Download or read book Your First Startup The Next Steps written by Wayne Walker and published by Wayne Walker. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne continues the journey from the first book. For the new or more experienced business owners he explains step-by-step, in detail how to make or continue the leap from traditional employment and create a business with enough income to pursue your dreams. This book provides the tools that a new entrepreneur needs in straight talk. The focus is on the 99% of new businesses not unicorns. If your ONLY goal is to get money from investors this is NOT for you. Wayne delivers real-world experience for those who share the vision that to offer something of value (a product or service) to paying clients is one of the best signs that you have a real business and not some unicorn chaser. - Learn from his experience with his own lean startup venture. This hands-on book will launch you on your way. - Avoid the mistakes that sink new businesses - Expanded email marketing chapters, this alone will save you lots of consulting fees - How to locate customers: how to capture and keep them - Learn which advisors you need and the ones to avoid - Make more intelligent decisions elevate your profits

Download or read book Your First Startup Book 2 The Next Steps written by Wayne Walker and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne continues the journey from the first book. For the new or more experienced business owners he explains step-by-step, in detail how to make or continue the leap from traditional employment and create a business with enough income to pursue your dreams. This book provides the tools that a new entrepreneur needs in straight talk. The focus is on the 99% of new businesses not unicorns. If your ONLY goal is to get money from investors this is NOT for you. Wayne delivers real-world experience for those who share the vision that to offer something of value (a product or service) to paying clients is one of the best signs that you have a real business and not some unicorn chaser. - Learn from his experience with his own lean startup venture. This hands-on book will launch you on your way. - Avoid the mistakes that sink new businesses - Expanded email marketing chapters, this alone will save you lots of consulting fees - How to locate customers: how to capture and keep them - Learn which advisors you need and the ones to avoid - Make more intelligent decisions elevate your profits

Download or read book Your First Startup Book 2 The Next Steps written by Wayne Walker and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne continues the journey from the first book. For the new or more experienced business owners he explains step-by-step, in detail how to make or continue the leap from traditional employment and create a business with enough income to pursue your dreams. This book provides the tools that a new entrepreneur needs in straight talk. The focus is on the 99% of new businesses not unicorns. If your ONLY goal is to get money from investors this is NOT for you. Wayne delivers real-world experience for those who share the vision that to offer something of value (a product or service) to paying clients is one of the best signs that you have a real business and not some unicorn chaser. - Learn from his experience with his own lean startup venture. This hands-on book will launch you on your way.- Avoid the mistakes that sink new businesses- Expanded email marketing chapters, this alone will save you lots of consulting fees- How to locate customers: how to capture and keep them- Learn which advisors you need and the ones to avoid - Make more intelligent decisions elevate your profits

Download or read book The Startup Owner s Manual written by Steve Blank and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 other leading universities worldwide. Why? The Startup Owner's Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the Customer Development process to work. This method was created by renowned Silicon Valley startup expert Steve Blank, co-creator with Eric Ries of the "Lean Startup" movement and tested and refined by him for more than a decade. This 608-page how-to guide includes over 100 charts, graphs, and diagrams, plus 77 valuable checklists that guide you as you drive your company toward profitability. It will help you: Avoid the 9 deadly sins that destroy startups' chances for success Use the Customer Development method to bring your business idea to life Incorporate the Business Model Canvas as the organizing principle for startup hypotheses Identify your customers and determine how to "get, keep and grow" customers profitably Compute how you'll drive your startup to repeatable, scalable profits. The Startup Owners Manual was originally published by K&S Ranch Publishing Inc. and is now available from Wiley. The cover, design, and content are the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.

Download or read book Disciplined Entrepreneurship written by Bill Aulet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 Steps to Success! Disciplined Entrepreneurship will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great entrepreneurs aren’t born with something special – they simply make great products. This book will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehensive, and proven 24-step framework that any industrious person can learn and apply. You will learn: Why the “F” word – focus – is crucial to a startup’s success Common obstacles that entrepreneurs face – and how to overcome them How to use innovation to stand out in the crowd – it’s not just about technology Whether you’re a first-time or repeat entrepreneur, Disciplined Entrepreneurship gives you the tools you need to improve your odds of making a product people want. Author Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship as well as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For more please visit http://disciplinedentrepreneurship.com/

Download or read book The Founder s Dilemmas written by Noam Wasserman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.

