Founder's FAQ


Book Description

Founder's FAQ is an authentic guide for founders by revealing what works and what doesn't in the predictable journey of the startup.It covers the answers to all the possible questions of a founder in a startup journey--whether revealing lifesaving principles for the startup's survival path, building A+ teams, creating an evolving machine, setting up a neat culture, or interpreting the true path for the fundraising.All the chapters of the book are packed with real-life examples; from founders who scaled their startups and exited, investors of Airbnb, Coinbase, Deliveroo, Gusto, HubSpot, Instacart, Kayak, Lyft, Opendoor, Robinhood, Slack, Snapchat, Snowflake, Square, Stripe, Twilio, Udemy, to sales, marketing, and product leaders of high-growth startups. This enables you to merge practical knowledge with reality. It can undoubtedly be read cover-to-cover but invites you to open up to any page and digest a quick lesson.




The Founder's Dilemmas


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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.




Launch In 5


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How do you do justice to your business idea? It's a question that entrepreneurs are always asking, aware that 70% of new businesses fail. Starting a business is scary, especially for first-timers, but there is a safe, LAUNCH IN 5 way to do it. If you are launching a new business, this book will improve your chance for success in the most economic, efficient, and painless way possible, before you put large amounts of time and money on the line. It provides a comprehensive guide on how to rapidly turn an idea into a money-making machine - whether it is a side gig or a headfirst dive into the world of entrepreneurship. Because most new businesses are conducted online, it will place an emphasis on how to launch and build a business on the internet, and because most new entrepreneurs are operating within a small budget and timeframe, these concepts are inexpensive, fast, low-risk, and proven. Based on the author's insider strategies, LAUNCH IN 5 will guide the reader through each step of getting their idea out into the world, from inception to launch to ensuring long-term growth. It will also offer tools to help the reader determine whether their idea is worth pursuing (most aren't) and, if not, return them safely to the concept-development stage before they waste massive amounts of money and time launching an idea that will never fly. You'll learn that · Most risk is unnecessary. · You can launch your new business in days (or sometimes even hours). · You can apply the same launch strategies you'll learn here for an online business, an offline start-up a global corporation, with a budget of $50 or $500,000. These method work in any industry, for any idea. · You can lower the start-up failure rate from 70% to 9% if you follow the guidance in this book. · Most business ideas can have their potential success (or failure) proved in just a week or so, for less than the cost of the latest iPhone.




The Ultimate Patent Guide


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TURN YOUR IDEA INTO AN INVENTION, AND YOUR INVENTION INTO AN ASSET! Do you have a brilliant idea, but don’t know how to protect it? This comprehensive guide from IP experts of DexPatent provides inventors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners with everything they need to understand the patent process, from concept to commercialization. ‘This book is all you need to start your patenting journey’ Dr. Steward Gracian, Founder & CEO, SocioDent ‘Should form part of a welcome kit across universities and corporate offices’ Dr. Vijay Singh, IP Manager, Indian Institute of Science Discover more resources at www.dexpatent.com




The Complete Guide to Start-up Funding


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Funding the start-up is one of the biggest challenge for the founders. Various start-ups fail in funding for varied reasons and despite the excellent business ideas and products, the founders are not able to get the funding and fulfil their dreams! This book is not merely a book, but a crash course on start-up funding, where all the practical and critical aspects of start-up funding, and highly specialized guidance about the start-up funding are presented in lucid language. It will be quite useful for the founders, start-up aspirants, start-up advisors, mentors, CA, CPA, CS, CMA, lawyers, financial consultants etc., to deep-dive into the world of start-up funding. The book contains all the aspects of start-up funding such as: • Various forms of business entities and most suitable one for start-ups • Various sources of funding and financial instruments for start-ups • How to assess the financial requirements of start-ups • Understanding and evaluating financial statements and start-up metrics • Understanding various start-up specific terms • Various types of investors in start-up ecosystem • Understanding crucial aspects of equity, debt and hybrid funding • Designing effective funding strategy • Finding out the investors, funding process and effectively closing deals with investors • Business plan, pitch-deck, financial model, and valuation • Practical example of financial model • Effectively closing due diligence process • Evaluating the Term sheet • Legal documentation and various agreements • Various investment rounds and investors’ exit • Debt instruments and debt funding process • And many more practical aspects!




Founders at Work


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Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover? Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done. But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businesses do—create value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.




Founders


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Originally published: New York: Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2012.




The Startup Lexicon US Edition [Second Edition]


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From enshittification to stochastic parrots, the startup world has its own unique and occasionally impenetrable language. If you’re learning about entrepreneurship, thinking of starting or joining a startup, or dipping your toes in the world of investing, the sheer number of acronyms, buzzwords, and technical phrases used can leave you feeling confused, bemused, or worse yet, embarrassed by the things you think you should know. That’s where The Startup Lexicon comes in—now fully reviewed and updated with over 50 new words and phrases, plus a host of fresh new stories! With contributions from academics, founders, investors, and people from the tech ecosystem, this book deciphers the hidden language of the startup world. With simple definitions of the most frequently used words, alongside illuminating stories that provide more context and color, The Startup Lexicon is an incredible resource for anyone interested in one of the biggest and fastest-growing sectors in the business world. Whether you’re in a boardroom or a classroom, or if you’re just brushing up before an all-important investment or partnership meeting, The Startup Lexicon will act as your primer and reminder about everything from LLMs to TAM/SAM/SOM.




The CR FAQ


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Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism (CR) is a polytheistic, animistic, religious and cultural movement. It is an effort to reconstruct, through both scholarly research and experiential practice, a spiritual tradition that is true to ancient Celtic religion and relevant to our lives in the modern world. This print edition of "The CR FAQ - An Introduction to Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism" includes a detailed pronunciation guide and an extensive glossary of terms and deities. "The CR FAQ" was written by a diverse collective of Celtic Reconstructionist (CR) elders and long-term practitioners. It is the very first book to be published that is wholly about Celtic Reconstructionism. All profits from the sale of this book are being donated to Gaelic language and cultural preservation charities in the Celtic Nations and worldwide.




The Anti 9 to 5 Guide


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Today, lots of women would love to integrate their passion with their career and are seeking advice on how to do just that. Michelle Goodman, a self proclaimed, "wage-slave" has written a fun, reassuring, girlfriend-to-girlfriend guide on identifying your passion, transitioning out of that unfulfilling job, and doing it all in a smart, practical way. The Anti 9-to-5 Guide realizes that not every woman wants the corner office, in fact, some women don't want to be in an office at all. Today's women are non-traditionalists, do it yourself sort of girls who want to travel the world, take up knitting, frolic in the land of freelancing but want to do it all without going broke. The Anti 9-to-5 Guide provides readers with the resources you need to have it all and still have a place to sleep. Michelle suggests great tips for easing into the life you want. With an entire chapter devoted to pursuing your passion on the side, The Anti 9-to-5 Guide encourages us to tweak our current career path or head down a new one, and ultimately succeed.