This core text and practical handbook presents a dynamic start-up framework with building blocks and steps to help readers to increase the success rate of their new venture. Taking a data-driven, iterative, and evidential approach, it guides readers to collect their own data at every stage, helping them to make strong business decisions based on empirical facts and develop their venture in a systematic way. Throughout the learning and venture creation process users will be supported by a multitude of handy tools and techniques. Cutting edge research is applied to practice to help users maximise their chances of entrepreneurial success and gain a critical understanding of the issues at hand. Drawing on the latest industry trends and tools, Start Up Navigator offers a state-of-the-art guide to new venture creation. It will be the ideal text for aspiring entrepreneurs keen to boost the success of their venture. It is also highly suitable for university students studying courses on entrepreneurship, new venture creation and start-up management at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA level.

In times of disruption, venturing becomes a key source of value creation. As new opportunities emerge and existing models fade, entrepreneurs, corporates and investors are eager to explore and exploit those opportunities. Venture governance, i. e. defining, implementing and following a fit-for-purpose model to provide direction and control in the best interest of all stakeholders, plays a crucial role in enabling and ensuring entrepreneurial value creation. This book presents twelve perspectives on the governance of ventures, bringing together viewpoints from both practitioners and academics. It provides practical insights, introduces new perspectives and invites the reader - whether a member of a venture board, an entrepreneur or an investor - to reflect on their own approaches to venture governance.

Corporate venturing is a key strategic growth tool, but it is also complex and most programmes fail. Learn how to successfully manage, measure and improve a corporate venturing programme with this one-stop strategic guide. The Corporate Venturing Handbook delivers phase-by-phase guidance on the effective set-up, operation and termination of a corporate venturing programme. Shedding light on how corporate venturing actually works in practice, it outlines how to manage its underlying dynamics and avoid pitfalls. Its intuitive and systematic framework navigates users through meeting objectives and expectations so they can successfully generate value for their organizations. The framework is evidence-based and data-driven, steering users to make informed decisions specifically tailored to their own organizational needs, and also offers a valuable tool to help measure and capture the financial and strategic return on innovation, improving the transparency and traceability of value creation. Readers will also benefit from best practice insights, cases and examples from some of the biggest and most longstanding corporate venturing programmes in the world, including Siemens Healthineers, Shell Ventures, AXA Venture Partners, PM Equity Partner, Nestle and Samsung.

Why do some startups succeed while other do not? In a maturing online market, the cost of product development has fallen as quickly as competition has risen, and building a viable product is no longer enough. In this new reality, entrepreneurs must take a smarter, more strategic approach. In this book we'll discuss: Why some entrepreneurs are luckier than others How to anticipate success or failure before you begin Why timing is everything for a startup Strategic positioning to beat the competition Building a business that cannot be commoditized Methods for Improving user engagement and profits This book was written by Neal Cabage and Sonya Zhang, PhD after years of discussing and studying why some startups succeed. By combining known academic models with personal insights from building and selling two online startups - the authors answer the question of why some startups are more successful than others, in order to help entrepreneurs reduce the risk of starting an online business.

According to a study* There are 472 million entrepreneurs in the world and about 100 million startups open up annually of which 75 percent of venture- backed startups fail. More than 50% of the businesses fail in the first year, another 30% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, another 50% of the total businesses during the first five years. Design Thinking for Startups - A handbook for readers and a workbook for practitioners— is a hands-on practical guide to facilitate your journey from the first step to scaling up. There are various simple and easily implementable concepts discussed in the book which will carve out your success. If you are an entrepreneur or a wannabe entrepreneur or an Intrapreneur (an entrepreneur in an organization) then this is a book you should not miss!

