The Entrepreneurial Web

By Peter Small

-- How to compete in markets full of uncertainty -- and smart, highly-informed competitors.-- Conceptual models -- not technical diatribe.-- New approaches to product and system design. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027365036X
• ISBN13: 9780273650362
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Financial Times Management
• Length: 361 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Stimulated excellent ideas!

This is one of the better books I have read on e-Business and Entrepreneurship. Two of the previous reviews lament the lack of practical ideas. However, the author states that this is not a "how-to" book, but a book on ideas. If your purpose is to find specific strategies and to be walked through the implementation, then you will be disappointed. If you are looking for new ways to think about business in order to create your own ideas, then the book will serve its purpose.Some key take aways were the concepts of growing solutions, cooperative game theory(which is validated in Coopetition), communication strategy and new venture probability. I am using the concept of growing solutions via listserves and virtual teams to create a strategy for a deregulated electric utility. In trying to start my own company, I have been stumped on how to get started. The author addresses this problem by using the Hilbert Space/Green Frog concept to get started, which is half the battle in itself. It's been said that the definition of an entrepreneur is a person who brings together resources. This book discusses ways to do this utilizing the Internet. The book is not without it's drawbacks. The reading tends to get bogged down as you get into the latter half of the book, though the author summarizes everything in the last chapter. Some of the explanations do get academic(Hilbert Space and Game Theory). Finally, better examples and cases would have been nice.Overall, the ideas sparked by this book was worth the price and the 5 star rating.

Peter Small's Quirky Genius is on Display Again

Peter Small is known for being an "outside the box" thinker. This book is yet another example of his interesting and refreshing ideas. I found myself arguing with him through most of the book, thinking, "this guy's crazy! Again!" but I eventually came around to his way of seeing things. This certainly isn't what you read everywhere else about putting up a Web site.