Why Startups Fail By: Tom Eisenmann [Audiobook]

Author: Tom Eisenmann
Narrated by: Robert Fass

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 best-selling 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-listen for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a road map charting the path to startup success.

This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of the book’s Appendix consisting of An Early-Stage Startup Survey.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

General Information
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Title:   Why Startups Fail
Subtitle:   A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
Author:   Tom Eisenmann
Narrator:   Robert Fass
Audiobook Copyright:   2021-03-30
Publisher:   Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Duration:   10 hrs 60 mins
ISBN:   9780593170038
Subjects:   Business, Nonfiction
File Information
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Media Format:   MP3
Total Files:   11
Total Size:   299 MB
Bitrate:   64 kbps
Sample Rate:   44.1 kHz
Channels:   Stereo
Book Description
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If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why
startups fail.
Whether youre a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation
into a corporate environment,Why Startups Failis essential
reading.Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, andNew York
Timesbestselling author ofThe Lean StartupandThe Startup Way
Why do startups fail? That question caughtHarvard Business School
professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldnt
answerit.
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
founders 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 youre 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 promisefrom 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
vehiclesEisenmann 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-listen 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.
*This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of the books Appendix
consisting of An Early-Stage Startup Survey.

300K	Why Startups Fail - 001 - Why Startups Fail A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success.mp3
156K	Why Startups Fail - 002 - Dedication.mp3
16M	Why Startups Fail - 003 - Introduction.mp3
21M	Why Startups Fail - 004 - Chapter 1 What Is Failure.mp3
27M	Why Startups Fail - 005 - Part I Launching Chapter 2 Catch-22.mp3
24M	Why Startups Fail - 006 - Chapter 3 Good Idea, Bad Bedfellows.mp3
33M	Why Startups Fail - 007 - Chapter 4 False Starts.mp3
19M	Why Startups Fail - 008 - Chapter 5 False Positives.mp3
32M	Why Startups Fail - 009 - Part II Scaling Chapter 6 Out of the Frying Pan.mp3
19M	Why Startups Fail - 010 - Chapter 7 Speed Trap.mp3
37M	Why Startups Fail - 011 - Chapter 8 Help Wanted.mp3
32M	Why Startups Fail - 012 - Chapter 9 Moonshots and Miracles.mp3
28M	Why Startups Fail - 013 - Part III Failing Chapter 10 Running on Empty.mp3
12M	Why Startups Fail - 014 - Chapter 11 Bouncing Back.mp3
5.0M	Why Startups Fail - 015 - Letter to a First-Time Founder.mp3
396K	Why Startups Fail - 016 - Credits.mp3
96K	Why Startups Fail.jpg
4.0K	Why Startups Fail.nfo
301M	total