Startup Confessions
A Founder’s Guide to Getting it Wrong (and Sometimes Right)
- A brutally honest and highly entertaining founder’s perspective — no startup clichés, no sugarcoating
- Combines humour with practical leadership lessons on hiring, culture, pricing, fundraising, and governance
- Perfect for entrepreneurs who are tired of perfect “success playbooks” and want real-world insight
- Written in a confessional style that makes the reader feel understood: “progress is moving from one failure to the next”
- A modern founder’s handbook for navigating the messy middle ground between chaos and growth
Most startup books tell the polished version of entrepreneurship: heroic founders, elegant frameworks, and inevitable success. Startup Confessions does the opposite. Written with sharp wit, brutal honesty, and hard-earned insight, this book reveals what building a company actually feels like: chaotic decision-making, pointless projects, fundraising rejection, hiring mistakes, leadership flaws, and the constant performance of calm while everything backstage threatens to collapse. Based on eight years of scaling Perlego, the author offers a refreshing alternative to traditional startup myth-making: a candid guide for founders who want to fail faster, learn cheaper, and build with realism instead of illusion. This is not a triumph story. It is the truth — and that is exactly why it matters.
- Publisher
- Lannoo Publishers
- ISBN
- 9789059967267
- Publish date
- 14th Sep 2026
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Territory
- World excluding Benelux France, Switzerland & Scandinavia
- Size
- 240 mm x 170 mm
- Pages
- 200 Pages
- Name of series
- Lannoo Campus
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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