Entrepreneurship and Innovation : Get Started

Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization.

Using the same stunning visual format as the authors' global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the "Value Proposition Canvas" to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually want.

Launched the Lean Startup approach to new ventures. Startups are not smaller versions of large companies. Startups search for business models while existing companies execute them. Teaches the Customer Development process & why some startups are successful & others end up selling off their furniture.

Guides you through the customer development process. Learn how to avoid the 9 deadly sins that destroy startups' chances for success & incorporate the Business Model Canvas as the organizing principle for your startup.

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. Startups are creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. The Lean Startup uses "validated learning," rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want.

Venture Deals shows fledgling entrepreneurs the inner-workings of the VC process, from the venture capital term sheet and effective negotiating strategies to the initial seed and the later stage funding.

Excellent book detailing aspects of startup fundraising such as; venture capital funds invest in vs private equity funds, the differences between different funding rounds (series A, B, etc.) and other useful nuances.

There is one step that can make or break an entire deal: the pitch. Founders everywhere struggle to nail the perfect pitch to garner VC backing, and this book is here to help. Pitch Perfect expertly teaches you how to tell your startup's story. To raise venture capital, it is absolutely crucial that your foundation is a story that is accessible, compelling, and succinct.