7 Steps to a Successful Startup

Naeem Zafar

Experienced

Silicon Valley CEO

Seasoned Entrepreneur

Faculty Member at

UC Berkeley

Naeem Zafar has extensive experience in advising entrepreneurs on starting new ventures

Naeem is a faculty member

at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at the Haas School of Business.

Naeem has worked in Silicon Valley for many startups, serving as the president and CEO of three of them. He served as a member of the Board of Directors or as a Board advisor for several startups and small companies.

Naeem was an early employee at Quickturn, which had an IPO and grew to 400 employees and over $125 million in annual revenue.

Naeem designed complex semiconductor chips and specialized computers.

He has launched products in several countries.

He has set up channels to sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of products all over the world.

He raised over $70 million from venture capitalists, angel investors and public markets, and venture debt from banks.

He led or played critical roles in over a dozen mergers and acquisitions.

Naeem advises founders and CEOs in multiple countries, giving them information and feedback that helps them start and scale their businesses.

Naeem advises governmental organizations regarding how to create an ecosystem of innovation.

Naeem launched mentorship networks across continents.

Naeem has an undergraduate degree from Brown University. He has a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. He has also studied at Stanford and CalTech.

Testimonials

"Succinct, compelling, profound - this book is invaluable with full on-the-money advice that would have been priceless when I was starting my last company. It could take a lifetime to learn what Naeem lucidly summed up in just a few dozen pages. It's a must read for any entrepreneur!"

Slavik Zorin

Founder and CEO Synchrony Systems

New York, NY

"Many of us believe that one day we will start our own companies. But what do you need to know before you take that irreversible step of quitting your job? Naeem Zafar's 7 Steps to a Successful Startup is just what the new entrepreneur needs. Providing clear guidance based on knowledge gained by experience! I commend this book to all who consider launching themselves on this exciting journey."

Jerome S. Engel

Executive Director Lester Center for Entrepreneurship

& Innovation
UC Berkeley

"I have been with five startups in my career mostly as VP of engineering and I clearly see that having followed Naeem's advice would have changed the fate of these companies that I was involved with - very insightful and practical. Excellent!"

Dr. Bulent Erbilgin

VP of Engineering

SS8 Networks, California

"Naeem has done an outstanding job of outlining the critical "must dos" and relating them to his own real life events. This is a must read for anyone aspiring to become the 'employee number one."

Dr. Atul Kumar

VP of SaaS Operations Serena Software

California

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Entrepreneur and Succeed at Your Startup

Escape the confusion, learn to pick ideas with the highest potential and Learn the Step-by-Step Method

Dear Entrepreneur,

There is a lot of advice out there for entrepreneurs. Not all of it is useful or clear. I know. I have started or advised dozens of startups, and I teach entrepreneurship at one of the top business schools in the world.

Often the idea isn't workable; the company will never be viable. But the entrepreneurs won't know that until they have wasted time and thousands of dollars just trying to make it work.

This does NOT have to happen to you!

Based on my two decades of experience, I have developed a 7-step process to evaluate your business idea. When you are done with this process, you will know, with a high degree of certainty, how likely it is that your idea will succeed.

I respect your privacy and I promise to never ever sell your name or address to anyone. You can unsubscribe anytime and you have my word on this!

Yes, I am ready to learn these 7-steps. Please send a free copy of your "7-Steps to a Successful Startup" now!

I know the right questions to ask!

How do I know? Because I've been there. You can read my whole biography in the left hand column. But let me tell you a little about myself...

My name is Naeem Zafar. I teach entrepreneurship at the internationally respected University of California, Berkeley, at the Haas Business School. I've been involved with dozens of startup companies.

I have personally worked at six of them, and have been an advisor for many more. I've mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs.

One of my startups went public and was sold for over $150,000,000.

It's true: the vast majority of startups fail. But you don't need to be one of those statistics!

Think about what a startup failure means in human terms: Hard-working, bright, creative people leave their jobs to begin a new company from scratch. They put everything they have into this startup, working day and night, living off their savings.

Their idea isn't workable; the company will never be viable. But they won't know that until they have wasted time and thousands of dollars just trying to make it work.

Twelve, maybe eighteen months later, it's over. The company is done, their savings are gone. They join a long line of would-be entrepreneurs who left their jobs too soon, and followed a dream that could never come true.

This does NOT have to happen to you!

This may be the story for many people, but it doesn't have to be YOUR story. You see, there are reasons why startups fail. And if you know the right questions to ask, you can know which ideas are likely to succeed and which are doomed to fail.

In my 25 years of working in this field, I've seen a lot of companies succeed, and even more fail. Both the successes and the failures follow predictable patterns.

You need to do this BEFORE you quit your day job!

Work through this process NOW, before you leave the income and security of your present job.

As you can probably guess from my history, I love to see people leave their boring, predictable jobs to be a part of a new, exciting startup. But I hate to see people pour so much of their energy, time, and money into something that has little chance of succeeding.

My process will tell you:

1. What you must know before you quit your day job to pursue your business idea.

2. Whether or not you should spend a lot of time and money developing a prototype or doing legal paperwork.

3. Which of your ideas is most likely to succeed.

4. Are you sure that you have the right personality and qualities to be an entrepreneur

5. What simple steps can save you months of agony later after you have developed the product and formed the company?

6. How do you select team members and how do you divide up equity?

All of this before you have wasted large amounts of time and effort!

P.S. The real value of having a great idea at the start is that, right from the beginning, you can focus on what will work! Get the "7-Steps to a Successful Startup" today.

"7 Steps to Successful Startup:

Simple Lessons Before You Quit Your Day Job!"

It took me 2 decades to acquire the knowledge I put in this eBook, but I am giving it away FREE for a limited time.

Why am I not charging for this information? After all, if you wanted to hire a qualified consultant for your new business, it would cost you hundreds of dollars an hour!

Let me tell you why I want you to have this book for no charge: I have seen literally hundreds of good, honest, bright people waste years of their lives and hundreds of thousands of dollars pursuing ideas that had no chance of succeeding. I don't want you to be the next.

Even if we never do business together I'm confident that this book will help you.

Don't wait! The information inside this book is life-changing. Start my 7-Step process today!

To your success,

I respect your privacy and I promise to never ever sell your name or address to anyone. You can unsubscribe anytime and you have my word on this!

Naeem Zafar

Faculty, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Silicon Valley, California USA

Naeem Zafar, CEO of 3 Silicon Valley startups & faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, says: