In Build the Fort, Heivly breaks down his personal fort-building experiences and uses them as an analogy to his journey as co-founder of MapQuest as well as The Startup Factory (a seed-stage investor &amp; mentorship program). Build the Fort outlines five basic elements that are common to both fort-building and startups: • Socializing Your Idea without fear or inhibition, • Identifying and Marshaling the People You Trust, • Gathering the Minimal Resources Closest To You, • Acting on the Smallest and Simplest of the Idea, and • Build the Fort. Whether you are 16 or 60, Build The Fort will provide the reader a better understanding of the earliest micro-steps of starting your own business by overlaying Chris’s 30 years of experiences in startups, investments, big-company intrapreneurship and community development.

Build The Fort: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learned as a 10 year-old Can Set You Up for Startup Success

Business & Money

Heivly, Chris

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Lisa Hagan Books

Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder's Field Guide

As adults, we seem to make everything harder.\nWe're driven to accelerate growth in our local startup communities—but in the process, we overthink, overanalyze, and overload even our simplest activities. Before long, our community goals buckle under the weight of our complex adult concerns. Our motivation dries up. Our best ideas fade away, leaving entrepreneurs no choice but to find another city in which to make their dreams come true.\nThe solution? Channel our inner ten-year-old...and Build the Fort.\nWith this simple, actionable metaphor, Chris Heivly empowers readers to replace the grown-up tendency to overcomplicate with his simple framework for effective community and ecosystem building. Energetic, friendly, and relatable, Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder's Field Guide provides a compass to move our ideas forward more successfully and propel our cities into the upper echelon of startup communities.

Build the Fort Publishing

As adults, we seem to make everything harder.\nWe’re driven to accelerate growth in our local startup communities—but in the process, we overthink, overanalyze, and overload even our simplest activities. Before long, our community goals buckle under the weight of our complex adult concerns. Our motivation dries up. Our best ideas fade away, leaving entrepreneurs no choice but to find another city in which to make their dreams come true.\nThe solution? Channel our inner ten-year-old…and Build the Fort. 
With this simple, actionable metaphor, Chris Heivly empowers readers to replace the grown-up tendency to overcomplicate with his simple framework for effective community and ecosystem building. Energetic, friendly, and relatable, Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide provides a compass to move our ideas forward more successfully and propel our cities into the upper echelon of startup communities.

Management & Leadership

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Build The Fort: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learned as a 10 year-old Can Set You Up for Startup Success

Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder's Field Guide

Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder's Field Guide