Startup 硅谷初创: 硅谷初创

Startup: Translated to Chinese 硅谷初创How to build a Silicon Valley seed startupHow to find co-foundersHow to give stock to team contractors advisors and investorsHow to deal with lawyers and incorporationHow to develop your ideaHow to get funding and deal with investors angels and venture capitalHow to calculate your startups valuationHow to sell your startup (acquisition)The second edition has a new 30-page chapter on acquisitions: how to sell your startup. Based on interviews with founders investors lawyers VCs and investment bankers all of whom have done several sales (some have done dozens of acquisitions). This shows the reality of acquisitions.This book isnt a theory of startups by a university professor or a VC who has never actually built a startup. No business school blah-blah-blah overheated Wall Street yadda-yadda or lots of pages on stuff youll never do.This is the reality of Silicon Valley startups: what its like to build a startup and how to deal with problems. The book dismisses many popular ideas about startup strategies because those sound nice but founders dont really use them. Instead this book covers what founders have seen to actually work.Startup is based on interviews with twenty-six startup founders (men and women) who are doing startups in Silicon Valley France Germany Cote dIvoire (West Africa) China Colombia Denmark Hawaii India Jakarta South Korea Spain and the US. This is the only book that covers how startups are built in India South America Africa Europe and China. What works in Silicon Valley often doesnt work in other countries. They have to solve the problems of startups in unique local ways. The book shows you how its done in Silicon Valley and other places so you can get ideas for YOUR startup in YOUR country and city.The book also includes hundreds of comments and observations from founders. Useful ideas warnings and helpful tips. Some of the founders have done three or four startups and they talk about what theyve learned.Thats why the book has been translated in French Korean and Spanish (Chinese coming soon). I want to encourage people everywhere to build startups.Andreas has done several startups and has worked at more than two dozen startups. He is an advisor to a handful of startups and is on the board of a startup creator. Andreas teaches digital marketing at a French business school and is a frequent speaker on technical topics for SV startups. He graduated from the Universitaet Heidelberg and lives in Palo Alto with his wife and cat.