Blitzscaling : the lightning-fast path to building massively valuable businesses
Title:
Blitzscaling : the lightning-fast path to building massively valuable businesses
Alternate title:
Blitzscaling : the lightning-fast path to building massively valuable companies
Summary:
LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies. What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants? The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water. The objective of Blitzscaling is not to go from zero to one, but from one to one billion –as quickly as possible. When growing at a breakneck pace, getting to next level requires very different strategies from those that got you to where you are today. In a book inspired by their popular class at Stanford Business School, Hoffman and Yeh reveal how to navigate the necessary shifts and weather the unique challenges that arise at each stage of a company’s life cycle, such as: how to design business models for igniting and sustaining relentless growth; strategies for hiring and managing; how the role of the founder and company culture must evolve as the business matures, and more. Whether your business has ten employees or ten thousand, Blitzscaling is the essential playbook for winning in a world where speed is the only competitive advantage that matters.
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1. What is Blitzscaling? -- Software is eating (and saving) the world -- The types of scaling -- The three basics of Blitzscaling -- The five stages of Blitzscaling -- The three key techniques of Blitzscaling -- Part 2. Business model innovation. Designing to maximize growth : the four growth factors -- Designing to maximize growth : the two growth limiters -- Proven business model patterns -- The underlying principles of business model innovation -- Analyzing a few billion-dollar business models -- Part 3. Strategy innovation. When should I start to Blitzscale? -- When should I stop Blitzscaling? -- Can I choose not to Blitzscale? -- Blitzscaling is iterative -- How Blitzscaling strategy changes in each stage -- How the role of the founder changes in each stage -- Part 4. Management innovation. Eight key transitions -- Nine counterintuitive rules of Blitzscaling -- The never-ending need for change -- Part 5. The broader landscape of Blitzscaling. Blitzscaling beyond high tech -- Blitzscaling within a larger organization -- Blitzscaling beyond business -- Blitzscaling in greater Silicon Valley -- Other Blitzscaling regions to watch -- China : the land of Blitzscaling -- Defending against Blitzscaling -- Part 6. Responsible Blitzscaling. Blitzscaling in society -- Framework for responsible Blitzscaling -- The response spectrum -- Balancing responsibility and velocity as the organization grows -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Disclosures -- Appendix B: The Blitzscalers -- Appendix C: C5183C essays.
Physical Description:
x, 325 pages ; 22 cm
Author(s):
Publisher:
Currency,
Publication Date:
2018
ISBN:
9781524761417
9781984822451
Publication Information:
New York : Currency, [2018]
Call Number:
658.406 HOFFMAN