AMERICA WAS BUILT ON THE BELIEF THAT EVERY PERSON IS GUARANTEED THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE FOUNDING OF A STARTUP. Yet somehow conventional wisdom has created a laundry list of requirements to be an entrepreneur: Drop out of Harvard, sit in on a calligraphy class to develop multiple typefaces and proportionally spaced fonts, build a computer in a garage, etc., etc. This kind of thinking is wrong! In fact, we contend that there is only one requirement to being a successful entrepreneur: reading this handbook.
The Global Silicon Valley Handbook aspires to have the answers to every question a budding entrepreneur might have, with features on every major startup city in the world, from Seattle to Sydney to Stockholm to Seoul. It’ll tell you which restaurant in Shanghai to close the deal in, what words never to use in a meeting with Andreessen Horowitz, which filters to use on Snapchat, and so much more.
You’ll be able to go from pitch to public offering with ease, knowing which accelerator to trust and which coffee shop to build your business in, when to zip your hoodie and when to pull out your BlackBerry. (Hint: Never.) And you’ll be raising more and more venture capital money every single step of the way.
Stop thinking in terms of which college you graduated from, who your father is, what company you interned at, and when you started coding. Entrepreneurs aren’t all rich, white, male, twenty-something-year-old Libertarians. They’re people who have recognized problems and are building solutions—PEOPLE LIKE YOU.