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Engineering Your Start-Up: A Guide for the High-Tech Entrepreneur (2nd Edition)
by James A. Swanson, Michael L. Baird
from Professional Publications (CA)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Engineering Your Start-Up
  This book has a lot more meat than most other start-up books I have come across so far. In particular it has good explanations of the different financing and compensation options -- making the book useful not just for founders who may need to negotiate with venture capitalists, but also for anyone who works at a start-up (and doesn't know what the difference between stock and stock options are, or how to estimate how much what they are getting may eventually be worth). On the other hand the level of detail... more info

• Sage advices throughout
  As a trusting reader of the 1st edition "Engineering Your Start-up" since 1999, even I have other books in my collection, I still turn to it from time to time.
  The authors graciously placed their updated materials on the Web for a long time, and I consulted the resources from time to time.
  Nevertheless, I think I will buy the 2nd edition soon. Nothing beats the feeling of having a well written book in hand. In passing I'd like to say that the 1st Ed IMHO still offers sage advices tough to get... more info

• Read This Before Visiting a VC
  This book's special expertise is about designing the financing of your startup!
  A few years ago when I did a business plan for a technology start-up, the first edition of this book was my source for planning for equity participation for founders, employees, VCs, and the public from founding through IPO. When this second edition came out, I bought it to pass along to a friend in the early stages of a startup.
  If you are a technical member of a startup, you must read this unless you are already... more info

• Don't Waste Your Time. There Are Much Better Books
  This book is an example of what happens when you take a very specialized and difficult topic and try to make it into a book that everyone will buy. Real value and meaning are lost.
  In addition, there is some dangerous advise in this book, like on p.47 where the author recommends entrepreneurs get start-up ideas from their work at previous employers--BE CAREFUL that could land you in jail. MOst companies make you sign non-compete agreements. How can the author overlook this simple and well-known... more info

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