The Startup Playbook (2nd Edition)
Founder-to-Founder Advice from Two Startup Veterans
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Gary Tiedemann
About this listen
Get the real guidance you need to create and build your first start-up company from founders who have been there many times before.
We make no bones about our bias. We're on your side, the founder's side. While venture capitalists, investors, and accelerators/incubators can add great value in the start-up ecosystem, this book isn't about their points of view. We'll tell you where our interests as founders diverge from those on the other side of the table - investors, bankers, advisors, board members, and others - and what to do when that happens.
The Startup Playbook is not a recipe, it's not a template, it's not a list of tasks to do. It's our insider's guide to starting a company and running it successfully in those critical early months. Between us, we've started more than a dozen high-tech software companies and raised more than $500 million in investment capital. We've acquired more than 35 companies, had three of our start-ups go public, sold six of them, and we made billions of dollars for shareholders. We've also invested in more than 80 start-ups, advised and mentored more than 200 companies, and worked with venture capitalists (VCs), incubators, and accelerators to help launch many other new start-ups. We've had plenty of failures, too. And we've probably learned more from those than from the successes. We share those lessons as well.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 285
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The founders and driving force behind the Foundry Group - a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage information technology companies - Brad and Jason have been involved in hundreds of venture capital financings. Their investments range from small startups to large Series A venture financing rounds. The new edition of Venture Deals continues to show fledgling entrepreneurs the inner-workings of the VC process, from the venture capital term sheet and effective negotiating strategies to the initial seed and the later stages of development.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read for entrepreneurs trying to raise fund
- By Max Lee on 07-29-20
By: Brad Feld, and others
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Why Startups Fail
- A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
- By: Tom Eisenmann
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shades of gray between startup failure and success
- By Greg Fisher on 04-04-21
By: Tom Eisenmann
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The Lean Startup
- How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- By: Eric Ries
- Narrated by: Eric Ries
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,982
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,600
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,513
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative, mature but not original or essential
- By Jason Comely on 02-19-13
By: Eric Ries
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Startup CEO
- A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, 2nd Edition
- By: Matt Blumberg
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it's difficult, risky, stressful, lonely, and often learned through trial and error. As a startup CEO seeing things for the first time, you're likely to make mistakes, fail, get things wrong, and feel like you don't have any control over outcomes. Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO he shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great read for start up CEO
- By Kindle Customer on 02-27-21
By: Matt Blumberg
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Crossing the Chasm
- Marketing and Selling Technology Projects to Mainstream Customers
- By: Geoffrey A. Moore
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,283
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,005
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,000
Here is the best-selling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for bringing cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets. This edition provides new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing, with special emphasis on the Internet. It's essential reading for anyone with a stake in the world's most exciting marketplace.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Outdated
- By Rebecca Savage on 01-05-15
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The Mom Test
- How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You
- By: Rob Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Rob Fitzpatrick
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,316
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,118
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,104
They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question, and everyone will lie to you at least a little. As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it, and it's worth doing right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful
- By jere on 10-26-21
By: Rob Fitzpatrick
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The Innovator's Dilemma
- When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
- By: Clayton M. Christensen
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,772
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,482
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,464
His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic best seller - one of the most influential business books of all time - innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right - yet still lose market leadership. Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This book is best read, not heard
- By Andrea Rudert on 09-09-17
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Zero to One
- Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- By: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
- Narrated by: Blake Masters
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24,391
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20,300
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20,205
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Seems Insightful Until You Think A Little Deeper
- By Mark Brandon on 10-31-14
By: Peter Thiel, and others
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The Lean Product Playbook
- How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
- By: Dan Olsen
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 666
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 549
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 540
The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a start-up or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Weak Narration Makes for a Boring Listen
- By Trent S. on 11-04-16
By: Dan Olsen
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The $100 Startup
- Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
- By: Chris Guillebeau
- Narrated by: Chris Guillebeau, Thomas Vincent Kelly
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,764
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,210
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,201
Still in his early 30s, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations - and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. In The $100 Startup, he tells you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose - and earn a good living.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This book is poison for new entrepreneurs
- By Nate Woodbury on 07-14-14
By: Chris Guillebeau
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Never Enough
- From Barista to Billionaire
- By: Andrew Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 420
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Once a barista in a small cafe making $6.50 an hour, Andrew Wilkinson built a business valued at over a billion dollars by the time he was 36—and yet, his path to success was anything but a straight line. In Never Enough, Wilkinson pulls back the curtain on the lives of the ultra-rich, sharing insights into building a successful business that has been called a “Berkshire Hathaway, but for internet companies,” and a surprising first-person account of what it's actually like to become a billionaire.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fire Your Ghostwriter
- By Leah C. Day on 08-22-24
By: Andrew Wilkinson
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$100M Offers
- How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
- By: Alex Hormozi
- Narrated by: Alexander Hormozi
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20,701
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19,191
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Story5 out of 5 stars 19,129
The methods contained within this book are so simple, so instantaneous, and so effective, it’s as if they work by magic. If you implement even one tactic in this book, you’ll see the change in your prospects' demeanor. And you’ll know the $100M Offers method worked when you start hearing, “What do I need to do to move forward?” before you even ask for the sale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great content littered with filthy language
- By Amazon Customer on 09-29-21
By: Alex Hormozi
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12 Months to $1 Million
- How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur
- By: Ryan Daniel Moran
- Narrated by: Ryan Daniel Moran
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,899
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,368
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,352
By cutting out the noise and providing a clear and proven plan, this road map helps even brand-new entrepreneurs make decisions quickly, get their product up for sale, and launch it to a crowd that is ready and waiting to buy. This one-year plan will guide you through the three stages to your first $1 million: the Grind (months 0-4), the Growth (months 5-8), and the Gold (months 9-12). If your goal is to be a full-time entrepreneur, get ready for one chaotic, stressful, and rewarding year. If you have the guts to complete it, you will be the proud owner of a million-dollar business.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good, but a Little Misleading
- By Chris Love on 11-28-20
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Buy Back Your Time
- Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire
- By: Dan Martell
- Narrated by: Dan Martell
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,034
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 938
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Story5 out of 5 stars 939
How you use your free time will make or break your success. The secret? It’s not about working harder or finding more time to do work. It’s about designing the freedom to engage in the high-value work that brings you energy and fulfillment. This is at the heart of the message that has made Dan Martell the world’s most popular SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) coach. Now, in his first book, Buy Back Your Time, he teaches entrepreneurs at every level how to scale their business, fast, while avoiding burnout.
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1 out of 5 stars
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… by micromanaging
- By John Bales on 02-23-23
By: Dan Martell
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- Nathang
- 06-06-24
Methodical step by step guide
Great book who is thinking of starting an own company. The step by step guide makes you think deep and understand the nuances.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-26-23
Interesting and a must read for startup founders
If you’re thinking about a startup then this book helps you to understand the roadmap of your life for next 10 years.
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- Rich
- 06-19-23
A must read
If you’re considering doing a start up, this is a must read. These guys. Experience comes across clear and executable in the book. I hope it works.
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- saad dwidari
- 02-05-23
Clear and practical
Written in clear and practical way, the voice is very nice with the right toons
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- Anonymous User
- 02-02-24
Honest information
I appreciate the honesty in this book. And the fact that it’s not written by some coach trying to sell you their program.
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