Wise Words: Lessons in Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship

by Sean Wise

From Amazon bestselling author Dr. Sean Wise, shares insights on raising capital and growing your business. Collecting the best columns from his first year at Inc.com. Covering topics relevant founders, funders and those that facilitate the entrepreneurial ecosystem. • 5 New Books All Entrepreneurs Should Read • 7 Mindsets I Learned from Israeli Entrepreneurs That Changed How I Do Business • 8 Lessons from the World’s Number One University Startup Incubator • Why Captain America Is the Leadership Role Model You Didn’t Know You Needed • The 8 Best Motivational Quotes from Commencement Speeches • How Spotify Founder Daniel Ek Took His Startup to a $26 Billion Valuation • Former Harvard Professor Noam Wasserman Thinks Everyone Should Live Like a Startup Founder. Here’s Why He’s Right • This Is the Perfect Number of People to Have in a Meeting, According to Stanford Research • The 54-Hour Event Every Entrepreneur Should Know About ************************ This collection includes all posts written for Inc.com in 2018. ******************************************** ************* All proceeds generated are being donated by the author to the entrepreneurial Enactus. ********* Straight feedback and invaluable insights into how business is evaluated. Simply can’t be missed for anyone thinking about fundraising. Vlada Lotkina, Founder, Classtag Hard hitting, practical, actionable advice. Firm, funny, and extraordinarily helpful. Sedarius Tekara Perrotta, Founder, Shelf Golden advice to bypass challenges facing my startup. Ara Kevonian Perez, Founder, Dextroid

230 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2019

About the author

Sean Wise specializes in helping emerging and high growth potential organizations jump on the trajectory and turn a profit. His intense, entertaining and direct approach has earned him a loyal following of disciples who swear by his lessons and best practices for business success.

With nine years of professional services and more than 15 years of entrepreneurial services to his credit, Wise has helped found five business ventures of his own to date, the first at age 16. When seeking the best in business, CBC recruited him as online host and industry advisor for their hit show, Dragons' Den.

Wise is also a popular writer with his Globe and Mail column and book of the same name: Wise Words: Lessons in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. In his latest book, How to be a Business Superhero, Wise takes audiences on a guided tour through the world of superheroes and their lessons, directly relating them to essential business strategies we all need to master in order to succeed in today's workplace. Wise's third book, HOT OR NOT: how to know if your business idea will fail or fly! is due mid 2012.

A professor of entrepreneurship at the Ted Rogers School of Business at Ryerson, Wise majored in engineering and economics at Carleton University and earned a law degree and MBA from the University of Ottawa. Wise helped found Ernst & Young's Venture Capital Advisory Group in Canada and has helped clients raise more than $2.5 billion after training with him.

Wise is a natural storyteller with a direct, knowledgeable style and an unmistakable passion for business.