How to start and monetize a podcast in one month Would you like to turn your podcast idea into a viable, revenue-producing show? Now you can, and Ramesh Dontha will show you step-by-step how. Ramesh is the host of iTunes Top 500 podcast The Agile Entrepreneurship Podcast, iTunes Top 250 podcast The Data Transformers, and BrightTALK top-ranking web series AI - The Future of Business. In The 60-Minute Podcast Startup: A Proven System to Start Your Podcast in 1 Hour a Day and Get Your Initial Audience in 30 Days (or Less), Ramesh tells all. He shares how to brainstorm, record, publish, distribute, and promote a podcast people enjoy-all in one month or less!. Based on what works for him and dozens of other successful podcasters, Ramesh also teaches the best way to quickly monetize podcast episodes so the thing actually makes money. Whether you want to see if podcasting is for you or you want to make podcasting your next income stream, The 60-Minute Podcast Startup offers simple steps to attract, entertain, grow, and monetize an audience in any niche.

How to start a business from home in only 60 minutes a day Over 543,000 new businesses are started every month. Most fail. Many never get a paying customer. Why? Because new entrepreneurs are told to "start with why," take internet marketing courses, and spend hours doing market research. Do these time-intensive activities attract customers? Make sales? Create profit? No! If you're ready to finally start a profitable business and dump the bad business advice that keeps you confused, overwhelmed, and broke, The 60 Minute Startup is for you. This book gives you a proven system on how to start a business online in just one hour a day and get your first paying customers in one month (or less). The secret is "agile entrepreneurship"-the new way to entrepreneurial success. Agile entrepreneurs do only activities that attract, close, and keep customers. Why? Because if you don't have customers, you don't have a business! In the tech industry, the agile approach made possible the Airbnbs, Instagrams, and Ubers we can't imagine living without. If agile software founders can build companies worth billions in a garage, imagine what agile entrepreneurship can do for you! This book shows you how to: Sort through good ideas on how to start a business to find the best one for you Start an online business-even if you don't know how to get customers online Discover your profitable strengths (no other business idea books tell you this) Stop wasting time online and start getting customers Use a proven idea validation tool so you know what people will buy Adopt the entrepreneurship mindset so prospects take you seriously Market your business like a growth hacker-even if you hate marketing Turn chance conversations into instant sales without feeling salesy Learn how to get customers to buy without feeling awkward Start a business online and find your target buyers in one month All of the above and more in just one hour a day for one month. Whether you're an experienced entrepreneur, an aspiring solopreneur, or you just want to make extra money on the side, The 60 Minute Startup gives you proven action steps to start your business today, get paying customers this month, and reap the rewards of business ownership for life.

Super Founders uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest—revealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false! Ali Tamaseb has spent thousands of hours manually amassing what may be the largest dataset ever collected on startups, comparing billion-dollar startups with those that failed to become one—30,000 data points on nearly every factor: number of competitors, market size, the founder’s age, his or her university’s ranking, quality of investors, fundraising time, and many, many more. And what he found looked far different than expected. Just to mention a few: Most unicorn founders had no industry experience; There's no disadvantage to being a solo founder or to being a non-technical CEO; Less than 15% went through any kind of accelerator program; Over half had strong competitors when starting--being first to market with an idea does not actually matter. You will also hear the stories of the early days of billion-dollar startups first-hand. The book includes exclusive interviews with the founders/investors of Zoom, Instacart, PayPal, Nest, Github, Flatiron Health, Kite Pharma, Facebook, Stripe, Airbnb, YouTube, LinkedIn, Lyft, DoorDash, Coinbase, and Square, venture capital investors like Elad Gil, Peter Thiel, Alfred Lin from Sequoia Capital and Keith Rabois of Founders Fund, as well as previously untold stories about the early days of ByteDance (TikTok), WhatsApp, Dropbox, Discord, DiDi, Flipkart, Instagram, Careem, Peloton, and SpaceX. Packed with counterintuitive insights and inside stories from people who have built massively successful companies, Super Founders is a paradigm-shifting and actionable guide for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone interested in what makes a startup successful.

This revised and updated edition of Nesheim's underground Silicon Valley bestseller incorporates twenty-three case studies of successful start-ups, including tables of wealth showing how much money founders and investors realized from each venture. The phenomenal success of the initial public offerings (IPOs) of many new internet companies obscures the fact that fewer than six out of 1 million business plans submitted to venture capital firms will ever reach the IPO stage. Many fail, according to start-up expert John Nesheim, because the entrepreneurs did not have access to the invaluable lessons that come from studying the real-world venture experiences of successful companies. Now they do. Acclaimed by entrepreneurs the world over, this practical handbook is filled with hard-to-find information and guidance covering every key phase of a start-up, from idea to IPO: how to create a winning business plan, how to value the firm, how venture capitalists work, how they make their money, where to find alternative sources of funding, how to select a good lawyer, and how to protect intellectual property. Nesheim aims to improve the odds of success for first-time high-tech entrepreneurs, and offers an insider's perspective from firsthand experience on one of the toughest challenges they face -- convincing venture capitalists or investment banks to provide financing. This complete, classic reference tool is essential reading for first-time high-tech entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs already involved in a start-up who want to increase their chances of success to rise to the top.

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.