

Startup Myths and Models
What You Won't Learn in Business School
Author: Rizwan Virk
Narrator: Graham Rowat
Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 10/27/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics
Includes:
Bonus Material
Synopsis
This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the journey. Instead of startup myths—legends spun from a fantasy version of Silicon Valley—Rizwan Virk provides startup models—frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors listeners in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life.
In snappy prose with savvy pop-culture and real-world examples, Virk recasts entrepreneurship as a grand adventure. He points out the pitfalls that appear along the way and offers insights into how to avoid them, sharing the secrets of founding a startup, raising money, hiring and firing, when to enter a market and when to exit, and how to value a company.