Before You Start Up : How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality

I loved the practical and real insights given by the author, the book has all the questions that you must first answer before you start up , it has given me a lot of knowledge and exposure into the world of startup , Thank you so much Pankaj sir , loved the book , totally worth more than it is priced at , Value for money .

There are probably hundreds or so books out there on how to startup, how to manage your startup, processes and methodologies and approaches, but Pankaj Goyal's Before you start up, addresses a critical gap in the startup literature world - how to think before you actually startup! Based on his own learning experience from startup days, Pankaj has succinctly brought out the areas that a wannabe entrepreneur needs to delve deep into before even starting up. Right from mindset shifts to planning and questioning oneself on the why, what, and how of the idea that one wants to pursue, this short book is a gem that I think I'll keep coming back to over the next weeks and months.Written in plain, straight forward and easy to understand language, the book contains both vulnerable thoughts from the author himself as well as quotes and stories from other entrepreneurs in the Indian ecosystem to corroborate the concepts and discussions in the book. Across 6 key chapters, each allocated to one critical topic on the journey to kickstarting an idea/product, the author has provided both a roadmap and a checklist that every entrepreneur in whatever stage of the journey they are in, can benefit from. An informative and insightful read into a real-life journey on the entrepreneurship spectrum by Pankaj Goyal!

It is a very well-written book based on the founders' complete experience. One should know about the risks of starting a company and be prepared to tackle them. The chapters take readers on a journey of developing a company from scratch. Some hard truths are also mentioned. I appreciate the author and the book very much.

Excellent quality, quick delivery.

The book provides great knowledge of the entrepreneurial journey. The content is useful but where the author fails I think is his too pessimistic approach to interprete the information. The information can be provided with an optimistic approach also. The pessimistic way of interpretation demotivates the readers and argue to step back or think a hundred times before starting up...

This book cleared so many misconceptions in my head regarding a startup and also helped me a lot on clarifying what should I do and think about before launching my dream idea! Buy it now! Not only for yourself, but for anyone in your friend circle or family who might be thinking about becoming an entrepreneur! The book is really insightful! This book will help you avoid many of the mistakes that people make during becoming an entrepreneur..If you don't prepare as guided by the author and the seeds of failure are sown at the very onset, your mistakes will come back to bite you and they can prove very, very costly!DO NOT LAUNCH YOUR STARTUP BEFORE READING THIS! I MEAN THIS SOLEMNLY! IGNORE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Book title: Before You Start UpSubtitle: How to prepare to make your startup dream a realityAuthor: Pankaj GoyalMany of the other reviewers need the blind positive approach like the fine good abstractions of success stories, but it is a story of a very few in the world. So the failure stories are more useful and great way to deal with reality, and provides a greater insights than that of success stories.Human is not perfect, learning from mistakes and the following thought process is of great deal. This isn't a technical book, instead a psychological self-evaluating approach at each and every step...Must book for college completing students and further adults, who has desire to put up their work in the way entrepreneurship...Totally there are 184 pages of content. 9 sections, 1 introduction to the book, 7 stages in the preparation of starp up through self-evaluationary questions and situations around it, and finally 1 take away putting all together and start up and afterwards priorities. There is also bibliographical section which has the great references to more technical and advanced and established thought process of being entrepreneurs, more like success and failure and rewarding and cautionary insights for further to proceed... As there are of total 184 pages and 9 sections, and also in average each and every section has 20 pages approximately... So I suggest you to read one section at a time. Each page roughly takes 3 minutes read time, so sitting in a hour stretch, you can complete a section.... So you can complete in a week at a steady state... Another week to make encapsulating views and take away insights and forming your own insights in the process...Again this is not about detailed technical preparation of the start up business, but the preparation for entrepreneurs' mind...After the reading and making assessment out of it, you must gift it to your known youngers or friends with aspirations for entrepreneurship. They will also appreciate the book. As the book is more like a take away kinda book, you must gift it after reading.Price is little higher, but I convinced myself that the book is worth a read, though it is little high price on even discount, Rs.149.

Good insigths and step by step explanation.