The Startup Playbook: Founder-to-Founder Advice from Two Startup Veterans (Techstars)

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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. Youll find a collection of the major lessons and shortcuts weve learned that will shift the odds in your favor. Were sharing our tips secrets and advice in a frank founder-to-founder discussion with you. We make no bones about our bias. Were on your side the founders side. While venture capitalists investors and accelerators/incubators can add great value in the startup ecosystem this book isnt about their points of view. Well tell you where our interests as founders diverge from those on the other side of the tableinvestors bankers advisors board members and othersand what to do when that happens. The Startup Playbook is not a recipe its not a template its not a list of tasks to do. Its our insiders guide to starting a company and running it successfully in those critical early months. Between us weve started over a dozen high-tech software companies and raised over $500 million in investment capital. Weve acquired over thirty-five companies had three of our startups go public sold six of them and we made billions of dollars for shareholders. Weve 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. Weve had plenty of failures too. And weve probably learned more from those than from the successes. We share those lessons as well. The Startup Playbook is full of our advice guidance dos and donts 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. Youll be doing yourself a tremendous favor." Amazon Reviewer