Download or read book The Startup Checklist written by David S. Rose and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 Steps to Found and Scale a High-Growth Business The Startup Checklist is the entrepreneur's essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start. You'll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases, and how to avoid the critical missteps that threaten the foundation of your business. Instead of simply referring you to experts, this discussion shows you exactly which experts you need, what exactly you need them to do, and which tools you will use to support them—and you'll gain enough insight to ask smart questions that help you get your money's worth. If you're ready to do big things, this book has you covered from the first business card to the eventual exit. Over two thirds of startups are built on creaky foundations, and over two thirds of startup costs go directly toward cleaning up legal and practical problems caused by an incomplete or improper start. This book helps you sidestep the messy and expensive clean up process by giving you the specific actions you need to take right from the very beginning. Understand the critical intricacies of legally incorporating and running a startup Learn which experts you need, and what exactly you need from them Make more intelligent decisions independent of your advisors Avoid the challenges that threaten to derail great young companies The typical American startup costs over $30,000 and requires working with over two dozen professionals and service providers before it even opens for business—and the process is so complex that few founders do it correctly. Their startups errors often go unnoticed until the founder tries to seek outside capital, at which point they can cost thousands of dollars to fix. . . or even completely derail an investment. The Startup Checklist helps you avoid these problems and lay a strong foundation, so you can focus on building your business.

Download or read book The Next Step written by Luni Libes and published by Lunarmobiscuit Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine out of every ten startups will fail. Want to avoid their mistakes and become part of the 10% that succeed? THE NEXT STEP is the first series to take entrepreneurs step-by-step through the process from raw idea to operational startup. Each step includes a set of key questions designed to help you build a business plan and pitches for potential investors and customers. Book 4: A Guide to Pitching Your Idea, is for anyone with a business plan in head or hand who is ready to create and deliver a great "pitch," be it to investors, to a potential co-founder, or for your first sale. Step by step, slide by slide, what needs to be said and what is too much. Plus iterations on those slides, to show you how to make the whole story better and better. Whether you're a seasoned professional looking to make a change, a new college graduate with a big idea, or a small business owner in need of more structure, this must-read series from serial entrepreneur Luni Libes will help make your idea a profitable reality.

Download or read book Entering StartUpLand written by Jeffrey Bussgang and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today's dynamic innovation economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for those who aspire to be founders, but a company only has one or two of those. What's needed is something that deconstructs the typical startup organization for the thousands of employees who join a fledgling company and do the day-to-day work required to grow it into something of value. Entering StartUpLand is a practical, step-by-step guide that provides an insider's analysis of various startup roles and responsibilities--including product management, marketing, growth, and sales--to help you figure out if you want to join a startup and what to expect if you do. You'll gain insight into how successful startups operate and learn to assess which ones you might want to join--or emulate. Inside this book you'll find: A tour of typical startup roles to help you determine which one might be the best fit for you Profiles of startup executives across many different functions who share their stories and describe their responsibilities A methodology to identify and evaluate startups and position yourself to find the opportunity that's right for you Written by an experienced venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and Harvard Business School professor, Entering StartUpLand will guide you as you seek your ideal entry point into this popular, cutting-edge organizational paradigm.

Download or read book Founding Sales written by Peter R Kazanjy and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is specifically targeted for founders who find themselves at the point where they need to transition into a selling role. Specifically founders who are leading organizations that have a B2B, direct sales model that involves sales professionals engaging in verbal, commercial conversations with buyers. Moreover, many examples in this book will be targeted specifically to the realm of B2B SAAS software, and specifically as regards new, potentially innovative or disruptive offerings that are being brought to market for the first time. In short, direct sales of the sort a B2B SAAS software startup would engage in. With that said, if you are looking to be a first time salesperson, transitioning in from another type of role, or fresh out of school, in an organization that meets those characteristics above, you will get value out of this book. Similarly, if you are a first time sales manager, either of the founder type, or a sales individual contributor who is transitioning into that role, again, in an organization who meets the criteria above, you will also get value from this book.

