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Podcast: New Books in Business, Management, and Marketing
Episode: Edward Amoroso, "Reaching the Chasm: How to Drive Your Early-Stage Start-Up to Scale" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)
Description: One of the greatest challenges facing any start-up is “crossing the chasm”: bridging the gap between early adopters and mass-market buyers. Yet many promising businesses struggle even to reach the chasm. Often, founders leap in with money and a dream, only to hit a wall. How can start-up founders diagnose and fix problems in order to arrive at this critical point?
In Reaching the Chasm: How to Drive Your Early-Stage Start-Up to Scale (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025), Edward G. Amoroso provides an indispensable guide for start-ups looking to get off the ground and scale up to the next leve...