Do More Faster India, 2nd Edition

Conclusion

We have worked for over 35 years with thousands of founders and startup companies to help them be successful, but Do More Faster is not the “David Cohen–Brad Feld” guide to entrepreneurship. In our experience, there is no one path to successful entrepreneurship—not ours or anyone else’s. (In fact, we’re still surprised at the companies and founders that make it and those that fail.) Our approach in writing Do More Faster was to ask the successful mentors and entrepreneurs from Techstars, “What is the one piece of advice you would give to startup founders?” and the results are found throughout this book.

The contributors offer a depth of understanding on building a company and they provide a diversity of ideas and experiences, as well as insight on the challenges that they needed to overcome. Some of them were successful, some were not; some positioned their company for an IPO, some positioned their company to be privately held. Some sold their company, and some still work with the idea they started with. The contributors provide a broad spectrum of experiences that we think most startup founders will eventually experience themselves.

Even though we provide a diversity of perspectives and experiences, there are some threads common to most of the chapters. The idea of mentorship is the foundation of the Techstars approach, and that idea permeates the book. It is critical to have experienced entrepreneurs prod you with questions, provide alternative views, suggest ...