Bøger af Peter Ester

Published in 2012 by the Van Raalte Press, Faith, Family, and Fortune is a study of twenty-one highly successful Dutch American entrepreneurs based in West Michigan and the connection between their success and their Dutch American upbringing and personal religious beliefs, with a focus on Calvinism. Many of the subjects are active members of either the Reformed or the Christian Reformed Church and innovative philanthropists. The research for this publication includes oral interviews of the entrepreneurs; other published research, including Max Weber (a founding father of modern sociology), Robert P. Swierenga (historian of Dutch immigration), and Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker (icons in the study of entrepreneurship); and the scholarly resources of the Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, Holland, Michigan.

This book describes how accelerators, the 'schools of startup entrepreneurship', help startups to become successful companies in Silicon Valley, the world's most successful innovation region.

Through extensive interviews with Dutch entrepreneurs working in the area, Ester and Maas show that Silicon Valley is above all a mind-set: a belief in thinking, with passion and ambition, far beyond the here and now.