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Finding Success In Failure: True Confessions From 10 Years of Startup Mistakes (The Craftsman Founder's Guide) - Softcover
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How to launch a successful startup without embarrassing mistakes
What if you could learn more from my failures than from all of Elon Musk's successes combined? Imagine if you could spare yourself years of heartache and self-loathing pounding your head against mistakes I've already made for you.
Amazon bestselling author, Lucas Carlson, presents an entrepreneurship book unlike any other out there. Most startup books focus on the successes of famous founders, but that success is riddled with egomaniacs and survivorship bias. For every one Steve Jobs there were thousands of geeks just like him who did everything the same as Steve Jobs but never started Apple. So following in Steve Jobs's footsteps might never again lead to success.
For that reason, Nassim Taleb and many others say that learning from mistakes is more robust than learning from successes because almost everyone makes the same mistakes. The problem is, most people aren't willing to be open, honest, and totally candid about their mistakes.
In this book, you'll learn:
- How to use bayesian statistics to pick startup ideas
- The startup killing problem with most mission statements
- 7 things most founders wish someone had told them at the start
- How to manage the difficult conversations
- How to make a marriage survive a startup
- How to think through splitting up equity in a company
- BONUS: How to manage founder psychology (some reviewers say this is the most important chapter in the book)
- BONUS: A philosophy of entrepreneurship that can add depth and meaning to your work
Buy this book to find out how to start a business and not make the most egregious errors that plague most founders.
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About the Author
LUCAS CARLSON is an author and entrepreneur, profiled in The New York Times best-selling book The Lean Entrepreneur. As a keynote speaker in the technology arena and innovation leader in the cloud space, Lucas helps companies discover opportunities for growth. Lucas is also a publisher and popular blogger at craftsmanfounder.com, where he guides entrepreneurs toward success.
Lucas was formerly the CEO and founder of AppFog, a massively popular startup acquired by CenturyLink in 2013. AppFog signed up more than 100,000 developers, raised nearly $10M in venture funding and has become an industry leading Platform-as-a-Service.
Lucas now serves as the Chief Innovation Officer for CenturyLink, in charge of building next-generation products for a $20B company.
He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family, plays go, practices magic and plows through as many books as humanly possible.
Lucas was formerly the CEO and founder of AppFog, a massively popular startup acquired by CenturyLink in 2013. AppFog signed up more than 100,000 developers, raised nearly $10M in venture funding and has become an industry leading Platform-as-a-Service.
Lucas now serves as the Chief Innovation Officer for CenturyLink, in charge of building next-generation products for a $20B company.
He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family, plays go, practices magic and plows through as many books as humanly possible.
From the Back Cover
"Lucas is a passionate entrepreneur and totally dedicated to his craft -- I backed him once and I'd do it again in a heartbeat" ~Chris DeVore, Seed-Stage VC
"Startup life is a bizarre, thrilling, exhausting, painful and occasionally amazing ride. But it's easy to feel alone on the trip. Let Lucas be your companion and remind you of what to do and, more importantly, what not to do." ~Dave Hersh, Founder of Jive Software
"His hard-won entrepreneurial wisdom and a penchant for sharing his inspiring stories is why I chose to profile Lucas in The Lean Entrepreneur." ~Patrick Vlaskovits, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Lean Entrepreneur
"Lucas has distilled years of painful startup lessons into one clear and actionable book. Don't waste your time and money learning these lessons the hard way!" ~Kurt Sussman, Serial Entrepreneur
"Lucas writes with passion and provides rock solid advice based on personal experience. Building a startup is hard, but this book can make it a lot easier by showing you the essentials you need to focus on, and the pitfalls you should avoid." ~Justin Sumner, Founder
"Startup life is a bizarre, thrilling, exhausting, painful and occasionally amazing ride. But it's easy to feel alone on the trip. Let Lucas be your companion and remind you of what to do and, more importantly, what not to do." ~Dave Hersh, Founder of Jive Software
"His hard-won entrepreneurial wisdom and a penchant for sharing his inspiring stories is why I chose to profile Lucas in The Lean Entrepreneur." ~Patrick Vlaskovits, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Lean Entrepreneur
"Lucas has distilled years of painful startup lessons into one clear and actionable book. Don't waste your time and money learning these lessons the hard way!" ~Kurt Sussman, Serial Entrepreneur
"Lucas writes with passion and provides rock solid advice based on personal experience. Building a startup is hard, but this book can make it a lot easier by showing you the essentials you need to focus on, and the pitfalls you should avoid." ~Justin Sumner, Founder
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