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Start with Story

Start with Story

by Lyn Graft

★★★★★ 4.7 · 27 ratings on Amazon
🏆 Bestseller in Direct Marketing

About This Book

Your founder’s story is key to fueling your company’s success. It is a powerful asset in everything from raising capital to driving sales to securing press to attracting talent. Countless entrepreneurs have achieved business success by crafting a great story, and you can too. Start with Story is the definitive guidebook for first-time entrepreneurs to create the best story for their business. Inside, Lyn Graft demonstrates the power of this medium by examining the successes of companies like Starbucks, Dropbox, Spanx, TOMS, and many more who built incredible brands from scratch. Using his own storytelling framework, Graft leads you through a five-step process to construct the best narrative to showcase your business. You already have the best asset that sets your business apart. It’s time to create your story.

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Lyn Graft

Lyn Graft

Lyn Graft is the founder of Storytelling for Entrepreneurs, an online platform that helps founders create, tell, and share their stories. Over more than fifteen years he has filmed and captured the stories of more than five hundred of the world's top entrepreneurs, including the founders of LinkedIn, Starbucks, Dell, and Whole Foods, and he has produced more than eight hundred videos on entrepreneurship. He is a co-creator of CNBC's American Made and holds a degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. In Start with Story, Graft lays out a five-step framework that first-time entrepreneurs can use to build the best narrative for their business.

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