Build the Fort: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learned As a 10 Year-Old Can Set You Up for Startup Success
- ISBN-10
- 0976498634
- ISBN-13
- 9780976498636
- Category
- Business planning
- Pages
- 154
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-09-14
- Publisher
- Paraview, Incorporated
- Authors
- Matthew Stanley, Chris Heivly
Description
In Build the Fort, Heivly breaks down his personal fort-building experiences and uses them as an analogy to his journey as co-founder of MapQuest as well as The Startup Factory (a seed-stage investor & mentorship program).Build the Fort outlines five basic elements that are common to both fort-building and startups:* Socializing Your Idea without fear or inhibition,* Identifying and Marshaling the People You Trust, * Gathering the Minimal Resources Closest To You, * Acting on the Smallest and Simplest of the Idea, and* Build the Fort.Whether you are 16 or 60, Build The Fort will provide the reader a better understanding of the earliest micro-steps of starting your own business by overlaying Chris's 30 years of experiences in startups, investments, big-company intrapreneurship and community development.
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