The Entrepreneur's Journey is a collection of stories about startup companies and the entrepreneurs who built them.
It's organized into five themes focused on the challenges of driving customer awareness, the importance of founding teams, the hurdles of investing in hardware products, the fateful role timing plays in the outcome of startups, and the difficulties startups face getting acquired.
Each theme contains multiple chapters as outlined below. We invite you to read each narrative here, or you can find the entire series available for purchase in paperback and Kindle format on Amazon.
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Introduction
Introduction: The Entrepreneur's Journey
Theme 1: Who Cares About Your Product?
1. Searching for Product-Market Fit
2. Are You Solving a Top Priority Problem?
3. Are You Talking To The Right Customer?
5. Make It Easy for Customers to Buy
Theme 2: Should You Bet on the Jockey or the Horse?
8. Knowing When Experience Counts
9. Importance of Investing Human Capital
Theme 3: Does Smart Money Invest in Bits or Atoms?
11. An Uphill Battle
12. It Takes Thrift and Experience
Theme 4: What Difference Does Timing Make?
13. Better to Be Lucky Than Good
16. Build for Tomorrow Not Yesterday
17. Late Comers Need To Stand Out
Theme 5: Will Your Company Be Bought or Sold?
20. Making the Exit a Top Priority
21. Potential Partners - Trust but Verify
To purchase this entire collection of stories in paperback or Kindle format, visit Amazon. To learn more about additional early stage investing topics, check out our other series of articles.
