What sets startups apart from traditional businesses?
What are the typical paths of startup growth?
What does it look like to be a startup entrepreneur?
How has thinking about startup best practices evolved?
Readings
Startup Owner’s Manual
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Startup Is Not a Small Version of a Big Company
How to Build a Web Startup: A Simple Overview
From Impossible to Inevitable
Preface: Systematizing Success
The Startup Equation
Chapter 2: The Rise of the Startup Economy
Chapter 4: The Startup Equation
Chapter 5: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
What Every Engineer Should Know About Starting a High-Tech Business Venture
Chapter 3: The Startup Road Ahead
High Growth Handbook
Introduction
Disciplined Entrepreneurship
Introduction
Ego is the Enemy
Talk, Talk, Talk
Deliverables
Write up: What makes a startup different from a traditional business?
Write up: What are the things under your control as an entrepreneur that increase your likelihood of success? How do they fit into broader patterns of startup success?