Download or read book Startup Culture Mindset written by Bernhard Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STARTUP CULTURE MINDSET A Primer to Building an Amazing Culture and Tribe was written for startup founders or executives who aspire to create an amazing team that buys into the mission. The key is to understand that the founder of a startup or leaders of a company determine the culture on purpose. And in order to do that well, you have to understand the key elements of a culture framework. Based on 20 years of company creation, leadership and observation, I will share with you the key elements of a culture framework: ‣ Leadership: Led by the founders or key leaders of a startup. ‣ Mission: The goal of the startup from a customer point of view. ‣ Values: The core values of the startup, usually determined by the leadership. ‣ Freedom/Accountability: The key mantra to any successful startup. I will delve into each of these four areas of the culture framework in the book. What you can expect from this book is research and knowledge on culture, a defined culture framework, insights from some amazing company founders and quite a few takeaways that you can incorporate immediately into your daily life. For example, you don't become a leader just because you launch a startup or lead a division in a company. You have to acquire years of knowledge, experience and mentor-based insights as a great follower. Those are things you could be doing right now. Your ultimate goal is to establish the framework for an amazing culture before you actually launch the startup. Then when you recruit your first employee, you will know what type of person you are looking for, not based on a skill set, but based on fitting into your culture. The people you recruit will be critical to your success and they need to feel they are setting out on a powerful mission, guided by great leaders, supported by solid values and fueled by a freedom and accountability atmosphere, all to help your customers attain their goal. If a potential recruit does not fit into this type of culture, regardless of skills, don't hire them. Long term, they will disruptthe "tribe" of your other employees and dysfunction will occur. Do everything you can to keep these people out of your company even if it means you still approve of final recommended hires with a "culture" interview. One final thought on the critical importance of creating a great "tribe" for your startup. Quite a few Silicon Valley investors have said this when investing in a startup team. "Give me a great startup team with even a mediocre idea over a weak team with a great idea every time. Because a great team will know when to pivot and they will trust each other to execute. A weak team will simply fail."
Download or read book New Startup Mindset written by Sandra Shpilberg and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sandra Shpilberg is a unicorn and this book is one, too. Simultaneously profound and practical, replete with the soundest advice and great storytelling while being tender toward the reader's soul, this is a game-changing must-read for anyone who dreams of creating a business--and in particular for those who don't fit the mold. Go Sandra Shpilberg, go!"--Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of the New York Times bestseller How to Raise an Adult, and Real American: A Memoir Sandra Shpilberg will show you a new way to succeed as an entrepreneur! This provocative startup tale of success exposes Silicon Valley's startup myths and sets forth a new approach for aspiring and current founders to build companies that make an impact. In New Startup Mindset, Sandra Shpilberg, founder and CEO of Seeker Health, introduces a new mindset for starting and building a successful company. Shpilberg shows that Silicon Valley's startup formula--a few young male cofounders attempting to build a unicorn funded by venture capital--is a broken system that puts excessive emphasis on hype and improbable outsized outcomes, disregards real results such as revenue and profit, and promotes limiting beliefs for the next generation of entrepreneurs. When Shpilberg founded Seeker Health, a digital patient-finding platform, in 2015, she did almost everything differently than the blazed path: she chose to be a solo founder, didn't pursue an incubator, didn't accept outside funding, led development of software despite not being a programmer, and charged customers from month one. Instead of creating hype about fundraising based on fictitious valuations, Shpilberg focused on customer needs, yielding a startup with revenue, profit, and impact; and three years later, a large life science services company acquired her startup while she was still the sole owner. In this expanded second edition, Shpilberg shares her success story of starting, building, and exiting her startup and provides readers with sage insights and practical tools to follow this approach. This book is simultaneously a needed dose of reality for Silicon Valley and a large serving of inspiration for those who want to create something from nothing. It is a must-read for aspiring startup founders and current entrepreneurs, especially those who may think they don't fit the mold of a Silicon Valley founder and are open to a new way of making a definitive and profound impact with the companies they create.
