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No Vision All Drive

What I Learned from My First Company
Techstars 3. Aufl.

von: David Brown
16,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	06.11.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9781119632870
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	192

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Titelbeschreibung

Memoirs of an entrepreneur Ever wonder how a startup comes together—the people, places, skills, failures, and hustle that make it a real business? This is the story of David and David, two entrepreneurs with lots of energy and less of a roadmap than you might think. In 1993, David Cohen and David Brown founded their first company, Pinpoint Technologies, which grew from a basement startup to a successful multinational company with $50 million in annual sales and over 250 employees. Chronicling the story of that company from its beginnings up to 1999, when it was sold to ZOLL, and beyond, No Vision All Drive is the story of that company and the people who transformed a flat-broke, shot-in-the-dark concept into a market-leading small business. <ul> <li>This book is not about business; it’s about people</li> <li>David and David recount their experiences together</li> <li>Insight on how to build a successful startup</li> <li>Turn a seed idea into reality</li> </ul> Startup founders and startup employees, venture capitalists, serial entrepreneurs, and anyone with an interest in stories of determination and hard work will love No Vision All Drive.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Third Edition vii Foreword, First and Second Editions ix Introduction 1 Prelude 3 Chapter 1 Learning to Be an Entrepreneur 7 Chapter 2 The Idea for Pinpoint Technologies 41 Chapter 3 The Early Years 53 Chapter 4 Becoming a Real Company 67 Chapter 5 Growing Up 95 Chapter 6 A Personal Milestone 109 Chapter 7 Growing the Company 111 Chapter 8 The Sale to ZOLL 121 Chapter 9 The ZOLL Years 137 Chapter 10 Why End It? 145 Chapter 11 After Pinpoint 151 Conclusion 159 Epilogue 165 About the Author 167 Index 169

Autorenportrait

DAVID BROWN has had a 30-year career starting and building sustainable companies, including Pinpoint Technologies and Techstars (with David Cohen, Brad Feld, and Jared Polis). A regular contributor to Inc. magazine, David writes on all aspects of entrepreneurship and scaling up businesses for sustainable profitability from the vantage point of a founder, an investor, and the CEO of Techstars. He has a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. A ski instructor in the past, David still enjoys hitting the slopes on a good powder day. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and family.

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Praise for No Vision All Drive "No Vision All Drive is so addicting I couldn't stop reading it. Little did I know that David's execution discipline and kindness took shape during his early, fast-moving entrepreneurial journey. If you want to understand how to create a great company for long-term growth, read this book!" —Isaac Saldana, Founder and CEO of Joy Labs, former founder and CEO of SendGrid (NYSE:SEND) "In No Vision All Drive David Brown chronicles with vivid and lively anecdotes the building of Pinpoint Technologies (with David Cohen), from first pitch for funding to the napkin vote that landed the company in Boulder. While Brown, Cohen, and their Techstars cofounders are well-known for pioneering the accelerator industry, readers will see how the early Pinpoint days contributed to their entertaining and inspiring entrepreneurial journey." —J. Brad Bernthal, Founder and Director of the Silicon Flatirons Center's Entrepreneurship Initiative The startup memoir of Pinpoint Technologies written by Techstars cofounder and CEO David Brown to help entrepreneurs build and scale their business! "I remember the moment we started our business as if it were yesterday. At the time we weren't sure what the company would do, only that we wanted to run our own show," writes author David Brown in No Vision All Drive. Within ten years Brown and his founders built Pinpoint Technologies into an industry leader, sold the company to ZOLL, and started Techstars. David Brown's candid account of the steps—and missteps—along the way to building a sustainable company provides entrepreneurs, business and community leaders, and others with insights on how culture, leadership, values, risk-taking, and relationships with customers and employees shape and position a company for long-term success.