Book description
If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail.
âWhether youâre a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.ââEric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup andâŚ
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As a professor at Harvard Business School, Eisenmann has taught a generation of entrepreneurs how to launch and scale businesses. He has then watched as some of these promising businesses fail. This book explores the 6 major patterns of failure in entrepreneurial ventures, shows how they play out in the real world, and gives you the tool to avoid a similar fate.
From Patrick's list on for part-time entrepreneurs.
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