"Top of the tide" reading notes

These days to see the "top of the Tide" This book, this is a history of it book, the rise of the computer from the period to the stage of some of the big companies on the crest of the rise and fall. I think every it person needs to understand this book, in order to be in an industry, first of all to understand the history of the industry, understand how strong your opponent. Second, the book is a good entrepreneurial book, about the once-leading it aspects of the wave of enterprises on how to survive in the storms, and in a unbeaten position.

One of the things that impressed me most was the well-being and the Stanford University, where he not only offered innovative education, excellent talent, a good environment, but also offered opportunities for entrepreneurial students. "Stanford University is undoubtedly doing a very good job of fostering students ' entrepreneurship," the book says. Its direct help to the professors and students of entrepreneurship is to build bridges between them and the industry. Stanford has a dedicated office to help students who want to start their own business and the successful alumni of Silicon Valley or entrepreneurs and investors who have dealings with Stanford to find investment. Google's page and Brin found the first investment in this way. Among the first investors in Google, including basketball star O ' Neill, the movie star later California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and so on do not know the technology of angel investors. These people are through an angel investment regiment, with Berctorsen confused to send a fortune. "Think about the educational model of the Celestial kingdom, really ... I think, education is not to guide you to officials, stars, scientists, to form a money worship, and should be so that everyone can pursue their own interests, even if ordinary people have fun, but also have success, simple is to let the right person in the right position.

Throughout the book, I have summed up some of the author's views. The first point is: the development and rise of an enterprise, it is important to have a strong leader, but more importantly, the company is on the cusp of technological revolution. This way, even if you don't do anything, you can drift forward for ten years or longer with the wave entreat. It is enough for a person to catch a wave like this once in a lifetime. A riders young man, the luckiest of all, is to catch a wave of tide. The second point is that companies need to focus on long-term interests rather than short-term benefits, especially if they are not controlled by Wall Street. This requires the company to have a strong founder and leader, to innovate as the soul, while at the right time can be forced to eliminate some of the seemingly lucrative but bad prospects of products. The third point is: the best than the business model is the printing machine, it does not need much manpower, once the operation can generate profits, sustainable development.

A good book enlightened People's wisdom, it seems to be more optimistic about books ah, especially the technical books, although the technology is good, but the development of the vision is more valuable.

"Top of the tide" reading notes