Some business books explain entrepreneurship. The best ones help entrepreneurs act.
Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. by Colin C. Campbell has been recognized with a 2026 NYC Big Book Award in the Business: Entrepreneurship & Small Business category. The honor marks the book’s 41st global award and recognition.
That milestone reinforces a simple idea at the heart of the book: entrepreneurship is not a single leap of faith. It is a repeatable process that founders can learn, test, and improve.
A practical playbook for entrepreneurs
Building a company can feel chaotic. There are always more ideas, more decisions, and more risks than one person can manage at once.
Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. turns that complexity into a practical framework. Drawing on Campbell’s experience starting, scaling, and exiting multiple companies, the book walks entrepreneurs through the full business lifecycle, from finding the right idea to building a company that can grow beyond its founder.
The goal is not to romanticize entrepreneurship. It is to help founders make better decisions, avoid predictable mistakes, and build companies with intention.
That practical focus is why the book continues to resonate with entrepreneurs and business leaders around the world.
Recognition from across the book industry
The NYC Big Book Award is judged by professionals representing different parts of the publishing industry, including publishers, writers, editors, designers, booksellers, librarians, and professional copywriters. According to the award organizers, honorees are selected based on overall excellence.
The 2026 competition received submissions from around the world, with entries from established authors, first-time independent authors, and both small and major publishers.
Receiving recognition in the Business: Entrepreneurship & Small Business category is especially meaningful because that is exactly who the book was written to serve: founders who want a clearer, more disciplined way to build.
Forty-one awards, one mission
Awards are worth celebrating. But the real measure of a business book is whether readers use it.
Every framework in Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. is designed to move an entrepreneur from insight to action. It helps founders pressure-test ideas, focus on scalable opportunities, build the right team, create systems, and think ahead about the kind of exit they want.
The book’s 41st global award is another validation of that mission.
For the Startup Club community, it is also a shared milestone. The conversations, lessons, and real-world founder stories that shape this community are built around the same belief: entrepreneurship can be learned, and no founder has to figure it all out alone.