This book is designed for those new (or early stage) to entrepreneurship or those who have watched from afar and have wanted/wished to join in, but the fear of the unknown has kept them stupefied and in paralysis. This book will detail the worst (which is not so scary after all) and the best (which is absolutely thrilling) of being in business for yourself and give you the essential skills to be successful (preventing the 66% death rate). The focus of the book is on the emotional journey one takes when they step onto the wild ride of entrepreneurship. It’s meant to warn (forthcoming fears, doubts and self-defeating conditioning of past/upbringing), inoculate (from the naysayers, dream stealers and pains of rejection and failure) and guide them (building those undeveloped skills of independence, self-motivation and self-accountability) safely past the landmines that blow up (cause failure) of 66% of all new businesses.

    Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice. The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to successfully adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the high-level concepts, many teams run into challenges trying to adopt Lean because they feel like they lack specific guidance on what exactly they should be doing. If you are interested in Lean Startup principles and want to apply them to develop winning products, this book is for you. This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit. It walks you through how to: Determine your target customers Identify underserved customer needs Create a winning product strategy Decide on your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Design your MVP prototype Test your MVP with customers Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. As a hands-on consultant, he refined and applied the advice in this book as he helped many companies improve their product process and build great products. His clients include Facebook, Box, Hightail, Epocrates, and Medallia. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource.

    Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology that he shares with his readers. As an MIT alum with an engineering background, Roberge challenged the conventional methods of scaling sales utilizing the metrics-driven, process-oriented lens through which he was trained to see the world. In this book, he reveals his formulas for success. Readers will learn how to apply data, technology, and inbound selling to every aspect of accelerating sales, including hiring, training, managing, and generating demand. As SVP of Worldwide Sales and Services for software company HubSpot, Mark led hundreds of his employees to the acquisition and retention of the company's first 10,000 customers across more than 60 countries. This book outlines his approach and provides an action plan for others to replicate his success, including the following key elements: Hire the same successful salesperson every time — The Sales Hiring Formula Train every salesperson in the same manner — The Sales Training Formula Hold salespeople accountable to the same sales process — The Sales Management Formula Provide salespeople with the same quality and quantity of leads every month — The Demand Generation Formula Leverage technology to enable better buying for customers and faster selling for salespeople Business owners, sales executives, and investors are all looking to turn their brilliant ideas into the next $100 million revenue business. Often, the biggest challenge they face is the task of scaling sales. They crave a blueprint for success, but fail to find it because sales has traditionally been referred to as an art form, rather than a science. You can't major in sales in college. Many people question whether sales can even be taught. Executives and entrepreneurs are often left feeling helpless and hopeless. The Sales Acceleration Formula completely alters this paradigm. In today's digital world, in which every action is logged and masses of data sit at our fingertips, building a sales team no longer needs to be an art form. There is a process. Sales can be predictable. A formula does exist.

    In Russell Brunson's experience, after working with thousands of businesses, he has found that’s rarely the case. Low traffic and weak conversion numbers are just symptoms of a much greater problem, a problem that’s a little harder to see (that’s the bad news), but a lot easier to fix (that’s the good news). DotComSecrets will give you the marketing funnels and the sales scripts you need to be able to turn on a flood of new leads into your business.

    Combining Dave Trott's distinctive, almost Zen-like storytelling, humour and practical advice, One Plus One Equals Three is a collection of provocative anecdotes and thought experiments designed to light a fire under your own creative ambitions. From the First World War sailor who survived being sunk three times in one day to the one-time 'merchant of death' who made his name a byword for peace, and the gypsy who lost two fingers and then reinvented jazz. From boardroom to battlefield, these stories of unconventional wisdom from one of the world's true advertising greats are a rallying cry for anyone who wants to think differently, stand out and truly innovate.

    We are in the era of the high tech startup.This book is the "Hello, World" tutorial for building products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment. It's based on the experiences of the author, Yevgeniy Brikman, as well as interviews with programmers from some of the most successful startups of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Stripe, Instagram, AdMob, Pinterest, and many others.If you're at all interested in startups—whether you're a programmer at the beginning of your career, a seasoned developer bored with the politics of large companies, a manager trying to figure out how to motivate your engineers, or just someone trying to figure out what this startup thing is all about—this book is for you. For more info, see http: //www.hello-startup.net"

    In a world of endless choices, why does this happen? Why do people queue up? Why do they pay more? Why will they book months in advance? Why are these people and products in such high demand? And how can you get a slice of that action? In Oversubscribed, entrepreneur and bestselling author Daniel Priestley explains why…and, most importantly, how. This book is a recipe for ensuring demand outstrips supply for your product or service, and you have scores of customers lining up to give you money. Oversubscribed: Shows leaders, marketers, and entrepreneurs how they can get customers queuing up to use their services and products while competitors are forced to fight for business Explains how to become oversubscribed, even in a crowded marketplace Is full of practical tips alongside inspiring examples to alter our mindsets and get us bursting with ideas Is written by a successful entrepreneur who's used these ideas to excel in the ventures he has launched

    It’s a handbook for anyone who has an idea and needs to build relationships to get it off the ground. Over the last 3 years, entrepreneurs Evan Loomis and Evan Baehr have raised over $45 million for their own ventures, including the second largest round on the fundraising platform AngelList. In Get Backed, they show you exactly what they and dozens of others did to raise money -- even the mistakes they made -- uncovering the secrets of the world’s best storytellers, fundraisers, and startup accelerators. Get trained in “the friendship loop”, a step-by-step process that can be used to meet and build relationships with anyone, from investors to potential cofounders. They also show you how to create a pitch deck, building off the actual examples of 15 ventures that have raised over $150 million. Get Backed won't just show you exactly what it takes to get funded, it will give you the tools to make any idea a reality.

    It is no longer possible-or even desirable-to learn one set of job skills and to work your way up the ladder. At the same time, entrepreneurs with great ideas for new products or technologies that could change the world often struggle to capture the attention of venture capital firms and incubators; finding the funding necessary to launch a start-up can feel impossible. The business leaders of our future must anticipate change to create their own opportunities for personal satisfaction and professional success. In Disrupt You!, Jay Samit, a digital media expert who has launched, grown, and sold start-ups and Fortune 500 companies alike, describes the unique method he has used to invent new markets and expand established businesses.Samit has been at the helm of businesses in the ecommerce, digital video, social media, mobile communications, and software industries, helping to navigate them through turbulent economic times and guide them through necessary transformation so that they stay ahead of the curve. In Disrupt You!, he reveals how specific strategies that help companies flourish can be applied at an individual level to help anyone can achieve success and lasting prosperity-without needing to raise funds from outside investors.Incorporating stories from his own experience and anecdotes from other innovators and disruptive businesses-including Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, YouTube, Circ du Soleil, Odor Eaters, Iams, Silly Putty, and many more-Samit shows how personal transformation can reap entrepreneurial and professional rewards.Disrupt You! offers clear and empowering advice for anyone looking to break through; for anyone with a big idea but with no idea how to apply it; and for anyone worried about being made irrelevant in an era of technological transformation. This engaging, perspective-shifting book demystifies the mechanics of disruption for individuals and businesses alike.

