Attain Digital Hustlers: Living Large And Falling Hard In Silicon Alley Curated By Casey Kait Conveyed As Booklet

commercial and cultural explosion of the digital age may have been born in California's Silicon Valley, but it reached its high point of riotous, chaotic exuberance in New York City fromtoin the golden age of Silicon Alley.
In that short stretch of time a generation of talented,

untested twentysomethings deluged the city, launching thousands of new Internet ventures and attracting billions of dollars in investment capital.
Many of these young entrepreneurs were entranced by the infinite promise of the new media others seemed more captivated by the promise of infinite profits, The innovations they launchedfrom online advertising tohour Webcastingpropelled both the Internet and the techstock boom of the late 's, And in doing so they sent the city around them into a maelstrom of brainstorming, codewriting, fundraising, drugs, sex, and frenzied hype, . .

until April, when the NASDAQ zeppelin finally burst and fell at their feet,

In the pages of Digital Hustlers, Alley insiders Casey Kait and Stephen Weiss have captured the excitement and excesses of this remarkable moment in time.
Weaving together the voices of more than fifty of the industry's leading characters, this extraordinary oral history offers a groundzero look at the birth of a new medium, Here are entrepreneurs like Kevin O'Connor of DoubleClick, Fernando Espuelas of StarMedia, and Craig Kanarick of Razorfish commentators like Omar Wasow of MSNBC and Jason McCabe Calacanis of the Silicon Alley Reporter and inimitable Alley characters like party diva Courtney Pulitzer and Josh Harris, the clown prince of Pseudo.
com. Together they describe a world of sweatshop programmers and paper millionaires, of cocktailnapkin business plans and billiondollar IPOs, of spectacular successes and flameouts alike,

Candid and openeyed, bristling with energy and argument, Digital Hustlers is an unforgettable group portrait of a wildly creative culture caught in the headlights of achievement.
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