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Advanced Praise for Startup Mindets
"Go from "wannapreneur" to entrepreneur by embracing the principles of a startup mindset that this book will teach you about. By the time you reach the last page, you will have acquired the insights needed to stand out in a noisy world, communicate your value to others and overcome whatever life may throw your way.”
Simon Alexander Ong: Author of Energize
"Building companies is so hard, but we always admire the founders who have the courage to go for it. The Startup Mindsets lays out a great framework on the most important startup lessons that can be applied to anyone that wants to invoke massive change in the world."
Dado Banatao, Founder & Managing Partner, Tallwood Venture Capital
“Startup Mindsets uncovers what I’ve observed in Silicon Valley for many decades – that founders who embrace these mindsets unlock amazing innovation while living a a meaningful life built on global impact”
Jojo Flores, Co-founder, Plug and Play Tech Center Silicon Valley
“As someone who has seen the startup journey from start to IPO and then a sale, I only learned later the importance of constantly evolving with the help of other entrepreneurs and investors. Startup Mindsets is a great starting point for founding companies with anyone considering scaling their impact goals like I did with Care.com and now Ohai.ai.”
Sheila Marcelo, Founder, Care.com and Ohai.Ai
“With Startup Mindsets, founders in emerging markets, in Latin America or Southeast Asia, will understand how Silicon Valley works. It challenges us to find ways to use our talents to build companies that align to our own personal missions and the needs of our communities."
Nicolas Shea, Chilean entrepreneur. Founder of Start-Up Chile, eclass, cumplo, G100 & ASECH.
“In this rapidly changing world fueled by innovation and technology, what distinguishes top talent from others is their entrepreneurial drive to make a meaningful impact. “Startup Mindsets” serves as a catalyst to ignite this entrepreneurial spirit in both employees and aspiring founders - accelerating their achievements through shared, applied insights.”
Heather Yurko, VP of Digital Talent, Mastercard
"Many people are looking for a unique edge in the workplace and in life. Startup Mindsets presents a way for us to gain that edge by thinking like an entrepreneur and unlock opportunities for personal and professional growth."
Laura Huang, Distinguished Professor and international best-selling author of EDGE: Turning Adversity into Advantage
"I've been working with and investing in startups for many years and observed that having the right mindset is a key ingredient for success. I know this book will help inspire more people to apply principles of starting up in their daily lives and lead them to a life of rapid growth and impact.."
Mohan Belani, Co-Founder & CEO at e27 | Partner at Orvel Ventures
As a technology executive, I see that the lessons in the book, Startup Mindsets, doesn't just apply to founders but also to corporate change makers, the ones that want to push the envelope and create revolutionary initiatives, which is needed now more than ever in the age of data and AI."
Santosh Metla, VP, Data and AI, FIS
About the Startup Mindsets Book
In today’s rapidly evolving and digital world, every global leader must employ a Startup Mindset to thrive and get ahead.
Born in the Philippines, Earl Valencia is an award-winning tech leader and venture-backed startup founder. Dan Gonzales lived through the grind of Silicon Valley as an investor, writer and the host of the popular Startup Mindsets podcast. Together, they have distilled lessons from hundreds of conversations with founders, venture capitalists and ecosystem builders. How do you balance a changing landscape while staying true to your core values? How do you stay relentless in the face of adversity? In other words, how can you think like a startup?
This book unveils the secrets of the Silicon Valley ecosystem and guides readers on the mindsets that differentiate the leaders who were trained from the industrial economy of the past from those who have grown and transcended into a digital-first world. Those who dare to take on the next disruptive shift will see their impact skyrocket to unparallelled heights.
Through compelling stories and actionable strategies, get inspired to apply the Startup Mindset to your own life and lead the new innovation-driven and digital economy today.
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