Author: Samir Rath
Publisher: Samir Rath
ISBN: 0996010637
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The innovation ecosystem around the world is getting clogged up. Looking around us, there are numerous problems like polluted cities, obesity, health care, access to education, water supply and the list goes on. Sadly, much of the technology being built even in leading startup ecosystems around the world is short-sighted and focused on quick profitability rather than solving problems that millions face on a daily basis. This book is a call to return to basics and focus on innovation around actual problems that the normal person faces in his life around the world. We present a systematic approach to building early stage technology companies. We provide a collection of experiential decision frameworks that draw their academic credentials from design thinking, operational research, business strategy and microeconomics. We do not believe in generic advice. We enable entrepreneurs to figure out the strategies and tactics that would work for them in their local context for the specific problem that they are trying to solve. Subsequently, we outline more strategic information on understanding the suitability of the business model to the local innovation ecosystem and ways to scale with finance. We conclude the book with philosophical thoughts on our observations of the role of the entrepreneur in our economic system and the motivations of building a technology startup.
No Startup Hipsters
Author: Samir Rath
Publisher: Samir Rath
ISBN: 0996010637
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The innovation ecosystem around the world is getting clogged up. Looking around us, there are numerous problems like polluted cities, obesity, health care, access to education, water supply and the list goes on. Sadly, much of the technology being built even in leading startup ecosystems around the world is short-sighted and focused on quick profitability rather than solving problems that millions face on a daily basis. This book is a call to return to basics and focus on innovation around actual problems that the normal person faces in his life around the world. We present a systematic approach to building early stage technology companies. We provide a collection of experiential decision frameworks that draw their academic credentials from design thinking, operational research, business strategy and microeconomics. We do not believe in generic advice. We enable entrepreneurs to figure out the strategies and tactics that would work for them in their local context for the specific problem that they are trying to solve. Subsequently, we outline more strategic information on understanding the suitability of the business model to the local innovation ecosystem and ways to scale with finance. We conclude the book with philosophical thoughts on our observations of the role of the entrepreneur in our economic system and the motivations of building a technology startup.
Publisher: Samir Rath
ISBN: 0996010637
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The innovation ecosystem around the world is getting clogged up. Looking around us, there are numerous problems like polluted cities, obesity, health care, access to education, water supply and the list goes on. Sadly, much of the technology being built even in leading startup ecosystems around the world is short-sighted and focused on quick profitability rather than solving problems that millions face on a daily basis. This book is a call to return to basics and focus on innovation around actual problems that the normal person faces in his life around the world. We present a systematic approach to building early stage technology companies. We provide a collection of experiential decision frameworks that draw their academic credentials from design thinking, operational research, business strategy and microeconomics. We do not believe in generic advice. We enable entrepreneurs to figure out the strategies and tactics that would work for them in their local context for the specific problem that they are trying to solve. Subsequently, we outline more strategic information on understanding the suitability of the business model to the local innovation ecosystem and ways to scale with finance. We conclude the book with philosophical thoughts on our observations of the role of the entrepreneur in our economic system and the motivations of building a technology startup.
Hipster Business Models
Author: Priceonomics
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692340721
Category : Businesspeople
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Creating a new product and finding customers has gotten easier in the twenty-first century. This can partly be attributed to the march of technological progress. But there is another factor at play: a growing willingness to try new entrepreneurial ideas, even if they appear silly at first. ... the second book by Priceonomics tells the stories of people who have capitalized on these changes to make a living in the modern world. These are people who tried new things - crowdfunding instead of bank loans, food trucks instead of restaurants, public launches instead of patents. They took big risks, learned how to do things on their own, and fought through major setbacks."--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692340721
Category : Businesspeople
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Creating a new product and finding customers has gotten easier in the twenty-first century. This can partly be attributed to the march of technological progress. But there is another factor at play: a growing willingness to try new entrepreneurial ideas, even if they appear silly at first. ... the second book by Priceonomics tells the stories of people who have capitalized on these changes to make a living in the modern world. These are people who tried new things - crowdfunding instead of bank loans, food trucks instead of restaurants, public launches instead of patents. They took big risks, learned how to do things on their own, and fought through major setbacks."--Back cover.