Download or read book The Cold Start Problem written by Andrew Chen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem”—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale toward billions of users. Although software has become easier to build, launching and scaling new products and services remains difficult. Startups face daunting challenges entering the technology ecosystem, including stiff competition, copycats, and ineffective marketing channels. Teams launching new products must consider the advantages of “the network effect,” where a product or service’s value increases as more users engage with it. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants utilize network effects, and most tech products incorporate them, whether they’re messaging apps, workplace collaboration tools, or marketplaces. Network effects provide a path for fledgling products to break through, attracting new users through viral growth and word of mouth. Yet most entrepreneurs lack the vocabulary and context to describe them—much less understand the fundamental principles that drive the effect. What exactly are network effects? How do teams create and build them into their products? How do products compete in a market where every player has them? Andrew Chen draws on his experience and on interviews with the CEOs and founding teams of LinkedIn, Twitch, Zoom, Dropbox, Tinder, Uber, Airbnb, and Pinterest to offer unique insights in answering these questions. Chen also provides practical frameworks and principles that can be applied across products and industries. The Cold Start Problem reveals what makes winning networks thrive, why some startups fail to successfully scale, and, most crucially, why products that create and compete using the network effect are vitally important today.

Download or read book Your First Startup written by Wayne Walker and published by Wayne Walker. This book was released on 2017-03-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne shows you how to make the leap from traditional employment and create the business and income to pursue your dreams outside of work. The book provides the tools that a new entrepreneur needs in straight talk, no fluff. This is based on the experience with his own lean startup venture. Includes many personal notes from the journal that he kept during his startup phase. This hands-on book will launch you on your way. •Easy to use guide •Avoid the mistakes that sink startups' •Locate customers: how to capture, keep and grow customers •Learn which advisors you need and the ones to avoid •Make more intelligent decisions •Elevate your startup to repeatable profits

Download or read book The Startup Playbook written by Rajat Bhargava and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the real guidance you need to create and build your first startup company from founders who have been there many times before. The first run printing of The Startup Playbook SOLD OUT! So, we revised, expanded, and improved this second edition, including a new foreword by Brad Feld, author of Venture Deals. We still give our personal, how-to guide for building your startup from the ground up. You'll find a collection of the major lessons and shortcuts we've learned that will shift the odds in your favor. We're sharing our tips, secrets, and advice in a frank, founder-to-founder discussion with you. We make no bones about our bias. We're on your side, the founder's side. While venture capitalists, investors, and accelerators/incubators can add great value in the startup ecosystem, this book isn't about their points of view. We'll tell you where our interests as founders diverge from those on the other side of the table—investors, bankers, advisors, board members, and others—and what to do when that happens. The Startup Playbook is not a recipe, it's not a template, it's not a list of tasks to do. It's our insider's guide to starting a company and running it successfully in those critical early months. Between us, we've started over a dozen high-tech software companies and raised over $500 million in investment capital. We've acquired over thirty-five companies, had three of our startups go public, sold six of them, and we made billions of dollars for shareholders. We've also invested in over eighty startups, advised and mentored over two hundred companies and actively worked with venture capitalists (VCs), incubators, and accelerators to help launch many other new startups. We've had plenty of failures, too. And we've probably learned more from those than from the successes. We share those lessons as well. The Startup Playbook is full of our advice, guidance, do's, and don'ts from our years of experience as founders many times. We want to share our hard-earned knowledge with you to make success easier for you to achieve. "This book is extraordinarily fresh and exciting. In an accessible, straight talk fashion, this book is a manual, and an inspiration. The Startup Playbook is smart and avoids the 'I am so smart' over-writing endemic to the genre. Read this as it is presented. You'll be doing yourself a tremendous favor." —Amazon Reviewer

Download or read book The Next Step written by Luni Libes and published by Lunarmobiscuit Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine out of every ten startups will fail. Want to avoid their mistakes and become part of the 10% that succeed? THE NEXT STEP is the first series to take entrepreneurs step-by-step through the process from raw idea to operational startup. Each step includes a set of key questions designed to help you build a business plan and pitches for potential investors and customers. Book 3: A Guide to Building a Startup Financial Plan covers the whole process from projecting revenue to estimating expenses, developing a cash flow statement, and analyzing your break-even point. Step by step, from a blank spreadsheet to a five-year financial model. Whether you're a seasoned professional looking to make a change, a new college graduate with a big idea, or a small business owner in need of more structure, this must-read series from serial entrepreneur Luni Libes will help make your idea a profitable reality.

Download or read book Before You Startup written by Vikas Sharma and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for all those who have dreamed of being an entrepreneur and are now thinking of the next step in founding a start-up and getting to work. Through this book, I am trying to prepare you as far as possible for all the unknown challenges you may face in by providing you with various frameworks to understand your business better and make better decisions for the future. This is exactly how successful start-ups operate - they encounter big challenges, make calculated guesses and keep moving. Here, I try to present a holistic view of running start-ups. Essential topics such as financial planning, investment and capital raising, business and market strategy, finding and pricing resources, even for start-ups having a small team size of 5 to 6 employees, are all discussed. All of them are treated from various types of start-up - because different ventures can have very different needs. Key points where they differ from more established businesses, which you may have already seen, are highlighted for your attention. If you invest a little of your time in reading this book, rest assured you are going to save lots of time while running your start-up by avoiding unwanted hassles.

