Preface
Eighteen Years as a Startup Entrepreneur
When I embarked on the path of entrepreneurship 18 years ago, little did I know exactly where it would lead me and what surprises were in store along the way. Some of my ideas and projects failed dismally, but luckily, others were far more successful than I ever dreamed. I learned many lessons and combined them with some thoughts about launching startups out of universities. This is what this book is about.
My journey was far from elegant. Always thinking I would be a surgeon, I enrolled in medical school in my native Zurich/Switzerland. During the first year, it became clear that this was not for me, because my attention mostly focused on my private projects and experiments. After trying a few ...
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