
Edge of Sanity
How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur without Losing Your Sanity
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Entrepreneurship is not an easy game. There are so many challenges in the journey, and no one said it was easy to build a business. However, with certain base principles and fundamentals, the journey can be made easy.
Edge of Sanity is written from the personal experiences of Deepak Kanakaraju in trying to build his start-up company. The book explores topics like ethics, value creation, an entrepreneur's mindset, personal health, productivity, marketing and more.
Entrepreneurship is hard and it drives many people to the edge of sanity. However, with good mentorship, advice, discipline, team and a long-term vision, anyone can succeed as an entrepreneur. This is a book that everyone should read before starting up a new business.
The chapters in this book are designed in such a way that one chapter can be read every day, and one can complete reading the book within a month. They are not necessarily in sequence, and can be read in any order.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship is a Lottery of Efforts
- Chapter 2: You Can’t Build a Profitable Startup Without Debt
- Chapter 3: Never Hire Your Friends or Family at Your Startup
- Chapter 4: Your Startup Should be the Top Idea in Your Mind
- Chapter 5: Pay Your Consultants and Professionals Well
- Chapter 6: Be a Great Bookkeeper
- Chapter 7: You Don’t Need a New Idea to Start a Business
- Chapter 8: Collaboration will Always Beat Competition
- Chapter 9: Learn to Fall In and Out of Love with Ideas
- Chapter 10: Trust Your Intuition for Making Important Decisions
- Chapter 11: Balancing Idealism and Realism to Grow
- Chapter 12: Entrepreneurship is about Contribution
- Chapter 13: Sell What People Want
- Chapter 14: Your Startup is Your Plan A. Have no Plan B.
- Chapter 15: Start Something Early. Start Today
- Chapter 16: Be Genuinely Excited about Technology and the Future
- Chapter 17: Stay at the Edge of Sanity and Hold on to that Dream
- Chapter 18: Build Fast and Sell Fast. Don’t be a Perfectionist.
- Chapter 19: Long-term Thinking in Entrepreneurship
- Chapter 20: How to Overcome Fear of Failure with Your Startup
- Chapter 21: Entrepreneurship is a Form of Art
- Chapter 22: The Importance of Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs
- Chapter 23: Do You Need a Business Partner?
- Chapter 24: How to Find a Business Partner?
- Chapter 25: The Boredom in Entrepreneurship141
- Chapter 26: Learn to do Deep Work and Eliminate Distractions
- Chapter 27: Learn to Ask for Help, Shamelessly149
- Chapter 28: Be Open to Opportunities and Connect the Dots Backwards
- Chapter 29: Invest Time and Money in Learning New Skills
- Chapter 30: Learn to Feel all Your Emotions on a Deep Level
- Chapter 31: Entrepreneurship Demands a Healthy Mind and Body
- Chapter 32: Give and You Will Get 10X Back
- Chapter 33: Entrepreneurship Demands Thinking Big
- Chapter 34: Learn to Have Tough Conversations
- Chapter 35: Entrepreneurship vs. Relationships
- Chapter 36: Creative People Need Creative Output
- About the Author