Internet startup ventures:
E-commerce, e-business, and your own "dot-com"

Professor Haim Levkowitz
Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Massachusetss Lowell, Lowell, MA
Managing Partner, HyperGROWTH Ventures, LLC, Andover, MA

Readings and resources

  1. [Sys] G. W. Treese, L. C. Stewart, Designing Systems for Internet Commerce, Addison-Wesley, 1998
  2. [e-B] R. Kalakota, M. Robinson, e-Business: Roadmap for Success, Addison-Wesley, 1999
  3. [VC] F. D. Lipman, Financing your Business with Venture Capital, Prima Publishing, 1998
  4. [MBA] W. D. Bygrave (ed.), The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1997
  5. [HTV] C. G. Bell, High-Tech Ventures: The Guide for Entrepreneurial Success, Addison-Wesley, 1991
  6. [SUp] D. E. Rye, C. R. Hickman, Starting Up, Prentice Hall Press, 1997
  7. [netF] C. Martin, net future, McGraw-Hill, 1999
  8. [Entr] R. C. Ronstadt, Entrepreneurship: Text, Cases, and Notes, Lord Publishing, 1985.
  9. [eBoys] R. E. Stross, eBoys, Crown Business, 2000 (ISBN 08-1293095-9)
  10. [Rhythm] J. C. Shuman (with D. Rottenberg), The Rhythm of Business, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998.
  11. [WebCommerce] K. Maddox (with D. Blankenhorn), Web Commerce: Building a digital business, John Wiley & Sons, 1998
  12. [Blur] S. Davis, C. Meyer, Blur: The speed of change in the connected economy, Addison-Wesley, 1998
  13. [ElectElite] G. James, Busines Wisdom of the Electronic Elite, Time Business -- Random House, 1996
  14. [Drucker] P. Drucker, Innovation ane Entrepreneurship, Practice and Principles, Harper & Row, 1985
  15. [Slides] H. Levkowitz, Slides and personal notes
  16. [Other] Additional reading will be assigned from the literature and Web-sites
  17. Internet & Web Systems (for Internet/Web technology) readings

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