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Bringing Nothing to the Party - 9780753823996

Bringing Nothing to the Party (Paperback)

Paul Carr

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A fascinating and hilarious expose of how a group of young opportunists, chancers and geniuses found instant fame and fortune by messing about on the web. And one man's attempt to follow in their footsteps.

Having covered the first dot com boom, and founded a web-to-print publishing business during the second one, Paul counts many of the leading Internet entrepreneurs amongst his closest friends. These friendships mean he doesn't just attend their product launches and press conferences and speak at their events, but also gets invited to their ultra-exclusive networking events, and gets drunk at their parties.
Paul has enjoyed this bizarre world of excess without having to live in it. To help the moguls celebrate raising millions of pounds of funding without having to face the wrath of the venture capitalists himself. But in 2006, Paul decided he didn't want to be a spectator any more. He had been harbouring a great dot com project of his own and decided it was time to do something about it.

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'Very funny... I always though the Internet was people making it up as they went along - and it turns out I was right... Unlimited digital thumbs up'
BBC 6 MUSIC

'Anyone who wants a glimpse into the world of the successful - and not so successful - London internet entrepreneur need look no further'
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