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The Startup Lifecycle

The Definitive Guide to Building a Startup from Idea to Exit

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The Startup Lifecycle

By: Gregory Shepard
Narrated by: William Elsman
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A comprehensive blueprint for building and selling a successful startup from idea to exit, bypassing failure, and making the planet a better, more equitable place.

Due to a range of frequent and unavoidable mistakes, only ten percent of startups make it beyond five years. In this game-changing guide, startup veteran and serial entrepreneur Gregory Shepard combines twelve startup exits, four private equity awards, and decades' worth of expert insight and industry experience—including interviews with real entrepreneurs, Navy SEALs, Air Force Fighter Pilots, and more—to present you with straightforward, actionable strategies for mapping out your startup and achieving success.

The Startup Lifecycle is here to empower entrepreneurs and help you avert common mishaps by providing an easy-to-follow path through seven key phases, leading you from your initial vision to your lucrative exit—and along the way, improving the world for future generations:

  • Phase One: Vision & North Star, Focusing on the End Game
  • Phase Two: Prototype & Product
  • Phase Three: Go-To-Market for Startups
  • Phase Four: Standardizing for Growth
  • Phase Five: Optimization
  • Phase Six: Growth
  • Phase Seven: Exit

Shepard expertly teaches you to use industry-specific language, secure the right investments, build powerful relationships with investors, and prevent the pitfalls that cause first-time startups to fail.

What's more, this field guide also includes free access to the most used startup platform for universities, putting everything you need at your fingertips including world-class, easy-to-comprehend education, investors, grants, and more. Don't just learn—build your startup with the seven-phase startup lifecycle in digital form, supplementary training courses, and wisdom from more than thousands of interviews.

Sponsored by the Fulbright Program, The Startup Lifecycle imparts battle-tested business science from the mind of one of the most unique and accomplished entrepreneurs of our time, giving you the roadmap to startup success.

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Best startup book I have read, actionable, useful… unlike most startup books this one has action items you can execute. This is a must read!!!

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Gregory Shepard uses his lived world experience having built and sold multiple startups to give some practical advice that's relevant for the startup scene of today. At its core, Shepard highlights that most successful startups will sell their operation to an acquirer, so any startup that wants to derisk should make sure they make a startup that is appealing to being acquired, which is the exact methodology found in this book.

A playbook for startups for 2024 and beyond

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