America’s Most Successful Startups

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

      Pages 1-6

3. Creating a Business

   1. The Opportunities

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

      Pages 7-19

   2. The Homework

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

      Pages 20-25

   3. The Window of Opportunity

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      Pages 26-27

   4. The Background of the Entrepreneur

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

      Pages 28-29

   5. The Founders

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      Pages 30-31

   6. The Role of the Founder

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

      Pages 32-37

   7. The Ideal Startup

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

      Pages 38-38

4. Launching the Business

   1. The Location

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

      Pages 39-40

   2. The Advisors

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

      Pages 41-42

   3. The Support Players

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

      Pages 43-44

   4. Intellectual Property

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

      Pages 45-45

   5. The Funding

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      Pages 46-65

   6. The Culture

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      Pages 66-113

   7. The Management Team

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      Pages 114-117

   8. Technology and Market Orientation

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      Pages 118-119

   9. The Flexibility

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      Pages 120-123

   10. The Focus

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       Pages 124-126

   11. The Execution

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       Pages 127-129

Leaving school and standing at the threshold of the next stage in our life, through this study we have had the chance to take a glance at the 21 st century. We hope to be able to communicate some of those impressions to a wider audience through this book. For entrepreneurs, the book develops a series of concrete propositions which provide hands­ on lessons for creating a successful venture. Thus we hope that this book will be used again and again as an Entrepreneur's Handbook. If we have done our job well, it will soon be full of underlinings, marginal notations and highlighting. It is meant to provide useful advice for people like us, people who want to be entrepreneurs. The book documents empirical research bearing on the question of how to start, build and grow a successful venture. The research is based exclusively on interviews with America's most successful high-tech startups in Silicon Valley and Massachusetts. In these interviews we came across the most tremendous people, entrepreneurs of the 21 st century, first-tier venture capitalists, investment bankers, lawyers and technologists. People who will be driving the economy of tomorrow.

• Chief Executive Officer
• Unternehmenserfolg
• economy
• empirical research
• entrepreneur
• growth
• investment
• management
• research
• science and technology
• start-up
• venture capital

• Vallendar, Germany

  Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

Max Finger und Oliver Samwer studierten Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Wissenschaftlichen Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU), Koblenz.

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