Building a Start-up Without Going Crazy: Mental Health for Founders & Entrepreneurs

By Leen Bruyne de

As an entrepreneur of a promising startup, the only thing you want is to expand, grow your value, turnover and profit 100-fold, and open offices in London, New York, and Singapore? Right? Go big or go home

Leen de Bruyne used to be that kind of guy. He was a successful founder of a startup. After seven years of hard work, he ended up collapsing in McDonald's parking lot. An ambulance whisked his exhausted body off to the hospital. It took him six years to fully recover from a burnout and an anxiety disorder.

His personal crisis launched the beginning of an intriguing personal journey which provided him with many valuable insights about being a healthy entrepreneur, both in mind and body. In this book, he shares one hundred personal experiences, tips, and anecdotes that will positively improve your mental health as a founder and entrepreneur.

Leen de Bruyne (1985) is a Dutch entrepreneur and investor. After he sold his startup to a private equity fund in 2019, he became an angel investor and started mentoring other founders. In 2022, he founded Living Hope VC, which is an investment fund for European startups and scale-ups.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9461266375
• ISBN13: 9789461266378
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Haystack Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"