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Harvard’s Tom Eisenmann is the author of Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success. We discussed valuable lessons from the book and how they might apply to biotech startups.
Highlights:
- Sal Daher Introduces Prof. Tom Eisenmann of the Harvard Business School, Author of Why Startups Fail
- Howard Stevenson’s 400X Return
- Contrasting Brad Feld’s Book with Prof. Tom Eisenmann’s Book
- Sal Daher’s Favorite Part of the Book: Failing
- “[failed] founders probably cycle through those. ...the Kubler Ross stages...”
- “...basically, half of failed founders come back and get back on the horse and do it again.”
- Shutting Down the Failed Venture, Gracefully
- The Number One Killer of Startups: False Starts
- “...engineers are particularly vulnerable to this because they want to build.”
- Sal Daher Discusses SQZ Biotech’s False Start and Brilliant Pivot
- The Origin Story of Why Startups Fail
- “...the factories that actually make this stuff actually generate enough cash to invest in new apparel companies...”
- Silver Linings of the Pandemic
- Tom Eisenmann on Harvard’s School of Engineering and the MS/MBA Program
- Tom Eisenmann on Tough Tech: Technical Uncertainty + Market Uncertainty
- Creating Supports for Life Science Academics to Become Founders
- Creative Destruction Labs
- Sal Daher’s Focus on Biotech Angel Formation
- Software Startup Funding vs. Biotech Startup Funding
- Maybe Successful Angel-Backed Founders Such as Todd Zion and Armon Sharei Could be a Resource for Training Angels
- The Dynamics of Venture Capital in the Last Decade – Many New Shoots
- Tom Eisenmann’s Parting Thoughts
Sponsored by:
- Purdue University entrepreneurship, and
- Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson
Topics: biotech, management, co-founders, Mass Challenge, raising money, scholar, venture capital