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“This is a fantastic book. The stories are excellent . . . deep and insightful . . . and the storytelling is real. Getting to Plan B isn’t as much about second tries as it is about the authors’ helping you understand what it takes to drive an early-stage company to success.”

Bill Campbell, Chairman, Intuit
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“This great book will guide business leaders and help them stay focused as they transform their plans. Whether they are reshaping a new business model, or executing a quarterly strategy review in an ongoing business, this book will help leaders overcome the unpredictable waves and obstacles that stand in the way of their envisioned goals.”

Takaaki Hata, Partner, Globis Capital Partners, Tokyo
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Getting to Plan B is the definitive handbook about the mind-set and moves required to lead any company in our messy and ever-changing world. This is more than the most useful book I’ve ever read on entrepreneurship: Mullins and Komisar challenge and redefine how organizational strategy and innovation ought to be managed in any company."

Robert Sutton, professor, Stanford University, and author of The No Asshole Rule
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Getting to Plan B is a treasure trove of clear, practical lessons for entrepreneurs. It is real-world, hard-hitting, and prescriptive—not the fuzzy theoretical stuff found in too many business books. Komisar and Mullins repeatedly challenge conventional wisdom with experience and insight. This is a must-read.”

John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
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“John and Randy perfectly capture the trials and triumphs of entrepreneurship. They weave in antidotes that can be successfully applied. I wish this book was published a decade back—I could have used it as an entrepreneur. Now as a venture capitalist I would suggest this as required reading to all my CEO’s.”

Vani Kola, Founder, Indo U.S. Ventures, Bangalore

Read what the business press is saying about Getting to Plan B

The Smart CEO, October 15 2011
http://www.thesmartceo.in
http://www.thesmartceo.in/cover-story/2plan-a-to-plan-b-and-beyond.html

La Vanguardia, August 24 2010
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blog universia, August 18 2010
http://formacion-pr.universiablogs.net/?p=33&preview=true

The Academy of Management Perspectives, August 9 2010
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Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly, August 3 2010
To read in Chinese, To read, click here for Page 1 and here for Page 2.

Capital Weekly, July 23 2010
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El Pais, May 9 2010
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, click here.

ABC newspaper (Spain), April 25 2010
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, click here.

Capital CEO, March 2010
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Cantonese, click here.

Scott Allison's Blog, February 24 2010
http://scott-allison.net/2010/02/24/whats-your-plan-b-it-may-save-your-business-from-disaster/

Hong Kong Economic Times,
February 4 2010
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, click here.

Ladue News, Commerce Matters with Benjamin Akande, January 21 2010
http://www.laduenews.com/articles/2010/03/01/living/wealth/doc4b58fa1e61b75200307427.txt

Scrollin' On Dubs blog, January 7 2010
http://www.scrollinondubs.com/2010/01/07/getting-to-plan-b-review/

Inc. Magazine, December 30 2009
http://www.inc.com/ss/best-books-business-owners-2009?slide=10#1

Impact Executives, Harvey Nash Group, December 15 2009
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Business India, December 13 2009
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OutlookBusiness, December 12 2009
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for Part 1 and here for Part 2.

Business Today, November 29 2009
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VentureWoods, November 13 2009
http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2009/11/13/book-review-getting-to-plan-b/

The Strategist, Business Standard
November 10 2009
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/discover-your-plan-b/375844/

The Chilli Pages, Volume 9-16
http://www.thechilli.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=9

Entrepreneur, October 2009
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Forbes.com, October 13 2009
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/
2009/10/getting-to-plan-b/

WAYN.com, October 12 2009
http://founders.wayn.com/

TechCrunch Europe, October 9 2009
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/
dumping-startup-plan-a-is-easy-enough-

but-how-to-get-to-plan-b/

Financial Times, October 1 2009
To read as a PDF, click here
.

CNBC, September 29 2009
http://www.cnbc.com/id/32989095

Crain's New York, September 25 2009
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/
20090925/SMALLBIZ/909259995

MIT Sloan Management Review,
September 25 2009
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/
articles/2009/fall/51101/do-you-have-a-%
E2%80%9Cplan-b%E2%80%9D/

BizEd, September/October 2009
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The Huffington Post,
September 14 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
dennis-whittle/when-at-first-you-
dont-su_b_286110.html

and
http://denniswhittle.blogspot.com/2009/09/when-at-first-you-dont-succeed.html

StartupCafe, September 7 2009
http://startupcafe.co.uk/2009/09/07/book-review-getting-to-plan-b-mullins-komisar/

Inc. Magazine, September 1 2009
http://www.inc.com/magazine/2009
0901/review-getting-to-plan-b.html

Forbes.com, August 31 2009
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/
31/levchin-planb-slide-intelligent-
technology-komisar.html


WSJ Blog: Venture Capital Dispatch
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/
2009/08/27/plan-b-breaking-through-
to-a-better-business-model/?blog_id=
106&post_id=3043