THE FOUNDER HANDBOOK
Why does this book matter?
However, we believe that there are universal lessons that every successful founder has to learn.
This wisdom is usually accumulated the hard way – doing something, failing at it, learning from it and then repeating the cycle.
In this book we share these experiences so that you can get a head start!
The founder handbook in the news
Posts and essays
Ray Walia of LaunchVC: How to Hack Your Way into Getting an Investment Deal with an Investor (medium.com link) Cover art by: https://www.marxentlabs.com/culture/how-to-build-trust/
Ode to the Founder Here’s to you, Mr. and Ms. Founder… (startupsanonymous.com link) Cover art by Warner Bros, The Great Gatsby.
Do Things That Don’t Scale: a crowdsourced collection of unscalable startup hacks and stories (dothingsthatdontscale.com link) Also see: Cover art by: https://www.mashauri.org/mastering-scale-doing-things-that-dont-scale/
Harvard Business Review: How to Keep A Players Productive (hbr.org link) Harvard Business Review: To Foster Innovation, Cultivate a Culture of Intellectual Bravery (hbr.org link) […]
Over the upcoming weeks, we’re going to share a summary of each of the chapters from the Founder Handbook – how to get to your […]
CrunchBase: Glossary of Funding Types (crunchbase.com link) Cover art by: https://www.challenge.org/resources/different-funding-types-for-businesses/
The Alliance: A New Framework For Managing Today’s Employees (theallianceframework.com link) Cover art by: http://www.theallianceframework.com/
The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop’s Fables. From it is derived the English idiom “to cry wolf”, defined as “to give a false alarm” in Brewer’s […]
British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke’s three laws. These so-called laws are: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is […]
Paul Graham: Mean People Fail (paulgraham.com link) Cover art by: https://litreactor.com/columns/when-bad-people-write-good-things
Praise for the founder handbook
A must read for anyone thinking about starting a B2B SaaS company targeting enterprise customers. And frankly anyone considering investing in one. It’s packed with quality, very honest & matter of fact advice.
–David Corthorn, co-founder and CPO at 2DA Analytics
The great thing Siobhan and Andrius are offering founders with this book is lessons that work in practice – this is not theoretical, it’s from the school of hard knocks.
–Paul mcnabb, Co Managing Partner at Episode 1 Ventures
In 10 years of B2B investing every initial conversation with a startup entrepreneur distils down to the belief that “if we build a better product they will come” – they don’t. When this reality becomes general knowledge inside of the startup team then this is where this book steps in – a practical, grounded and structured grand insight on how to get the sales traction to the A round.
–John Straw, Senior Advisor – McKinsey and Company
This book is an engaging and entertaining read – and one that packs a huge amount of hard-won wisdom into a relatively small space. Any founder will find their daunting journey a little easier having read this. One of the most valuable gifts to give anyone charting a course through uncertainty is a set of great questions to ask of yourself and others – Siobhan and Andrius more than deliver on this front.
–Stephen Cook, Managing Partner at Bp launchpad
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Authors who have done it themselves
Andrius is one of the founders and CEO of AimBrain, acquired by the market leader in the space at that time. Over the years, he tried many approaches to starting and scaling a startup that didn’t work and, with Siobhan’s help, a few that did.
Siobhan is an operating partner at BP Launchpad, investing in and scaling energy companies. She has past experience in sales and strategy roles in startups and big tech. Her expertise lies in finding the value exchange and getting the right things done.
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