This is an entertaining book exploring business and burlesque, comparing and contrasting the 'stripper' movement to venture capital, and what's required for success in both. I really enjoyed it - I read a lot of books about business, and found this a refreshingly different approach.
Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

In Laid Bare by Paulina Tenner, we have genre elements of business/leadership, inspirational self-help, and memoir. The layout of the book reads a little disorganized, but presents a lesson the author learned in burlesque stripping compared to the same concept learned through her start-up GrantTree. We see lots of overlap in lessons of branding, growth, fears, and management of each business.

Paulina includes researched philosophy on feminine and masculine approaches and how that affected her decision making. This made the book feel more abstract and strayed a little from business guidance. The book is as chronological as the process of building a start up can be, but there’s no sense of rigid structure in her guidance/recommendations for both industries, which I think would have made her story and ideas more cohesive.

Lots of important ideas and motivations from her experiences. I can’t quite place the genre of this book, but I think her experiences will attract an audience of niche readers. I would recommend this to anyone considering startup culture, those from a non business background interested in business, or anyone open minded toward the similarities in two very different career fields. Because of the lack of majority memoir vibes, I don’t think this will be as popular among those genre seekers.

Overall: short read, motivational, creative, feminist, abstract philosophy and business models.

Decent read, not my normal preference in terms of structure or genre, very educated writing and research, could be more enthusiastic in tone and would recommend to specific readers only.