Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success - Tom Eisenmann Audiobook

Written by Tom Eisenmann
Read by Robert Fass
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Why Startups Fail
Subtitle: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
Author: Tom Eisenmann
Narrator: Robert Fass
Audiobook Copyright: 2021-03-30
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Duration: 10 hrs 60 mins
ISBN: 9780593170038
Subjects: Business, Nonfiction

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 11
Total Size: 299 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why
startups fail.

“Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation
into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential
reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York
Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way
Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School
professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t
answer it.
So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why
Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns
that account for the vast majority of startup failures.
• Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the
founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or
partners can sink a venture just as quickly.
• False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and
to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and
capital on the wrong solutions.
• False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and
give founders unwarranted confidence to expand.
• Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can
spell disaster for even the most promising ventures.
• Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and
talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short
supply of both.
• Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream
big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong.
Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill
their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge
dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a
sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup
deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric
vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is
vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and
tactics for avoiding them.
A must-listen for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial
journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure
but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.
* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of the book’s Appendix
consisting of An Early-Stage Startup Survey.