How to build a successful startup
Business 2.0 has a 16-step guide to “How to Build a Bulletproof Startup.” According to the guide, the authors
wanted you to have all the benefit of hard-earned experience without having to actually endure the pain of making your own mistakes. We spoke to dozens of experts — seasoned entrepreneurs, early-stage investors, venture capitalists, and first-time CEOs — to understand what they’ve learned about the art of getting a new company off the ground. Then we set out to create a set of blueprints describing just how to do it.
The guide covers the following areas:
- Phase One: Establish a Company
- Phase Two: Prototype the Product
- Phase Three: Develop the Beta Product
- Phase Four: Launch the Product
- Searching for angel investors
- What a VC wants to see in you
The complete guide is available here as a PDF.
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