The Lost Founder

Startup Secrets

Author Name: Rand Fishkin

Are you overwhelmed with fear the first time you start a business? Accounting? Payroll? Acquiring clients? Hiring? Recruiting? Finding funding? Managing people?
The author wanted startup founders to avoid repeating the mistakes he made as a startup founder. He used context, stories, data, and detailed explanations, shared tactical tips and tricks, and presented the ugly truths that break the heart, so you can get insider news even if you don't live in an area with many other startup founders. This book is very transparent about the things founders don't usually discuss: money, depression, layoffs, and failure.
The book is divided into 17 tactical chapters, each revealing truths about the startup world that are sometimes strange, difficult to understand, or rarely mentioned. These chapters begin with common myths embodied in a famous saying by a prominent name in the world of technology and business. Within its pages, it includes the words of famous investors, highly successful entrepreneurs, and revered authors, including their lies and false impressions, first through the author's own stories, and later through data, research, and analysis. Each chapter concludes with ideas or tactics that help overcome internal problems.