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Startup Opportunities : Know When to Quit Your Day Job.
Start strong with essential early-stage guidance from the VC perspective Startup Opportunities is the go-to guide for anyone with a great business idea. Whether it's your first business or your fifth, realistic assessment from the outset can save you a lot of time and money; why pour your heart...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2017.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Startup Opportunities; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Trust Me, Your Idea Is Worthless; Note; Chapter 1 What Is a Startup?; How to Use This Book; Who This Book Is For; Notes; Chapter 2 The Democratization of Startups; The Cost to Launch Is Approaching Zero; The World Is Flat; The Path Is Known; Access to Capital; Chapter 3 Opportunities; The Four Criteria for an Opportunity; What Is Opportunity Evaluation?; What Is the Cost of Poor Opportunity Evaluation?; Execution Trumps Opportunity; Risk, Uncertainty, and Ambiguity; The Issue of Bias; Notes; Chapter 4 Approaches to Opportunity Evaluation.
- Where Does Opportunity Evaluation Fit into the Overall Startup Process?Overview of Business Model Generation; Overview of Customer Development and Lean Startup; Overview of the Disciplined Entrepreneur; A Modern Version of the Scientific Method; Notes; Chapter 5 People; Team; Working Full Time; Been There, Done That; Passion; Coachability; Ability to Attract Talent; Business Acumen; Domain Knowledge; Operational Experience; Mentors; Board of Directors/Advisors; Customers; Social Capital; Notes; Chapter 6 Pain; Compelling Unmet Need; Size; Durability and Timeliness; Notes; Chapter 7 Product.
- The 10× RuleRate of Adoption; Rogers' (1976) Diffusion of Innovations Theory; Intellectual Property; Key Asset Access; Proof of Concept-Selling Your Product in Advance of Making It; Gross Margins; Scalability; Notes; Chapter 8 Market; Market Stage; Product/Market Fit; Disruptive Innovation; Industry CAGR; Distribution Strength; Customer Acquisition Costs; Viral Marketing; Competition; The Goliath Paradox; Barriers to Entry; Government Regulations; Partnership Status; Knowing Why You Need to Raise Money; Notes; Chapter 9 Plan; Time to Launch; Plan to Scale; Reasonable Not Right.
- Get Out of the BuildingPlan B; Notes; Chapter 10 Pitch; Short Form (Under 10 Minutes); Long Form (30 Minutes); Business Plan-or Not; Executive Summary; Q Notes; Chapter 11 Raising Money; Building a Relationship with a Potential Investor; Who Makes the Ask?; Use of Proceeds; Raise the Least Amount of Money to Get to the Next Level; Ask for Money from the Right Kind of Investor; Raise Money When It's Available; You Aren't an Exception; Why Anything Other Than a Yes Is a No; Be Realistic about Your Valuation; Even Angels Have Investment Committees; Notes; Chapter 12 Pitfalls.
- Showstoppers and Red HerringsExcessive Valuation; Taboo Businesses; No Skin in the Game; The No Asshole Rule; The Key Person Dependency; Drinking Your Own Kool-Aid; Notes; Chapter 13 Don't Quit Your Day Job If You Aren't . . .; Passionate about the Space; Able to Execute the Solution; Certain That the Problem Is a Need (as Opposed to a Want); Certain That the Problem Is Shared by a Large (and Growing) Market; Able to Offer a Solution That Is 10× Better Than Anything Else in the Market; Ready to "Burn the Ships"; Able to Access Potential Customers.