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Starting a StartUp

Build Something People Want
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Here's the antidote to the 'move fast and break things' startup mentality. Starting a StartUp is a comprehensive guide for founders, distilling James Sinclair's decades of experience into a linear, sequential process for building successful startups. The book challenges conventional wisdom, focusing on earning the right... Read More
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A raw, no-nonsense start-up manifesto to help founders validate their ideas, understand their market, and build products people actually want. Here’s the antidote to the 'move fast and break things' startup mentality.

Here's the antidote to the 'move fast and break things' startup mentality.A raw, no-nonsense start-up manifesto to help founders validate their ideas, understand their market, and build products people actually want.

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Here's the antidote to the 'move fast and break things' startup mentality. Starting a StartUp is a comprehensive guide for founders, distilling James Sinclair's decades of experience into a linear, sequential process for building successful startups. The book challenges conventional wisdom, focusing on earning the right to progress at each stage of the startup journey rather than racing towards an often elusive success. It provides actionable insights, practical tools, and a step-by-step framework to help founders validate their ideas, understand their market, and build products people actually want. The ultimate goal for readers is to get to market with a product people want, are willing to pay for, and with actual customers. Starting a StartUp shifts the focus from product obsession to distribution - a key insight that often separates successful second-time founders from struggling first-timers.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781774586396

Publisher: Page Two Books, Inc.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 November 2025

Country: Canada

Imprint: Page Two Books, Inc.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 264

About the Author

James Sinclair is a serial entrepreneur with 15 years of experience mentoring startups, from venture portfolios and top-tier accelerators to high-performing ventures founded by alumni from Uber, Intel, Meta, and SAP. He previously led innovation for Fortune 100 companies at SAP, building products for customers including LinkedIn, Google, and Citi. He runs a high-impact founder consultancy - 42v.io. James lives in Los Angeles, CA

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