    Today's massively scaling startups - which rapidly grow to millions of users and billions in valuation - do not sell a product or service. Instead, they build a platform on which others can create and exchange value.The many manifestations of the platform business model - social media, the peer economy, cryptocurrencies, APIs and developer ecosystems, the Internet of things, crowdsourcing models, and many others - are becoming increasingly relevant.Yet, most new platform ideas fail because the business design and growth strategies involved in building platforms are not well understood.Platform Scale lays out a structured approach to designing and growing a platform business model and addresses the key factors leading to the success and failure of these businesses.Six core concepts for successful platform business model design1. Re-imagine your business for platform scaleThe mechanism by which these new business models scale so rapidly. Understand the shift in thinking needed to manage businesses with platform scale and the impact of network effects, virality, behavior design and data."We are not in the business of building software. We are in the business of enabling interactions."2. Leverage interaction-first designHow detailed consideration around designing the producer-consumer core interaction is critical for building business models that leverage platform scale."The design of the platform business model involves the design of a core interaction followed by the design of an open infrastructure that will enable and govern this interaction."3. Build cumulative value and minimize interaction failureKnow the key managerial decisions to focus on while managing platform scale businesses, all geared towards maximizing the ability of these businesses to enable interactions by scaling producer participation and minimizing interaction failure."Platform scale is achieved by maximizing the repeatability and efficiency of the platform's core interaction."4. Solve chicken and egg problemsPlatform business models face an all too familiar catch-22 chicken and egg problem on the way to scaling. This can be overcome by designing the conditions for sparking interactions."The solution to the chicken-and-egg problem requires a bait that can break the vicious cycle of no activity."5. Design viral enginesUnderstand the drivers of viral growth in a world of networks and apply the viral canvas design-first approach to viral growth."Virality is a business design problem, not a marketing or engineering effort. It requires design before optimization."6. Account for reverse network effectsConsider the counter view on platform scale and be on the lookout for conditions where scale can be detrimental to platform businesses."The goal of platform scale is to ensure the simultaneous scaling of quantity and quality, of interactions."Platform Scale is a maker's guide for entrepreneurs, innovators and educators looking to understand and implement the inner workings of highly scalable platform business models.

    He took down his popular blog, and years later took up tweetstorming. But by popular request, you can now also download many of his older blog posts — The Pmarca Blog Archives — as an ebook.That said, here are some of our edit notes*: We removed all links (and text) that referenced resources that no longer exist or were otherwise outdated out of a live web context. We kept the original formatting (except to turn some subheads into headers) and did not do significant editing. And finally, it pained us to not include other popular posts (like “Three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet” or his views on Hollywood and movies and more).

    From the origins of Amazon and Google, to the remarkable growth of Flipkart and Ola, he meticulously plots and chronicles a connected global sequence of events.Set in this background he recounts his personal roller coaster of a life. A story filled with ambition, greed, vanity, fear and success that all young entrepreneurs can relate to.Is this the business model of the future? Or merely a game of poker played by master investors? The answers pour out of The Golden Tap.

    But customers can be fickle, markets shift, and competitors are ruthless. So how do you ensure a steady flow of repeat business? The secret—no matter what industry you’re in—is finding and keeping automatic customers.These days virtually anything you need can be purchased through a subscription, with more convenience than ever before. Far beyond Spotify, Netflix, and New York Times subscriptions, you can sign up for weekly or monthly supplies of everything from groceries (AmazonFresh) to cosmetics (Birchbox) to razor blades (Dollar Shave Club).According to John Warrillow, this emerging subscription economy offers huge opportunities to companies that know how to turn customers into subscribers. Automatic customers are the key to increasing cash flow, igniting growth, and boosting the value of your company.Consider Whatsapp, the internet-based messaging service that was purchased by Facebook for $19 billion. While other services bombarded users with invasive ads in order to fund a free messaging platform, Whatsapp offered a refreshingly private tool on a subscription platform, charging just $1 per year. Their business model enabled the kind of service that customers wanted and ensured automatic customers for years to come.As Warrillow shows, subscriptions aren’t limited to technology or media businesses. Companies in nearly any industry, from start-ups to the Fortune 500, from home contractors to florists, can build subscriptions into their business.Warrillow provides the essential blueprint for winning automatic customers with one of the nine subscription business models, including:The Membership Website Model: Companies like The Wood Whisperer Guild, ContractorSelling.com, and DanceStudioOwner.com offer access to highly specialized, high quality information, recognizing that people will pay for good content. This model can work for any business with a tightly defined niche market and insider information.The Simplifier Model: Companies like Mosquito Squad (pest control) and Hassle Free Homes (home maintenance) take a recurring task off your to-do list. Any business serving busy consumers can adopt this model not only to create a recurring revenue stream, but also to take advantage of the opportunity to cross-sell or bundle their services.The Surprise Box Model: Companies like BarkBox (dog treats) and Standard Cocoa (craft chocolate) send their subscribers curated packages of goodies each month. If you can handle the logistics of shipping, giving customers joy in something new can translate to sales on your larger e-commerce site.This book also shows you how to master the psychology of selling subscriptions and how to reduce churn and provides a road map for the essential statistics you need to measure the health of your subscription business.Whether you want to transform your entire business into a recurring revenue engine or just pick up an extra 5 percent of sales growth, The Automatic Customer will be your secret weapon.

    While most leaders believe culture is critical to success, few know how to build one, or sustain it over time.What if you knew the science behind the magic—a science so predictive and powerful that you could transform your organization? What if you could use cutting edge psychology to unlock people’s innate desire to innovate, experiment, and adapt? In Primed to Perform, Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor show you how to do just that. The result: higher sales, more loyal customers, and more passionate employees.Primed to Perform explains the counter-intuitive science behind great cultures, building on over a century of academic thinking. It shares the simple, highly predictive new measurement tool—the Total Motivation (ToMo) Factor—that enables you to measure the strength of your culture, and track improvements over time. It explores the authors’ original research into how Total Motivation leads to higher performance in iconic companies, from Apple to Starbucks to Southwest Airlines. Most importantly, it teaches you to build great cultures, using a systematic and sustainable approach.High performing cultures cant be left to chance. Organizations must create systems that shape and maintain them. Whether you’re a five-person team or a startup, a school, a nonprofit or a mega-institution, Primed to Perform shows you how.

    Covering such topics as: Whether you should be a limited company or self employed? What part of business finances do you really need to understand and which parts can you ignore. Whether you become VAT registered. When your tax is due and how much it will be. Setting up bank accounts. Getting paid by your customers. Managing your cash flow. Getting your pricing right. Russell Smith has worked with over 400 clients all across the UK and is a national expert on small business tax and accounts. His clients include doctors, dentists, psychologists, web-designers, musicians, marketing agencies, IT contractors, artists, graphic designers and many more. Russell Smith is the only chartered accountant in the world to blog every day - you can find it at www.rsaccountancy.co.uk/daily-blog. Russell also has a YouTube channel where he releases weekly 2 minute finance basics: www.youtube.com/RussellSmithtips. There is also a free tax, accounts and profit review with customised action plan worth £200 for readers of this book.

