Build Your High-Tech Startup
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28 practical, sharply focused sessions on the problems real startups face. Based on Peter S. Miller’s decades of guiding ventures at MIT and beyond.
Build Your High-Tech Startup is pending publication.
Not Your Average Startup Book
✔️ No fluff. Clear, direct guidance on what breaks and how to fix it
✔️ Experience-backed. Lessons shaped by building startups acquired by public companies
✔️ For builders. Founders, mentors, professors, and investors alike
✔️ Stage-specific. Organized to match your startup’s journey
✔️ Reality-based. Peter has helped grow dozens of startups
Most books are about startups that made it. This one is about how to avoid the mistakes that might end you.
This isn’t theory. It’s hard-won wisdom. This book is for:
- Founders building their first or fifth venture
- Mentors and advisors who want sharper tools
- Professors looking for no-nonsense texts for entrepreneurship courses
- Angel investors who want to understand the red flags before due diligence even begins
Short, straight-talking chapters. No jargon, no filler.
- Real problems founders face—from legal setups to sales compensation
- Focused insights, grouped by startup stage
- Mentorship tone, not guru talk
- Four appendices including a reading list and 100 tips for service companies
Starting a company is lonely. Evaluating all the advice you get is hard.
“Hire a salesman.”
“Get a lawyer.”
“Sell to individual parents.”
“I can get you in to see my angel investment group.”
“Get a booth at a big show and meet people.”
The book deals with issues like these and includes many illustrative anecdotes from Peter’s experience.
Mentors, Advisors, Professors, Incubators
Mentoring startups or teaching entrepreneurship? The book is structured to help with specific startup problems, and also lends itself to classroom use, with short chapters, no hype, and optional companion blog content.
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