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Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities
by David Silver
from Wiley
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Mindblowing with a wealth of knowledge 
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... more info
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Great Book - Provides Tools and Invaluable Suggestions
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... more info
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Inspirational and useful at once!
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... more info
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wow, the book for community entrepreneurs !!!
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... more info
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