    It is not a textbook containing exhaustive abstract business tenants; it is the book I wish was available when I started my first company.I wrote this book to fill a void – there are very few how-to-build your business/become an entrepreneur books written by women for women. I will not only explain the steps to building a successful company, I will illustrate elegant insights to smooth what can be a very awkward and precarious navigation between those business steps. My goal is to not only help a new generation of women find their place in the entrepreneurial world, but to enable them to flourish!This book is a left brain/right brain map. It identifies 12 major steps to creating a successful business (left brain) and 12 elegant entrepreneurship insights (right brain) that provide pleasingly ingenious and simple concepts to gracefully span the gaps in between the business steps. These transparent, candid glimpses into the entrepreneur lifestyle will help you make a clear decision about whether the lifestyle is right for you and your vision of success.Each chapter builds understanding of consecutive business concepts. Key information gives a foundation for applying these concepts to your idea. Each chapter concludes with a summary of insights, an exploration of how it feels to be living that step, and suggestions for further reading on the topic.

    If you are an experienced seller or are looking to do arbitrage this book will have less value as I don’t discuss sourcing by arbitrage. I don’t do arbitrage, so I don’t teach it. This book is written for the new or struggling seller wanting to source wholesale or private label products. What you will learn: Basic steps for finding top selling products How to generate product ideas and look for trends How to validate demand Tips for finding suppliers Analyzing data to help you pick a product It took me 5 months of research before I pulled the trigger on my first products to sell on Amazon. Five months and countless hours. I have pages of notes with product ideas in many different categories. Some were wholesale products, others were ideas for my own products. I had some money set aside to buy inventory. But I couldn’t commit. I was looking for...not necessarily thee perfect product, but, well yeah, the perfect product. Fear of choosing “wrong” was holding me back. I knew that product selection was key to success so I needed to choose right. Another part of the problem was I had bigger ideas—I wanted to create a brand and I had some ideas as to what sorts of products I would carry. But those ideas required more capital than I was willing to invest for my first product. As a result, I put so much pressure on myself to dream big and think towards the future that I did…nothing! Another hold up was I was a little skittish to follow the advice to source from Chinese suppliers. It seemed so complicated for a beginner. Could I not take a little less profit and source domestically? Were there not manufacturers that could produce my ideas in North America? Yes, and yes. Ultimately the delays helped me because I learned a lot by joining Facebook groups and listening to and learning from the experiences of others. I devoured the advice in forums as well as blogs, books, webinars, and courses. I learned of the pitfalls of private label that the gurus selling you the dream never talk about. And finally, I did pull the trigger. I put together this guide to help any of you who are feeling a little gun-shy too. I put this book together for all of you who have the brains to say “Hey, if everyone buys top 100 selling products wont that saturate the market?” I put this book together to help you find great products from many different approaches. After reading this, you should feel confident enough to find a product and get started with your e-commerce business.

    From inception to destruction and triumph to despair, this rollercoaster read takes aspiring entrepreneurs from the highs of billion-dollar payouts and market-smashing success to the depths of impostor syndrome and bankruptcy. Hot Seat is divided into the five phases of the startup CEO experience: Founding explains how to formulate your idea, allocate equity, and not argue yourself to death Funding provides the keys to venture capital, angels, and crowdfunding, plus clear advice on which approach to choose Leadership lays out a path to build a strategy and culture for your team that will survive good times and bad Management reveals how to manage your board, argue with your team, and play the CEO card Endgame explains how to finish a company's existence with grace, wealth, and minimal litigation

    The typical chain of command is too slow; internal resources are too limited; people are already executing beyond normal expectations. As the pace accelerates, how do you inspire people’s energy and creativity? How do you collaborate with customers, vendors, and partners to keep your organization on the cutting edge? What kind of organization matches the speed and complexity that businesses must master—and how do you build that organization?Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, one of the world’s most revolutionary companies, shows how open principles of management—based on transparency, participation, and community—reinvent the organization for the fast-paced connected era. Whitehurst gives readers an insider’s look into how an open and innovative organizational model works. He shows how to leverage it to build community, respond quickly to opportunities, harness resources and talent both inside and outside the organization, and inspire, motivate, and empower people at all levels to act with accountability.The Open Organization is a must-read for leaders struggling to adapt their management practices to the values of the digital and social age. Brimming with Whitehurst’s personal stories and candid advice for leading an open organization, as well as with instructive examples from employees and managers at Red Hat and companies such as Google, The Body Shop, and Whole Foods, this book provides the blueprint for reinventing your organization.

    In this book he goes beyond the nuts and bolts of how it works to a deeper level—crowdfunding not just as a cool way to raise money but as a better way to build and run a business.This book features over forty illustrative examples of crowdfunding campaigns. Some succeeded wildly—like the high-tech cooler designer whose first attempt faltered but whose second raised $13 million. Some were sobering disasters, like the board game maker (not the author!) whose mistakes caused his project to collapse in two months, forcing him to return over $100,000. Stegmaier uses these stories to make points about topics such as preparation, timing, what kind of offers to make and what kind to avoid, what to spend money on and when, and more.But he insists it’s not just about the money—if you follow Stegmaier’s advice, crowdfunding can enable you to build a loyal following before you even have a product. He shows that if you treat your backers as people, not pocketbooks—communicate regularly with them, ask their opinions, attend to their needs—they’ll become advocates as well as funders, exponentially increasing your and your projects’ chances of succeeding.

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    These specialists have begun forming shops of their own - the new modern version of the agency. Increased marketing fragmentation and brand's need for specialists means that the time has never been better for a freelancers or niche service providers to build their own small firms. All they're missing is the guidance they need to find their footing.While specialist agencies and freelancers are highly skilled, most have a lot to learn about the mechanics of starting and running an agency. Many of these specialists come from a different background than those who traditionally started agencies: they come from the internet, not the ad world. In Agency, Rick Webb provides a comprehensive guidebook - giving readers the knowledge, strategies, and understanding they'll need to make the exciting transition into a modern creative services firm. Drawing from his experience running his own digital ad agency and working with countless innovative tech start-ups, Webb focuses not just on how to get started, but how to survive in a competitive marketplace. This is a hands-on master class in everything that the agency manager needs to know. From understanding small business banking, to deciding how to price a job and manage procurement, to winning new business, Agency provides everything from basic business and leadership skills to insider tips and industry information. Webb outlines the shape of the ecosystem in which new agencies will be finding their place. Packed with personal anecdotes from his time starting and running the highly successful Barbarian Group, Webb provides practical techniques for building an agile company.Modern agency upstarts need a different sort of education, and Agency provides a remarkable crash course.

