The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know

The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Howard Love
• Narrated By Chris Abell
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After founding or co-founding over 15 start-ups and investing in another 50 early stage ventures as an angel investor, author Howard Love came to understand that a start-up unfolds in a predictable pattern. The more aware entrepreneurs are of this pattern, the better able they will be to capitalize on it.

The Six Secrets of Raising Capital: An Insider's Guide for Entrepreneurs

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Bill Fisher
• Narrated By Allan Robertson
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Based on Bill Fisher's three-day seminars that regularly sell out all over the world, this audiobook offers the kind of capital-raising street smarts no entrepreneur can do without. As a banker in Silicon Valley in the '80s and a businessman who founded a number of successful companies beginning in the '90s, Fisher has seen firsthand the kind of rookie mistakes aspiring entrepreneurs make that end up stopping them before they have a chance to get started.

The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 3 mins)
• By David S. Rose
• Narrated By David S. Rose
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The Startup Checklist is the entrepreneur's essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start. You'll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases and how to avoid the critical missteps that threaten the foundation of your business.

Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Matt Blumberg
• Narrated By William Michael Redman
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A definitive audiobook for any CEO - first time or otherwise - of a high-growth company. While big company CEOs are usually groomed for the job for years, startup CEOs aren't - and they're often young and relatively inexperienced in business in general.

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Jason Mendelson, Brad Feld
• Narrated By Sean Pratt

As each new generation of entrepreneurs emerges, there is a renewed interest in how venture capital deals come together. Yet there really is no definitive guide to venture capital deals. Nobody understands this better than authors Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. For more than seventeen years, they've been involved in hundreds of venture capital financings, and now, with Venture Deals, they share their experiences in this field with you.

Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Brad Feld, Mahendra Ramsinghani
• Narrated By Tavia Gilbert

Let's face it, as founders and entrepreneurs, you have a lot on your plate - getting to your minimum viable product, developing customer interaction, hiring team members, and managing the accounts/books. Sooner or later, you have a board of directors, three to five (or even seven) Type A personalities who seek your attention and at times will tell you what to do. While you might be hesitant to form a board, establishing an objective outside group is essential for startups.

Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 42 mins)
• By David S. Rose
• Narrated By David S. Rose
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From building your reputation as a smart investor, to negotiating fair deals, adding value to your portfolio companies and helping them implement smart exit strategies, David provides both the fundamental strategies and the specific tools you need to take full advantage of this rapidly growing asset class.

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Randall Stross
• Narrated By Rene Ruiz
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Twice a year in the heart of Silicon Valley, a small investment firm called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs from around the world for three months of intense work and instruction. Their brand-new two- or three-person start-ups are given a seemingly impossible challenge: to turn a raw idea into a viable business, fast.

Slicing Pie: Funding Your Company without Funds

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Mike Moyer
• Narrated By Kevin Young
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You and a partner go into business together and split the equity 50/50. You do all the work and your partner slacks off. He owns half your business - now what? Slicing Pie outlines a process for calculating exactly the right number of shares each founder or employee in an early stage company deserves.

You will learn: How to value the time and resources an individual brings to the company relative to the contributions of others.

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares
• Narrated By Gabriel Weinberg
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Most startups don't fail because they can't build a product. Most startups fail because they can't get traction. Startup advice tends to be a lot of platitudes repackaged with new buzzwords, but Traction is something else entirely. As Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares learned from their own experiences, building a successful company is hard. For every startup that grows to the point where it can go public or be profitably acquired, hundreds of others sputter and die.

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Eric Ries
• Narrated By Eric Ries
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

The Founder's Dilemmas

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Noam Wasserman
• Narrated By Mark Mosely

Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin.

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke
• Narrated By Darren Stephens

A direct challenge to the status quo "spray and pray" style of innovation, Monetizing Innovation presents a practical approach that can be adopted by any organization, in any industry. Most monetizing innovation failure point home. Now more than ever, companies must rethink the practices that have lost countless billions of dollars. Monetizing Innovation presents a new way forward, and a clear promise: Go from hope to certainty.

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
• Narrated By Blake Masters
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The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1.

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Sean Ellis, Morgan Brown
• Narrated By Sean Ellis, Morgan Brown
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An accessible and practical toolkit that teams and companies in all industries can use to increase their customer base and market share, this book walks listeners through the process of creating and executing their own custom-made growth hacking strategy. It is a must listen for any marketer, entrepreneur, innovator or manager looking to replace wasteful big bets and "spaghetti-on-the-wall" approaches with more consistent, replicable, cost-effective, and data-driven results.

Equity Crowdfunding: The Complete Guide for Startups and Growing Companies

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Nathan Rose
• Narrated By Nathan Rose

For many startups and growing companies, gaining marketing exposure and raising external funding from investors are first and second on their priority list. But, until recently, they were always separate activities - first you would raise the money, and then you would spend it on marketing. The advent of equity crowdfunding means these two critical tasks can be done at the same time. This is a game-changer.

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy - and How to Make Them Work for You

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary
• Narrated By James Foster
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Facebook, PayPal, Alibaba, Uber - these seemingly disparate companies have upended entire industries by harnessing a single phenomenon: the platform business model. Platform Revolution delivers the first comprehensive analysis of how platforms use technology to match producers and consumers in a multisided marketplace, unlocking hidden resources and creating new forms of value. When a company like Uber connects drivers with passengers, everybody wins - except traditional cab companies, which are scrambling to survive.

From Impossible to Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin
• Narrated By Aaron Ross
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Why are you struggling to grow your business when everyone else seems to be crushing their goals? If you needed to triple revenue within the next three years, would you know exactly how to do it? Doubling the size of your business, tripling it, even growing 10 times larger isn't about magic. It's not about privileges, luck, or working harder. There's a template that the world's fastest growing companies follow to achieve and sustain much, much faster growth.

Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Yu-kai Chou
• Narrated By Scott R. Smith
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The new era of gamification and human-focused design optimizes for motivation and engagement over traditional function-focused design. Within the industry, studies on game mechanics and behavioral psychology have become proliferate. However, few people understand how to merge the two fields into experience designs that reliably increases business metrics and generates a return on investment.

The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Dan Olsen
• Narrated By Walter Dixon
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The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a start-up or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice.

The Conversion Code: Capture Internet Leads, Create Quality Appointments, Close More Sales

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Chris Smith
• Narrated By Chris Smith
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The Conversion Code provides a step-by-step blueprint for increasing sales in the modern, Internet-driven era. Today's consumers are savvy, and they have more options than ever before. Capturing their attention and turning it into revenue requires a whole new approach to marketing and sales. This book provides clear guidance toward conquering the new paradigm shift towards online lead generation and inside sales.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Ben Horowitz
• Narrated By Kevin Kenerly
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Ben Horowitz offers essential advice on building and running a startup - practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog. While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz’s personal and often humbling experiences.

Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups - Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs)
• By Jason Calacanis
• Narrated By Jason Calacanis

Over the past 25 years, Jason Calacanis has made a fortune investing in creators, spotting and helping build and fund a number of successful technology startups - investments that have earned him tens of millions of dollars. Now, in this enlightening guide that is sure to become the bible for 21st century investors, Calacanis takes potential angels step-by-step through his proven method of creating massive wealth: startups.

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Brad Stone
• Narrated By Dean Temple

Ten years ago the idea of getting into a stranger's car or walking into a stranger's home would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business, and changing the way we travel. In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries.