Price: ¥2,970 Thank you for viewing. This item is in excellent condition, having been read only once. Please check the photos for the condition. We are looking forward to your purchase if you understand that this is a used item. [Notes] ★ Highly praised by Hiroshi Mikitani, Representative Director, Chairman and President of Rakuten Group! ★ Published in more than 12 countries! A global bestseller ★ Highly praised by the former Google chairman, the founder of Zoom, and the author of "Built to Last"! ★ 9 principles common to companies that achieve extraordinary success ★ "You'll be moved" by the legendary episodes of success and failure ★ Financial Times Business Book of the Month Behind the success of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and other companies that have revolutionized the industry and changed the world, there are VCs (venture capitalists) who have invested from the beginning. This book, based on the results of a thorough investigation of over 1,000 VCs by a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business who has been researching VCs for over 20 years, and a former McKinsey partner and product leader at Amazon, introduces the Silicon Valley-style success mindset (= venture mindset) that brings about extraordinary success, summarized into 9 principles. This book allows you to acquire the "thinking that achieves extraordinary success" by including legendary episodes and insightful anecdotes of world-famous companies that created services and products we use daily when they were unknown small businesses, as well as research results from psychology, economics, and biology. [Main Contents] Introduction: What is S-curve, and why is it important? ・Wisdom that is also useful outside of Silicon Valley Chapter 1: Aim for a home run without worrying about strikeouts ・Where did the $150 million flow into the bank account go? ・What is the winner-take-all world? ・How to use big failures as a stepping stone to success Chapter 2: Get outside the four walls ・$1.2 million dinner turns into $2 billion ・The ability to grasp signs that would have been overlooked ・The next Google is hidden in a single email Chapter 3: Prepare your mind ・The "investment game" held in Stanford's auditorium ・The power of preparation that moved Zuckerberg ・Sharpened eyes lead to intuition Chapter 4: Say "no" 100 times ・The phantom $1 trillion company Theranos ・Tools to avoid being swayed by optimism ・The road to hell is paved with good intentions etc.