and educational resource to appear in decades. This explosive growth would not have been possible without Netscape, a tiny start-up company that ultimately revolutionized business and communications for the entire world.

In Netscape Time, Jim Clark, the cofounder of Netscape, tells the fascinating story of how he, Marc Andreessen, and a core group of programmers turned an esoteric computer program into a visionary new technology used by hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Challenged from the start by competition, a seemingly bottomless pit of expenses, and a need for secrecy from the roving eye of Microsoft, Clark's programmers spent days at a stretch in front of their computer screens, rushing to produce their revolutionary Web browser under the enormous pressure of time.

Looking back on the scramble to stay afloat, Clark vividly re-creates the tense, thrilling atmosphere of the start-up company, and the narrative is nothing less than a nail-biting tale of drama and suspense. Yet Netscape Time is also a compelling portrait of an emerging business world that is increasingly part of all of our lives, one that reveals in its eccentric characters and incredibly fast-paced existence. It is also a manual for anyone who wishes to take advantage of the endless business possibilities of today's technology. Indeed, Clark, the only person ever to found three multibillion-dollar start-ups, is perhaps more qualified than any businessman today to show how it's done.

The success of Netscape, as most people know, ended up attracting the dreaded attention of Bill Gates and Microsoft, and Clark recounts his battles against the giant software company. Far from a fan of Gates and his tactics, Clark portrays a ruthless enemy bent on smashing any competition, presenting an image of his rival that only became apparent to the rest of the world during the government's prosecution of Microsoft. In a particularly fascinating epilogue, Clark provides his view of the case and his predictions of its impact on technology and society.

As a business book, as a reflection of our technology culture, and as a purely enjoyable read, Netscape Time is perhaps the most significant book about the rise of the Internet ever to be published.
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