    But secretly, do you yearn to fly higher? To challenge the rules and surprise us with something remarkable? To instigate delight, connection, and real change? To choose better over safer?Business and cultural visionary Seth Godin has transformed the terrain of marketing and commerce more than once. But many of his readers remain stuck in their own work lives. So what’s keeping us back?“The problem isn’t a lack of knowledge or skill,” he’s realized. “The problem is fear.”With Leap First, Seth Godin is here to help. This immersive audio program invites us to learn with him personally, unrehearsed and in the moment, as he shines a light for us, not with answers but with questions on the road to:• Overcoming our instinctual resistance to risk and change• Discovering our creative genius in the face of the empty page or whiteboard• Finding the courage to share that work—with vulnerability, generosity, and resultsRecorded in an intimate gathering of aspiring entrepreneurs, writers, and leaders, Leap First teaches us 49 essential principles, practices, and life lessons that have helped Seth the most in his own work and life.More than an audiobook or keynote speech, each track here presents a carefully chosen catalyst intended to trigger our own passion and insight with each listening.“It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that’s the moment between you and remarkable. I hope this helps you return to that edge. And then, to leap.”

    The book is addressed to the youth as well as professionals who wish to pursue greater achievements in both their personal and professional lives. Most of the points discussed are common sense and taught to us at home, school, religious places or elsewhere. The book can also be an inspiration for aspiring entrepreneurs who seek guidance on setting up businesses both profit and non-profit. This book will also open your mind to the way we behave with each other and how we could look at similarities rather than differences so that we all could live peacefully and support each other in achieving our goals.

    Many of the products Stephen Key has licensed required no intellectual property protection whatsoever, yet have made millions in royalties. But Key also knows what it takes to protect a big idea. Years ago, after reading about how medication bottles rarely contain enough space for the information that needs to be printed on them, he was inspired to develop an innovative label technology. The Spinformation rotating label has been licensed on products the world over, is protected by 20 U.S. and international patents, and has received more than 13 industry awards. To put it simply: Key knows how to use intellectual property to profit. This book will teach you how to: • Get a licensing contract with or without intellectual property • Write a provisional patent application that stops others from stealing your idea • Find and hire a killer patent attorney (they are not all created equal!) • Save thousands of dollars on legal expenses • File patents that have true value • Negotiate a win-win agreement It also details Stephen’s experience defending his patents in Federal Court—a David versus Goliath saga he has never before written about at length—as well as provides tips about how to avoid a licensing contract from going bad.

    Written by a team of medical, engineering, and business experts, the authors provide a comprehensive resource that leads students, researchers, and entrepreneurs through a proven process for the identification, invention, and implementation of new solutions. Case studies on innovative products from around the world, successes and failures, practical advice, and end-of-chapter 'Getting Started' sections encourage readers to learn from real projects and apply important lessons to their own work. A wealth of additional material supports the book, including a collection of nearly 100 videos created for the second edition, active links to external websites, supplementary appendices, and timely updates on the companion website at ebiodesign.org. Readers can access this material quickly, easily, and at the most relevant point in the text from within the ebook.

    The E-Myth Real Estate Investor offers you a road map to create a real estate investment business that's self-sufficient, growing, and highly profitable. Take your business to levels you didn't think possible with this unique guide!

    The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we're too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. Tomorrow's champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today's marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places. Available in a variety of formats, this summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour all 223 pages. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer. This summary is not intended to be used without reference to the original book.

     You've never had more more access to ideas for how to run your business. There's a lot of Noise out there. This book is your opportunity to seize the power of Quiet. You won't find success in the Noise. It's only when you get quiet and find your own path to your vision that you can create the wealth, peace, and ease you truly crave. Tara Gentile, creator of Quiet Power Strategy™, shares the concepts she's honed by working with hundreds of entrepreneurs and business owners to help them discover their own plans for success. You'll discover what separates smart, creative people who achieve their goals and smart, creative people who don't. You'll learn why self-leadership is more important than ever and how perception, discernment, and focus help you uncover unique opportunities. Then, step by step, you'll craft your own Quiet Power Strategic Plan and learn to lead yourself and your business through the Noise. If you've ever looked for a better way to do things YOUR way, this is the book for you.

     Architect + Entrepreneur Volume 2 challenges the foundations of traditional practice and asks: + In what ways can we hack our craft to serve both our personal lifestyle and our professional goals? + What if design practice capitalized on the architect’s drive to be creative and consumer buying culture in equal measure? + How can we turn our services into products? + How can young professionals compete in today’s marketplace leveraging the power of the Internet? Eric Reinholdt, founder of 30X40 Design Workshop describes in detail how his business model has evolved to leverage passive income producing products and offers a new paradigm for practice. It’s a manual of high-level strategies, field-tested tactics, and case studies showing how architects are reinventing practice in the 21st century. In this step-by-step manual you’ll discover: + How to develop multiple passive income streams for your business + How to work with only the clients best suited to your brand + Templates for innovative business models leveraging active and passive income streams + Case studies describing how founders and architects built six-figure incomes by developing products + How to leverage the Internet to convert visitors into customers (and clients) + Methodology for selling custom plans repeatedly + Why writing a book isn’t as difficult as you might think + Precise formula to earn your first $100 in passive income + How much you can earn from: affiliate relationships, advertising, and digital product development This manual provides a framework for young professionals to build passive revenue streams even before setting out on their own. Doing this builds wealth, professional freedom and increases the chances of success for nascent architecture businesses. It’s essential reading for any Architect + Entrepreneur.

    In My Fight to the Top, Michelle tells the story of how she overcame near-poverty on the rough streets of north-west Scotland, before rising to the top of the business world. This is the tell-all account of the UK's most fearless fashion brand and the truth behind the woman that created it.

    This revised edition features amended chapters on choosing a business, adding partners, getting funded, and managing the business structure and employees, and also includes help understanding the latest tax and healthcare reform information and legalities.

     Self Made: Confessions of a Twenty Something Self Made Millionaire follows the real life story of Stefan Aarnio (award winning real estate investor and entrepreneur) through the struggle of starting out with zero cash, zero credit and zero experience in his pursuit of financial freedom. Inside Self Made you will: Discover the 5 secret skills that transform ordinary people Into self made millionaires. Learn how the rich master the skills not taught in school and hidden from the poor and the middle class. Get to hear confessions, stories, and real world tips from a millionaire about what to do (and what not to do) to reach your dreams. Learn how to avoid analysis by paralysis at all costs. Figure out how to rise above your own expectations and create a new reality for yourself. Find out how to finally make money and say goodbye to debt once and for all. Join Stefan on his journey as he faces financial ruin, meets his life-changing mentor and transforms his mind, body, and soul to become Self Made.Learn how you too can become a Self Made millionaire, utilizing the practical tips, suggestions, and stories within. Scroll up, hit buy now, and start your own journey to becoming Self Made.

