How Long to Read The Launch Pad

How Long Does it Take to Read The Launch Pad?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 50 minutes to read The Launch Pad by Randall E. Stross

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after home for startups in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, it funds dozens of just-founded startups and provides three months of guidance from Paul Graham, YC's impresario, and his partners, also entrepreneurs and mostly YC alumni. The list of YC-funded success stories includes Dropbox (now valued at $5 billion) and Airbnb ($1.3 billion). Receiving an offer from YC creates the opportunity of a lifetime -- it's like American Idol for budding entrepreneurs. Acclaimed journalist Randall Stross was granted unprecedented access to Y Combinator's summer 2011 batch of young companies, offering a unique inside tour of the world of software startups. Most of the founders were male programmers in their mid-twenties or younger. Over the course of the summer, they scrambled to heed Graham's seemingly simple advice: make something people want. We watch the founders work round-the-clock, developing and retooling products as diverse as a Web site that can teach anyone programming, to a Wikipedia-like site for rap lyrics, to software written by a pair of attorneys who seek to "(Bmake attorneys obsolete." Founders are guided by Graham's notoriously direct form of tough-love feedback. "(BHere, we don't fire you," he says. "(BThe market fires you. If you're sucking, I'm not going to run along behind you, saying, 'You're sucking, you're sucking, c'mon, stop sucking.'" Some teams would even abandon their initial idea midsummer and scramble to begin anew. The program culminated in "(BDemo Day," when founders pitched their startup to several hundred top angel investors and venture capitalists. A lucky few attracted capital that gave their startup a valuation of multiple millions of dollars. Others went back to the drawing board. This is the definitive story of a seismic shift that's occurred in the business world, in which coding skill trumps employment experience, pairs of undergraduates confidently take on Goliaths, tiny startups working out of an apartment scale fast, and investors fall in love.

How long is The Launch Pad?

The Launch Pad by Randall E. Stross is 290 pages long, and a total of 72,500 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Launch Pad Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 36 minutes to read The Launch Pad aloud.

What Reading Level is The Launch Pad?

The Launch Pad is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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