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Why Startups Fail audiobook
- By: Tom Eisenmann
- Narrator: Robert Fass
- Category: Business & Economics, Entrepreneurship
- Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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Why Startups Fail Audiobook Summary
If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail.
“Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way
Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it.
So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures.
• Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly.
• False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions.
• False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand.
• Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures.
• Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both.
• Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong.
Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them.
A must-listen for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.
* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of the book’s Appendix consisting of An Early-Stage Startup Survey.
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Why Startups Fail Full Details
| Narrator | Robert Fass |
| Length | 10 hours 52 minutes |
| Author | Tom Eisenmann |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 02, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593170038 |
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The publisher of the Why Startups Fail is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: finance, start up business books, how to start a business, venture capital, competitive strategy, investment books, investing, alexa echo, tesla, elon musk, peter thiel, psychology, founder, marketing, engineering, business plan, business development, innovation, economics, strategy, management, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, business books, business, jibo robot, jibo, risk management, small business books, small business, the lean startup eric ries, failure, unicorns, unicorn, start up, lean startup, the lean startup, startup, Business & Economics, Entrepreneurship, Business & Economics, New Business Enterprises, Business & Economics, Management The BISAC Subject Code is Business & Economics, Entrepreneurship
Additional info
The publisher of the Why Startups Fail is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593170038.
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