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Entrepreneur
Mentor
Author

With decades of experience helping build high-tech startups and mentoring them at MIT and elsewhere, Peter S. Miller brings sharp insight, practical mentorship, and hard-earned perspective to the challenges founders face every day.

Build Your High-Tech Startup

With 28 practical lessons, Peter S. Miller lays out operational details and the mindset needed for startup success without jargon or hype.

Build Your High-Tech Startup is mentorship in print.

Book titled 'Build Your High-Tech Startup' by Peter S. Miller, with subtitle '28 Mentoring Sessions on Problems You'll Encounter' on the cover.

Long before "startup culture" was a thing, Peter was helping build one of the most influential consulting firms in the world.

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A Sought-After Voice in Entrepreneurial Education

Peter has guest lectured at top universities including MIT, Harvard, Tufts, Babson, Boston University, and UC Santa Barbara. His no-nonsense, experience-driven approach to entrepreneurship consistently resonates with students and faculty alike. Drawing from decades of mentoring and executive leadership, he equips the next generation of founders with insights they won’t find in academic textbooks.

MIT
Harvard
Tufts
Babson College
Boston University
UC Santa Barbara

Real lessons. Real classrooms. Real impact.

MENTORSHIP IN PRINT

Book cover titled 'Build Your High-Tech Startup' by Peter S. Miller, with subtitle '28 Mentoring Sessions on Problems You'll Encounter'.

Most startup books either tell a personal success story or promote a one-size-fits-all framework. This one does neither.

BUILD YOUR HIGH-TECH STARTUP offers 28 focused mentoring sessions based on decades of experience. Each chapter dives into a challenge founders actually face: dividing early equity, surviving due diligence, hiring good staff, and more.

BUILD YOUR HIGH-TECH STARTUP belongs on the shelf alongside the best books on entrepreneurship because it tells you what actually works.

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INSIDE, YOU’LL FIND:

  • Short, straight-talking chapters that cut through the noise
  • Lessons shaped by seeing hundreds of startup plans and pitches
  • Guidance you won’t hear in a pitch deck workshop
  • A tone that’s more “seasoned mentor over coffee” than “keynote guru on stage”

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