Trailblazer Founders

<p>Every start-up founder wants to build the next unicorn, an elusive multibillion-dollar business. But how do you even begin translating your vision for a better world into investor meetings and venture funding; let alone growing, scaling, and successfully leading talent?</p><p><br></p><p>Enter, Deepti Pahwa. With over two decades of pioneering innovation and entrepreneurship, mentoring start-ups, coaching global executives, and founding an accelerator program with Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Executive Education alumni network, Deepti is on the front lines with fledgling and seasoned founders.</p><p><br></p><p>This book is an inspiring call to action for founders to become the protagonists of their own story. Distilled from hard-won experience and dozens of interviews with founders and VCs, Deepti provides a roadmap to navigate the entrepreneurial ecosystem highlighting <strong>leadership skills, research-based tools, and an actionable framework</strong> necessary to manifest your ideas into powerful strategies. <strong>You will learn about - converting ideas to conviction, brand building, and strategic networking to acquire influence and persuade investors and customers alike.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Through exemplary stories of successful founders, she provides evidence that opportunities are not limited by gender nor ethnicity. Who gets mentored, sponsored, supported, and funded is not a function of the brilliance of an idea or one's inherited attributes. But, an outcome of how one embodies inspirational qualities and influential convictions. </p><p><br></p><p>If you're ready to create something from nothing, in building a company from "zero to one," this book is in the right hands-your hands.</p>