The Resilient Founder: Lessons in Endurance from Startup Entrepreneurs - Hardcover

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MAHENDRA RAMSINGHANI, B. Engg., MBA, authored this book as an empathetic attempt to support the wounded entrepreneur ― the silent soldiers struggling on the startup battlefield, fending for themselves as they recover. In his fifteen years of investment experience, he has seen first-hand, the struggle with the siren call of startups. He is the author of The Business of Venture Capital (Wiley, 2021) and co-author of Startup Boards (Wiley) with Brad Feld and Matt Blumberg. His articles have appeared in MIT Technology Review, Forbes, and TechCrunch. He is the founder of Secure Octane, a San Francisco–based venture fund and has advised sovereign and corporate venture funds in the United States as well as the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions.

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Advance praise for The Resilient Founder

“The Resilient Founder is the first step and essential guide in supporting founders through the dark nights of the startup journey. We understand valuations, cap tables, and exit multiples, yet we don’t fully understand the mysteries of our mind, how it builds its resilience muscle or why it breaks down. This book highlights the importance of protecting and strengthening our inner core.”

―SCOTT KUPOR, Managing Partner, a16z and author of Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

“The Resilient Founder is an important work precisely because it speaks to the most taboo subjects in leadership: depression, burnout, and, heartbreakingly, suicide. Mahendra Ramsinghani, bravely, wisely, intensely leans into the subject seeking answers to what helps founders withstand the vicissitudes of the entrepreneurial life. Too often such topics aren’t discussed leaving those who struggle feeling bereft, broken, and alone. You are not alone and this book proves that. Every founder should read this book. Indeed, every founder and everyone who loves them.”

―JERRY COLONNA, author, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up.

“As a 5X entrepreneur, and an investor in over a hundred startups, I know the founders journey pretty well. It has its highs. This book can help manage the lows. It doesn’t offer a quick fix silver bullet but starts with helping us understand our psychology. And explores pathways towards building resilience. We are all fragile. This book is the first step towards antifragile.”

―JOSH LINKNER, author of two New York Times Best Selling books, Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention.

“In this day and age of unicorns, beneath the surface founders are dealing with extreme challenges. This book offers insights on how to not only understand ― but also effectively manage the founders most important resource ― their own psychology.”

―HARRY STEBBINGS, Founder and Managing Partner, 20VC

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Founders, entrepreneurs and business leaders, especially those who shoulder responsibility for high-growth, fast-moving startups, often struggle with stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental challenges as they race to reach the promised unicorn land.

In The Resilient Founder: Lessons in Endurance from Startup Entrepreneurs, veteran venture capitalist and entrepreneur Mahendra Ramsinghani delivers an eye-opening exploration of the relentless emotional pressure faced by startup founders and business leaders. The book draws on lessons in endurance from over one hundred company founders who share their own emotional difficulties.

The art of building resilience starts with the basics of psychology, and the importance of developing a healthy ego. Be it the pandemic, competition, or cash flow, crises are bound to occur. Why do some founders react differently, while some succumb to pressure? What about therapy and medication? The book provides a simple and a holistic framework towards improving the well being of those under the gun at high-pressure startups. The postscript outlines how to support all those who suffer from depression as a result of their entrepreneurial PTSD.

Filled with insights, tactics, solace, and guidance from those who have already endured the slings of startup life, The Resilient Founder is a first of a kind compassionate companion for empowering entrepreneurs. Because our society needs the innovators, the founders, the misfits, and the crazy ones to not just survive, but to thrive.