The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs.
If you read nothing else on entrepreneurship and startups, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your company for enduring success.
Leading experts and practitioners such as Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Reid Hoffman provide the insights and advice that will inspire you to:
Understand what makes entrepreneurial leaders tick
Know what matters in a great business plan
Adopt lean startup practices such as business model experimentation
Be prepared for the race for scale in Silicon Valley
Better understand the world of venture capital--and know what you'll get along with VC funding
Take an alternative approach to entrepreneurship: buy an existing business and run it as CEO
This collection of articles includes "Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader," by Timothy Butler; "How to Write a Great Business Plan," by William A. Sahlman; "Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything," by Steve Blank; "The President of SRI Ventures on Bringing Siri to Life," by Norman Winarsky; "In Search of the Next Big Thing," an interview with Marc Andreessen by Adi Ignatius; "Six Myths About Venture Capitalists," by Diane Mulcahy; "Chobani's Founder on Growing a Start-Up Without Outside Investors," by Hamdi Ulukaya; "Network Effects Aren't Enough," by Andrei Hagiu and Simon Rothman; "Blitzscaling," an interview with Reid Hoffman by Tim Sullivan; "Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship," by Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff; and "The Founder's Dilemma," by Noam Wasserman.
Описание: 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.
Описание: With advice from Daymond John, Bobbi Brown, Marc Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck, Max Levchin, Alexa von Tobel, and other successful early stage startup investors, Inc. magazine shows you how to attract and wisely apply your firm`s first precious sources of cash.
Understanding Lean Startup answers all of the questions you've been asking about one of the most revolutionary breakthroughs in entrepreneurship history. With careful and concise consideration, Clint Day, author of Set Your Own Salary, presents a comprehensive yet accessible analysis of all of the components needed to double your chances for new venture success.
No longer does an entrepreneur have to struggle with their time and money, only to fail post-launch. Using lean startup, or evidence-based entrepreneurship, anyone can be successfully self-employed. With proven success in Silicon Valley, here is the best way to launch a new venture. By reading this book, you will:
Learn the power of the Business Model Canvas (BMC) and its nine components;
Invest your time searching, finding, and executing an idea before spending money;
Discover how validated learning trumps all other ways to start a new business;
Understand the importance of the product/market fit (a problem and its solution);
Establish demand by really listening to the customer then fund, expand, and scale;
Test the minimum feature that demonstrates a unique value, and just start.
Real-world tools to build your venture, grow your business, and avoid mistakes
Startup, Scaleup, Screwup is an expert guide for emerging and established businesses to accelerate growth, facilitate scalability, and keep pace with the rapidly changing economic landscape. The contemporary marketplace is more dynamic than ever before--increased global competition, the impact of digital transformation, and disruptive innovation factors require businesses to implement agile management and business strategies to compete and thrive. This indispensable book provides business leaders and entrepreneurs the tools and guidance to meet growth and scalability challenges head on.
Equal parts motivation and practical application, this book answers the questions every business leader asks from the startup ventures to established companies. Covering topics including funding options, employee hiring, product-market validation, remote team management, agile scaling, and the business lifecycle, this essential resource provides a solid approach to grow at the right pace and stay lean. This book will enable you to:
Apply 42 effective tools to sustain and accelerate your business growth
Avoid the mistakes and pitfalls associated with rapid business growth or organizational change
Develop a clear growth plan to integrate into your overall business model
Structure your business for rapid scaling and efficient management
Startup, Scaleup, Screwup: 42 Tools to Accelerate Lean & Agile BusinessGrowth is a must-read for entrepreneurs, founders, managers, and senior executives. Author Jurgen Appelo shares his wisdom on the creative economy, agile management, innovation marketing, and organizational change to provide a comprehensive guide to business growth. Practical methods and expert advice make this book an essential addition to any business professional's library.
Описание: Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the incep
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