Host: Ken Valledy (Partner/Co-founder at Progressive)
Progressive helps organisations unlock and commercialise new growth opportunities more rapidly than their competition and more effectively than traditional innovation programmes.

The Catalysts Podcast focuses on the key benefits of corporates and startups working together and how these partnerships can become a catalyst for change for the future. In each episode we will discuss a key topic area behind these partnerships with either a startup or a senior corporate stakeholder.

In today's episode, we talk to Tom Eisenmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. Over the past 23 years Tom has helped launch thousands of startups. An astonishing 13 of these have reached unicorn status. For a decade he has also explored the question of why startups fail and has now launched a great new book called The Fail-Safe Startup, whichexplains how as a founder, you can succeed against the odds. We discuss many topics in the interview, including the 6 main  reasons behind early-stage and late-stage startup failures and how it is possible to analyse the failure of others to ensure your own success. A must read.

Tom's contact details:
LinkedIn page:https://www.linkedin.com/in/teisenmann/

Tom's Book details:
Amazon (UK) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fail-Safe-Startup-Tom-Eisenmann/dp/0241420172/ref=sr_1_2?crid=LO6F0TJOZ0S7&dchild=1&keywords=tom+eisenmann&qid=1625217383&s=books&sprefix=tom+einsenmann%2Caps%2C197&sr=1-2
Amazon (US): https://www.amazon.com/Why-Startups-Fail-Roadmap-Entrepreneurial/dp/0593137027/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=tom+eisenmann&qid=1625218645&sr=8-1

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