    As co-founders of Miss Jessie's, Miko reveals how she and Titi applied those lessons to create a successful business from scratch. A family memoir with a wealth of practical business advice and handy hair tips, told in Miko's funny and relatable voice, Miss Jessie’s is her remarkable story — from her childhood learning independence as a latchkey kid in Jamaica, Queens, to building a highly regarded company with her sister in their shared home salon in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Miko reflects on her hard-won insights working for her autocratic, iron-fisted father, and how the self-sufficiency she learned in childhood helped her blossom as a single mother with bills to pay, a child to raise, and a dream to pursue. She speaks honestly of her mistakes and successes, and of her role as an industry leader, negotiating multi-million dollar deals while at the same time restoring the self-esteem of natural and curly haired women.Charming and enlightening, chock full of entertaining stories and invaluable instruction that can be applied to any business, and illustrated with 16 pages of photos, Miss Jessie's confirms that with effort the American Dream is possible.

    The Wheelbarrow Profits system for real estate investment takes advantage of an under appreciated source of wealth in the United States: multifamily properties. Learn how to identify your own niche, study your market, build your portfolio, and manage properties to successfully turn your investment into true wealth. Written and created by Jake Stenziano and Gino Barbaro, Wheelbarrow Profits is the tried and true system that they’ve utilized to grow a single multifamily investment into nearly a dozen successful and lucrative properties. Whether you’re a seasoned professional looking to explore a different type of investment strategy or a new investor looking to start building your portfolio, Jake and Gino’s system will provide you with the step-by-step guide you need to secure your financial independence.

    His first course, “Kick Ass Copywriting Secrets of a Marketing Rebel”, taught the new generation of online marketers how to create killer ads (and everything else needed for a real biz). His breakthrough book “The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Getting Your Shit Together” is must-reading for everyone in business (or wanting to get into business). And “The Rant”, his blog at www.john-carlton.com, has been providing insider advice, tactics and advice since 2004. For free. This latest series of books (The Business Pro’s Essential Toolkit”) organizes the vast archives at the blog into clear categories, bringing the best stuff straight to you in an easy-to-read format. No more searching through the years for the specific themes John writes about – it’s all right here in one tidy package. The first book is a collection of articles aimed at living well, at every stage in your entrepreneurial adventure. A quick peek at the Table Of Contents will give you a good idea of what’s at stake. It’s far too common to burn out, to fail, to struggle endlessly as an entrepreneur… … when a few simple insider pieces of advice can quickly move you into a smooth groove where wealth and happiness on all fronts can be achieved easily. This is the kind of life-changing advice you can only hear from a grizzled professional with decades of experience to share. John’s unique formula, throughout his career, was to make every mistake possible (because he was always pushing boundaries)… find out what went wrong, and fix it by learning his lesson, securing new resources, developing new skills, whatever it took…… and then getting back into the game to do it successfully. There’s no theory here. It’s all hard-won lessons and advice that comes from the reality of doing business in the real world… where people aren’t always who they say they are, where promises are rarely kept, where the way things actually get done are counter-intuitive and must be learned.Entrepreneurs who try to do everything themselves, alone and without the advice and counsel of a wise veteran… are too often doomed to failure. There are just too many moving parts in the business world. You need mentors, and serious help navigating the many new challenges you will constantly face. That’s where John comes in. He’s been a mentor to many of the now well-known marketers out there, and has personally coached a majority of the top copywriters now on the “A-List”. You’ll recognize many of the testimonials here as Big Dogs in business today. This book, and the entire series, is an organized quick read that is crammed with essential advice, tactics and strategies used by the best marketers alive. Here is the advice you’ve always craved, from an experienced, caring mentor who’s seen it all, been around the block a few times, and is willing to share it all with you.A new adventure in business and life awaits…

    Written by a 35-year veteran of this booming industry, this useful guide teaches you everything you need to know to achieve and maintain lasting success. You'll learn the insider tips that only the pros know, and how to structure your business, your time, and your customer relationships to optimize sales and achieve your goals. Compare party plans, multi-level marketing, and hybrid models to see where your talents fit best, and discover the most effective ways to promote your products and get people interested. You'll leverage social media as one of the most powerful tools in modern sales, and gain new ideas for recruiting, booking, and time management. With clear guidance and a fun, friendly style, this book gives you the strategies you need to be a direct sales success. The direct sales industry is going strong, with more participants now than any time in the past, yet with less face-to-face engagement. Businesses are operating online, people are shopping online, and more people are recruiting through platforms like social media. If you hope to be a direct sales success, now is the time to get up to speed on what that means today. This book shows you everything you need to know, and gives you the tools you need to put your ideas into action. Choose the right direct sales model Secure bookings and manage your time Recruit and drive interest in the product and company Harness the power of social media to make sales Direct sales can be your ticket to independence. Stop punching the clock and become your own boss — and watch your income grow. With Direct Selling For Dummies, you'll have the skills and information you need to be a success.

    It needs to be heard by those you were called to lift out of dark places. You have honored that mandate thus far by writing a book and I have written this book to encourage you to honor it more fully by learning what it takes to sell 1,000 books in 21 days.Most authors I speak to have a message that's nearly bursting forth. They can't help but share it, their passion won't let them do anything but. The problem is that putting your message into words alone will never change lives. Once the message is packaged, it needs to be delivered (marketed) or the change you seek for those who struggle will never come to pass.I wrote this book to give order to the many ideas shared with me at The Author's Catapult 2014 Book Marketing Summit. There I interviewed 29 book marketing experts, bestselling authors and savvy digital marketers. They've collectively helped to sell MILLIONS and MILLIONS of books and I asked them "How would you sell 1,000 books in 21 days?"As I reviewed each of the interviews multiple times I noticed patterns emerging. A thread ran through the interviews and it was all about relationships. These experts talked about relationships with partners, with prospects, with clients, with self and with money. It was quite wonderful how everything organized itself before my eyes.I was hoping they would shed more light for me on how to have a successful book launch. I had done that before with a few clients and was excited to sponge up even more insider info! Instead, the bulk of the conversations centered in how to develop relationships pre-book launch that would essentially create your own distribution network.So Selling Well is about building an author platform and the systems to support it and to make it thrive. Because launching or relaunching a book is critical to the process of selling 1,000 books in 21 days, I included a bonus chapter the book about it and if you're interested in that you can download the chapter along with my entire Book Launch Starter Kit.Learning to market your book can be like climbing Mt. Everest, but you never have to do it alone, nor do I believe you should. With the proper gear, guidance & group, you can make it to the top of that peak and stand in a place to be heard by many more people. With help, you can be a powerful change-maker! It is my intention as a book marketing coach to help you, if you so desire, create the structure -- the "platform" -- to be able to sell 1,000 books in 21 days. The principles & strategies shared in this book are powerful. They've been used by people like Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen who have sold over ½ billion Chicken Soup for the Soul books. They've been used by 4-Hour Workweek author Timothy Ferriss. These principles are responsible for literally selling well over a billion books and I believe they will help you too! I’ve observed that the experts who have these five relationships down are the ones that are actually thriving. One can sell 1,000 books in 21 days without them in place, but only a 5 Relationship-focused expert can build on the momentum of a launch and turn it into an amazing business success. The relationships start from within and move progressively outward. Incidentally, they are also the very tools that Sarah used to help her have an amazing book launch. Without further ado, here are The 5 Relationships: Relationship 1: Your Mindset Relationship 2: Your Message Relationship 3: Your Marketing Relationship 4: Your Members Relationship 5: Your Money In the book there are questions to ask yourself as well as an action plan to help you put each relationship into motion in your business. Relationship 1: Your Mindset When very successful people were asked by Napoleon Hill near the turn of the century what got them their wealth, in one way or another they referred to their mental ability to create before creating physically in the real world. Building on timeless principles Your Mindset is about creating that working relationship with yourself that fosters growth, ability and confidence. Here we discuss the process of turning your dreams into reality. Relationship 2: Your Message Confidence that you have something that will better lives leads successful authors to get to know their audience in a deep meaningful way. The message you share stems from this awareness of your reader and creates something that truly resonates with them. If the sum of the first relationship is “know thyself,” the short of this one is “know your reader.” In relationship 2 we share hot tips for targeting your ideal reader. Relationship 3: Your Marketing While many experts have the first two relationships down, this is where some things start to break down. They know they want to get the word out and often they are trying so hard. They blog, they tweet, they tell people. But in the end it feels like an uphill battle. The relationship examined in Your Marketing is the one you have with partners, those who are speaking to your readers, those who already have built trust with the ones you want to speak to. This is a core part of my group success program and it’s a core part of a platform that thrives. Here we uncover the secrets to building a big audience fast. Relationship 4: Your Members I’m not sure if it’s baggage from the past that keeps many experts from making regular and clear invites...Fear of rejection or something similar? If so, I can relate. But I can testify how a plan to do invite readers to become members of your group will that also share how to set up a plan that both encourages new subscribers and keeps them fiercely loyal. Relationship 5: Your Money Likely if any one of the five relationships is missing, it’s this one. Money’s ability to come to you hinges on your ability to create the organization and systems that money likes. You see, money is just a trust that has in your ability to solve their problems. That trust increases exponentially when you assure your members that they’re safe with you. I divulge some of the basic systems that actually make money, increase average orders and do so without breaking your back.

