Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World

by / Thursday, 14 November 2019 / Published in Hacker

Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World

‘You won’t find a more honest, raw and helpful look into the trenches of founding a tech startup than this book’ Nir Eyal, author of Hooked’Rand Fishkin is the real deal’ Seth Godin, entrepreneur and author ———–

Everyone knows how a startup story is supposed to go: a young, brilliant entrepreneur has an cool idea, drops out of college, defies the doubters, overcomes all odds, makes billions and becomes the envy of the technology world. This is not that story.Rand Fishkin, the f

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2 Comments to “ Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World”

Anonymous says :

November 14, 2019 at 5:43 pm

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Most honest business book I’ve read!, 28 Oct. 2018

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Kevin Gibbons (London, UK)

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This review is from: Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World (Kindle Edition)

I’ve always been a big fan of Rand’s transparent style and hard working attitude, which has always come across in his writing / speaking, but Lost and Founder really takes this to a new level.

There’s so many valuable lessons here, not just in how to run a business (or the failures/learnings to look out for). But the big takeaways for me were life lessons. I love how Rand openly shares the real stories behind hard decisions and failures, where you know his approach is always trying to do the right thing for people first.

The empathy shown comes across hugely in many situations in the book – where taking care of people is top of his agenda, ahead of growing his own business / keeping shareholders happy.

In an ideal world you’d achieve both… but Rand can be very proud of what he’s stood for, often against what others more purely business-focused would likely advise against. With this attitude, you can’t help but want him to win – and in the long-term I have no doubt he will.

Look forward the sequel on how to be a success by doing things the right way!
Anonymous says :

November 14, 2019 at 5:54 pm

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

One of the best startup books I’ve read, 14 May 2018

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Rebel Book Club (UK)

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This review is from: Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World (Paperback)

I’ve read a few startup/business books over the last 20 years. This is one of the best. Why? Its frank, open, simple and covers a lot of the big areas of the reality of starting and growing a business.

The insights into venture capital re-enforced why its such a hard path. My favourite chapter was the one where Rand talks about focus – a really undervalued skill of a founder.

Thank you Rand & Geraldine for sharing so much.

Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World