This indispensible volume collects and updates the best of his wildly successful blog Startup Professionals Musings articles, published daily on the Internet.
Topics covered include the following: • Entrepreneur self-assessment • How to enhance your abilities • Alternative entrepreneur paths • Finding the right opportunity • How to incorporate a business • Business plan basics • Financial considerations • Preparing for an investor • Angel investors versus VCs • When and how to file patents • Finding the right people • Good leadership and bad • Select and advisory board • Capitalizing on Gen-Y • Internet marketing secrets • How to use social media • Business models to avoid • Networking like a butterfly
This volume is your all-in-one guide to starting and operating great organizations – ones that are fun and fulfilling for you, and survive the passing fads in business theory.