The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
- ISBN-10
- 0691158304
- ISBN-13
- 9780691158303
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-04
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Noam Wasserman
Description
The Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.
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- 2012-03-25
- 496 pages
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