Download or read book Every Day Is Day One written by Valrie Grant and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Day One culture is a startup mentality that gives leaders the ability to fight challenges, embrace change, employ quick decision-making, innovate, and most importantly develop a healthy obsession with customers. Using the mantra and example of technology giant Amazon, Valrie Grant shows startup leaders how they can develop their own Day One culture in their organisation, no matter the size or industry. With real world examples of founding and building GeoTechVision into an internationally reliable and quality provider of a range of customized services and data-driven solutions, Grant shows why the Day One mindset and culture is a model that can help companies to thrive in challenging times. Creative disruption is a way of life at Amazon, and it is understood that under Bezos' leadership the Amazon of tomorrow may have a different face from today, but will definitely have the same core values and organizational culture, which includes its 16 leadership principles that are discussed in detail in the book. Some of the questions explored are: How to be the kind of organization that embraces trends and keeps pace with them? How to avoid the Day Two mindset of stagnation? How to build high performing teams that live the culture of Day One?
Download or read book Power to the Startup People How To Grow Your Startup Career When You re Not The Founder written by Sarah E. Brown and published by Hybrid Global Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m lounging in the living room of a vacation home located in the high country of Colorado with a handful of close friends from Boulder. We each work for startups of various sizes and maturity. We’ve rented the home for the weekend to relax in the nearby hot springs and hike local mountain trails, as well as set aside time from our harried schedules to discuss our hopes, dreams—and startup careers. As the sun sets and the dry mountain air cools, we bundle up with blankets and take turns sharing life updates, which, especially this particular weekend, offer a snapshot into the variety and complexity of startup life.
Download or read book Life Is a Startup written by Noam Wasserman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades of research on founders, a best-selling book on the subject, and experience teaching and mentoring thousands of students in this field, Noam Wasserman is a prominent authority on startups. Hearing from countless readers and students that his insights helped them with important life decisions, beyond the incubator and boardroom, Wasserman brings us a new book that applies to everyday life his research on the methods of successful startup founders. Like entrepreneurs, we all deal with uncertainty, tough decision-making, and necessary problem-solving. Whether we freelance or work for large organizations, whether we're married or single, have kids or not, we must be able to think on our feet, assess risks and opportunities, and recruit others to help us navigate them. This book offers important advice for envisioning change in our lives—from contemplating the next step in a relationship to making a radical career move—and managing changes to which we've already committed. We can learn to recognize our own well-worn patterns and keep our tendencies and habits in check, recruit a personal taskforce—our own board of directors—to advise us, and plan ahead for growth. With his extensive database of entrepreneurship case studies—from Pandora to Twitter to Nike—complemented with data on 20,000 founders, Wasserman is able to go deeply into the entrepreneurial mindset and show us how startups provide specific lessons for crafting our most successful lives.
Download or read book Be a Startup Superstar written by Steven Kahan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find a job and quickly climb the ranks at a tech startup, even if you’re not a techie. Are you underemployed or struggling to find a fulfilling career? Stuck on a low rung of the corporate ladder and don’t see a way up anytime soon? You’re not alone. Like many recent college grads and people who feel stuck in their corporate jobs, you’ve probably never considered working for a technology company that’s just starting out, especially if you’re not a tech whiz. That doesn’t matter. Tech startups are desperate for talent and creativity in all kinds of fields from people with leadership skills and new ideas—people like you! If you’re looking to turn your general business know-how into a wildly successful career, Be a Startup Superstar is your guide. Yes, you can love your work, feel energized by your role, and earn the income of your dreams. Author Steven Mark Kahan left his safe corporate job to join his first tech startup, and since then he has helped seven startup companies sell or go public (meaning early employees usually score big). In this breakthrough book, Steve shows you how to: Look for five key traits when choosing a tech startup Get hired at a tech startup with your existing degree, skills, and experience Develop the leadership attributes and entrepreneurial mindset that can launch you to the top Make better decisions and get better outcomes in the tech startup world and beyond Be a Startup Superstar provides the expert insider guidance you need to ignite your career by joining the tech startup revolution.
