Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist and Serial Entrepreneur teaches how to succeed in taking your startup from idea to product to company.



Accelerated Startup takes entrepreneurs through the startup minefield from fostering revolutionary ideas to building the right team and launching the product to raising angel and venture capital to finding the first 10,000 customers and ultimately taking the company to a successful exit. It is filled with practical lessons learned from years of hands-on experience, until now, available only in top startup accelerator programs.

About the Author
Foreword by Dave McClure, Founding Partner of 500 Startups
Prologue: Why Is Innovation So Important?
Part I: What Is a Startup and Is It for Me?
Chapter 1: A Brief History of Silicon Valley
Chapter 2: A Startup is an Experiment
Chapter 3: Choosing the Startup Career Path and Life Balance
Part II: The Birth of an Idea
Chapter 4: Who is the Customer and What is the Problem?
Chapter 5: Commercializing University Research
Chapter 6: Intrapreneurship in Large Companies
Part III: From Idea to Product
Chapter 7: Equity
Chapter 8: Finding a Cofounder
Chapter 9: Cofounder Relationships
Chapter 10: Building the Core Team-Business, Engineering and Design
Chapter 11: Prototypes and Minimum Viable Product-An Exercise in Self-Constraint
Chapter 12: Working with Contractors
Part IV: Social Proof
Chapter 13: Advisors - The Masters and the Apprentices
Chapter 14: Your First Funding-Friends, Family and Fools
Part V: Everything You Need to Know About Accelerators
Chapter 15: The Accelerator/Incubator Explosion-The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Chapter 16: What Top Accelerators Look For
Chapter 17: The Application and the Interview
Chapter 18: Making the Most of Your Accelerator Experience
Part VI: Design Is the Product and The Technology Core
Chapter 19: Design Disciplines
Chapter 20: User Experience 101
Chapter 21: Naming, Branding and Psychographics
Chapter 22: Technology as a Core Competency
Part VII: Managing Time
Chapter 23: Busy Work vs. Important Work
Chapter 24: Agile Development
Chapter 25: Tools of the Trade
Chapter 26: Gathering Customer Feedback as Early as Possible
Part VIII: Raising Money
Chapter 27: Venture Capital and Angel Investors 101
Chapter 28: Making the First Impression
Chapter 29: Crowdfunding
Chapter 30: The Art of the Pitch
Chapter 31: Conferences and Pitch Competitions
Part IX: Growth
Chapter 32: Measure Everything
Chapter 33: The First 10,000 Users
Chapter 34: Journalism in the Digital Age: A Blogger's Perspective
Chapter 35: The Sales Funnel, Elephant Hunting and Partnerships
Chapter 36: Dialing For Dollars
Chapter 37: Building a Community
Chapter 38: Industry Events and Trade Shows
Part X: From Project to Company
Chapter 39: Transitioning From Startup to Company
Chapter 40: Going International
Chapter 41: Failing Forward
Part XI: Paying It Forward
Chapter 42: The Silicon Valley Way
Chapter 43: Becoming a Mentor
Epilogue: Some Final Thoughts
Acknowledgements