Ceo: Building a Four Hundred Million Dollar Company from the Ground Up

By Sandra L. Kurtzig

Book Overview

Sandy Kurtzig's personal story of how she founded ASK Computers - with entrepreneurial advice for men and women at all organizational levels. The text tells of how Kurtzig transformed a $2000... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393029638
• ISBN13: 9780393029635
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, detailed advice

This book is full of great advice for anyone starting a software company. It is also an interesting story. The negative reviews on this site to the effect that Sandra Kurtzig is some sort of vain egomaniac are just plain wrong. The book is NOT just for women. Its for anyone starting a high tech business.

A must read for any technology entrepreneur!

I'm President/CEO/Founder of a custom software development house. This book has been my guide to growth. I've been reading it slowly so I can soak it all in, and it seems my company hits the same milestones and problems as Sandy's company did. It is like having a crystal ball to see how Sandy dealt with the issues at hand, and I can learn from her mistakes and from the correct decisions she made. For anyone self-financing their own technology company, don't miss this book. Sandy's writing style is so easy to understand. I felt like I was all alone in the issues I face until I read this book. Don't miss this - especially if you are a young female trying to build a multi-million dollar technology company.

Excellent for High Tech Small Business Owners

CEO presents excellent insight into how the combination of perseverance, continuous skill development, contacts, careful attention to the bottomline, and good luck allow a company to experience phenomenal growth. Especially noteworthy is Ms. Krutzig's business skill growth over the life of the company. There are excellent tidbits of guidance to be gleaned from this book. You'll find the book a quick-read. The ending begs the question, "Where is ASK today?"