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description: Veteran venture capitalist Randy Komisar and finance executive Jantoon Reigersman share no-nonsense counterintuitive guidelines to help anyone build a successful startup. Over the course of their careers Randy Komisar and Jantoon Reigersman continue to see startups crash and burn because they forget the timeless lessons of entrepreneurship. But as Komisar and Reigersman show you can beat the odds if you quickly learn what insiders know about what it takes to build a healthy foundation for a thriving venture. In Straight Talk for Startups they walk budding entrepreneurs through one hundred essential rules--from pitching your idea to selecting investors to managing your board to deciding how and when to achieve liquidity. Culled from their own decades of experience as well as the experiences of their many successful colleagues and friends the rules are organized under broad topics from Mastering the Fundamentals and Selecting the Right Investors to The Ideal Fundraise Building and Managing Effective Boards and Achieving Liquidity. The following are among the many vital rules you'll find in Straight Talk for Startups : Filled with helpful real-life examples and specific actionable advice Straight Talk for Startups is the ideal handbook for anyone running working for or thinking about creating a startup or just curious about what makes high-potential ventures tick.
language: English
title: Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds--from Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity
publisher: HarperCollins and Blackstone Audio