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Finding Success in Failure
- True Confessions from 10 Years of Startup Mistakes
- Narrated by: Chris Murray
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
How to launch a successful startup without embarrassing mistakes.
What if you could learn more from my failures than from all of Elon Musk's successes combined? Imagine if you could spare yourself years of heartache and self-loathing pounding your head against mistakes I've already made for you.
Amazon best-selling author Lucas Carlson presents an entrepreneurship book unlike any other out there. Most startup books focus on the successes of famous founders, but that success is riddled with egomaniacs and survivorship bias. For every one Steve Jobs, there were thousands of geeks just like him who did everything the same as Steve Jobs but never started Apple. So, following in Steve Jobs' footsteps might never again lead to success.
For that reason, Nassim Taleb and many others say that learning from mistakes is more robust than learning from successes, because almost everyone makes the same mistakes. The problem is most people aren't willing to be open, honest, and totally candid about their mistakes.
In this audiobook, you'll learn:
- How to use Bayesian statistics to pick startup ideas
- The startup killing problem with most mission statements
- Seven things most founders wish someone had told them at the start
- How to manage the difficult conversations
- How to make a marriage survive a startup
- How to think through splitting up equity in a company
- Bonus: How to manage founder psychology (some reviewers say this is the most important chapter in the book)
- Bonus: A philosophy of entrepreneurship that can add depth and meaning to your work
Listen to this audiobook to find out how to start a business and not make the most egregious errors that plague most founders.
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Critic reviews
"This book is a fantastic Entrepreneurship 101 course. If you are serious about building a company, this is where to start." (Tucker Max, New York Times number one best-selling author and entrepreneur)
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- Jason
- 01-09-15
Succinct advice for all potential startup founders
Well written, honest, direct, and succinct advice from Lucas on what he encountered, did wrong, and what you can learn from it. If you are looking to start a company especially a high-tech one, you would be well advised to listen to this book, it won't take long and I would bet that you will listen to it more than once. If the only thing you get from this is that you want to be starting a company that solves a problem people are looking to have solved, rather than solving a problem that no one knows they have. Find the people who's hair is on fire.
Would highly recommend.
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