Designing the book

Mike Slaats
Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

The first designs are in! We have a cover and the stylesheet for the illustrations, which will appear before each new chapter. Let’s check them out!

Cover 📘

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve probably seen the cover already. In fact, you may have even contributed to it. I asked you guys for feedback on different covers and this was the winner:

startup book cover
startup book cover

The main chapters 📖

We have three main chapters titled ‘THINK’, ‘BUILD’ and ‘ACT’, which serve as the main theme throughout the book. These chapters will be visualized like this:

main chapters
main chapters

The illustrations ✏️

I wanted the book to be visual. Each chapter starts with a relevant visual to set the right tone. Like this one, which will introduce the chapter ‘Just start’:

illustration1
illustration1

And this one for the chapter ‘No money’:

illustration2
illustration2

Excited to hear your feedback! 🙌

Startupism

We all know people who say “I had this one big idea”. But why didn’t they end up building it? Simple. We all overthink too much. We’re stressing over A, obsessing over Z, but forgetting about B to Y. Nothing is an overnight success and you’ll have to start, step by step.

Mike Slaats

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Founder of Vindy and user feedback tool Upvoty. You can find me on Twitter & Instagram (mikeslaats.io) 🙌

Startupism

We all know people who say “I had this one big idea”. But why didn’t they end up building it? Simple. We all overthink too much. We’re stressing over A, obsessing over Z, but forgetting about B to Y. Nothing is an overnight success and you’ll have to start, step by step.

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