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Refreshed, updated, and expanded. Do More Faster provides time-tested advice, tips, and experiences by founders and mentors of Techstars to help entrepreneurs succeed!
David Cohen and Brad Feld, leading advocates for entrepreneurs and startups, team up to provide first-time entrepreneurs with the tools, insights, and experiences to help them do more faster. The authors share their decades of experience working with thousands of startup founders and have enlisted the advice of dozens of Techstars startup founders and mentors. Contributors include Tim Ferriss, Eric Ries, Matt Mullenweg (WordPress), Isaac Saldana (SendGrid), and other successful entrepreneurs.
Cofounders of Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, Cohen and Feld recognize the daunting task of creating a sustainable business and have seen first-hand the common mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make over and over. The authors take the complexity and uncertainty of starting a business and distill the critical factors into seven themes: Ideas and Vision, People, Working Effectively, Product, Fundraising, Legal and Structure, and Work and Life Harmony. They share their hard-won successes, failures, and advice for anyone with an idea who wants to create a business.
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"There are some real nuggets in here with advice if you're planning on launching a startup. Some counter intuitive things like going out and sharing your startup idea, some traps you can fall into like feature bloat, and great advice like iterating fast and often. I give this book 4 stars!"
— Richandcreamy (4 out of 5 stars)
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" Really great advice here. A very practical and easy to read book. "
— René, 2/20/2014 -
" A fascinating compilation of essays written by big-hitting entrepreneurs who been there, made mistakes and gone on to create successful companies again and again. A must read for anyone who wants to start a start-up. Well-written and concise with a dashes of humor and humility. "
— Buckle, 2/18/2014 -
" Some great content in here, but I just don't care the format that much. It seems like some of the stories are rehashed or similar too often. Mostly, it seems to propagate the startup mill mentality. That doesn't seem too concerned with doing valuable things, but rather obsession with starting above all else. "
— Derek, 2/6/2014 -
" A Ron rating of 10! Packed with insight! "
— Ron, 1/10/2014 -
" must read for startups "
— Ken, 1/9/2014 -
" A series of business lessons are taught through other startup entrepreneurs experiences. The authors tout their own company a bit much for my liking, and this book is better for tech start ups, but I did like the mini chapters that made this easy to read. "
— Kelli, 12/14/2013 -
" shot snippets of good advice. great reading. "
— Eduardo, 12/4/2013 -
" Great book for bite-size (or should I say byte-size) reading. As it's a collection of unrelated and thoughtful essays from different angles of startup life, taking it in all at once might be too much to digest. "
— Andrus, 11/26/2013 -
" Surface-level. "
— Pietro, 10/29/2013 -
" This book was a bit too startupy for me. Though, of course, I knew that going in. A few nice takeaways, though. Mostly the idea of taking a week "off the grid" every year as well as other tips to stay sane with desk work. "
— Barry, 9/6/2013 -
" This was a great collection of essays from TechStars participants and mentors. Some really good thoughts in here. Although I do not know if I can do anything faster after reading this I do believe it is worth the read. "
— Tj, 7/29/2013 -
" A must read for any tech startup entrepreneur. Filled with insight from a group that has been in the trenches doing this successfully and the lessons they have learned. "
— Darren, 3/29/2013 -
" Great tips for start-up "
— Aldo, 2/6/2013 -
" Pretty good quick read of startup lessons from various tech company founders. "
— Pat, 10/9/2012 -
" good advice , not original. You can find the same material reading blogs. "
— Leonardo, 6/23/2012 -
" I like the flow of the book, lots of different vantage points from lots of different founders of startups. "
— Phil, 3/21/2012 -
" Very good anecdotal information especially, I imagine, for a first-timer like myself. "
— Brian, 3/19/2012 -
" Mini packets of practical real world storys of startup founders and there lessons learned. Deff worth a read. "
— Tim, 2/20/2012 -
" While this book is a giant advertisement for TechStars, I really like the advice in it. The small shorts by several different people seemed to keep it honest, fun, and a very quick read. "
— Jade, 2/8/2012
About the Authors
David Cohen is the founder and CEO of TechStars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program for Internet startups. David was a founder of several software and web technology companies. David was also the founder and CEO of earFeeder.com, a music service which was sold to SonicSwap.com in 2006. David’s hobbies are technology, software/web startups, business history, and tennis. He is married to the coolest girl he’s ever met and has three amazing kids who always seem to be teaching him something new.
Brad Feld has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to cofounding Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado-based early-stage venture capital fund that invests in information technology companies all over the United States, he founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate a number of software companies. He is the coauthor of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist and Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup.