Bibliograph

Lost and founder, a painfully honest field guide to the startup world, Rand Fishkin

Type

Label

Lost and founder, a painfully honest field guide to the startup world, Rand Fishkin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lost and founder

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

999589669

Responsibility statement

Rand Fishkin

Sub title

a painfully honest field guide to the startup world

Summary

Shares the author's experiences creating, running, and leaving a tech company, and offers advice to people who want to create tech startups of their own

Table Of Contents

Introduction : The startup cheat code -- The truth shall set you free (from a lot of $#*% storms) -- Why the startup world hates on services (and why you shouldn't) -- Great founders don't do what they love; they enable a vision -- Beware the pivot -- Startups carry their founders' baggage -- Don't raise money for the wrong reasons or from the wrong people -- So you've decided to ask complete strangers for millions of dollars -- Founding a top 5 percent startup may not make you rich -- Scalable marketing flywheels > growth hacks -- Real values don't help you make money (in the short term) -- Living the lives of your customers and their influencers is a startup cheat code -- Great products are rarely "minimally viable" -- Should you sell your startup early? Yes, probably -- If management is the only way up, we're all f'd -- Vulnerability is not weakness -- Self-awareness is a superpower -- Focus -- Cheat codes for next time

Classification