Daily Archive for March 24th, 2004

Startup Secrets Revisited

The Origin of the Entrepreneurial Species is a nice interview from the author of the book “The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses“. Amar Bhide discusses his book here and also pops out some nitty gritties of starting up your own business. An interesting read and a must for any budding entrepreneur.

The introduction to the interview is catchy itself. Check it out:

“I can’t even begin to calculate how often people who are thinking about starting new businesses have asked me to name the one book that illuminates, more than any other, what it’s essential to understand in order to create a successful start-up. For close to 20 years now, I’ve had to answer that there is no such animal. Don’t get me wrong — there are lots of perfectly acceptable books about almost every imaginable aspect of starting and running a new venture, from writing a business plan to raising capital. The limitation of such books is that, important though those tasks may be, you can get them right and still fall flat on your entrepreneurial face.”