The Startup Community Way

My new book with Ian Hathaway, The Startup Community Way, is officially out. When I saw the Kindle download first thing this morning, I felt a moment of unbridled joy. Writing a book is extremely hard. I’ve now written seven of them, all about startups and entrepreneurship. My next one, which I’ve been working on for a year with Dave Jilk (my first business partner), combined entrepreneurship and philosophy. Well, Dave’s been working on it a lot more than I have – I’ve been the slacker in this particular effort. But now that The Startup Community Way is out, and the 2nd Edition of Startup Communities is also out, I’m hopeful that my writing energy will shift to the book I’m working on with Dave. ...

My new book with Ian Hathaway, The Startup Community Way , comes out on 7/28. We’ve begun the pre-order campaign. Since every author loves pre-orders, so if you want to do something that will make me smile today, pre-order your copy here. To give you a sense of the book, following is the Table of Contents, in detail. CHAPTER ONE: Introduction – The Next Generation – Our Approach – A Deeper Motivation – The Boulder Thesis – Startup Communities are Complex Adaptive Systems – Where We Were in 2012 – Where We are Now in 2020 – Using Complexity Theory to Explain Startup Communities – Evolving the Boulder Thesis to the Startup Community Way ...