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A field guide to starting a business and a career — through great founders’ stories.
Hype evaporates; honesty compounds. The Honest Business traces founders who raised durable companies on plain truth — with customers, with teams and with themselves — and converts their journeys into a manual for starting from zero.
The most-gifted title on the shelf: part biography, part ethics, part operating manual.
Enquire about this bookWhat’s inside.
- Zero, owned honestlyWhy naming what you lack counts as strategy.
- Founders unfilteredTwelve frank portraits of builders at rock bottom.
- Customers sense spinWinning confidence one kept promise at a time.
- Hiring truth-tellersAssembling a team that flags problems early.
- The long gameLetting reputation compound across decades, not quarters.
Who it’s for.
New founders, career-changers and students of business seeking the unfiltered account — what really happened, what it cost and what it taught.
- Twelve in-depth founder portraits.
- Discussion prompts for classrooms and cohorts.
- A go-to graduation and onboarding gift.
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