The Art Of The Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything Hardcover – 26 Oct. 2008

This book has all the basics u need to take into consideration and it spurs one to kickstart that business idea that has been lurking about without any further hesitation. Highly recommended.

i like this book at lot. He's come up with lots of common sense ideas on how to proceed, especially in the area of raising venture capital.

This book was written primarily for technology start ups. Author has been operating one of the Venture capitalist firm located on the west coast of US so he has some first-hand knowledge and experience about various aspects of a start-up company looking for funding.What impressed me most about this book is the solid pitching advice he gave to readers. He indicated most obvious mistakes most of the start up companies do while pitching. Business partnerships was also emphasized and authors indicated that past Innovations usually are products of multiple minds despite what history books says. He gave Thomas Edison (Light Bulb), Steve Jobs (Macintosh) and Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines) as examples. Business partnerships or soulmates as he states it are essential if you want to be a successfull entrepreneur.There is some solid advice about writing a business plan too. Once again, he pointed out obvious logic mistakes most of the start ups are into. Bootstrapping, in better words saving on everything you can while in the initial phases of a company is the way to go. There is some recruiting of top talent advice too but it is mostly aimed for the top positions; anyone titled like CXO.If you are ever thought about initiating a business whether technology, off-line or online, I think this book has some valuable advice you can find lots of practical and right away use.

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Very valuable, straight book about starting anything, but especially business.An excellent source of everyday experience in VC, startups, management.

This book will give you the important facts and guidelines to create any business or internal project. Guy goes right to the point on all the topics reviewed, and constantly gives relevant anecdotes regarding the topic in hand which give you the confidence to go ahead and do it.This book is highly recommended to anyone writing a business plan, creating an elevator pitch, creating the power-point, looking for funding, recently started a business, etc. I would even recommend it to someone who has an established business, just so he can review his previews steps and see if there's anything he could be doing better.

I hesitate to say the legend that is GK is in any way mediocre or what he says obvious, but this book needed to be a bit deeper. Perhaps it just needs an update, 2004 seems a long time ago. It could be much shorter and still have the same content.Check our Bill Aulet's book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup which has come out of MIT's Sloan School. It came out in July 2013, and is very good.

This one will tell you why it is so much better to actually start something than think about the starting :)