Turning communication into your start-up's biggest asset Nine out of ten startups fail. One cause of failre is bad communication - both externally and internally. Yet there is little systematic advice on how startups and scale-ups can overcome this challenge and inspire all stakeholders around the company's vision, values, and offering. This book closes this gap - with seventy experts sharing their learnings and experiences. It is a guide for all curious to learn more about how to win customers, investors and new talent through a convincing narrative, covering external, internal, social media and leadership communication.

This book presents a comprehensive guide for public relations and strategic communication professionals and entrepreneurs to effectively manage the communication aspects of startups in the context of business in China. Drawing on interdisciplinary theories, current issues, and updated research evidence obtained from entrepreneurs and startup leaders in China, this concise volume provides research-based insights on the best practices for public relations and strategic communication in the unique context of startups. It addresses relationships with stakeholders, public relations practice, leadership communication, and how to leverage the power of social media in the entrepreneurial context. Strategic Communication for Startups and Entrepreneurs in China will be of great benefit to public relations and strategic communication scholars and practitioners, startup leaders and entrepreneurs interested in opportunities in China, and advanced students in public relations, business communication, and entrepreneurship.

When you have a great idea and turn this into a business venture, it can be the most exciting and daunting experience to make it successful. Startups can primarily find it challenging, as limited resources mean, as the owner, you have to take more of the responsibility while completing everyday tasks. One of the main areas to focus on in any small business is communication. Without effective interaction and positive relationships, you can soon start to find running your new business a struggle. This book is the essential communications handbook for startups. In clear, easy-to-understand language, authors deliver a step-by-step approach that will help your venture use communication to thrive from Day One while sidestepping catastrophe along the way. Buy this book now.

When you have a great idea and turn this into a business venture, it can be the most exciting and daunting experience to make it successful. Startups can primarily find it challenging, as limited resources mean, as the owner, you have to take more of the responsibility while completing everyday tasks. One of the main areas to focus on in any small business is communication. Without effective interaction and positive relationships, you can soon start to find running your new business a struggle. This book is the essential communications handbook for startups. In clear, easy-to-understand language, authors deliver a step-by-step approach that will help your venture use communication to thrive from Day One while sidestepping catastrophe along the way. Buy this book now.

"A powerful and urgent introduction to lean marketing and the magic of getting it right." -- Seth Godin, author, This is Marketing You may be familiar with the Silicon Valley expression about the iterative approach to software development, "We’re learning to fly the plane while we’re building it." If so, think of a startup—with all its moving parts, phases, and personalities—as flying a plane, while you’re building it, booking passengers, marketing the airline, interviewing co-pilots, and serving coffee. In this book, Orly Zeewy navigates the turbulence and provides a flight plan so you know when you’ve landed in the right airport. Orly Zeewy is a brand architect who helps startups cut through the noise. She has worked with dozens of founders and entrepreneurs to uncover their brands’ DNA. In Ready, Launch, Brand: The Lean Marketing Guide for Startups you will learn how to close the marketing gaps that can slow down sales and make it harder to scale your business. Orly shares her brand process for building the right team, attracting brand evangelists, and cultivating a sustainable company culture. Prior to starting her brand consulting practice, Orly ran the award-winning Zeewy Design and Marketing Communications firm and directed marketing programs for national clients such as CIGNA, Kraft Foods, and Prince Tennis. She has lectured at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, taught at the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel University, and been featured in the business section of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

No Dead Monkeys is the essential communications handbook for startups. In clear, easy to understand language, authors Jeremy Kirk and Jonathan Englert deliver a step-by-step approach that will help your venture use communication to thrive from day one while sidestepping catastrophe along the way. Learn more at www.nodeadmonkeys.com

This book is the "Hello, World" tutorial for building products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment. It's based on the experiences of the author, Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, as well as interviews with programmers from some of the most successful startups of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Stripe, Instagram, AdMob, Pinterest, and many others. Hello, Startup is a practical, how-to guide that consists of three parts: Products, Technologies, and Teams. Although at its core, this is a book for programmers, by programmers, only Part II (Technologies) is significantly technical, while the rest should be accessible to technical and non-technical audiences alike. If you’re at all interested in startups—whether you’re a programmer at the beginning of your career, a seasoned developer bored with large company politics, or a manager looking to motivate your engineers—this book is for you.