     Those that don’t adapt are becoming trapped in the downward spiral of a dying middle class - working harder and earning less. Entrepreneurs that understand the new paradigm, have created unprecedented wealth in their lives and the lives of those they love. In This Book You’ll Learn: — Why the century-long growth in wages came to a halt in 2000. — Why MBAs and JDs can’t get jobs and what that means for the future of work and your job. — Why The Theory of Constraints and a shift into the Fourth Economy has made entrepreneurship the highest-leveraged career path for the young and ambitious. — Why The Turkey Problem means accounting may be the riskiest profession in the 21st century while entrepreneurship may be the safest. — How entrepreneurs with second-rate degrees are leveraging the radical democracy of the Long Tail to get rich. — How the Stair Step Method and return of apprenticeships have transformed the “entrepreneurial leap" to make entrepreneurship more accessible than ever. — The scientific research on how giving up balanced living and embracing integrated living leads to more money, more meaning, and more freedom. Included (Free) Resources: Get access by visiting http://taylorpearson.me/eoj — Full Recorded Interviews with the Ten Entrepreneurs featured in The End of Jobs detailing how they launched their own successful businesses. — Taylor’s 67 must-read business books to fuel your entrepreneurial career. — 49 tools and templates to save you hundreds of hours when launching and growing a business. — A Ninety-Day goal setting template to translate the book into actionable steps — Access to a private community to discuss the book and get support from a community of like-minded individuals to inspire, motivate, and assist each other. Who Should Read This Book? Early Stage Entrepreneurs - Doubting yourself and wondering if you made a smart choice to abandon the traditional career path? In Chapter 5, The Turkey Problem, you’ll learn the difference between real and perceived risk and why Entrepreneurship is a smarter choice than ever. Established Entrepreneurs - Do you have friends, family or team members that don’t understand their choices? In chapters 12 through 14 you’ll understand how to explain the fundamental drives of your ambition. Students - Are you considering getting another degree as opposed to starting a business or going to work for an entrepreneurial business? Before you invest hundreds of thousands of dollars, read Chapter 3 to understand why credentials are getting less valuable even as degrees get more expensive. Corporate Employees - Are you in a position that feels safe but doesn’t let you expand your skills and network? In chapter 4 through 6, you’ll find out why that job might not be as safe as you think.

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    Finance Basics explains the fundamentals of corporate finance—and its jargon; Running Meetings gives you the tools and checklists you need to keep your meetings effective and efficient; Presentations helps you create and deliver a persuasive performance, fast; Managing Projects shows you how to set up and execute on a project plan; Managing Time helps you to figure out where all the minutes of your day are going—and how to get them under control; Getting Work Done helps you to use each of those minutes more productively; Creating Business Plans shows you how to present the risks and rewards of your idea; Managing Up helps you to build your relationship with your boss; Delegating Work shows you how to hand work off right; and Giving Effective Feedback teaches you how to make potentially difficult confrontations and turn them into productive conversations. This 10-volume, specially priced boxed set makes a perfect gift for aspiring leaders who are short on time but need advice fast.Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives—from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.

     What if you could start your day out with an excited shout instead of a frustrated sigh? Unfortunately, selling handmade goods online is no longer as simple as throwing together a product listing and waiting for sales to roll in. There are now millions of people with handmade products and they are all eager to build a sustainable income. The Handmade Entrepreneur uses precise methods based on proven marketing techniques to set you above the competition. It teaches you how to create a genuine business you can count on rather than a bundle of shop pages and social media accounts built on a foundation of guesswork. What You Can Expect to Learn from This Book: • How to take DIY pictures that get clicks and sales • How to set up a shop that turns visitors into buyers in under two seconds • How to price your items • How to write titles and descriptions • How to brand your business with DIY techniques • How to rank your pages • How to find targeted audiences • How to build up your list of followers • Where to promote your listings • How to sell without selling • How to form relationships with people who can send you extra sales • How to start a "buzz" about your products • Which tools to incorporate into your business The goal of this book is to free you from having to rely on any third-party website for your sales. Yes, you can take advantage of platforms like Etsy, and you should, but websites come and go, and if all your sales come only from that website, you run into trouble every time there are algorithm changes, a saturation of sellers, or cheaper products to compete with. You are trying to generate sales, which means that you are trying to run a business, which in-turn means that you need a real business plan. Brick and motor stores don't just buy a bunch of goods, throw them in a building, and hope people will come. They plan, study their target market, pick a perfect store location, and prepare to market themselves. Just because you sell online does not mean that you can skip all of these steps. You have billions of products to compete with online and a crowd of shoppers who have an overwhelming number of options before them. You must prepare your storefront, get your products ready, know your audience, and then know how to market to them. Optimizing Your Shop for Sales Dani starts out showing you how to prepare your products with photos that attract clicks and sales. It doesn't just tell you how to do it, though. It SHOWS you. Thanks to the help of many carefully selected Etsy sellers, there are many example photos for each point. In addition to this, the author only shows you DIY photos to prove that you can do it all on your own. Next, Dani discusses how to optimize your shop. She goes through every aspect such as banners, profiles, descriptions, tags, and titles. You will learn how to optimize your pages so that people stay there instead of leaving instantly. This can be done by creating an inviting environment with images and content that buyers can skim through in under two seconds. If buyers can determine that your page is worth staying on in less than two seconds, you have won the battle. Finding Targeted Audiences and Marketing The issue with selling online is finding people who would be interested in your products.