Indonesia’s Technology Startups
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292701592
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This report examines the growing technology startup scene in Indonesia, assesses the challenges and opportunities for new ventures, and identifies ways to boost the ecosystem and drive social and economic growth. Drawing on interviews with founders and other stakeholders, it analyzes the prospects for tech startups in agriculture, the green economy, health, and education. The report examines the active role of government and looks at funding options, including venture capital. It explains why it is difficult for founders to obtain funding in the early stages of development and outlines how Indonesia can develop its talent pools and provide support to help its startups survive and thrive.
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292701592
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This report examines the growing technology startup scene in Indonesia, assesses the challenges and opportunities for new ventures, and identifies ways to boost the ecosystem and drive social and economic growth. Drawing on interviews with founders and other stakeholders, it analyzes the prospects for tech startups in agriculture, the green economy, health, and education. The report examines the active role of government and looks at funding options, including venture capital. It explains why it is difficult for founders to obtain funding in the early stages of development and outlines how Indonesia can develop its talent pools and provide support to help its startups survive and thrive.
Hipsterism
Author: Tara Semple
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3658395362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This Open-Access-book utilises Hipsterism to demonstrate modes of identity, collectivity, conceptions and a whole spectrum of activities with varying degrees of commitment in contemporary society. Analysed through the lens of Modernity, Consumerism, and the New Spirit of Capitalism, it draws on qualitative research from two subsequent field stays in Berlin and is complemented by self-reflexion within the field. Young adults and their conceptions within modernity, capitalism and consumerism constitute a fundamental building block to understanding society. Little sociological work has been done in the field of Hipsterism, although it can function as a paradigm for western, affluent societies. With tools such as conscious consumption, conversations and ethical or creative work within a politically intended lifestyle, Hipsterism emerges as an attempt to navigate between individualism and collectivity. Resulting from these circumstances are a variety of forms of action, while searching for better ways to contribute and engage at the same time. Attempts to dissolve milieus and try to construct spaces where different cultures, classes and ethnicities are welcome might fail in spatial practice, but the practices in sum still leave a trace in (consumer) culture. All these activities hint at the potential of transformative and negotiating power that Hipsterism could have. This is an open access book.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3658395362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This Open-Access-book utilises Hipsterism to demonstrate modes of identity, collectivity, conceptions and a whole spectrum of activities with varying degrees of commitment in contemporary society. Analysed through the lens of Modernity, Consumerism, and the New Spirit of Capitalism, it draws on qualitative research from two subsequent field stays in Berlin and is complemented by self-reflexion within the field. Young adults and their conceptions within modernity, capitalism and consumerism constitute a fundamental building block to understanding society. Little sociological work has been done in the field of Hipsterism, although it can function as a paradigm for western, affluent societies. With tools such as conscious consumption, conversations and ethical or creative work within a politically intended lifestyle, Hipsterism emerges as an attempt to navigate between individualism and collectivity. Resulting from these circumstances are a variety of forms of action, while searching for better ways to contribute and engage at the same time. Attempts to dissolve milieus and try to construct spaces where different cultures, classes and ethnicities are welcome might fail in spatial practice, but the practices in sum still leave a trace in (consumer) culture. All these activities hint at the potential of transformative and negotiating power that Hipsterism could have. This is an open access book.
Disrupted
Author: Dan Lyons
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 031630607X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes readers inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups. For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong? HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place ... by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: The party began at four thirty on Friday and lasted well into the night; "shower pods" became hook-up dens; a push-up club met at noon in the lobby, while nearby, in the "content factory," Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on "walking meetings," and Dan's absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had "graduated" (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, and literally old enough to be the father of most of his co-workers, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball "chair."
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 031630607X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes readers inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups. For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong? HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place ... by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: The party began at four thirty on Friday and lasted well into the night; "shower pods" became hook-up dens; a push-up club met at noon in the lobby, while nearby, in the "content factory," Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on "walking meetings," and Dan's absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had "graduated" (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, and literally old enough to be the father of most of his co-workers, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball "chair."
