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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup

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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is a practical guide for entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders who want to create successful businesses and make valuable connections in their respective industries. Written by Brad Feld, one of the country’s most experienced and successful venture capitalists, this book uses anecdotes from in-depth interviews with founders of TechStars-backed companies, including well-known names such as Groupon and Twitter, to give readers actionable advice. The book covers topics such as product-market fit, bootstrapping, fundraising, hiring, team building and company culture, defining and working with mentors, finding and marketing to customers, managing rapid growth, and negotiating terms with investors. Every chapter contains tangible tips and examples of successful entrepreneurs, as well as guidance on what could have been done differently. Feld also reflects on his own experience as the co-founder of TechStars with an insider’s perspective to provide an understanding of the venture capital world.Do More Faster is an invaluable resource for those looking to accelerate their startup journey with the wisdom of TechStars. It provides an efficient pathway for entrepreneurs to build a strong foundation for their businesses and connects them to successful peers to foster growth and success, toward what Feld calls “the Long Run.”

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Steve Blank

Entrepreneur

Thinkers 50

Do More Faster identifies issues that first-time entrepreneurs encounter and offer useful advice.

Jilliene Helman

CEO/Realty Mogul

Jilliene Helman (CEO/Realty Mogul) If you're truly really, really early stage and you're just getting started, there's different books than I think if you are growing a company or nearing 100 employees or like the challenges are different. I'd say like in the very, very early days my favorite book was Do More Faster, which is the tech star's book about how to get a company off the ground and pitfalls and all those kinds of things. Now, I really like reading books more about how people created the vision of their company and how people created the culture of their company, and how people grew exponentially, so it just depends on stage but those are some of my favorite books.

Joel Gascoigne

January 29, 2015

Co-founder/Buffer

There is so much great content packed into this book across all aspects of a start: ideas, execution, culture, hiring, firing, fundraising, product, metrics, incorporation, work-life balance. It is a book I can highly recommend if you’re interested in or are getting started with a startup.

Magda Marcu

Co-Founder/Sailo

Magda Marcu (Co-Founder/Sailo) My career path took many turns over the years, and in the end I think that my core prevailed. As an entrepreneur, one must be a dreamer, a risk-taker, an agent of change and not be afraid of barriers. For young people interested in that, I recommend a few great books recommended to me by the Techstars incubator when my company Sailo went through their program: “Do more faster” “The Lean Startup” “Venture Deals”