Antonio García Martínez is an American New York Times Best Selling author and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.

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Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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Andrew Romans, based in Silicon Valley, is a General Partner at Rubicon and also the CEO and General Partner of his new Series A VC fund 7BC Venture Capital actively investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Financial Technologies (FinTech), enterprise and consumer internet and software startups. Romans is a successful VC-backed entrepreneur, author of two top-selling books on venture capital and the industry standard on blockchain and programmatic digitization of work flows – Masters of Corporate Venture Capital, The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital and Masters of Blockchain which have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Russian by major publishers. Romans also advises large corporations and governments on policiesAndrew Romans, based in Silicon Valley, is a General Partner at Rubicon and also the CEO and General Partner of his new Series A VC fund 7BC Venture Capital actively investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Financial Technologies (FinTech), enterprise and consumer internet and software startups. Romans is a successful VC-backed entrepreneur, author of two top-selling books on venture capital and the industry standard on blockchain and programmatic digitization of work flows – Masters of Corporate Venture Capital, The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital and Masters of Blockchain which have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Russian by major publishers. Romans also advises large corporations and governments on policies about Venture Capital, Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), tax incentives and specific technologies such as AI, FinTech, blockchain and digitization of the enterprise, government, healthcare and education. Romans raised over $48m for tech startups he founded by the age of 28. He has continually raised VC funding as a founder, banker or VC ever since. Romans was the founder and General Partner of The Founders Club and also acted as the Managing Director of EMEA at VC-backed Sentito Networks where he raised over $58m in VC funding (acquired by Verso Technologies). Founder and President of The Global TeleExchange (The GTX), where he raised $50m from VCs and corporates including Lucent Technologies, built and managed a team of 90. He managed enterprise software sales at VC-backed Motive Communications (NASDAQ IPO) opening new markets in France, Benelux, Scandinavia and Ireland. Opened new markets and acted as country manager for fiber optic cable manufacturing and turn-key project construction company Dura-Line in the UK, Austria, Czech & Slovak Republics, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.He is also a frequent VC guest speaker on TV shows including MSNBC, CNBC and ABC, as well as various TV channels in China and Russia. He was born in Japan, lived in Europe for 15 years and is fluent in English, German, and French, can speak conversationally in Slovak and holds US and UK passports. He began his career in 1993 working in the UNIX computing industry at Pencom Systems in New York, Silicon Valley, and Austin. He holds a BA from the University of Vermont, studied in Paris and Berlin at École Active Bilingue (now École Jeannine Manuel), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin and an MBA in finance from Georgetown University, which he completed on scholarship. Andrew resides in Silicon Valley with his wife and twin sons and leads the Rubicon office in San Francisco.

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Jake Knapp is the inventor of the Design Sprint and a New York Times bestselling author. He’s written two books, Sprint and Make Time, and has coached teams at places like Slack, LEGO, IDEO, and NASA on design strategy and time management.

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Paul Graham is an English-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. He is best known for his work on Lisp, his former startup Viaweb, co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News.

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Rana Foroohar is the author of Don’t Be Evil, which won a Porchlight Business Book Award, and Makers and Takers. Currently the global business columnist and associate editor for the Financial Times and the global economic analyst for CNN, she has served as the assistant managing editor and economic columnist at Time and an economic and foreign affairs editor and foreign correspondent at Newsweek. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the board of the Open Markets Institute.

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James Clear is a personal development keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits. His entertaining talks teach audiences about small habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

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Adam M. Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. He received academic tenure aged 28, making him the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School.

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Seth Godin is the author of 18 books. He's also the founder of the online workshops altMBA and The Marketing Seminar. Godin has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.

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Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was ranked No. 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.

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Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The Tim Ferriss Show podcast has now exceeded 400 million downloads.

Broderick Stephen Harvey is an American comedian, businessman and entertainer. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, the Miss Universe competition and Fox's New Year's Eve. Harvey began his career as a comedian.

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Jason Zweig first started writing a personal finance column for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. Zweig also edited Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffett said "by far the finest book about investing ever published." He's the author of Your Money and Your Brain, one of the first books to look at investing's biology, as well as The Devil's Financial Dictionary, a satirical lexicon of Wall Street jargon.

