Description
Today's entrepreneurs can earn celebrity and billionaire status. Our books, movies, and TV shows seem to say that with a big idea and a jazzy elevator pitch, anyone can quickly earn funding for their own startups and achieve massive financial success. In these stories, a brilliant initial idea - and the funding you'll easily acquire - are all you need. The reality, however, is vastly different. Getting funding is incredibly hard, and success depends on many factors, strategies, and decisions. Between serving as the president of the company that developed the groundbreaking EpiPen, bringing entrepreneurship to a Fortune 500 company as president, working in venture capitalism for several decades, and being involved in the development of nearly three hundred startups, Brian Dovey is well acquainted with entrepreneurship - its reality as well as its mythology. In The Idea Is the Easy Part, Dovey busts common myths about entrepreneurship and lays out an enthusiastic but realistic guidebook for aspiring entrepreneurs to make better decisions at every stage of the entrepreneurial process. The Idea Is the Easy Part is a reliable guide to navigating the entrepreneurial waters, replacing today's misleading notions with objective and actionable advice.
About the Author
Brian Dovey was a partner at the venture capital firm Domain Associates-which has invested $2.8 billion in startups-from 1988 until his passing in August, 2023. He was involved in the development of ~300 pharmaceutical and life sciences startups and served on the boards of more than 35 companies (and as chairman of six) with a combined value of more than $50 billion. Dovey also taught business students part-time, including a long-running acclaimed course at San Diego State University called "Managing the Growing Firm."
A native of New Jersey, Dovey received his B.A. in mathematics from Colgate University and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, their three children, and eight grandchildren.
Book Information
ISBN 9781637744048
Author Brian Dovey
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Matt Holt Books
Publisher BenBella Books
Weight(grams) 350g
Dimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm * 22mm
About the Author
Brian Dovey was a partner at the venture capital firm Domain Associates-which has invested $2.8 billion in startups-from 1988 until his passing in August, 2023. He was involved in the development of ~300 pharmaceutical and life sciences startups and served on the boards of more than 35 companies (and as chairman of six) with a combined value of more than $50 billion. Dovey also taught business students part-time, including a long-running acclaimed course at San Diego State University called "Managing the Growing Firm."
A native of New Jersey, Dovey received his B.A. in mathematics from Colgate University and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, their three children, and eight grandchildren.
Book Information
ISBN 9781637744048
Author Brian Dovey
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Matt Holt Books
Publisher BenBella Books
Weight(grams) 350g
Dimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm * 22mm
