Mistakes I Made My First 5 Years In Business

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Can you learn to be lucky?Self-made millionaire Denise Duffield-Thomas not only believes this is possible, she knows it’s possible. From being broke, hating her office job and generally having a life that made her completely miserable, Denise went on to travel the world and make all of her dreams come true within the space of a few years. She attracted more than half a million dollars- worth of free travel, scholarships, prizes and bank errors in her favour, and in this book she reveals how you can do the same.Whether you’re already lucky and want to attract even more into your life, or you feel like your luck is just about to run out, Lucky Bitch will show you how to take action in areas of your life that are lacking in magic.With her trademark humour and encouragement, Denise gives clear and effective instructions based on the principles of the Law of Attraction to get you closer to living your dream life. You’ll also learn the ‘Ten Lucky Bitch Commandments’ and how to use them to create luck in all areas of life, including business and money.This book has already changed the lives of tens of thousands of women. Now it has the potential to change yours. If you’ve been asking for an answer or a miracle, this book is it!

Retire how you want, not how others want you to! Retire on your terms is for you if you have been struggling to maintain a work-life balance, or are in a job just to pay your bills, and not because the job is aligned with your passion. This book helps you achieve financial freedom and prepare to lead a happy and meaningful retirement life. This book provides a practical action strategy, and checklist and alerts you on mistakes to be avoided. All of us strive for financial security. Financial Independent Retire Early (FIRE) is a phrase commonly used. This book simplifies the jargon and provides practical solutions. Retire on your terms is more than a money management book on retirement planning. It guides you in achieving financial freedom and doing what you have always wanted to lead a meaningful and fulfilling retirement life. Retirement is successful, if we are healthy – physically, intellectually, emotionally, socially and spiritually. The book starts with my story and how I achieved financial freedom at the age of 45 years. It is also about meticulous planning prior to retiring and following inherent passion post-retirement. If I could do it, anybody can!

I didn't know "shit about fuck" (Ozark reference) when I started my first SaaS business in early 2016, but I was able to boot strap it and scale to $710,000 (as of October, 2020) in annual recurring revenue through pure grit and determination. I'm a non-technical founder living in Los Angeles and I crawled my way through to success. And you can too! In this eBook I walk you through the top 100 mistakes I made over the last 4-5 years, so you don't make the same mistakes. This book is set up in bite size lessons (my mistakes) spread out over 250+ pages. Each mistake is succinct and comes with an actionable step you need to take in order to avoid what I did. This is my manifesto and required reading for any founder that wants to avoid the pitfalls that nearly sunk my company. I'm not smarter than you. I just got lucky and solved each problem, one at a time.

If there's a software startup company in your developer heart, this is the book that will make it happen. The Web Startup Success Guide is your one-stop shop for all of the answers you need today to build a successful web startup in these challenging economic times. It covers everything from making the strategic platform decisions as to what kind of software to build, to understanding and winning the Angel and venture capital funding game, to the modern tools, apps and services that can cut months off development and marketing cycles, to how startups today are using social networks like Twitter and Facebook to create real excitement and connect to real customers. Bob Walsh, author of the landmark Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, digs deep into the definition, financing, community–building, platform options, and productivity challenges of building a successful and profitable web application today.