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Book Title:Accelerating Startups: Lessons From Mentors
Author:Michael J. Lyon
Published:2025
How is your book helping others?
I have volunteered as a mentor to hundreds of startups, in the US and globally, through various technology accelerator programs, especially the last nine years at the Creative Destruction Lab, and found that the same issues repeated and applied to startups across technologies and industries. This book is designed as an entrepreneurial guidebook to make the startup process more efficient and give founders a head start. From telling your story, the pitch, to being a good listener, to addressing a problem and squeezing assumption out of your thinking, to drafting a strategic plan, to raising capital and considering international opportunities. This book helps founders make more revenue, quicker, and avoid unnecessary errors. A dozen other mentors also contributed to the book, with a foreword by CDL founder, Professor Ajay Agrawal. Thank you for your consideration.