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Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books.

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<p>&nbsp;Simon Oliver Sinek is a British-American author and motivational speaker. His first book, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action , was published in 2009; his most recent book, <a href="https://bestbooks.to/book/the-infinite-game_simon-sinek" target="_self">The Infinite Gam</a>e: The Pursuit of Happiness in Its Own Terms , was published in 2017. He has been featured as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, TEDx conferences, and at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit.</p>


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Get the inside scoop on what venture capitalists want to see in your startup as you hit the fundraising trail. This is the highly anticipated third edition of the best-selling book which has become the definitive resource for understanding venture capital fundraising.  Whether you are an entrepreneur, lawyer, student or just have an interest in the venture capital ecosystem, Venture Deals is for you.  The book dives deeply into how deals are constructed, why certain terms matter (and others don’t), and more importantly, what motivates venture capitalists to propose certain outcomes.  You’ll see the process of negotiating from the eyes of two seasoned venture capitalists who have over 40 years of investing experience as VCs, LPs, angels, and founders.  They will teach you how to develop a fundraising strategy that will be a win for all parties involved. This book is designed to bring transparency to the venture capital funding process and includes such topics as:How to raise money;What terms matter and which ones don’t;How to negotiate a fair deal for everyone;What makes venture capitalists tick, including how they are compensated and motivated;How companies are valued by venture capitalists;How all current structures of funding work, including convertible debt, crowdfunding, pre-sales and other non-traditional methods;How these particular issues change through different stages of financing (seed, early, mid and late); andHow to avoid business and legal pitfalls that many entrepreneurs make. And as in the previous editions, this book isn’t just a one-sided opinion from venture capitalists, but also has helpful commentary throughout from a veteran CEO who has raised many rounds of financing from many different investors. If you are ready to learn all the secrets and ins and outs of fundraising, Venture Deals is an essential read. 

Michael Barko is CEO at Startmate, Australia's top startup accelerator. He started his career in corporate (Finance @ American Express, consulting @ PwC/KPMG) before he joined two of the largest Australian marketplaces MadPaws, a marketplace for pet sitters, and Expert360.

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Ryan Hoover is the founder of Product Hunt, a popular website where you can find the latest products for just about any need or want in your life. He is also working on YourStack, a community platform to find the best apps, products, and tips recommended by people you know. Prior, he created Startup Edition and was Director of Product at PlayHaven. Ryan was the contributing writer to the international bestseller, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal, and has written essays featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Pando, Fast Company, and The Next Web. Fun fact: he doesn't eat pancakes.

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Sophia Amoruso is an American businesswoman. Her 2014 autobiography, #GIRLBOSS was adapted into a television series of the same name for Netflix. In 2014, Amoruso founded Girlboss Media, a company that creates content geared toward a female audience.

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Brad Feld is an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado, a firm he started with partners Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson. Feld began financing technology startups in the early 1990s, first as an angel and later an institutional investor.

For more than six years, Brad Feld has been burning up the blogosphere.  It all started with a simple "passion project" website he named Feld Thoughts.  In the beginning, Feld Thoughts was just Brad's way of keeping track of his thoughts on life, work, and other subjects.  Soon other people started following along with this serial entrepreneur and his crazy antics.  They enjoyed his thoughts so much that they began to read them daily.  After blogging for a while, he began to notice that people were reading what he had written but weren't commenting or adding their own thoughts.  Feld decided that if others wanted to make a blog part of their daily routine too then they should be able to participate in it.  He wanted others to feel that they too could start a blog and make it part of their day-to-day activities. 

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Do More Faster:Tips for Accelerating Your Start-Up is a collection of advice from individuals who have passed through the TechStars program, a proven startup accelerator with operations in three U. S.  cities.  Historically, about seventy-five percent of the companies that go through TechStars raise a meaningful amount of angel or venture capital.  Each vignette offers insights into early-stage entrepreneurship and explores information often heard during the TechStars program, such as how to find fulfillment in a field that may not be glamorous and how to not take yourself too seriously.  The book includes seven sections, each focusing on a major theme within the TechStars program, including idea and vision, fundraising, legal and structure, and work/life balance. 

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