India has 38815 startups and there are secrets that 100 startups become unicorns with a total valuation of $240 billion. There are many real situations and decisions that make any startup become successful and get interest from many Investors and become funded. This book is a collection of commonly asked Questions asked by Startups and Entrepreneurs. 90% of startups fail. Have you ever wonder why startup get fails? Do you want to get answers to all those common questions which come into your mind? It will be more useful if you get answers from senior entrepreneur like Rakesh Sidana who gone through all start-up life with his two startups. The questions are regarding funding, investors, startups and entrepreneurs failure and success and many more. Have you ever wonder why startup get fails? Do you want to get answers to all those common questions which come into you mind? It will be more useful if you get answers from senior entrepreneur like Rakesh Sidana who gone through all start-up life. He built two start-ups, one funded twice. He himself gone through same journey to find the answers himself like finding co-founder, team mate and raising funding and hiring and pivoting business model and merger, acquisition.Learn from his entrepreneurial journey building from scratch to raise funds and exit. He explained his real startup experiences in this book. He is mentor and investor into startups and visit top management institutions with his passion to inspire students and who wants to be entrepreneurs. TABLE OF CONTENT What do most startup founders waste their time doing? I have a Startup Idea, how do I proceed? Which is better to do? Either do a job or start up a business with Same Knowledge? Why do 95% of businesses fail within five years? What are the correct things you did for your startup that made your startup successful? What do you want to be? A Businessman or An Entrepreneur. What’s the difference? What situations should a person be ready to face while starting a startup? What are the best ways to generate good business Ideas? 9..10..11.... 20 ... more common questions replied by the author. Read eBOOK Now! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rakesh Sidana is an entrepreneur, mentor and author of three books. He started his entrepreneurial journey in 2004 with International Business and later known for his passion and persistence for his unique Indian business - MeriCAR - that brought “CHANGE” in the automotive industry. MeriCAR was first of its kind business to bring SMALL CAR GARAGES and MECHANICS on one platform. This venture brought him in the front for his popularity in the media to discuss the change that is going to happen in India in the automotive aftermarket sector. He has been on the advisory board for startups and mentor for entrepreneurs. He has been invited and awarded by prestigious institutions like IIM, NIT as Guest Speaker to inspire students with his achievements. He was invited and a part of PM's initiative "Startup India, Standup India". HIS EVENTS ACROSS INDIA He organizes free campaign all over India by the name of "Startup Never Fails". It was One-Hour-Session which he conducted in major cities like Bangalore, Mumbai and Guwahati and spread awareness about reasons and common mistakes of failures startups before writing book “Startup Never Fails” which is a collection of all questions and answers asked by entrepreneurs in his sessions and Fb-Live. HIS BOOKS AND ONLINE COURSES He is an author of a book "I want to Fly, where are my Wings" for startups and writes book on recent trends based on his experiences. His second book “Where #Share is like Love” is on Social Media. He is passionate about writing on behavior science. First book is motivational book for entrepreneurs with real facts about their life. To share his knowledge and experiences, he has online courses on (Udemy) on new technologies and business ideas. He actively participate building and enegaging startup communities of over 1 lac members. CAMPAIGNS & SOCIAL WORK He is also building Non-Profit group by the name of "I Want to Fly Foundation" for education of unprivileged kids and offers startups with professionally designed mentorship programs and BELONGINGNESS & PAST Migrated from small town to Delhi for Management course, he started his career in 1997 as internet executive. Internet was a new term for India at that time and his articles on Internet and web technologies were published in leading magazines and newspaper like The Times of India.

Number of teams that applied to Y Combinator’s summer 2011 batch: 2,089 Teams interviewed: 170 Minutes per interview: 10 Teams accepted and funded: 64 Months to build a viable startup: 3 Possibilities: BOUNDLESS Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after home for startups in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, it funds dozens of just-founded startups and provides three months of guid­ance from Paul Graham, YC’s impresario, and his partners, also entrepreneurs and mostly YC alumni. The list of YC-funded success stories includes Dropbox (now valued at $5 billion) and Airbnb ($1.3 billion). Receiving an offer from YC creates the oppor­tunity of a lifetime — it’s like American Idol for budding entrepreneurs. Acclaimed journalist Randall Stross was granted unprecedented access to Y Combinator’s summer 2011 batch of young companies, offering a unique inside tour of the world of software startups. Most of the founders were male programmers in their mid-twenties or younger. Over the course of the summer, they scrambled to heed Graham’s seemingly simple advice: make something people want. We watch the founders work round-the-clock, developing and retooling products as diverse as a Web site that can teach anyone program­ming, to a Wikipedia-like site for rap lyrics, to software written by a pair of attorneys who seek to “make attorneys obsolete.” Founders are guided by Graham’s notoriously direct form of tough-love feedback. “Here, we don’t fire you,” he says. “The market fires you. If you’re sucking, I’m not going to run along behind you, saying, ‘You’re sucking, you’re suck­ing, c’mon, stop sucking.’” Some teams would even abandon their initial idea midsummer and scramble to begin anew. The program culminated in “Demo Day,” when founders pitched their startup to sev­eral hundred top angel investors and venture capitalists. A lucky few attracted capital that gave their startup a valuation of multiple millions of dollars. Others went back to the drawing board. This is the definitive story of a seismic shift that’s occurred in the business world, in which coding skill trumps employment experience, pairs of undergraduates confidently take on Goliaths, tiny startups working out of an apart­ment scale fast, and investors fall in love.