Copyright

The Real Startup Book, second edition (v2.0.0). Published by Kromatic, San Francisco.

Original content © 2015–2019 by Tristan Kromer, Chris Cannon, Luke Szyrmer, Kenny Nguyen, Soojung Chang, and contributors. First published as the Kindle Edition (ASIN B07ZJZ6TD5) in 2019.

New and expanded material for the second edition © 2026 by Tristan Kromer.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You are free to share and adapt the material for any purpose, including commercially, provided you give appropriate credit and license your derivative work under the same terms.

The second edition was produced with substantial assistance from Anthropic’s Claude; all AI-generated material was reviewed, edited, and approved by Tristan Kromer. See Contributors for editorial credits.

ISBN

Print (paperback, 2nd ed.): ISBN 979-8-196294-00-6 (9798196294006). Hardcover (2nd ed.): ISBN assigned at publication via Amazon KDP. 1st edition (paperback, 2019, archive only): ISBN 978-1-7003-9377-7 (9781700393777).

Citing this book

Kromer, Tristan, ed. The Real Startup Book. 2nd ed. Kromatic, 2026. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://kromatic.com/real-startup-book