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The Entrepreneur's Essentials
Digital Companion
Contents
Buy on Amazon
The Entrepreneur's Essentials
Digital Companion
Contents
Buy on Amazon
Digital Companion
Contents
Buy on Amazon

Contents

Update: you can now chat with my book with this custom GPT. All of my book’s content has been ingested into OpenAI.

Below follows links to every section and chapter of my book. It is all online for you to read for free.

Dedication
Testimonials
Foreword
Preface
Introduction

Founding

#1: The Soul of the Entrepreneur
#2: 
The Paralyzing Fear of Getting Started
#3: 
Advice for the Middle Age Entrepreneur
#4: 
The Importance of an Always Be Learning Life
#5: 
Bootstrap or VC?
#6: 
The Fallacy of Risk in Entrepreneurship
#7: 
What’s In a Name?
#8: 
To Be Stealthy or Not?
#9: 
How, and Why, to Ask for Help
#10: 
The Strength of Natural Network Effects

Building

#11: The Most Proven Way to Hire Well
#12: 
The Importance of Reference Checking
#13: 
How to Leverage Advisors and Investors
#14: 
Seven Lessons Learned on the Journey from Founder to CEO
#15: 
A Call to Action for CEOs on Selling
#16: 
Selling to the ‘Cool Kids’
#17: 
Action-Oriented Communication
#18: 
Forming Your Company’s Values
#19:
The Five Critical Ingredients to Build a Big Company
#20: 
Capture the History of Your Amazing Journey
#21: 
On Failure and Resilience

Helping

#22: Seven Critical Lessons Learned in Angel Investing
#23: Conclusion: Entrepreneurs Must Lead Our Nation’s Healing

Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Author

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CEO and Co-founder, data.world; Co-owner, Hurt Family Investments; Founder, Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics; Henry Crown Fellow; TEDster; Dad + Husband

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