Name: Do more faster
ISBN: 9780470929834

Do more faster

Practical advice from some of today's top early stage investors and entrepreneurs TechStars is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator with operations in three U.S. cities. Once a year in each city, it funds about ten Internet startups with a small amount of capital and surrounds them with around fifty top Internet entrepreneurs and investors. Historically, about seventy-five percent of the companies that go through TechStars raise a meaningful amount of angel or venture capital. Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is a collection of advice that comes from individuals who have passed through, or are part of, this proven program. Each vignette is an exploration of information often heard during the TechStars program and provides practical insights into early stage entrepreneurship. Contains seven sections, each focusing on a major theme within the TechStars program, including idea and vision, fundraising, legal and structure, and work/life balance Created by two highly regarded experts in the world of early stage investing Essays in each section come from the experienced author team as well as TechStar mentors, entrepreneurs, and founders of companies While you'll ultimately have to make your own decisions about what's right for your business, Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup can get your entrepreneurial endeavor headed in the right direction.

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mooredsApr 2016

And this is why founder vesting is so important. Ideas and knowledge are great, but execution is what really matters. If they'd had a cliff (3 mos, 6 mos, a year, etc) and a written agreement, none of this would be happening.

I went through this with co-founders recently. It was unpleasant and expensive, but at least everyone knows where we stand w/r/t leaving, vesting, etc.

This excerpt from Do More Faster is worth reading:

"A common reason for startup fatalities, particularly in the early days, is some sort of conflict between co-founders. One of the main reasons for co-founder conflict is that many aspects of the relationships were either ill-defined or misunderstood. To minimize the chance of this, it’s critical that you and your co-founders come to agreement on some key issues. I’ve framed the most important of these as a set of questions that the co-founders should be asking each other as they enter into the business relationship.

Many of these questions are hard but they get only harder with time. The sooner you address them, the better off your startup will be."

http://readwrite.com/2010/10/28/excerpt-from-do-more-faster-...

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senthadevFeb 2013

"Do more faster" by David cohen and Brad feld. A must have book.

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maheshguruswamySep 2012

Surprised no one mentioned these..

Do more faster

Ultralight startups

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cheathApr 2012

I liked the fast pace of "Do More Faster" and for $4.95 will probably check this out as well. But, I'm actually surprised there are no Amazon reviews yet of his new book (granted, it's new, but usually they solicit a few from the get-go).

Has anyone found any well-done reviews?

Irrelevant side note: "Beyond The Blog: Brad Feld's Burning Entrepreneur - How to Launch, Fund, and Set Your Start-Up On Fire!" is one of the longer titles I have seen in a while.

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choushoNov 2011

A list of the books, with ISBN-10/13: Book Title ISBN-10 ISBN-13 (if available)

  #1. Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
  0470929839
  978-0470929834

  #2. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany
  0982743602
  N/A

  #3. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
  0470929820
  978-0470929827

  #4. Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People 2nd Edition
  0143036971
  978-0143036975

  #4. The Four Steps to the Epiphany
  0976470705
  978-0976470700

  #5. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
  0307887898
  978-0307887894

  #6. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  0743269519
  978-0743269513

  #7. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap)
  1430210788
  978-1430210788

  #8. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
  0470876417
  978-0470876411

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jonathanjaegerJul 2011

You could also read 'Do More Faster' by the same authors as this VC book. I've read that one and it's solid.

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