Book Titles

The Art of the Start 2.0
The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

By Guy Kawaksaki

Year Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0241187265
Categories: Entrepreneurship, Founders, Startups

144 Quotes Found

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The Art of the Start 2.0:

Like the sun rising and Canadians playing hockey, you can depend on the greed of venture capitalists.

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The Art of the Start 2.0:

There is no such thing as a vanilla term sheet. If term sheets are ice cream, the most common flavor is Rocky Road.

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The Art of the Start 2.0:

…no matter what valuation, the more money you take, the more you have to return.

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The Art of the Start 2.0:

How much your company is worth is more important than what percentage you own.

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The Art of the Start 2.0:

…raising money is a numbers game: you’ve got to make a lot of pitches to find one investor to write a check, so you can’t be picky.

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The Art of the Start 2.0:

Persistence, with proof, can succeed.

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The Art of the Start 2.0:

…in almost all cases, you will have a lot of skin in the game in the form of months of sweat equity.

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The Art of the Start 2.0:

Investors are looking for people who can implement ideas, not only come up with them. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard – and where the money is.

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The Art of the Start 2.0:

The best protection of an idea is great implementation of the idea.

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The Art of the Start 2.0:

It’s almost impossible to recover from a bad start, so get there early and set the stage.

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