Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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What You’ll Learn
- Find Opportunities Others Overlook
- Build Something Distinctive
- Develop a Competitive Advantage
What makes your business worth choosing over the alternatives? Peter Thiel and Blake Masters encourage founders to think carefully about differentiation, markets, teams, and the possibility of creating something new. For someone preparing a first venture, this book offers a provocative set of questions to sharpen an idea and explain its distinctive value before following a crowded path.
- Author: Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
- Publisher: Crown Currency
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication date: September 16, 2014
- ISBN-13: 9780804139298
- ISBN-10: 0804139296
- Pages: 224
- Book weight: 0.8 lb