Culture | Advice for start-ups
Facebook’s backer shows the way
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Zero to One: Notes on Start-Ups or How to Build the Future. By Peter Thiel with Blake Masters. Crown Business; 210 pages; $27. Virgin Books; £16.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “From one who should know”
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