Is it finally time to launch your own startup?Learn Powerful Startup Secrets from World-Class Startup Insiders Available Nowhere Else. Peek into Interviews of VCs, Angel Investors, Startup Attorneys, Entrepreneurship Researchers and Entrepreneurs that have Launched, Scaled, Coached, Mentored, Managed and Invested over $1.5 billion in Successful Startups. This easy, step-by-step guide will help you rapidly transition from a corporate job to your own successful startup.The Corporate Refugee Startup Guide has been created for people that have a burning desire to launch their own startup and have become disillusioned with working for traditional organizations.Experts are already proclaiming this as a must have startup guide for you."The Corporate Refugee Startup Guide is essential to anyone who is considering leaving the world of a 9-5 job to become an entrepreneur. This step-by-step guide will walk you through the process, and show you how to succeed where others have failed." - Troy Henikoff, Managing Director, MATH Venture Partners & Faculty Northwestern University."A true "where rubber meets the road" guide for corporate refugees looking to make the leap into the startup world." - Troy Vosseller, Co-Founder, gener8tor."Dave Gee's book is an insightful, pragmatic, step-by-step guide for those considering leaving their current job to join or startup an early-stage company. He spots the issues and thinks them through." - Hank Barry, Sidley Austin's Emerging Companies & Venture Capital GroupInterviews and guest authors include: Brad Feld, Co-Founder of Techstars, Howard Tullman, CEO of 1871 (the largest startup incubator in North America), Troy Henikoff, Managing Director of MATH Venture Partners, Peter Wilkins, Executive Director of Hyde Park Angels, Hank Barry, former CEO of Napster, Troy Vosseller, Co-Founder of gener8tor and many more. Successful entrepreneurs tend to be highly self-motivated, exhibit strong creative skills, embrace change and possess a significant solution-orientation. These individuals are ready to make the leap into their own startup. They typically already have a startup idea, but are savvy enough to know that they need guidance to avoid critical missteps. They are finally ready to move from being a wantrepreneur, someone who has an idea but doesn't launch, to an entrepreneur, who launches a startup. They typically have family and financial obligations that need to be considered before they launch their business. They want to familiarize themselves with proven processes by thousands of successful startups. This book will not sugarcoat the entrepreneurial journey. It is a practical step-by-step guide that will provide you with insider startup secrets from an assembled team of world-class entrepreneurs, angel investors, startup accelerator executives, academics, attorneys and more. You will explore the critical 12 steps that have been identified from assessing your entrepreneurial motivations all the way through launching your startup. Step 1 - Assessing your True MotivationsStep 2 - Validating your Startup Idea & Building Your Business ModelStep 3 - Preparing your Family for the JourneyStep 4 - Transitioning from Corporate to your StartupStep 5 - Branding and Marketing Your StartupStep 6 - Law School for Your StartupStep 7 - Raising Capital for Your StartupStep 8 - Pitching Your StartupStep 9 - Building Your Startup TeamStep 10 - Creating Your Launch Plan & BetaStep 11 - Cash Flowing Your StartupStep 12 - Preparing to Pivot again and againSure, you could put off launching your startup for another few months or another year. That would be the easy thing to do. But you will always wonder, "What would my life have been like if I had launched my own company?" In your heart you know now is the time. So, prepare your family, prepare yourself, build your ultimate startup and let's roll!
About the Author: Dave Gee is the co-director of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Launch Pad startup accelerator, Entrepreneurship Program Coordinator and lecturer in Entrepreneurship. He mentors startups at the nationally-ranked gener8tor startup accelerator. Dave developed and taught digital marketing in the MBA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dave spent over 20 years working in sales and marketing roles for Fortune 500 companies including: Motorola, BellSouth, U.S. Cellular, TDS and Humana. After leaving the corporate world, he launched his first startup, Sales Sherpas. Sales Sherpas was an advertising agency that helped small and medium-sized telecoms compete with satellite and cable tv providers. Sales Sherpas now serves as his angel investment firm. He then co-founded, the chairman of the board and CEO of Bungee, which provided a SaaS (software as a service) loyalty program to small and medium-sized businesses. Next, he co-founded College Startup Funding, a crowdfunding platform that helped collegiate entrepreneurs professionally present their startups to friends and family to raise capital. In 2015 he helped co-founded and served as the chief marketing officer for Classmunity, a web-based fundraising management system for school districts. Most recently Dave founded Startup Guides, which provides training and mentoring for new entrepreneurs. He earned his MBA from Marquette University and his BBA from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Dave lives with his family near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.