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Offers a recipe and the key ingredients for starting and growing a business, explaining how to think like a successful entrepreneur, turning ideas into actions, building your staff, and marketing and launching your product.
List of contents
Foreword Tony Hsieh ix
Introduction 1
Part 1 GETTING STARTED 5
1 Entrepreneurial Mind 7
2 Ideas 21
3 Action 31
4 Formation 47
Part 2 PRODUCT 59
5 Product-Market Fit 61
6 Launch 73
7 Metrics 85
Part 3 TEAM AND PEOPLE 95
8 Team 97
9 Culture 109
10 Celebration 123
11 Relationships 135
Part 4 SALES AND MARKETING 147
12 Marketing 149
13 Sales 165
Part 5 MONEY 179
14 Bootstrapping 181
15 Funding 193
Part 6 GROWTH AND CHANGE 211
16 Failure 213
17 Success 223
Conclusion 237
Acknowledgments 239
References 243
Index 247
About the author
FRANK GRUBER grew up in the Midwest heartland and is an entrepreneur, new media journalist, and investor. His alma maters include Purdue and Northwestern respectively. He cofounded Tech Cocktail in 2006, which has grown into a hub for the creative class, offering tech startup focused news, events, and resources. Frank has built and launched products for the masses while at AOL, Tribune, and Classified Ventures along with startup efforts like Thankfulfor, Splog Reporter, and more. As a journalist his works have been featured in a number of top media publications. He was named by
Forbes as one of the most connected people in tech. Frank is also a Venture Partner with Crystal Tech Fund.
Summary
Shake up the market with these key ingredients to a successful startup Entrepreneurship starts with an idea and a dream: a dream of a better world for others, and a life less ordinary for yourself. These days, more people than ever are full of world-changing ideas and, thanks to technology, have the means to bring them to life.
