Intro to John and Start 1 Now

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In this short lesson you’ll learn who John is and why he created this course: Start 1 Now - For Entrepreneurs in a Hurry • In this lesson, he explains the source for his passion to assist budding entrepreneurs to increase their chances of success. • And John describes the origins of the material he presents in the course Start 1 Now. He tells how the material for the course has been collected: Over 40 years, from coaching over 300 startups that have raised over $2 billion in venture financing. Bootstraps, sole proprietorships, small businesses, and unicorns. Sale of the company and IPOs. As well as those that ceased business. He presents why he is convinced you to want to quickly learn from the best of the best entrepreneurs. After all, why make the same startup errors others did? Like serial entrepreneurs did, you also can learn from others. How to boost the chances of success in doing your new enterprise. • John explains where in the course you’ll find knowhow and get tools you need to get up and running quickly. He shows companies from which he has gathered the best insiders’ skills, presented ready to learn and apply to your startup. Know-how from decades of experienced entrepreneurs. • John also shows that it’s important to enjoy the course and have some fun along the way. Why that should be part of your trek to get your startup going. What makes it an adventure, without which it’s just a lot of hard, often discouraging work. He shows that the lessons (he dubs each a Kwick Kourse) are quick and are composed of short sessions called Snippets. Each is brief, focused, and immediately useful. Contents include processes and methods, plus tips, tools, checklists, charts, and $ models. Learning from serial entrepreneurs from over 300 companies and clever startups, as well as those that are not around.

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Hi there my name is john nest i'm i'm here to assist people in a hurry people here to get a new business up and running. That should be people like you. I created start one now for people who are smart. They want to learn from the best of the best entrepreneurs. After all, why make the same startup errors others did. It's where you'll find know how and get tools you need to get up and running quickly.

Like serial entrepreneurs you can learn from others, how to boost the chances of success doing your new enterprise, avoiding mistakes of your predecessors. What makes startup one now different? Is it singularity it's focused on doing things quickly. I've gathered the best of the best for you. It's waiting ready to learn and apply to your startup. Know how from decades of experienced entrepreneurs it's also a place to have Have some fun along the way.

It should be part of your trek to get your startup going. And that's part of what makes it an adventure, having that fun along the way. Without fun, frankly, it's just a lot of hard, often discouraging work, then it's no longer an adventure, it's just time to go out and get a job. For me, it all began in Silicon Valley during its pioneering years. I was fortunate then to be at that location when eager engineers were arriving with amazing ideas and bold ambitions. I participated observed and documented how they transform their ideas into world changing new enterprises.

Then I wrote high tech startup that became a seminal guide for budding entrepreneurs. Now I teach entrepreneurship for the Johnson school at Cornell University. I blog write and coach startups. I owe my lessons to decades of the entrepreneurs who shared their lives with me to them. I'm very grateful. To transfer winning startup know how if you I've crafted a set of learning courses for people in a hurry, you will find this collection in this course here at Udemy.

Should I do a startup now as part of it, for instance, startup marketing? How do you make it powerful and make it work? It's often mysterious. Finance for startups, what do you need to know? How about stock options, pricing, your deal and so forth? And how much wealth can you create?

And there's a lot more. The quick courses that I'm focusing on are very short. The each short lesson is called a snippet. For instance, should I do a start up now consists of an introduction with short lessons and continues. Each snippet focuses on a single item and is quick to get through. Each course includes an action item you'll put to work immediately.

You can find them on this course as you proceed. During each course you'll go through the same process the same one used by famous entrepreneurs, the people that have done it over and over again serial entrepreneurs and their famous investors. You'll learn how to advance your initial idea into a significant expansion of your dream for a great business. Each course includes tips, tools, and checklists that you can put to immediate use. specialized courses such as marketing include key charts and tables to plot your strategy. And entrepreneurial finance courses give you models and graphics to quickly build a realistic forecast of the financials, financials you need to launch your business.

You'll be learning from the best of the best. These are famous companies that once were real startups. They're run by amazing people, and such as those who have done several successful startups, the serial entrepreneur. These are some examples. Each course includes experiences of leaders of many kinds of businesses. From single retail stores to franchises and techie startups and more marketing strategy, financing execution, your startup plan.

These are some of those in the lessons for this course. And you'll get tips from people who financed their new businesses from a wide range of cash sources from personal savings to crowdsourcing angels, high tech, venture capital, large corporations and more. I arrived in Silicon Valley during its pioneering years when fruit orchard stretch from mountainside to mountainside on a trickle of engineers were arriving with electronic know how and big dreams upon building after building filled with techies and workers manufacturing their amazing inventions, startups in semiconductors led to personal computers that powered the.com days that mushroomed into the internet era that we're in today. Genetic engineering triggered what became an avalanche of life science startups. It was an amazing phenomena to witness firsthand. Most of all, it was a privilege to work with Some of the most world changing entrepreneurs of all time.

My curiosity led me to ask Silicon Valley's leaders why, as I sought to understand the roots that produce Silicon Valley that led me to discoveries, which I documented my private research notes, my files grew thicker each year. As the personal computer era began, I was asked to publish my findings. techies were eager to learn about how to start new businesses. My book high tech startup was the result of seminal research contributed to the flood of fresh entrepreneurs. The wave began Silicon Valley and spread around the globe. Soon I began advising founders of new enterprises.

And since then, I've assisted over 300 and have raised over 2 billion and fresh capital. I've touched upon over 2000 startups so far, and it's still growing. It's an honor to have worked with each one of them. Every day, I enjoy each new person I spend time with. I'm awed by the daily expansion of entrepreneurship of all kinds springing up around the globe. country after country after country, generating fresh jobs and hope for billions of ambitious people on every continent.

Perhaps your idea will be the next to join the entrepreneurial tsunami. My focus is on the earliest stage new enterprise ones that exist as ideas being discussed around the kitchen table by people eager to get a new business going. To get started quickly head off to the remainder of the course that will help you examine the realities of tempting doing a startup. You can jump ahead if you want to each of the short, very focused and very immediately useful lessons. Let's get started right now. Pick the section of the course start at the beginning.

Join me I'll be heading there waiting for you. Going through it sequentially. Top to bottom is the most likely comprehensive result to help you convert your idea into a plan for it. Great business. I look forward to seeing you complete it will cover these examples and a lot more. See you there.

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