Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet

Synopsis of Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet

«Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet» is Michael Wolff's business chronicle in paperback (Simon & Schuster, 272 pages).

Michael Wolff recalls his venture as an entrepreneur in the Internet of the nineties: from a small project to the vertigo of the dot-com bubble and its subsequent crash. Amid the difficulties of his own company and the struggle to control the 'burn rate' —money spent above income—, he portrays an industry driven by media hype and million-dollar investments, with episodes such as Wired magazine and its founder Louis Rossetto, the rise of America Online, or Bill Gates's attempts to understand the web.

Text in English, originally published in 1999. Subject areas: business, economics, and technology.

Work of interest for those wishing to delve into the history of the Internet, entrepreneurship, and tech business of the nineties.