    This time, you're invited on a journey to explore your creative business side. Meant for the new breed of creative entrepreneurs, this book challenges you to think and act outside of the box to get the results you want. It's a timeless book that will inspire you along your journey, for years to come.

     Authors Dr. Ivan Misner and Brennan Scanlon are experts in the area of business networking. Their careers have focused on teaching entrepreneurs, business owners, and sales people how to build and leverage professional referral networks. Their combined fifty years of experience and ideas have been funneled directly into this book. In Avoiding the Networking Disconnect, they share their networking insights, providing you with stories, statistics, and strategies for creating more sales through a tried-and-true approach that champions connections rather than competition. At the heart of this approach are the “three Rs.” Similar to the three Rs of education (reading, writing, and arithmetic), the three Rs of business networking—relationships, referrals, and results—must be consistently cultivated to avoid the networking disconnect. The book provides you with the five steps for building and maintaining strong business networks—steps that go far beyond just showing up at events and passing out your business cards! It will take some effort, and the process won’t always flow smoothly, but with the aid of Avoiding the Networking Disconnect, you’ll soon be reaping the generous benefits of a business approach based on sharing and trust.

    But his real passion was technology, and how he could use it to shape a better, prosperous, peaceful future for everyone.From Walt's start in the 1920s as a struggling cartoonist to his unrealized dream of EPCOT, documentary filmmaker Christian Moran tells the amazing story of how technology created by Walt and the Disney Studio entertained and changed the world.With lengthy recollections from Rolly Crump and Bob Gurr about their many years working for Walt, along with analyses from Disney historians Jim Korkis and Sam Gennawey, and animation historian Dr. Maureen Furniss, Ph.D., this book adaptation of Moran's forthcoming film, Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, features: A new perspective on the life of Walt Disney, focusing on the technology he pioneered to make his magic happen How Walt used the Silly Symphonies as a "research and development" tool Walt's reluctance to build "Disneyland East", and why EPCOT was to be his crowning achievement Exclusive stories from Bob Gurr and Rolly Crump about Walt's robotics, Disneyland, Autopia, the 1964 World's Fair, and much more Find out how Walt Disney shaped the future while entertaining the masses, and then catch the film when it's released in 2015.

    This book shows you how to do it.World-renowned sales expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying what sets the most successful sales managers and professionals apart from the rest--and now in this pocket-sized guide, he distills these simple but powerful strategies. Readers will discover the six key characteristics of a winning sales team and learn how to:• Select and recruit sales champions• Start them off on the right foot• Establish clear objectives• Determine a sales plan• Inspire singleness of purpose• Demonstrate respect and appreciation• Motivate people with the right incentives• Boost their self-concept to boost revenue• Develop winners through continuous coaching and training• Brainstorm sales solutions• Measure results• Conduct game-changing performance reviews• Discipline effectively• De-hire poor performers• Lead by exampleA compact but essential resource, Sales Management will help readers increase the effectiveness of their sales force, improve their bottom line, and advance their own career and satisfaction in the process.

    In a friendly yet defiant and inverted manner, the book starts with the traditional end – by drawing a supported conclusion about modern entrepreneurial endeavors. Professor Campos then succinctly navigates through real cases and recent powerful concepts such as Design Thinking, Effectuation and Lean Startup, in an audacious quest to explain why execution is emerging as the main source of entrepreneurial achievement around the world.The Upsidedown approach is presented in a conversational tone, allowing readers to discover an entrepreneurial process based on their ability to explore existing resources and social connections, thus debunking the myth that the idea is the crucial first step.

    It is framed as a conversation between Cormac Russell, who is a leader in the Asset Based Movement in Europe, and Director of ABCD Europe and Professor John McKnight the Co-Director of the ABCD Institute. This book provides a detailed background to Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), with a particular emphasis on the contributions of the people, such as Illich, Alinsky, Mendelsohn, Miller, Snow, Block and others, who have been most influential in shaping the conceptual framework and practice of this approach. It also provides a deep insight into Professor John McKnight’s (one of the originators, and the most central figure in ABCD alongside Professor Jody Kretzmann) thinking on society and community. It offers a wealth of commentary on the challenges facing society and community, what needs to change, and how we might go about it.This publication is therefore a must read for anybody interested in social policy and community development. It will be of particular interest to those seeking to gain a deep, well informed and rounded understanding of Asset Based Community Development from its beginning to the current day.

    You can create more freedom in your life by working on things you love and creating your own schedule!This book covers everything you need to profit from managing small business websites, including:1) How to Price a Client Project2) Why You Should Choose WordPress3) Web Design Process That Doesn't Waste Time4) Finding Your First Paid Client5) Creative Google Search to Find New Clients6) How to Drive Traffic to Your Website7) Intro to SEO (Search Engine Optimization)8) Business Fundamentals 1019) Future Web Trends10) Epic List of ResourcesYou will also discover several free bonus downloads along the way to help you hit the ground running with your business.Download your copy of "Create Your Freedom: Become a Local Web Design Guru And Make Money From Home" by clicking the "Buy now with 1-Click" button.

    They're helpers.Offering the best service isn't enough. Your future clients need to know:1. Who you are2. Why you're doing what you do3. How you'll solve their problems4. Why they'll like you.In other words, they need to be sold on your service. One problem: you hate selling. This book is for you.You didn't start your business to be a slimy salesperson, and you don't need to feel like one. In "Help First," Chris Cooper explores the path toward growth, profitability and the NEW marketing that will let you feel good about selling yourself.

    The only road that all entrepreneurs share is the road less travelled by. But you can still learn from those who went before you—what to do and what not to do—in order to increase your odds of success. Bend the Curve is a book about how to get more out of your big idea from people who know—successful entrepreneurs, the venture capitalists who've funded them, and the experienced mentors of the world's leading new venture accelerator, Techstars. Visit bendthecurve.co to find out more.

    Aram Shah and Alex Virelles present a step-by-step guide that explains how others may replicate their proven methods in their own wholesaling ventures.Reading this book will give investors the A-to-Z insights they need for cashing in on the fastest and most profitable ways to flip paper in the real estate market. Moving along a strategic step at a time, "The Art of Wholesaling Properties" explains how to make offers that actually get accepted; find hidden, motivated sellers; use a real estate agent to find gold mines through the MLS; build a strong list of cash buyers; negotiate with sellers using proven and tested scripts; assign or double close on properties; master the A-B, B-C transaction; deploy a team and put the business on autopilot; and achieve financial freedom without using cash or credit!If you find the prospects of making money exciting, if you get the feeling there is wealth hidden in the real estate market in your community, and if you desire to learn demonstrably successful techniques to apply in your own ventures, then "The Art of Wholesaling Properties: How to Buy and Sell Real Estate without Cash or Credit" will give you the guidance and education you need to begin wholesaling homes and generating profits without using your own cash or credit."

