The Spaghetti Startup

The Spaghetti Startup introduces the Lasagna Framework, a new tool for 'strategic growth hacking'. Lasagna helps startups achieve 'sustainable growth' by properly designing their 'growth engines' based on systems and design thinking. It is also a diagnostic tool that helps resolve core problems, avoid common pitfalls and increase the viability of an innovation-driven enterprise. Written with a fun, fable-ish twist, the book starts out with a futuristic story of the famed startup ecosystem, the Silicon Valley. It turns out, in the August of 2025, things change for the worse. There is an epidemic of spaghetti poisoning that plagues all entrepreneurs. The spag worm they contract impairs their judgment, which in turn puts their startups in jeopardy. Doctors have no remedy for the condition and the death toll is increasing. But, hey! There is a hero in this story, too! Apparently, our professing cat, Dr. Caddy has a solution to share with his fellows. All they need to do is to adopt Lasagna thinking, the cure for their spaghetti-driven minds. Visit Lasagnac.com to join the community, share your experiences, and help each other with fellow entrepreneurs from around the world.

How do you innovate, how do you structure your organization, your team, your personal life? You need a detailed plan and everything laid out for the future! Really? Well, maybe not always. Maybe you need to operate also with the Spaghetti Principle. Discover how you can embrace this special principle and really make innovation stick. Specifically, you will learn how to deal in today’s dynamic and uncertain environment. With practical examples from leaders and companies you will see how a totally different approach to strategy and innovation can revolutionize your work. With examples from fields as diverse as the Startup world, nature, opera, TED, Lars Sudmann will awaken you to an inspiring and thought-provoking journey of innovation. You will see innovation and experimentation with different eyes after reading this book. Lars Sudmann has been a CFO and a strategy manager at leading organisations. He is now a corporate advisor, university lecturer and explorer of what makes innovation and change possible. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lars Sudmann - Lars Sudmann is an explorer of innovation and leadership. He searches for the tools and strategies that the best leaders on the frontiers of leadership use and apply and makes these available for everyday users. His TEDx talks on leadership and innovation are top-ranked with more than 500.000 views, and he has been featured on Fast Company, BBC Capital, The Economist Career Network, Trends, The Chicago Tribune and many more. Professionally, he has had various roles, ranging from Innovation Portfolio Strategy manager, CFO Belgium at Procter & Gamble, Guest Professor on Decision Making, and Startup Board Advisor. He now advises corporates, SMEs, startups and high-performing individuals. More about Lars Sudmann can be found at www.lars-sudmann.com.

You have an idea for a business -- but now comes the tough part: making it happen. From licenses to bookeeping to marketing to setting up shop, Six-Week Start-Up guides you through every step of getting your business up and running successfully -- and fast! Book jacket.

2nd edition of this accessible guide - expert advice, first hand experience, and practical information on how to launch and run your new business. Added value - includes popular recipes from the author's own coffee shop.

This book is the "Hello, World" tutorial for building products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment. It's based on the experiences of the author, Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, as well as interviews with programmers from some of the most successful startups of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Stripe, Instagram, AdMob, Pinterest, and many others. Hello, Startup is a practical, how-to guide that consists of three parts: Products, Technologies, and Teams. Although at its core, this is a book for programmers, by programmers, only Part II (Technologies) is significantly technical, while the rest should be accessible to technical and non-technical audiences alike. If you’re at all interested in startups—whether you’re a programmer at the beginning of your career, a seasoned developer bored with large company politics, or a manager looking to motivate your engineers—this book is for you.

The contribution of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) has been discovered to be the main sustenance of any economy because of their capacity, in enhancing the economic output and enhanced human welfare. This book is a step-by-step business start-up guide that addresses business from the conception phase to idea developmental down to the implementation stage. This book talks about those seeking to start a business with little or no clue on what step they need to take in order to take their business from imagination stage to the development stage. This book addresses different areas of business such as: Change of mentality between the business world and the employment world conventional way of starting up a business.Franchise business model.Outsourcing business model with more than 50 business start-up ideas you can use to run your own businessThe process and information for NAFDAC registration for product-based business for entrepreneurs or business folks that want to go into the production business.The Nigerian tax system for Nigeria business owners, a quality management system to service and product-based business. Network marketing approach for those already doing business similar to those intends to start one.This book talks about what you need to know about the Quality management system that is applicable anywhere in the worldInsight about Nigerian Labour LawLearn how to Market and manage your business sales as a start-up and the secrets behind successful entrepreneursThis book equally reveals biography of famous successful entrepreneurs including Nigerian based entrepreneurs and their stories.

An instant USA Today bestseller. A founder's wild memoir of startup success, told from hot tub inception to $50 million exit with the humor of a comic and the perspective of an educator. In The Startup Story: An Entrepreneur’s Journey from Idea to Exit, renowned serial entrepreneur Martin Warner takes a fledgling company all the way from zero to hero, selling it for $50 million after a mere 17 months. It’s a memoir of whirlwind entrepreneurial success, a nonfiction narrative that puts the reader in the CEO’s seat, giving the feel of what it’s really like to steer a company around the toughest of tracks and come out with a massive payday. A mix of Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, and The Apprentice, The Startup Story reads like a novel but is strictly a true story packed with entrepreneurial insights. It is a rollercoaster ride through the heaven and hell of the tech business world, populated by geeks, pirates, conmen, tycoons, geniuses, and fools. Forced to do everything at warp speed, Warner chucks all the accumulated wisdom of his own Entrepreneur Seminar out of the window on his way to a holy grail exit. Along the way, readers piece together an entrepreneurial how-to (and how-not-to) manual, with each chapter traversing the highs and the lows of founding a growing company. It shows the reader how to build a tech company out of pure desire and dogged willpower, combined with some timely expertise. The short, hilarious, and hair-raising history of Warner and his company, botObjects, provides a parable of the quintessential business experience packed with entrepreneurial insights and lessons to be learned.

Books in the Start Up Maths series: 5 Pages: 152 pp. Specification: Softcove r, perfect bound, 275 mm x 201 mm Category: Work book Publication Date: May 2007 In this b ook your child will find: 170 units of work to complete 38 review tests for revision over 2000 exercises to pract ise a Start Up section for extra help with understanding questi ons comprehensive coverage of the year's work