Startup Myths and Models : : What You Won't Learn in Business School / / Rizwan Virk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Virk, Rizwan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 14 figures
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Sidebars --; Introduction --; Stage 1: The Call to Adventure: Myths About Starting a Company --; Stage 2: Fuel for the Journey: Myths About Raising Money --; Stage 3: Travel Companions: Myths About Hiring and Management --; Stage 4: The Road of Trials: Myths About Going to Market --; Stage 5: Acquiring the Treasure: Myths About Exiting Your Company --; Stage 6: The Underworld and the Return: Myths About Life and Death in a Startup --; Bonus Myths --; Appendix A: The Startup Market Lifecycle and Curves --; Appendix B: Meet Our Cast of Characters and Startups --; Acknowledgments --; About the Author --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231550871; 9783110710977; 9783110704792; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704624
• DOI: 10.7312/virk19452
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rizwan Virk.

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed-from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions.This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the journey. Instead of startup myths-legends spun from a fantasy version of Silicon Valley-Rizwan Virk provides startup models-frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life.In snappy prose with savvy pop-culture and real-world examples, Virk recasts entrepreneurship as a grand adventure. He points out the pitfalls that appear along the way and offers insights into how to avoid them, sharing the secrets of founding a startup, raising money, hiring and firing, when to enter a market and when to exit, and how to value a company.Virk combines lessons learned the hard way during his twenty-five years of founding, investing in, and advising startups with reflections from well-known venture capitalists and experts. His candid advice makes Startup Myths and Models an ideal guide for those readers just embarking on the startup life and those looking for their next adventure.