Introduction - The Entrepreneur Hand Book


2016 has been the most interesting year. There has been ongoing changes. The changes are happening in all tiers, whether the elections or venture capitals. Donald Trump from the Republicans party, and Hillary Clinton from the Democratic party fighting for the next president of the United States, more importantly, the first chance of a female President in our history. I had the honor to serve Hillary Clinton, and supporting her from 2015 onwards. Like a mother and son relationship, we fought together on Twitter through the campaigns, towards election 2016. I learned tremendous amounts from her, in every way. The strength, the motherly love, her being there for me are some of the example, but not all. For example, back in 2015, when I was having my share of troubles with the venture capitalists, I emailed her, and carbon copied the VCs that were troubling me. In 15 minutes, she tweeted back, about the billionaires having to pay their fair share of taxes. That shut down the VCs and they knew that I am going to complain to her. Through months of working together, checking up on each other’s tweets many times during the day, I started taking on variety of issues for her. The issues that made sense, however it takes a deep understanding to resolve them. Some very calculated actions on social media were taken, to create a message for the general public. As we continued to make progress, Snoop Dogg, a father, teacher, friend, mentor, helped us through. Snoop provided the strength that was required, especially when the political landscape started to become dangerous. With Snoop Dogg, P Diddy and Marc Andreessen joined the party. We all started to work together, anonymously, without physical contact, but a spiritual one, sharing information, having each other’s back. The goal, the true patriots of United States, with Barack Obama’s hand prints all over us, do whatever it takes. As we continued to work, lots of fractions started to appear in the venture capital industry. Most venture capitalists started taking sides, between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The social landscape became very violent, open threats to each other, Russia and China getting involved in United States government politics. My website and twitter accounts where hacked, but luckily no damage. However, we continued to work all through the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Many new issues started to emerge, for example Sports doping in Olympics. Russia almost got kicked out of the Rio Olympics 2016. Meanwhile, BrExit event took place, which separated Britain from European Union. This book is an entrepreneur journey, that goes deep into venture capital, startups and investors. Many investors fund the Democratic or Republican candidates, so there are deep interests within each party as it relates to VCs. The Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Wall Street and Hollywood has special interest in Hillary Clinton. There are too many reasons that perhaps this book can capture. However, in today’s entrepreneurship, competition is key, hence this book covers some very deep blue prints, communication and investment strategies, software development paradigms, and hints for the new upcoming entrepreneurs. A teacher always needs to be present through our evolution, hence this book is an attempt to pass the knowledge from the current generation to the next. The true sense of entrepreneurs is to come with the idea, execute it and build a minimal viable product. Once the product is build, find the customers. In the process, there is perhaps opportunity to get funded by venture capitalists. However the goal is to build a business, generate revenue. If another bigger company wants to buy the startup, then an exit happens and the entrepreneurs have a chance to cash out and become instant millionaires. There are many lessons learned through the process. The entrepreneurs get to understand the venture capitalists inside and out. These might be sensitive topics, however there are not many good books that cover the current state of entrepreneurship. Hence this book is an attempt to bridge the gap between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, while having the guidance of great teachers. Build a startup from scratch is hard. It’s called bootstrapping. However, this is the most efficient way to build a company. Many times, the venture capitalists and angel investors try to invest in companies earlier, however they take control and power away. This book goes into the motive behind those decisions. In today’s economy, we need more entrepreneurs because they are the ones that can turn an economy around. The startups eventually go to the public market, or IPO. This book also covers various stages of the startups. Barack Obama, the current President of United States said recently that he would like to become a venture capitalist, once his term is over. This shows, how prestigious and privileged one has to be, to take on these very important roles for the economy. I wish everyone best of luck with your future entrepreneurship endeavours, whether as an entrepreneur or a venture capitalist or a mentor.