The Startup Playbook - David S. Kidder

The Startup Playbook

By David S. Kidder

  • Release Date: 2012-12-14
  • Genre: Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 14 Ratings

Description

According to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, more than 565,000 new businesses were created in 2010 in the United States alone—each one of them hoping to strike gold. The Startup Playbook will help them succeed. Going insider to insider with unprecedented access, New York Times bestselling author and Clickable CEO, David Kidder, shares the hard-hitting experiences of some of the world’s most influential entrepreneurs and CEOs, revealing their most closely held advice. Face-to-face interviews with 40 founders give readers key insights into what it took to build PayPal, LinkedIn, AOL, TED, Flickr, and many others into household names. Special sections include topics ranging from how to select the right idea to pursue to finding funding and overcoming inevitable obstacles. In an economy demanding change, The Startup Playbook is the go-to for entrepreneurs big and small.

Reviews

  • Don't Write a Book While Building a Startup

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    By kkerr68
    Kidder should have followed that advice! While the stories of the entrepreneurs profiled in the book are interesting, Kidder failed to create a coherent playbook from their disparate experiences and often conflicting advice. The role of the author is to provide perspective and explore areas of contradiction. Kidder merely collects stories without critical examination.