"Startup 101" is a serialized book about the thrills and spills of starting a Web technology venture....Startup 101 is for first-time entrepreneurs who want to go through the whole startup life cycle - including raising money, building a valuable business, and making a lot of money by selling the venture or taking it public.
This is the tentative list of chapters -
- 10 things to be clear about before you start
- Are you really an entrepreneur?
- How first-time entrepreneurs can work well with investors
- Creating your vision, mission, strategy, and plan
- Finding the right wave to ride (secular trends)
- Working booms and busts to your advantage (cyclical trends)
- Building your team pre-financing
- Building an advisory board
- Finding a URL and company name
- Company registration choices
- The Capital-Raising Ladder
- How to pitch to a VC or angel
- How not to get screwed by VCs
- Understand the scale vs. profitability trade-off
- Build an insanely great Web service
- Learn to negotiate and close
- How to be an effective executive
- Steps in building a brand
- How to get noticed
- How to scale without losing your shirt
- Maintaining focus, health, and passion during the grind-it-out phase
- How to build the A-Team
- How to hit your numbers
- How to build an effective board
- How to build age-appropriate processes
- Planning your exit
- When and how founders should hire a professional CEO
- Read some great books for inspiration
- Negotiating your exit
- Congratulations! What's next?
At this moment, the first 17 chapters have already been published
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