Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley
Oct.28.2008
Amazon.com Review:
Joe Hutsko is a very visible high-tech journalist whose byline pops up everywhere from the New York Times to such citadels of nerdiness as Computer Life and Multimedia World. Unlike many of his peers, however, he has an insider's acquaintance with the industry. He spent his early...
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Feb.25.2008
When venture capitalist Ted Valmont is belatedly informed that the Chief Scientist of NeuroStimix—a biotech firm in which he has invested—is missing, it's not just business, it's personal. Not only is the scientist an old school chum, but his disappearance jeopardizes the development of NeuroStimix...
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Feb.12.2008
“If I had given it much thought, I might have hesitated to marry a man for whom at the age of 45 much of the past was too painful to consider--for either of us. Truthfully, thought had little to do with it. Instinct did--the instinct to seize a sure and ebullient happiness or go down trying.”...
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Dec.21.2007
Amy Hawkins, a young dot-com executive from California who has made her fortune at the top of NASDAQ, sets off for Europe to find culture, her roots, and maybe a cause to devote her considerable fortune to. Amy starts her quest at one of the finest small hotels in the French Alps—a hotel noted for...
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Dec.17.2007
The Nudist on the Late Shift is the true story of a new generation at the proving point of their lives, written by Po Bronson. This is a defining portrait of young people in the whirl of an information revolution and an international gold rush. Masses of entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants...
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Dec.17.2007
The bombardiers in Po Bronson’s novel are bond salespeople at the firm of Atlantic Pacific, grunts who wake up at 4 a.m. to hustle financial products they barely understand. They work the phones, shout the morning line, sacrifice their personal lives, and push themselves to the physical limit to...
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Dec.17.2007
Andy Caspar is a Silicon Valley research engineer who wants to become an “ironman”—the kind of guy who builds companies that change the world, like Apple, Netscape, Intel. But right now he’s at an outfit called Omega Logic, pouring his heart into new project, without the slightest idea that his own...
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