e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Title Starts with...Title Keyword(s)Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)Subject Starts with...Subject Keyword(s)Series Starts with...Series Keyword(s)Anyword/AnywhereList Name Keyword(s)       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information       Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content     More by this author     Lyons, Daniel, 1960-     Subjects     Lyons, Daniel, 1960-     HubSpot (Firm)     Computer software industry -- Employees -- Biography.     Computer software industry -- United States -- Case studies.     High technology industries -- United States -- Case studies.     New business enterprises -- Employees -- Biography.     New business enterprises -- United States -- Case studies.     Middle-aged men -- Employment -- Biography.     Career changes.     Businesspeople -- Biography.     Journalists -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lyons, Daniel, 1960-       by title:      Disrupted : my misad...       by call number:      338.04092 L991d     Search the Web     Lyons, Daniel, 1960-     Lyons, Daniel, 1960-     HubSpot (Firm)     Computer software industry -- Employees -- Biography.     Computer software industry -- United States -- Case studies.     High technology industries -- United States -- Case studies.     New business enterprises -- Employees -- Biography.     New business enterprises -- United States -- Case studies.     Middle-aged men -- Employment -- Biography.     Career changes.     Businesspeople -- Biography.     Journalists -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

Disrupted : my misadventure in the start-up bubble / Dan Lyons. by Lyons, Daniel, 1960- Hachette Books, 2016. Call #: 338.04092 L991d Subjects Lyons, Daniel, 1960-   HubSpot (Firm)   Computer software industry -- Employees -- Biography.   Computer software industry -- United States -- Case studies.   High technology industries -- United States -- Case studies.   New business enterprises -- Employees -- Biography.   New business enterprises -- United States -- Case studies.   Middle-aged men -- Employment -- Biography.   Career changes.   Businesspeople -- Biography.   Journalists -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9780316306089 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents:  Welcome to the Content Factory -- Beached white male -- When the ducks quack -- What's a HubSpot? -- The happy!! Awesome!! Start-up cult -- HubSpeak -- Our cult leader has a really awesome teddy bear -- We need to make the blog a lot more dumberer -- The Bozo explosion -- In which I make a very big mistake -- Life in the boiler room -- OMG the Halloween party!!! -- The new work : employees as widgets -- The Ron Burgundy of tech -- Meet the new boss -- Grandpa buzz -- Ritual humiliation as rehabilitation -- A disturbance in the farce -- A house of cards? -- Go West, old man -- Glassholes -- Excuse me, but would you please get the fuck out of our company? -- Inbound and down -- Escape velocity -- If I only had a heart -- Graduation day. Summary:  "Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, when magazine writer Dan Lyons was laid off, he was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. He had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, flush with venture capital, offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong? HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place -- by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: "shower pods" became hook-up dens; in the "content factory," Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on "walking meetings," and Dan's absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had "graduated" (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball chair. Mixed in with the tale of his rise and fall at Hubspot is a trenchant analysis of the start-up world, a conspiracy between those who start companies and those who fund them, a world where bad ideas are rewarded with hefty investments, where companies blow money lavishing perks on their workforces, and where everybody is trying to hang on just long enough to reach an IPO and cash out. With a cast of characters that includes devilish angel investors, fad-chasing venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and "wantrapreneurs," bloggers and brogrammers, social climbers and sociopaths, Disrupted is an account of life in the (second) tech bubble. Dan Lyons is currently a co-producer and writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.