Download or read book Innovating by Behaving written by Shi Chao Ou and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, large company leaders want their organizations to act like startups! They want to take action against the threat of disruption by startups. They see many industries disrupted by startups, as evident by the rise of Airbnb and SpaceX. Rather than waiting to be disrupted, business leaders want their research \& development divisions to act like startups. Yet, many companies with their attempts to build an internal startup innovation environment report challenges. These challenges are the symptoms of innovation tensions, tensions that business leaders should manage to foster a startup culture within the corporate innovation culture. This work identifies a set of eleven innovation management rules for business leaders to manage these tensions experienced by individual intrapreneurs and innovation teams. In developing these rules, each startup and corporate innovation mentality is categorized using the Affective, Behavioral and Cognitive (ABC) model of attitude and the Galbraith Star Model. With these categorizations, the negative psychological effects of these mentalities are analyzed further to understand the brutal side of the innovation culture. Based on innovative behaviors collected in the literature research and a set of eleven interviews, startup and corporate innovation cultures are modeled as a system of interdependent behaviors in causal loop diagrams to expose unknown and undesirable tensions. These tensions expose a set of root causes of the challenges in fostering a startup culture in large companies. In addition to managing these tensions, business leaders are forced to make compromised strategic choices given the innovation paradoxes in intrapreneurs' risk versus reward profile and the willingness to fire incompetent intrapreneurs. These tensions and paradoxes confirm that the corporate-startup innovation culture is paradoxical, and it is not sustainable from a psychological perspective. Yet, with these mental models of the innovation culture and these eleven innovation management rules, business leaders are better prepared to manage the brutal side of the innovation culture while leading the next disruption in their industries.
Download or read book Culture com written by Robert Stringer and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When entrepreneurs seek expert advice to help them put together a compelling business plan, they turn to product gurus, technology experts, and folks with sales and marketing, fund raising, or operations backgrounds. But for guidance on how to create and sustain a high-performance company culture - the softer side of startup strategy - rarely will entrepreneurs find a source of advice and counsel. Culture.com: How the Best Startups Make it Happen fills that void. It is a research-based exploration of what it takes to build and sustain a winning startup culture. Culture.com provides practical advice, insights and diagnostic tools for would-be entrepreneurs, seed capital investors, board members and advisors to young, rapidly growing companies. It is also a valuable resource for educators and students of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is all about innovation. Leaders of established companies who are trying to change their company's culture to foster more creativity and innovation will find this book an eye-opener. It identifies the critical seven dimensions of winning startup cultures, and describes the leadership practices required to support breakthrough innovation. Many of these practices apply to managers at all levels in larger organizations struggling to gain a competitive advantage with their people and processes.
Download or read book The Startup Way written by Eric Ries and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneur and bestselling author of The Lean Startup, Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses of all kinds, ranging from established companies to early-stage startups, to grow revenues, drive innovation, and transform themselves into truly modern organizations, poised to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of the twenty-first century. In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries laid out the practices of successful startups – building a minimal viable product, customer-focused and scientific testing based on a build-measure-learn method of continuous innovation, and deciding whether to persevere or pivot. In The Startup Way, he turns his attention to an entirely new group of organizations: established enterprises like iconic multinationals GE and Toyota, tech titans like Amazon and Facebook, and the next generation of Silicon Valley upstarts like Airbnb and Twilio. Drawing on his experiences over the past five years working with these organizations, as well as nonprofits, NGOs, and governments, Ries lays out a system of entrepreneurial management that leads organizations of all sizes and from every industry to sustainable growth and long-term impact. Filled with in-the-field stories, insights, and tools, The Startup Way is an essential road map for any organization navigating the uncertain waters of the century ahead.
