TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thiel,Peter A.
AU  - Masters,Blake
TI  - Zero to one: notes on startups, or how to build the future 
SN  - 9780804139298 : HRD
AV  - HD62.5 .T525 2014
U1  - 658.1/1 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown Business
KW  - New business enterprises
KW  - New products
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Diffusion of innovations
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy
N1  - Includes index
N2  - "EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS HAPPENS ONLY ONCE.  The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.  It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange.  Zero to One is about how to build companies that create new things. It draws on everything I've learned directly as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and then an investor in hundreds of startups, including Facebook and SpaceX.  The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas. Ask not, what would Mark do? Ask:   WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING?      "--
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