Download or read book Your First Startup Sparking Entrepreneurship written by Raman Bansal and published by BFC Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a: “Wannabe” entrepreneur in school or college with big dreams in your eyes? “Friday-night-after-drinks” aspiring entrepreneur in your 20s/30s? “Ready-to-go” soon-to-be entrepreneur? “Already-on-the-train” entrepreneur? Terms like - Business plan, Marketing, Sales, Business idea, Execution, Validation, MVP, Product-market fit, Pricing strategy, etc driving you nuts? The author , Raman Bansal from Dhuri,Sangrur (Punjab) has a strong belief from his 20 years of professional experience that Education is the foundation of Success but School is often about studying instead of practicing and sparking entrepreneurship skills and he believs everyone is born Smart - that everyone has a special Unique Signature Strength(USS). Through this book, author want to empower all of youwho need that little spark to find your way on the path to be an “Entrepreneur” through Entrepreneurship where you don’t need to qualify any criteria for…..it comes from within, with the process of stepping up, having courageand doing things that you never thought you’d be able to do but by identifying your USS which boost your confidence and allows you to see opportunities and help you to take risks to convert your hobby or idea into a successful commerical venture with flexibile behaviour and learning to act outside your comfort zone. And you’ll be on your way towards achieving your goals. There is no perfect time of this journey. I can only assure you, if you choose to be the part of this journey, the journey will make you strong….day by day... Start Your Mission Now !!

Download or read book Take Off Your Startup written by Pankaj Salunke and published by Pankaj Salunke. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're working on a business plan and have new business ideas then keep reading… · Are you a graduate student with no business knowledge and have a plan of starting a business without or little money · Do you have an inferiority complex that you have not completed an MBA · Do you have a startup idea but no money · Are you doing job/ or planning to do a job to accumulate money for your startup ideas · Are you looking to validate your business plan · Do you have confusion to choose a new business idea · Do you have questions on Startup Funding This Book is all about Untold Business Secrets and proven business plans, few of the topics are listed below. · From where to get New Business ideas · Formula to finalize one new business idea amongst all your ideas · How to become financially stable and be ready for any upcoming crisis in your startup journey. · From where to get fund for business · How to make business profitable, right from the start · All your business fears (like accounting) will be busted in dust · How to search perfect team members and team building strategy · How to start with lowest /minimum funding · How to hire people with a minimum salary · Setting up a business system, how to do it step by step · Tips to handle family and society opposition · How to Sell your products fast enough to breakeven Learn From 151 Startup Entrepreneurs who have succeeded in stabilizing their businesses and have gone to the next level · These stories are collected from real-life incidents of 151+ entrepreneurs, collected exclusively, mostly occurred in their first 5 years of the startup journey · This isn't a boring theory subject book · A failure story and a success story,145+ startup story incidents are told with reference to business concept, which leaves no opportunity for further explanation of the concept · These are not only motivation stories, but also failure stories which will make you wise to handle similar situations in your startup journey. You should always learn from failure, but not from your own failures, but from other failures. · Contains business planning templates Book Structure Book is divided into 4 parts 1) Why should you start a business 2) Things you should fix before starting a business so that once you start the business you are not bothered by any crisis 3) Four pillars of business on how to start a company 4) Living the entrepreneurial life and Time Management What will I find inside this startup book? Concepts - A total of 72 concepts Stories - Failure Story and Success Story for every Concept, a total of 145+ startup stories Statistics - Startup/Business statistics with respect to that concept Quote/s - By famous mentors, business persons about w.r.t. concept Concept Explanation - In a paragraph (No bombarding of theory) Scientific Formula - A readymade Model, diagram or table form to copy and implement in your business Business Pearl - Secret related to that concept which no entrepreneur would share How to start a business in less than 6 months and crunch first 5 years of a startup journey without MBA Degree, reading thick business books, watching an unending list of YouTube business videos or joining any startup accelerator even if you have no money, have a home based business or have zero business experience. Take Off is a perfect guide for firing up your Startup Dream. So if you want to discover how to start a business and set yourself up for success, click "Buy Now"!