Download or read book The Startup Mindset written by Joel Green and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's rapidly changing business landscape, the startup mindset is more important than ever. This book is a comprehensive guide to help aspiring entrepreneurs and existing business owners embrace the startup mindset to achieve success in their endeavors. Through practical insights and real-world examples, this book covers everything from ideation and market validation to building a team and scaling a business. It also delves into the importance of data-driven decision making, leveraging partnerships and networks, and embracing failure as a necessary step towards success. With actionable tips and strategies, readers will gain the knowledge and confidence needed to build and grow successful businesses. Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your business to the next level, this book is the ultimate resource for embracing the startup mindset and achieving success.
Download or read book The Startup Community Way written by Brad Feld and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Way Forward for Entrepreneurship Around the World We are in the midst of a startup revolution. The growth and proliferation of innovation-driven startup activity is profound, unprecedented, and global in scope. Today, it is understood that communities of support and knowledge-sharing go along with other resources. The importance of collaboration and a long-term commitment has gained wider acceptance. These principles are adopted in many startup communities throughout the world. And yet, much more work is needed. Startup activity is highly concentrated in large cities. Governments and other actors such as large corporations and universities are not collaborating with each other nor with entrepreneurs as well as they could. Too often, these actors try to control activity or impose their view from the top-down, rather than supporting an environment that is led from the bottom-up. We continue to see a disconnect between an entrepreneurial mindset and that of many actors who wish to engage with and support entrepreneurship. There are structural reasons for this, but we can overcome many of these obstacles with appropriate focus and sustained practice. No one tells this story better than Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem explores what makes startup communities thrive and how to improve collaboration in these rapidly evolving, complex environments. The Startup Community Way is an explanatory guide for startup communities. Rooted in the theory of complex systems, this book establishes the systemic properties of entrepreneurial ecosystems and explains why their complex nature leads people to make predictable mistakes. As complex systems, value creation occurs in startup communities primarily through the interaction of the "parts" - the people, organizations, resources, and conditions involved - not the parts themselves. This continual process of bottom-up interactions unfolds naturally, producing value in novel and unexpected ways. Through these complex, emergent processes, the whole becomes greater and substantially different than what the parts alone could produce. Because of this, participants must take a fundamentally different approach than is common in much of our civic and professional lives. Participants must take a whole-system view, rather than simply trying to optimize their individual part. They must prioritize experimentation and learning over planning and execution. Complex systems are uncertain and unpredictable. They cannot be controlled, only guided and influenced. Each startup community is unique. Replication is enticing but impossible. The race to become "The Next Silicon Valley" is futile - even Silicon Valley couldn't recreate itself. This book: Offers practical advice for entrepreneurs, community builders, government officials, and other stakeholders who want to harness the power of entrepreneurship in their city Describes the core components of startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems, as well as an explanation of the differences between these two related, but distinct concepts Advances a new framework for effective startup community building based on the theory of complex systems and insights from systems thinking Includes contributions from leading entrepreneurial voices Is a must-have resource for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, executives, business and community leaders, economic development authorities, policymakers, university officials, and anyone wishing to understand how startup communities work anywhere in the world
Download or read book Mindset to Startup written by Hani W. Naguib and published by Bis Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mindset to Startup, you'll go on an enlightening journey that transcends the conventional boundaries of entrepreneurship. Naguib invites readers to explore the true essence of entrepreneurship, going beyond the pursuit of profit. With insights drawn from 10,000 hours of mentoring founders, Naguib offers a highly experienced perspective, emphasizing the significance of value literacy to attain tangible progress on the uncertain journey of entrepreneurship. The book delves into the latent entrepreneur within each of us. Using real-life examples, Naguib illustrates how the entrepreneurial journey isn't merely a binary tale of success or failure but a continuous path of growth. By interweaving the entrepreneurial mindset with practical startup guidance, he presents a completely new and revolutionary approach to entrepreneurship: the Braided Journey. This book is like a warm conversation with a trusted mentor, making it a valuable resource for aspiring founders, seasoned entrepreneurs, and mentors alike. Explore the profound essence of entrepreneurship and its potential to make a meaningful impact in the world.
