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The Startup: Navigating Chaos to Elevate Your Career and Achieve Entrepreneurial Success

Autor Jesko von Windheim
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2020
This highly readable volume tells the true story of a venture that achieved more than 400,000% return for its founders and investors. The book follows one of the principals in the startup as he navigates a series of extraordinary twists and turns becoming an entrepreneur and building a company.  The turbulent journey educates and entertains as the author recounts his own learning experiences—providing a practical education on the fundamentals of customer discovery, sales, marketing, business development and entrepreneurship. This personal story conveys the substance of content taught in the classroom in a compelling and easy to read style. With learning experiences ranging from opportunity identification to customer acquisition and raising money and exiting a company, the book presents a collection of topics carefully curated to answer fundamental questions about innovation, entrepreneurship, and career success.
The book serves as an essential guide for those who wish toinnovate to create value and wealth for themselves and others.  Readers will gain a gritty, yet inspiring, view of the trials and tribulations inherent in any entrepreneurial endeavor, and will walk away from the book with practical tools and techniques for career success, whether it is with a brand-new startup or an established corporation. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030450779
ISBN-10: 3030450775
Pagini: 204
Ilustrații: X, 191 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1 When Life Goes Bump.- 2 The Rational Entrepreneur.- 3 Is this it?.- 4 Mining for Opportunity.- 5 Strategy.- 6 Value Creation.- 7 From Idea to Product.- 8 Guerrilla Marketing.- 9 It Ain't All Peaches and Cream.- 10 Financial Fitness.- 11 Blocking and Tackling.- 12 Raising Money.- 13 Pitch Perfect.- 14 Closing.- 15 Customers are Golden.- 16 Sell Baby, Sell.- 17 Cashing Out.

Notă biografică

Jesko von Windheim is Professor of the Practice of Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Duke University and co-founder and CEO of Tyrata, Inc. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO at Nextreme Thermal Solutions, served as a Vice President at RTI International and JDS Uniphase, and was co-founder and Vice President at Cronos Integrated Microsystems, Inc. He has an MBA from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and an MS and PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Guelph.

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This highly readable volume tells the true story of a venture that achieved more than 400,000% return for its founders and investors. The book follows one of the principals in the startup as he navigates a series of extraordinary twists and turns becoming an entrepreneur and building a company.  The turbulent journey educates and entertains as the author recounts his own learning experiences—providing a practical education on the fundamentals of customer discovery, sales, marketing, business development and entrepreneurship. This personal story conveys the substance of content taught in the classroom in a compelling and easy to read style. With learning experiences ranging from opportunity identification to customer acquisition and raising money and exiting a company, the book presents a collection of topics carefully curated to answer fundamental questions about innovation, entrepreneurship, and career success.
The book serves as an essential guide for those who wish toinnovate to create value and wealth for themselves and others.  Readers will gain a gritty, yet inspiring, view of the trials and tribulations inherent in any entrepreneurial endeavor, and will walk away from the book with practical tools and techniques for career success, whether it is with a brand-new startup or an established corporation. 

Caracteristici

An entertaining, true story that describes a unique journey to entrepreneurial triumph For leaders, students, engineers, and scientists seeking to succeed with innovative new products and services Provides numerous practical lessons on what it takes to have a successful career in entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, and business development