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The Startup Survival Code: Decisions which separate profitable founders from failed entrepreneurs
Paperback
Series: The Bootstrap Founder
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 8 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What separates a profitable founder from an entrepreneur who burns cash, chases noise, and collapses under pressure?
The Startup Survival Code answers that question with a hard commercial lens. Dr Alessio Faccia examines the decisions that shape startup outcomes from the first market test to growth, governance, pivoting, exit, and founder wealth creation. Focus stays on real economic demand, pricing discipline, burn rate control, customer behaviour, margin protection, operational discipline, hiring logic, distribution channels, and strategic failure signals.
Rather than repeating startup clichés, the book studies how founders misread validation, scale too early, dilute ownership carelessly, confuse visibility with traction, and keep weak strategies alive long after the market has delivered its verdict. Each chapter is built around practical business reasoning, showing how to assess demand, allocate scarce resources, protect cash flow, strengthen product-market fit, and decide when to grow, pivot, sell, partner, or shut down.
Founders, investors, business students, consultants, and operators will find a rigorous guide grounded in commercial reality rather than startup mythology.
The Startup Survival Code is for readers who want sharper judgement, stronger discipline, and a clearer path from startup ambition to durable profitability.
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