The Corporate Refugee Startup Guide: How to Prepare Yourself, Prepare Your Family, Leave Your Job and Build the Ultimate Startup.

The Corporate Refugee Startup Guide has been created for people that have a burning desire to launch their own startup and have become disillusioned with working for traditional organizations. 

• These people tend to be highly self-motivated, exhibit strong creative skills, embrace change and possess a significant solution-orientation. 
• These individuals are ready to make the leap into their own startup. 
• They typically already have a startup idea, but are savvy enough to know that they need guidance to avoid critical missteps. 
• They are finally ready to move from being a wantrepreneur, someone who has an idea but doesn't launch, to an entrepreneur, who launches a startup. 
• They typically have family and financial obligations that need to be considered before they launch their business. 
• They want to familiarize themselves with proven processes by thousands of successful startups. 

This book will not sugarcoat the entrepreneurial journey. It is a practical step-by-step guide that will provide you with insider startup secrets from an assembled team of world-class entrepreneurs, angel investors, startup accelerator executives, academics, attorneys and more. Interviews and guest authors have launched, grown, coached, mentored, managed and invested over $1.5 billion in startups.Some of the the experts you will learn from include:

• Brad Feld, Co-Founder of Techstars & Foundry Group
• Howard Tullman, CEO of 1871 (the largest startup incubator in North America)
• Troy Henikoff, Managing Director of MATH Venture Partners
• Peter Wilkins, Executive Director of Hyde Park Angels
• Hank Barry, former CEO of Napster
• Troy Vosseller, Co-Founder of gener8tor
• Chris Cain, Attorney at Foley & Lardner  

You will explore the critical 12 steps that have been identified from assessing your entrepreneurial motivations all the way through launching your startup.  Step 1 - Assessing your True Motivations Step 2 - Validating your Startup Idea & Building Your Business Model Step 3 - Preparing your Family for the Journey Step 4 - Transitioning from Corporate to your Startup Step 5 - Branding and Marketing Your Startup Step 6 - Law School for Your Startup Step 7 - Raising Capital for Your Startup Step 8 - Pitching Your Startup Step 9 - Building Your Startup Team Step 10 - Creating Your Launch Plan & Beta Step 11 - Cash Flowing Your Startup Step 12 - Preparing to Pivot again and again