Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game

A veteran Silicon Valley insider provides the first comprehensive guide to developing and executing a startup exit strategy, the secret to ultimate entrepreneurial success. According to Touraj Parang, starting at the end and creating and executing an exit strategy as you launch and build your business is the surest path to ultimate success.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 31 August 2022
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Are you ready to take your startup to the next level? Are you tired of hearing about the high failure rates of venture-backed startups? If so, then Exit Path is the book for you! In this comprehensive guide, Silicon Valley insider and entrepreneur Touraj Parang shares his secrets for developing and executing a successful startup exit strategy.

Starting at the end, with an exit strategy in mind, is the key to ultimate entrepreneurial success, according to Parang. He explains that up to 65 percent of small businesses in the U.S. fail within five years, and most venture-backed startups never fully recover the money invested in them.

In Exit Path, Parang provides a step-by-step guide to creating and executing an exit strategy, including:

- Making a strategic plan
- Developing relationships
- Cultivating champions
- Building capabilities
- Creating leverage
- Negotiating term sheets
- Closing the deal

The methods in Exit Path are based on Parangs real-life experience of selling his first startup for pennies on the dollar and then embracing exit planning as soon as he joined his next startup, which was acquired for more than $100 million dollars.

Parang demystifies and de-stigmatizes the exit process, providing invaluable lessons on maximizing your chances of survival in the startup world, when to start planning for an exit, and how to make it successful. He also shares advice on seeking the right time to seek advice in such matters.

Whether you're just starting out or you've been in the game for a while, Exit Path is a must-read for any entrepreneur looking to achieve success. So why wait? Start planning your exit strategy today and take your startup to the next level!

Weight: 497g
ISBN-13: 9781264703326