Start-up
Author: Hervé Lebret
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Although start-ups represent a major phenomenon in the USA, they also create skepticism and even suspicion, perhaps because of the excesses of the Internet bubble. Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Yahoo and Google were all start-ups and these success stories show that the phenomenon is not mere speculation. The goal of this book is to show start-ups from a different angle. Start-ups are created by individuals who are passionate and who have dreams. Therefore this work should not only be read by specialists of innovation or by high tech entrepreneurs, but also by anyone interested in the history and economics of start-ups. The book is presented in two parts: it begins with a presentation of Silicon Valley start-ups, which ends with a description of the ecosystem of this region. The second part is dedicated to Europe, where the start-up phenomenon has failed in comparison. The main message is that it is absolutely necessary to take more inspiration from Silicon Valley.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Although start-ups represent a major phenomenon in the USA, they also create skepticism and even suspicion, perhaps because of the excesses of the Internet bubble. Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Yahoo and Google were all start-ups and these success stories show that the phenomenon is not mere speculation. The goal of this book is to show start-ups from a different angle. Start-ups are created by individuals who are passionate and who have dreams. Therefore this work should not only be read by specialists of innovation or by high tech entrepreneurs, but also by anyone interested in the history and economics of start-ups. The book is presented in two parts: it begins with a presentation of Silicon Valley start-ups, which ends with a description of the ecosystem of this region. The second part is dedicated to Europe, where the start-up phenomenon has failed in comparison. The main message is that it is absolutely necessary to take more inspiration from Silicon Valley.
Data - Value - Creation
Author: Fiona van Maanen
Publisher: Van Haren
ISBN: 9401811369
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book offers a vision and approach to formulate an answer to the many challenges from a holistic perspective (and with data as the source for value development). Both on a geopolitical and macro level, but also on a corporate microlevel, the digital transformation 4.0, as described in this book, offers a clear, manageable vision and approach to give our society and economy a new boost, using data as the new source for value creation.
Publisher: Van Haren
ISBN: 9401811369
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book offers a vision and approach to formulate an answer to the many challenges from a holistic perspective (and with data as the source for value development). Both on a geopolitical and macro level, but also on a corporate microlevel, the digital transformation 4.0, as described in this book, offers a clear, manageable vision and approach to give our society and economy a new boost, using data as the new source for value creation.
Zero to One
Author: Blake Masters
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 075355030X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there. ‘Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.’ ELON MUSK, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla ‘This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.’ MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO of Facebook ‘When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.’ NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, author of The Black Swan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 075355030X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there. ‘Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.’ ELON MUSK, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla ‘This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.’ MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO of Facebook ‘When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.’ NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, author of The Black Swan
Before You Startup
Author: Vikas Sharma
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This book is for all those who have dreamed of being an entrepreneur and are now thinking of the next step in founding a start-up and getting to work. Through this book, I am trying to prepare you as far as possible for all the unknown challenges you may face in by providing you with various frameworks to understand your business better and make better decisions for the future. This is exactly how successful start-ups operate - they encounter big challenges, make calculated guesses and keep moving. Here, I try to present a holistic view of running start-ups. Essential topics such as financial planning, investment and capital raising, business and market strategy, finding and pricing resources, even for start-ups having a small team size of 5 to 6 employees, are all discussed. All of them are treated from various types of start-up - because different ventures can have very different needs. Key points where they differ from more established businesses, which you may have already seen, are highlighted for your attention. If you invest a little of your time in reading this book, rest assured you are going to save lots of time while running your start-up by avoiding unwanted hassles.
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This book is for all those who have dreamed of being an entrepreneur and are now thinking of the next step in founding a start-up and getting to work. Through this book, I am trying to prepare you as far as possible for all the unknown challenges you may face in by providing you with various frameworks to understand your business better and make better decisions for the future. This is exactly how successful start-ups operate - they encounter big challenges, make calculated guesses and keep moving. Here, I try to present a holistic view of running start-ups. Essential topics such as financial planning, investment and capital raising, business and market strategy, finding and pricing resources, even for start-ups having a small team size of 5 to 6 employees, are all discussed. All of them are treated from various types of start-up - because different ventures can have very different needs. Key points where they differ from more established businesses, which you may have already seen, are highlighted for your attention. If you invest a little of your time in reading this book, rest assured you are going to save lots of time while running your start-up by avoiding unwanted hassles.