HOW TO START A BUSINESS: The ultimate guides for founders on launching a company, raising money, and becoming wildly successful in 2020

• Entrepreneurship doesn't come with a rule book, but successful founders and investors have a wealth of experience to serve as a guide. 
• If you're planning to start your first business in 2020, these guides will help you make a plan, launch a startup, raise capital, and dominate the market.
• They include tips from successful founders like Cate Luzio of Luminary and Liz Wessel of WayUp, and seasoned VCs like Patrick McGinnis of Dirigo Advisors.
• Business Insider regularly interviews entrepreneurship experts about the different stages of building a company. You can read them all by subscribing to BI Prime.

2020 could be the year you pursue your dreams.

Below is a list of guides to help first-time founders through every stage of building a startup, featuring advice from successful founders and investors.

• Deciding to become an entrepreneur: The ultimate guide to figuring out how (and if) you should start your own company
• Writing a strategic framework: The bootstrapper's ultimate guide to writing a winning business plan
• Crafting your startup's story: The first-time founder's ultimate guide to building a winning pitch deck
• Persuading VCs to back you: The first-time founder's ultimate guide to pitching a VC
• Nailing the investor meeting: Top VCs reveal what they want to hear in a startup pitch — and what you should avoid saying
• Proving the integrity of your pitch: The VC's ultimate guide to sniffing out risky healthcare startups — and not getting tricked into backing them
• Closing the deal: The first-time founder's ultimate guide to navigating a term sheet and avoiding common pitfalls, according to founders, lawyers, and investors
• Building your first team: The ultimate guide to hiring the first 5 employees at your startup and making sure they're stars, from founders and investors who have done it
  
• Winning over new hires with equity: The first-time founder's ultimate guide to understanding stock options
• Transitioning to leadership: The ultimate guide to becoming a better boss in 30 days
• Making difficult staffing decisions: The startup founder's guide to letting people go efficiently and compassionately
• Growing your business: Founders and investors reveal the ultimate guide to scaling a startup — and common pitfalls to avoid
• Selling your startup: The ultimate guide to selling your startup for a boatload of cash, from founders who sold their startups for billions
• Avoiding startup death: The most common ways startups die and how to avoid them, from founders and investors who have failed

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