Why do some products take off? And what can we learn from them? The hardest part of launching a product is getting started. When you have just an idea and a handful of customers, growth can feel impossible. This is the cold start problem. Andrew Chen has a solution....

This book focuses on investigating a smaller-scale urban phenomenon – creative hubs – as a basic geographic concentration unit of urban creativity....

Slowness of movement (“bradykinesia”) is the most important deficit in Parkinson\"\"s disease (PD). Current clinical rating of bradykinesia in PD does not separate the dimensions of slowness and amplitude reduction....

This book focuses on the instrumentation aspect of biomedical imaging with the use of optical fiber probes across three different disciplines....

Collected from rare and authentic sources, nearly 500 color and black-and-white illustrations celebrate traditional Native American art. Discover magical designs used to decorate clothing, ceremonial masks, jewelry, blankets, utensils, and more. These high-quality renderings are a vivid remembrance of an important art form....

Book DescriptionEleven papers in this volume present some current interesting and important research in finance. Based upon the CAPM, Chen and Kane show that double taxation and differential tax rates on a personal and capital-gains income, affect corporate stock values and financial policies in nonneutral ways....

Book DescriptionA total of eleven papers in this volume represent recent research on important topics in finance. The contributions include analyses of issues relating to asset prices, the behavior of stock returns, and capital-raising activities. Hodges, et al....

Hardbound. Since its first appearance in 1979, Research in Finance has been publishing papers that cover important and interesting issues in finance and economics....

About 80% of people have the desire to write a book at some point. With the advance of computer and printing technology, this dream can become a reality. One important factor of publishing a book is to create a professional looking book cover....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2000, held in Kyoto, Japan, in April 2000. The 33 revised full papers and 16 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 116 submissions....