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Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game is a 2018 finance book by Walker Deibel. The book serves as a guide for prospective business buyers, emphasizing the advantages of acquiring existing businesses over starting one from scratch.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters.It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.
A startup studio, also known as a startup factory, or a startup foundry, or a venture studio, is a studio-like company that aims at building several startup companies in succession. This style of business building is referred to as "parallel entrepreneurship ".
A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. [1] [2] While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to go public, startups are new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo-founder. [3]
A business incubator is an organization that helps startup companies and individual entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing a fullscale range of services, starting with management training and office space, and ending with venture capital financing. [1]
Startup ecosystems generally encompass the network of interactions between people, organizations, and their environment. Any particular start-up ecosystem [9] is defined by its collection of specific cities or online communities. In addition, resources like skills, time, and money are also essential components of a start-up ecosystem.
Steve Blank (born 1953) is an American entrepreneur, educator, author and speaker. [1] He created the customer development method that launched the lean startup movement. His work has influenced modern entrepreneurship through the creation of tools and processes for new ventures which differ from those used in large companies.
Many burgeoning startup companies devote all of their efforts to designing and refining their product and very little time “getting out of the building.” [4] [5] The customer development model encourages that more time be spent in the field identifying potential consumers and learning how to better meet their needs.