Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities
- Media: Book (Hardcover, 272 pages)
- ISBN: 0470107421
- Publisher: Wiley
- Release Date: May 18, 2007
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Praise for Smart Start-Ups
"Silver's new book is a masterpiece of clarity concerning the next great entrepreneurial wave, and my only problem with it was the charley horse in my elbow I got turning the pages."
-Robin Richards, founding President, MP3.com, and CEO, Notification Technologies Inc.
"Silver is a modern-day Prometheus. For community entrepreneurs, Smart Start-Ups contains the secrets of fire from the heavens. If you work with communities of any kind, you ignore this book at your own peril."
-John Szeder, former senior game developer, Digital Chocolate, Inc., and CEO, Mofactor, Inc.
"Silver dives in and pulls the naked truth out of the world of online communities. There's nothing like it on the shelves. He speaks with the best and brightest in the mobile and online community markets."
-Sean Malatesta, founder, Yack Media Services, and Vice President, Indiagames, Inc.
"Smart Start-Ups is a must-read for any aspiring Internet entrepreneur. Silver cuts right to the heart of the important fact that communities are like entire nations, but without geographic borders, and they're creating the greatest transformation since the Industrial Revolution."
-Clarence Briggs, founder and CEO, AIT.com
"Silver's book is an excellent, captivating, ingenious, and essential read for anyone who wants to know how to create wealth by starting an online community. One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way; Silver certainly succeeds in that respect."
-Kyle E. Gillman, founder and CEO, Forgefinder, Inc.
"Silver's new book is a masterpiece of clarity concerning the next great entrepreneurial wave, and my only problem with it was the charley horse in my elbow I got turning the pages."
-Robin Richards, founding President, MP3.com, and CEO, Notification Technologies Inc.
"Silver is a modern-day Prometheus. For community entrepreneurs, Smart Start-Ups contains the secrets of fire from the heavens. If you work with communities of any kind, you ignore this book at your own peril."
-John Szeder, former senior game developer, Digital Chocolate, Inc., and CEO, Mofactor, Inc.
"Silver dives in and pulls the naked truth out of the world of online communities. There's nothing like it on the shelves. He speaks with the best and brightest in the mobile and online community markets."
-Sean Malatesta, founder, Yack Media Services, and Vice President, Indiagames, Inc.
"Smart Start-Ups is a must-read for any aspiring Internet entrepreneur. Silver cuts right to the heart of the important fact that communities are like entire nations, but without geographic borders, and they're creating the greatest transformation since the Industrial Revolution."
-Clarence Briggs, founder and CEO, AIT.com
"Silver's book is an excellent, captivating, ingenious, and essential read for anyone who wants to know how to create wealth by starting an online community. One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way; Silver certainly succeeds in that respect."
-Kyle E. Gillman, founder and CEO, Forgefinder, Inc.
Not the best guide for growing an online community
I have been in business for over 23 years and have had an online community for 11 years now. I bought this book because of the title, "Smart start-ups, how entrepreneurs and corporations can profit by starting online communities". I was disappointed when I found this book to be about what the author considers online communities and mobile-phone based communities. It seems more of a history of social networks, online clubs, and offline clubs. I did not find anything of real value to me or to help me grow my online community. This reads more like a text book and has some information that isn't relative to the topic, such as descriptions of the different people who may join an online community such as "artists" or "collaborative crowds".
I did see many good reviews for this book, so it must have helped some people, but it wasn't for me, did not catch my attention and I was bored when reading this book, there was just to much "stuff" that didn't pertain to what I was looking for in having a better online community.
I did see many good reviews for this book, so it must have helped some people, but it wasn't for me, did not catch my attention and I was bored when reading this book, there was just to much "stuff" that didn't pertain to what I was looking for in having a better online community.
Submitted 17 Jun 2010
ESSENTIAL FOR ANY ONLINE BUSINESS!
I read the book before starting our business and it is honestly the most beneficial book that I've read. It really teaches you how to add value to your business and create barriers for entry. David's message and style are all based on high values and ethics and he teaches you the right way to run a business.
I can't recommend enough this book to any young aspiring entrepreneur. It's definitely a MUST HAVE. All the way from the beginning to the end.
I can't recommend enough this book to any young aspiring entrepreneur. It's definitely a MUST HAVE. All the way from the beginning to the end.
Submitted 19 Apr 2010
An exceptional book for 2010, the age of the online communities!
By far the most inspiring book I have read this year. This book is the bible for social networking entrepreneurs and business people who are highly considering to tap into the online communities to enhance their traditional brick n mortar business, as virtually everything is heading towards the direction of mobile and online communities. The author addresses various sectors that will eventually make a footing into the online communities from legal, hospitality to insurance. I recommend this book not only to entrepreneurs but also managers of companies across various sectors who need to start considering how to place their business more towards this phenomenal growth of online communities in order to stay abreast and survive in this evolving age of the online communities.
Buy a copy for yourself, for a friend, or even your boss!
Buy a copy for yourself, for a friend, or even your boss!
Submitted 8 Apr 2010
Great perspective for creating internet business
I read this book after reading Silver's book "The Social Network Business Plan" twice. Both book are great tools for developing a web business that can grow rich outside of advertising. Silver gives reader 20-30 ideas that could be implemented in under three months and profitable in less than a year. He describes business models that can be implemented on any website and also provides a valuable reading list for understanding the basics of Web 2.0. Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online CommunitiesThe Social Network Business Plan: 18 Strategies That Will Create Great Wealth
Submitted 7 Apr 2010
Who wants to be a millionaire?
I am surprised this book was written in 2007. It is so current today. With Facebook and Twitter taking over the social media, who will come on next. After you read David's book, it might just be you. I totally agree with his theories that Web 2.0 can make you a fortune.
Take what you know, or love and build a social community around it. Don't have any of your own ideas, READ THE BOOK! David gives you hundreds of ideas and methods for making money and to test your method a chart to success. If all else fails just reverse the formula and build your business plan.
Facebook will shatter soon into millions of pieces and you might just own one of those pieces. Be sure to read David Silver's other book The Social Network Business Plan: 18 Strategies That Will Create Great Wealth
SEE YOU AT THE TOP. I AM ON MY WAY!
Take what you know, or love and build a social community around it. Don't have any of your own ideas, READ THE BOOK! David gives you hundreds of ideas and methods for making money and to test your method a chart to success. If all else fails just reverse the formula and build your business plan.
Facebook will shatter soon into millions of pieces and you might just own one of those pieces. Be sure to read David Silver's other book The Social Network Business Plan: 18 Strategies That Will Create Great Wealth
SEE YOU AT THE TOP. I AM ON MY WAY!
Submitted 13 Mar 2010