Download or read book Design Thinking for Startups written by Jimmy Jain and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a study* There are 472 million entrepreneurs in the world and about 100 million startups open up annually of which 75 percent of venture- backed startups fail. More than 50% of the businesses fail in the first year, another 30% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, another 50% of the total businesses during the first five years. Design Thinking for Startups - A handbook for readers and a workbook for practitioners— is a hands-on practical guide to facilitate your journey from the first step to scaling up. There are various simple and easily implementable concepts discussed in the book which will carve out your success. If you are an entrepreneur or a wannabe entrepreneur or an Intrapreneur (an entrepreneur in an organization) then this is a book you should not miss!
Download or read book The Startup Way written by Eric Ries and published by Portfolio. This book was released on 2017 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Startup Way reveals how organisations of all sizes can harness startup techniques to drive growth. In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries, Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard, created a global movement. Concepts like constant iteration, minimal viable products (MVPs), and pivoting have changed the language of business. Now he turns his attention to companies and organizations of all sizes. Ries has been working with giant firms like General Electric and Toyota to help them become more nimble, in order to spur growth and produce products and services that customers want. In The Startup Way, he shares his insights, stories and best practices, delivering a critical toolkit to solve all business challenges. Today every company needs to get faster and smarter. Read The Startup Wayand discover how to embrace change, survive and thrive.
Download or read book The Startup Investor Mindset written by Silvia Mah and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a startup investor? How to know and embrace an investor growth mindset? Impacting the startup ecosystem as an early-stage investor is one of the most rewarding experiences. Many considerations and analyses go into funding startups: from an investor's internal values to their money mindset to external examination of markets to evaluating the team and business."--Page [4] of cover.
Download or read book Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset written by Tamiko L. Cuellar and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help business/MBA students, aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders to think like entrepreneurs in 12 critical focus areas. Both success and failure start in the mind. From Tamiko’s years of practical experience in coaching entrepreneurs, she has uncovered the #1 reason that some of her clients succeeded while others failed: mindset. This book will help business/MBA students, aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders to think like entrepreneurs in 12 critical focus areas. Readers will uncover hidden thoughts that sabotage success as an entrepreneur. The author will cause you to experience a paradigm shift from an employee mindset to an entrepreneurial mindset. The text provides takeaways and practical action items to cultivate entrepreneurial thinking that will revolutionize the approach to business.
Download or read book All In Startup written by Diana Kander and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Owen Chase can't find a way to turn his company around in the next nine days, he'll be forced to shut it down and lay off all of his employees. He has incurred substantial debt and his marriage is on shaky ground. Through pure happenstance, Owen finds himself pondering this problem while advancing steadily as a contestant at the World Series of Poker. His Las Vegas path quickly introduces him to Samantha, a beautiful and mysterious mentor with a revolutionary approach to entrepreneurship. Sam is a fountain of knowledge that may save his company, but her sexual advances might prove too much for Owen's struggling marriage. All In Startup is more than just a novel about eschewing temptation and fighting to save a company. It is a lifeline for entrepreneurs who are thinking about launching a new idea or for those who have already started but can't seem to generate the traction they were expecting. Entrepreneurs who achieve success in the new economy do so using a new "scientific method" of innovation. All In Startup demonstrates why four counterintuitive principles separate successful entrepreneurs from the wanna-preneurs who bounce from idea to idea, unable to generate real revenue. You will likely get only one opportunity in your life to go "all in" in on an idea: to quit your job, talk your spouse into letting you drain the savings account, and follow your dream. All In Startup will prepare you for that "all in" moment and make sure that you push your chips into the middle only when the odds are in your favor. This book holds the keys to significantly de-risking your idea so that your success appears almost lucky. Join Owen and Sam for this one-of-a-kind journey that will set you on the right path for when it's your turn to put everything on the line.
