Startups are the new garage bands. Kids are replacing dreams of being a rock star and guitars with aspirations of being the next Zuckerberg and MacBooks. Accessible technology, powerful platforms, and app stores have allowed budding entrepreneurs, young and old, to start a tech business in days. Over 600,000 startups are created worldwide each year and that number is exploding. Though Silicon Valley is the historical mecca of tech startups, it is now easier to start a startup anywhere in the world than it was there in 1999.
Business schools are ill-prepared to provide the rapidly evolving skills and mentorship required to build today’s fast-growing startups from the ground up. Thus, many emerging leaders of the hottest high-growth next generation businesses are choosing accelerator programs over the traditional MBA. They have a keen desire to learn just what they need to know and to do so at a rapid pace. Earning a spot in a top accelerator program is more competitive than getting into Harvard or Stanford. It requires a combination of business and technical skills, insight into an interesting problem in an exciting market, and relentless drive.
Accelerated Startup provides the knowledge you need to avoid costly mistakes and have a clearer path to success with your startup idea. It does so in the same structured way as the world’s most successful accelerators. This book will not only teach you how to get in to a top program, but all of their secrets so you can do it on your own.
Put on your seatbelt. You are about to go from idea to product to company.