I spent six years building flyiin, a flight aggregator, in Berlin. We raised money, signed airlines, built a product the engineers were proud of, and sold the company to Priceline. It still wasn’t the outcome I set out for.

Almost everything I learned, I learned the expensive way.

So I wrote it down. Thirty-odd chapters: funding, terms, investors, hiring, salaries, office space, suppliers, pilot customers, business models — and the parts nobody warns you about, like what it does to your family and how fast you stop having hobbies.

It’s written for people leaving a long corporate career to start something of their own. That was me. Comfortable, well paid, and far less prepared than I thought.

None of it is theory. Some of it is advice I would have refused to take.

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