{"product_id":"the-startup-checklist-25-steps-to-a-scalable-high-growth-business-hardcover","title":"The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid S. Rose\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBill Gross\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e25 Steps to Found and Scale a High-Growth Business\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Startup Checklist\u003c\/i\u003e is the entrepreneur's essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start. You'll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases, and how to avoid the critical missteps that threaten the foundation of your business. Instead of simply referring you to experts, this discussion shows you exactly which experts you need, what exactly you need them to do, and which tools you will use to support them--and you'll gain enough insight to ask smart questions that help you get your money's worth. If you're ready to do big things, this book has you covered from the first business card to the eventual exit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver two thirds of startups are built on creaky foundations, and over two thirds of startup costs go directly toward cleaning up legal and practical problems caused by an incomplete or improper start. This book helps you sidestep the messy and expensive clean up process by giving you the specific actions you need to take right from the very beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eUnderstand the critical intricacies of legally incorporating and running a startup\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLearn which experts you need, and what exactly you need from them\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMake more intelligent decisions independent of your advisors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAvoid the challenges that threaten to derail great young companies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe typical American startup costs over $30,000 and requires working with over two dozen professionals and service providers before it even opens for business--and the process is so complex that few founders do it correctly. Their startups errors often go unnoticed until the founder tries to seek outside capital, at which point they can cost thousands of dollars to fix. . . or even completely derail an investment. \u003ci\u003eThe Startup Checklist\u003c\/i\u003e helps you avoid these problems and lay a strong foundation, so you can focus on building your business.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is designed for a very specific type of business starter: the entrepreneur who is deliberately setting out to create a scalable, high-growth business designed for the twenty-first century; a business that will hire employees, issue stock options, raise money from outside investors, grow rapidly, and eventually either be acquired by a larger company or \"go public\" through an initial public offering. Starting that kind of business gets very complicated, very quickly, and making even small mistakes at the beginning can cause problems at every later step along the way. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e These mistakes include the fundamental (starting a business that just doesn't make sense) to the painful (hooking up with people whose interests are divergent from yours) to the tragic (getting equity allocations wrong at the beginning and never being able to recover), all the way to the really, really expensive (making simple mistakes at the incorporation level that result in five- and six-figure clean-up costs the first time a serious investor is thinking of supporting you). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book is your one-stop checklist to starting off right. It assumes no prior knowledge about business--just a strong desire to create something seriously big, and to do so in the most effective, most efficient, and least expensive way possible. David S. Rose, a serial entrepreneur who is one of the world's leading startup investors, walks beside you throughout the process, providing the background you need to understand the \u003ci\u003ewhys\u003c\/i\u003e in addition to the \u003ci\u003ewhats\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003ehows\u003c\/i\u003e. He takes you step-by-step through the nitty gritty practical tasks of starting up a high-growth venture, introduces you to the latest online tools that will save you time and money, points you to the standard books that should be in every entrepreneur's library, and gives you a peek behind the curtains of the angel investor and venture worlds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the concrete steps covered are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslating your idea into a compelling business model\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAllocating equity among your startup team\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncorporating as a Delaware \"C\" corporation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRecruiting your boards of Directors and Advisors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMeasuring your business with data analytics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEstablishing a stock option plan\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUnderstanding the funding process\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCrowdfunding with online platforms\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNegotiating investment term sheets\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReaping the benefits of success through acquisition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is designed for a very specific type of business starter: the entrepreneur who is deliberately setting out to create a scalable, high-growth business designed for the twenty- first century; a business that will hire employees, issue stock options, raise money from outside investors, grow rapidly, and eventually either be acquired by a larger company or \"go public\" through an initial public offering. Starting that kind of business gets very complicated, very quickly, and making even small mistakes at the beginning can cause problems at every later step along the way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese mistakes include the fundamental (starting a business that just doesn't make sense) to the painful (hooking up with people whose interests are divergent from yours) to the tragic (getting equity allocations wrong at the beginning and never being able to recover), all the way to the really, really expensive (making simple mistakes at the incorporation level that result in five- and six-figure clean-up costs the first time a serious investor is thinking of supporting you). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is your one-stop checklist to starting off right. It assumes no prior knowledge about business--just a strong desire to create something seriously big, and to do so in the most effective, most efficient, and least expensive way possible. David S. Rose, a serial entrepreneur who is one of the world's leading startup investors, walks beside you throughout the process, providing the background you need to understand the whys in addition to the whats and the hows. He takes you step-by-step through the nitty gritty practical tasks of starting up a high-growth venture, introduces you to the latest online tools that will save you time and money, points you to the standard books that should be in every entrepreneur's library, and gives you a peek behind the curtains of the angel investor and venture worlds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the concrete steps covered are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslating your idea into a compelling business model\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAllocating equity among your startup team\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncorporating as a Delaware \"C\" corporation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRecruiting your boards of Directors and Advisors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMeasuring your business with data analytics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEstablishing a stock option plan\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUnderstanding the funding process\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCrowdfunding with online platforms\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNegotiating investment term sheets\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReaping the benefits of success through acquisition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID S. ROSE\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAngel Investing;\u003c\/i\u003e founder and CEO of Gust; and founder of New York Angels. He is an \u003ci\u003eInc\u003c\/i\u003e. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, and early stage investor who has founded or funded over 100 companies. Named a \"world conquering entrepreneur\" by \u003ci\u003eBusinessWeek, \u003c\/i\u003e and \"New York's Archangel\" by \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e, he was the Founding Track Chair for Finance and Entrepreneurship at Singularity University. 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