Hungry Start-up Strategy: Creating New Ventures with Limited Resources and Unlimited Vision - Softcover

Cohan, Peter S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160994528X ISBN 13: 9781609945282

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Entrepreneurs are hungry. But it’s not just because they’re living on ramen and adrenaline. Peter Cohan has found they’re driven by a hunger to create a working world in which they want to live—something they have to do without money or staff. No business strategy guide has addressed this unique combination of aspirations and challenges—until now.

Cohan focuses on six key start-up choices—setting goals, picking markets, raising capital, building teams, gaining market share, and adapting to change—explaining how and why start-ups must make very different choices than established companies. For each area, he provides a decision-making approach and lively case studies of what actual entrepreneurs have done to cook up a thriving business from scratch.

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About the Author

Peter S. Cohan is president of Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture capital firm that has conducted 150 consulting projects and invested in six private companies, three of which were sold for $2 billion. He blogs on start-ups for Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines and teaches strategy at Babson College.

Reviews

Management consultant and venture capitalist Cohan (Export Now: Five Keys to Entering New Markets) tries to even the formidable odds facing fledgling entrepreneurs, advising readers to examine with a strategic eye their chosen field of competition and thus avoid the errors that can doom a business from the start. Not just preaching to the choir, he shows how this has been accomplished by such entrepreneurs as BrewDog’s cofounder James Watt and T2 Biosystems’ CEO Joe McDonough. He also shares their accumulated expertise on such essentials as setting short-terms goals, picking the right field, raising funds, and building a team. While some figures and diagrams appear throughout the book, Cohan’s writing remains remarkably free of the consultant buzzwords and charts that can make works of this type not only challenging but unhelpful. Instead, Cohan delivers his advice in a no-nonsense, direct manner that readers will appreciate. He also explores the challenges of satisfying customers, remaining open to change, and meeting capital providers’ demands. Entrepreneurs hungry for success will welcome Cohan’s guidance on gaining the edge necessary to compete and thrive in business.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160994528X
• ISBN 13: 9781609945282
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264