Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities | 
 enlarge | Author: David Silver
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0470107421
Dewey Decimal Number: 659.2
EAN: 9780470107423
ASIN: 0470107421
Publication Date: May 18, 2007
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"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.
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 Great overview, but do your own research September 3, 2008
I bought this book to get an overview of the social networking space. I found it very valuable. He does a good job laying out the space, the levers to use, etc. It gives you a good idea of how to think as a socnet business person. This space changes very fast, so a lot of the ideas are already being implemented in various forms. Its emphasis of mobile over online is debatable two years on. verall, great for someone who is not too familiar with the space.
 Mindblowing with a wealth of knowledge August 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unbelievable amount of research on the topic. Finished the book in two sittings because I couldn't put it down. The formula for starting a great business is priceless. I've never read anything that helped break down the different channels of revenue which is very important if you want to start an online community. I enjoyed the chapter about product formation. Having a community that will help solve a huge problem is very important. The bigger the problem, the more someone will pay to join. The different business models at the end are brilliant. The only problem now is getting a team together. So who's coming with me?
Great Book - Provides Tools and Invaluable Suggestions August 10, 2008
David Silver's "Smart Start-Ups" is by far the best book I've read about social communities. Besides providing terrific examples of communities that work, Silver offers a concrete recipe for internet entrepreneurs in the form of his "First Law of Entrepreneurship" and "The Eight DEJ Factors" (DEJ = Demonstrable Economic Justification). At a time when some venture capitalists question the traditional community business model, focused on advertising, this business veteran tells serious readers how to make money. His case study for Fungible.com makes it easy to put pen to paper for anyone seeking to build a social network. What I particularly found useful was the way Silver translates marketing, bottom-line finance and behavioral economics into a user-friendly message - If you want your business to succeed, go online now! Thanks Mr. Silver - great job.
Inspirational and useful at once! August 7, 2008
After several conversations with friends regarding starting a social network I have been passionate about, I was wandering the aisles of our local bookstore, looking for inspiration and advice. And I am so glad I chanced upon David Silver's book.
David's book is at once encouraging and fact-filled. He comes across as a financier with a heart, who understands the psychology of entrepreneurs and entrepreneur-wannabes intimately, while have a time-tested point of view of what it takes to make a community work profitably.
You can expect a great blend of theory, examples and solid advice from Smart Start-ups. Drawing upon learnings from offline communities and how they evolved, David makes a strong case for growth in the number and use of web-based communities. Having tackled the 'why', he then draws upon numerous examples to give us practical advice on 'how' to go about setting up a community that will not only be popular, but also deliver revenues well beyond what would be required to support the ongoing growth of your social network. David also devotes a chapter to 'Raising Capital' for your community. I realized that David is an entrepreneurship guru who has been sponsoring and helping start-ups for thirty years, and was prompted to seek him out for help and advice with setting up my community.
If you are looking for one and only one book to read as a prelude to building and launching your social network, pick up David Silver's Smart Start-ups.
wow, the book for community entrepreneurs !!! August 6, 2008
David Silver's hypothesis is that the period of 2007 - 2010 is the greatest opportunity for community entrepreneurship in the economic history. if you belief too that we live in the "age of communities", that you have what it takes to launch a useful, sustainable and profitable community, David's book is a MUST READ. his enthusiasm for communities is very addicitive and ... his got credibility; four decades of experience as an entrepreneur/angel/VC. David shows without going into much details which industries will decline, that USD 300,000 are enough to launch an economical justifiable community, and, and idea of how a communiter could forever change how consumer goods and services are marketed. this idea would need USD 4,600,000, but a person could move the earth ...
a GREAT GREAT GREAT book for bold & visionary entrepreneurs !
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