Startup

Okay, this book is straightforward: - How to build a Silicon Valley seed startup.- How to find co-founders- The tools you'll need- How to deal with lawyers and incorporation- How to give stock to team, contractors, advisors, and investors- How to develop your idea by interviewing customers- How to get funding- How to deal with venture capital and angels- How to calculate your startup's valuation- How to sell your startup (acquisition) The second edition has a new 30-page chapter on acquisitions: how to sell your startup. Based on interviews with founders, investors, lawyers, VCs, and investment bankers, all of whom have done several sales (some have done dozens of acquisitions). This covers the reality of acquisitions. This book isn't a theory of startups by a university professor or a VC who has never actually built a startup. No business school blah-blah-blah, overheated Wall Street yadda-yadda, or lots of pages on stuff you'll never use. This is the reality of Silicon Valley startups: what it's like to build a startup, day-to-day, and how to deal with problems. The book dismisses many popular ideas about startup strategies because those ideas sound nice, but founders don't really use them. Instead, this book covers what founders have found actually works. Startup is based on interviews with twenty-six startup founders, both men and women, who are doing startups in Silicon Valley, France, Germany, Cote d'Ivoire (West Africa), China, Colombia, Denmark, Hawaii, India, Jakarta, South Korea, Spain, and the US. This is the only book that covers how startups are built in India, South America, Africa, Europe, and China. What works in Silicon Valley often doesn't work in other countries. They have to solve the problems of startups in unique, local ways. The book shows you how it's done in Silicon Valley and other places so you can get ideas for YOUR startup in YOUR country and city. That's why the book has been translated in French, Korean, and Spanish (Chinese coming soon). The author wants to encourage people to build startups everywhere. The book also includes hundreds of comments and observations from founders. Useful stuff, warnings, and helpful advice. Some of the founders have done three or four startups and they talk about what they've learned. Andreas lives and works in Palo Alto. He too has done several startups and has worked in more than two dozen startups. He is an advisor to a handful of startups and is on the board of a startup creator. Andreas teaches digital marketing at a French business school and is a frequent speaker on technical topics at events for SV startups.