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  • Startup Success

  • Funding the Early Stages of Your Venture
  • By: Gordon Daugherty
  • Narrated by: Adam Riley
  • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Startup Success

By: Gordon Daugherty
Narrated by: Adam Riley
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You’ve got yourself a startup! But now where’s the funding going to come from?

In this day and age, creating a startup seems to be an easy process. After some meetings with an equally passionate cofounder, you discover you have a creative idea, the outline of a business plan, and a willingness to spend nights and weekends doing really hard work. But most startup founders have never run a company - much less had to secure funding to reach crucial milestones. If you don’t get the funding you need, you may either make progress at a snail’s pace, or you may have to give up altogether.

With stakes this high, improving a startup founder’s odds of fundraising successfully - even just a little - can make a huge difference in the outcome of a venture. In this informative and enlightening book, Gordon Daugherty demystifies the fundraising process that takes place during the early phases of a startup’s evolution.

Every founder cares about the valuation they will be able to negotiate with investors, and anyone who has attempted fundraising has encountered numerous debates about the valuation they’re asking for. Startup Success dedicates a whole chapter to negotiating valuation, which, in the end, involves a serious combination of art and science to execute effectively.

Daugherty’s book serves as a valuable educational and planning tool for use before the fundraising campaign begins and a reference guide for interacting and negotiating with investors after things get underway. Startup Success is written in a logical sequence that follows the general life cycle of planning and executing a successful fundraising campaign. Actionable tips, tricks, and aha realizations will have listeners rewinding and noting passages for future reference. The author’s own words tell it all: “I decided to write something different that best exploits the gray in my hair and the hard lessons I’ve learned.” Any startup founder, advisor, or angel investor - regardless of their experience level - will come away with improved skills and an increased knowledge base.

Gordon Daugherty is a seasoned business executive, entrepreneur, startup advisor, and investor. He has made more than 200 investments in early-stage companies as a venture fund manager and angel investor, and he has been involved in raising more than $80 million in growth and venture capital.

©2019 Gordon Daugherty (P)2020 Greenleaf Book Group
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This book is a home run

I have almost 30 years in back to back startups with a couple of Unicorns and Gordon does a fantastic job of capturing decades of proven lessons succinctly written into this book. You will want to bookmark or dog-ear at least half of the book. every startup entrepreneur needs to read this book and keep it handy.

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while it was very educational.... I however didnt get much out of the book. The numbers being expressed was so fictitious to my situation. It's like hes talking to listeners who are already rich.

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