Tag: Startups

Archetypical Roles in Startups Eight Personality Traits You Need in Your Founding Team (Business Guides on the Go)


Free Download Archetypical Roles in Startups: Eight Personality Traits You Need in Your Founding Team (Business Guides on the Go) by Vanessa Miller, Jens U. Pätzmann
English | March 2, 2023 | ISBN: 3031222520 | 248 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
Founding a startup is a challenging endeavor that works best in a well-balanced team. Different thinking styles are needed throughout the founding journey. Archetypes are deeply engrained templates in the collective unconscious and can be used to reveal the hidden aspects of social interactions within teams. This book employs an archetypical personality test to uncover the eight most significant team roles needed in a startup: the leader, the mentor, the artist, the friend, the hero, the femme fatale, the rebel and the manager. The artist, for example, always finds unconventional solutions, the femme fatale attracts support for the idea, and the hero is undaunted in the face of setbacks. Archetypical roles can manifest in individuals or at the group level, and they can and should change throughout the journey. With the included personality test, this book offers entrepreneurs, investors and mentors alike a tool to improve the interpersonal processes in startup teams.

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Smart Startups What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know–Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders [Audiobook]


Free Download Catalina Daniels, James H. Sherman, Christopher Salazar (Narrator), Will Damron (Narrator), Sarah Beth Pfeifer (Narrator), "Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know-Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders"
English | ASIN: B0BT1HS3ZF | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~11:43:00 | 333 MB
Two startup company founders and angel investors go inside eighteen companies founded by Harvard Business School graduates, uncovering surprising lessons for success and unexpected pitfalls essential for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Conventional "wisdom" holds that the most successful entrepreneurs in the world are born with a genius for starting companies, experience one lightning-bolt moment of inspiration after another, follow a tried-and-true process to scale to a billion dollars, and attract deep-pocketed investors at every turn.
The real story is a bit more unconventional-and much more interesting.

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Smart Startups What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know–Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders


Free Download Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know-Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders by Catalina Daniels, James H. Sherman
English | October 10, 2023 | ISBN: 0063316315 | 384 pages | PDF | 3.37 Mb
Two startup company founders and angel investors go inside eighteen companies founded by Harvard Business School graduates, uncovering surprising lessons for success and unexpected pitfalls essential for aspiring entrepreneurs.

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America’s Most Successful Startups Lessons for Entrepreneurs


Free Download America’s Most Successful Startups: Lessons for Entrepreneurs By Max Finger, Oliver Samwer (auth.)
1998 | 170 Pages | ISBN: 3409114092 | PDF | 4 MB
Leaving school and standing at the threshold of the next stage in our life, through this study we have had the chance to take a glance at the 21 st century. We hope to be able to communicate some of those impressions to a wider audience through this book. For entrepreneurs, the book develops a series of concrete propositions which provide hands on lessons for creating a successful venture. Thus we hope that this book will be used again and again as an Entrepreneur’s Handbook. If we have done our job well, it will soon be full of underlinings, marginal notations and highlighting. It is meant to provide useful advice for people like us, people who want to be entrepreneurs. The book documents empirical research bearing on the question of how to start, build and grow a successful venture. The research is based exclusively on interviews with America’s most successful high-tech startups in Silicon Valley and Massachusetts. In these interviews we came across the most tremendous people, entrepreneurs of the 21 st century, first-tier venture capitalists, investment bankers, lawyers and technologists. People who will be driving the economy of tomorrow.

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Mentoring Startups Getting the most out of mentoring in a startup environment


Free Download George Vukotich Ph.D., "Mentoring Startups: Getting the most out of mentoring in a startup environment"
English | 2016 | pages: 198 | ISBN: 1537792199 | EPUB | 1,2 mb
Mentoring Startups is a unique book. While there are many books on mentoring this is the only one that focuses on mentoring startups. With the growth in individuals starting and running their own companies the challenge of how to find mentors that can help has become a top priority. Unlike a corporate environment where programs are designed with timelines and assigned mentors, the startup world leaves the entrepreneur on their own to find the help and resources they need. This book goes into detail on both sides of the equation. It helps the mentee/entrepreneur understand what it takes to find the right kind of mentor at the right time and it also helps the potential mentor understand how to use the skills they have developed to help the entrepreneur. For mentors having skills is one thing, being able to use them effectively is another Bringing both the mentor and mentee together so they can have an effective relationship is the key to success. This book looks at how to find the right mentor, how to get the relationship off to a good start, and what to do if things get off-track. It provides a number of tools to keep the relationship focused and gives guidance on what to do when. It is a resource to use on an ongoing basis to keep the relationship progressing forward. George Vukotich, Ph.D. works with startups and the incubators and accelerators that help them become more successful. After a successful career in larger organizations including; IBM, Accenture, and BP he moved into higher education where he developed an interest in disruption and innovation which led him to the startup world. As the Senior Vice-President of 1871 he built the programs that were responsible for it being recognized as the #1 incubator in the U.S. His work included the design of mentoring programs and the recruiting and development of over 500 mentors in a wide range of areas that gave the 400 plus member companies the guidance and direction they needed. His work also included the design of the overall education process, workshops, and networking. He is frequently contacted by incubators from around the world for his expertise and is often referred to as; "The man behind making 1871 run." He is on the advisory board of a number of companies and works to help improve the startup eco-system. Feel free to reach out to George at his LinkedIn link:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgevukotich

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