Why is it that business in Silicon Valley is again flourishing while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it continues to decline? The answer, Sexanian suggests, has to do with the fact that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but co-operative industrial system while Route 128 came to be dominated by independent, self-sufficient corporations. The result of more than 100 interviews, this analysis highlights the importance of local sources of competitive advantage in a volatile world economy.

《股权战争》内容简介：民企融资上市，会遭遇陌生的资本方，遭遇创业伙伴的想法分歧，甚至会遇到家事变故的侵扰。面对不熟悉的规则世界，创始人江湖老大的心态、把董事会开成家长会的习惯思维，和投资人往往不在一个平台思考，也不在一个平台说话，诸多残酷的股权战争由此而生。这也是中国民企发展至今的必经过程。创投之间的争端跃上报端已非罕见。激烈冲突的结果，有的是创始人黯然离场——新浪王志东另起炉灶，太子奶李途纯净身出户，土豆网王微出局；创始人重获企业控制权也不乏其事——娃哈哈宗庆后驱逐了达能，阿里巴巴马云重获控股权，雷士照明吴长江再次回归……在此期间，企业本身也受到了深浅不一的伤害。
作者苏龙飞是资深财经记者，常年致力于商业与资本的报道和研究，拥有大量一手资料，并联合了宁向东、黄嵩等著名投资人、管理学者、律师等为这些案例把脉分析。对于股权争议的博弈过程，每个阶段谁出拳错误，谁得分，后来者应记取何种教训，《股权战争》一书中尽量做到全面兼顾。创投博弈的背后，既考验着企业家的人性格局、契约精神、规则意识，又拷问着中国的市场环境、资本制度、法治土壤。这是一次深入的复盘，必能为中国企业家和投资人提供有价值的纷争解决之道，让规则执行透明完善，让企业从容健康发展。

Entrepreneurs who dream of building the next Amazon, Facebook, or Google have the opportunity to take advantage of one of the most powerful economic engines the world has ever known: venture capital. To do that, you need to woo, impress, and persuade venture capitalists to back your endeavor. That task alone is a challenge. But finding and choosing the right investor can be harder still. Even if you manage to get backing, you want your VC to be a partner, not some dictator who will undermine your vision and take control of your life's work.
Jeffrey Bussgang is one of a very few people who have played on both sides of this high-stakes game. By his early thirties, he had helped build two successful start-ups-one went public, the other was acquired. Now he uses his experience and unique perspective on "the other side" as a venture capitalist helping entrepreneurs bring their dreams to fruition.
In the book, Bussgang offers high-level insights, colorful stories, and practical advice gathered from his own experience as well as from interviews with dozens of the most successful players on both sides of the game, including Twitter's Jack Dorsey and LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman. He reveals how to get noticed, perfect a pitch, and negotiate a partnership that works for everyone.
An insider's guide to the secrets of the world venture capital, Mastering the VC Game will prove invaluable for entrepreneurs seeking capital and successful partnerships. To learn more, visit JeffBussgang.com. (edited by author)

From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in.
Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term “complexity” can be misleading, however, because what makes West’s discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities and our businesses.
Fascinated by aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science: West found that despite the riotous diversity in mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other. If you know the size of a mammal, you can use scaling laws to learn everything from how much food it eats per day, what its heart-rate is, how long it will take to mature, its lifespan, and so on. Furthermore, the efficiency of the mammal’s circulatory systems scales up precisely based on weight: if you compare a mouse, a human and an elephant on a logarithmic graph, you find with every doubling of average weight, a species gets 25% more efficient—and lives 25% longer. Fundamentally, he has proven, the issue has to do with the fractal geometry of the networks that supply energy and remove waste from the organism’s body.
West’s work has been game-changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his work’s applicability. Cities, too, are constellations of networks and laws of scalability relate with eerie precision to them. Recently, West has applied his revolutionary work to the business world. This investigation has led to powerful insights into why some companies thrive while others fail. The implications of these discoveries are far-reaching, and are just beginning to be explored. Scale is a thrilling scientific adventure story about the elemental natural laws that bind us together in simple but profound ways. Through the brilliant mind of Geoffrey West, we can envision how cities, companies and biological life alike are dancing to the same simple, powerful tune.

深度模仿即是深度学习
发掘人工智能时代的创新基因
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☆一部让日本实现从”Copycat”（山寨鼻祖）到创新大国超越的应时之作
- 深度解构丰田、7-11、强生、任天堂、施乐等公司从优秀到卓越的模仿之道。
- 20世纪90年代之 前，日本经济奇迹的根本经验就是践行深度模仿！
- 优秀的中国制造商正从简单模仿到深度模仿战略转型！
☆世上只有两种创新：一种是模仿式创新，一种是赌博式创新
- 模仿式创新从卓越样本中提取成功基因，引导组织向阻力最小处突进！
- 赌博式创新的试错成本高昂，成为先烈的可能远大于成为先驱！
- 阿里巴巴、腾讯、百度、京东创立之初全部都有国际对标公司，国内没有对标公司的伟大企业，没人见过！
☆深度模仿的方法论全集：4个模式，5个步骤，手把手教你高效创新的技术
- “日本第一”时代的集体经验汇集；日式精细化管理经验合盘托出！
- 模仿第三重境界：走别人的路，让别人无路可走。
☆失去30年后，日本偶像级管理大师沉痛反思：欲创新，先模仿
- 日本衰落的根源在于丢掉了深度模仿的武器！
- 日本复兴制造业的权威教材，中国制造全面崛起的绝佳战术手册！
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※内容简介※
只有极少数的天才能通过原创成功，绝大多数企业通过模仿致胜。模仿有两种方式，一种是能带来短期利润增长的产品模仿；一种是能为企业带来长期竞争优势的结构模仿。本书重点介绍的是第二种。
模仿是高效的经营策略，成功者的基因必然暗合时代发展的趋势，找到了可资模仿的范例，也便拿到了通往未来的“车票”。模仿谁？怎样模仿？本书提供了独特的金字塔形分析结构，从企业资源、活动、价值、定位四个方面助你选准模仿对象，并通过总结星巴克、丰田、7-11、强生等16家卓越企业经验，首次提出了从模仿到创新的五个步骤，可操作性极强。
模仿是创造之母，是创新的灵感之源。模仿的范例无处不在，发现成功者的基因，并将其植入自己的组织之内，这本身就是一种创新。而持续的模仿过程中又孕育着超越范例的机会，直至自身的商业模式无人可以模仿为止。
真正有创新力的组织，不是不模仿，而是无法被人模仿。

这是一本关于京东方的再创业史。记录了京东方在一个全球高技术工业中的史诗般崛起。通过讲述这个真实的故事——真实的团队在真实的世界里创造出来的真实业绩——解释了中国经济发展的动力。
20年来，京东方从一家岌岌可危的老牌国企发展成为领军中国工业的龙头企业，并在全球半导体显示工业中异军突起，历经国企改制的脱胎重生和技术替代与市场替代的严酷洗礼，数度破釜沉舟实现颠覆式创新和跨越式发展，爆发出令世人瞠目的创造力。京东方独立自主、创新自强，敢于走自己的路，是中国工业精神的最佳写照。

Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world, as told by Steven Bown, .Canada's Simon Winchester. (Globe and Mail).
Through the Age of Heroic Commerce, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life merchant kings ruled vast tracts of the globe and expanded their far-flung monopolies to generate revenue for their shareholders, feather their own nests and satisfy their vanity and curiosity. Their exploits changed the world during an age of unfettered globalization, mirroring a world we know today.
Merchant Kings looks at each ruling monopoly through its greatest merchant king and considers their stories together for the first time. (