Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
Some kind of magic happens in startups, especially at the very beginning, but the only people there to see it are the founders. The best way to understand what happens is to ask them, so that’s what I did. In this book, you’ll hear the founders’ stories in their own words. Here, I want to share...
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| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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Apress
2012
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/31389 |
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| Tóm tắt: | Some kind of magic happens in startups, especially at the very beginning, but
the only people there to see it are the founders. The best way to understand
what happens is to ask them, so that’s what I did.
In this book, you’ll hear the founders’ stories in their own words. Here,
I want to share some of the patterns I noticed. When you’re interviewing a
series of famous startup founders, you can’t help trying to see if there is some
special quality they all have in common that made them succeed.
What surprised me most was how unsure the founders seemed to be that
they were actually onto something big. Some of these companies got started
almost by accident. The world thinks of startup founders as having some kind of
superhuman confidence, but a lot of them were uncertain at first about starting
a company. What they weren’t uncertain about was making something good—
or trying to fix something broken.
They all were determined to build things that worked. In fact, I’d say determination
is the single most important quality in a startup founder. If the
founders I spoke with were superhuman in any way, it was in their perseverance.
That came up over and over in the interviews.
Perseverance is important because, in a startup, nothing goes according to
plan. Founders live day to day with a sense of uncertainty, isolation, and sometimes
lack of progress. Plus, startups, by their nature, are doing new things—
and when you do new things, people often reject you. |
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