Jerry Kaplan had a roller-coaster ride through Silicon Valley when he started
the Go Corporation, a visionary company that was meant to change the way we use
computers. Unfortunately, Kaplan’s company fell at the final hurdle and Start Up
(Little, Brown & Co, £10.99, ISBN 0 316 87665 8) is his readable
account of how it all went wrong.
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