    His insights will prove to you over and over why this is the definitive how to sales program. This powerful series of twelve timeless sales sessions will help you close more sales today as you build a career for tomorrow! Whether you're a seasoned sales veteran or just now beginning your first sales position, Secrets Of Closing The Sale provides you with practical advice and effective questioning techniques that you can use to transform prospects into clients. Learn step by step over 100 specific closes and over 700 questions that lead the prospect to the decision table.In this newly updated recording, not only will you get to hear timeless lessons on closing the sale from Zig Ziglar that have helped hundreds of thousands of salespeople for more than a generation, but you will hear Zig's son, Tom Ziglar, discuss how these ideas are even more relevant in 2015. Tom is the president of Ziglar Training Corporation, the author of the newly released book Live to Win, and a successful platform speaker in his own right. You'll Learn:The ABC's of ClosingProfessional Persuasion and Common Sense SellingBuyer-Based Closing TechniquesVoice Training for Effective PresentationsHonesty and Empathy for Sales Success ... the basicsEmpathy, Sympathy and Self-image In SellingUsing Word Pictures To SellObjections: A Salesman's Best FriendAsking Questions To Close The Sale ... the basicsPositive Projection For Closing More SalesAnd much more!PLUS A BONUS RECORDING: *How to use emotional logic in the selling process to increase your closing ratio.

    That need is creating a tremendous entrepreneurial opportunity for people who love children and want to build a business caring for them. This guide has the latest trends, facts, and figures, along with an updated list of resources to help you create a stable and enriching environment for child development, as well as a sound and profitable business.Learn how to:Choose the type of child care program and services to offerAcquire the right licensing, permits, insurance protection, and state-specific child care licensingAnalyze the market, asses the needs of the community, and match services to fit those needsFind the right location, or decide to operate from homeComply with safety regulations and child-care provisions of the Disabilities ActConsider zoning laws, space requirements, and legal determinations of offsite propertiesCalculate startup costs, get funded, manage finances, create a business plan, and account for the day-to-day operating costsStay competitive in the market with low-cost marketing tacticsFind, hire, and keep good employees

    From founders of Fortune 500 companies such as FedEx, to the next generation of entrepreneurs like Thiel Fellows, to early investors in Apple, Cisco, Facebook, and other billion dollar startups, INSIGHTS is a collection of the best advice offered by a diverse group of leaders and innovators.The 101 featured contributors reveal lessons learned the hard way to help you avoid common pitfalls and allow you to lead your company toward more streamlined success. This unique library of knowledge is available to reference as often as you need.Thinking about starting your own company? Trying to improve your organization? INSIGHTS provides a wealth of information to guide you along your entrepreneurial journey.

    Do you want to be a wealthy Muslim? Would you like to know who the successful Muslims are and what are they doing? If so, you are at the right place. I am going to introduce to you some of the world’s most brilliant Muslim Entrepreneurs. They have opened up and shared their secrets. The world of business and success is tough and very competitive. Some other authors have written extensively on the subject of success. They also have covered the biographies of successful entrepreneurs. However that information is only partially relevant to a Muslim au- dience since a big part of success is dependent on one’s beliefs and spiritual values. This is the first book that deals exclusively with Muslim Entrepreneurs. What are they doing to win big in today’s competitive environment? I had the privilege to interview 40 of them and this book is the result. This information is purely derived from the teachings of Muslim Entrepreneurs that are achieving an unusual level of success in terms of income, impact and originality. These entrepreneurs are from different parts of the World – from the Indian subcontinent to the Middle East to Africa, Europe and North America. You are in for a ride! Buckle your seat belt! To the Author’s knowledge, this is the first time such a book has been released in the last few centuries. So, if you’re wondering; how can I make a lot of money as a Muslim? How can I gain an advantage over the rest? What can I do with my money? What challenges can I expect along the way? What skills do I need to succeed in today’s marketplace? Then know that these are exactly the questions “The Muslim Entrepreneur” answers. And much more! I will see you on the other side inshaAllah.

    If you have not yet bought the original copy, make sure to purchase it before buying this unofficial summary from aBookaDay. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future focuses mainly on the creation and growth of the two companies listed in the title. The plot delves the ups and downs of the company’s prospects, while delving into the psyche and interpersonal habits of Elon Musk. Musk’s life is examined in detail, from the history of his forbears through to his youth and to the modern day. Though sometimes abrasive, Musk’s drive and ambition would let nothing stand in the way of his dreams.

    The road of a lean startup business owner is tough with its ups, downs, and twists along the way. I know what it feels like to battle a negative mindset, to worry about money, to worry about competition, and to have the fear of failure creep at your door. The only thing that has kept me going as a struggling entrepreneur is my relationship with Christ and the encouragement of God’s word. YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Entrepreneurs face many, if not all, of the same challenges. What separates someone who succeeds and someone who fails is how they handle those challenges. Right Now You Can Launch Your 21 Day Journey To Transform Your Business and Your Life! In this daily entrepreneur motivational series, we will dive into the truths of the Bible to breakthrough the top startup business challenges entrepreneurs face everyday. While there are many great Christian books on sale; this book will help ignite not only your professional growth, but also your personal growth by striving for the upward call of God in Jesus Christ! Download: “Upward Entrepreneur: How To Transform Your Startup Business In 21 Days By Unlocking The Truth of GOD’s Word” You will learn… - How To Define Your Responsibilities to Optimize Success - 6 Ways To Conquer Your Fear of Failure - 2 Key Rules To Keeping Customers - 5 Steps To Overcome the Humiliation of Failure - 5 Ways To Guard Against Competition - 4 Ways To Defeat Negative Thinking - How To Overcome Loneliness - 4 Steps To Handle a Negative Customer - 6 Easy Ways To Manage a Balanced Life - 5 Steps To Create A Solid Business Blueprint - 1 Word You Need To Know To Transform Your Reputation - Plus More!!! Are you ready to take the next step in transforming your business? Download and take your business to the next level of success and strengthen your relationship with Christ. Scroll to the top of the screen and select the buy now button

    While women are starting businesses in unprecedented numbers, many African-Americans are first-generation entrepreneurs, and there have been few role models for them to emulate and learn from.The impact of African-American women in business is undeniable. According to the 2014 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report commissioned by American Express OPEN, while firms owned by women of color are smaller than non-minority women-owned businesses, their growth in numbers and economic clout is generally far outpacing that of other women-owned entities. Businesses owned by African-American women led that growth, up 296% from 1997 to 2014, generating nearly $50 billion in revenue. It is, in a sense, a second Black Renaissance, creating what we like to call the '50 Billion Dollar Boss.' African-American women continue to excel and shape society across industries. This book recognizes them for their business acumen and examines how they creatively solved business challenges and identified opportunities to grow and sustain their businesses.

    

    This book will reveal, THE SINGLE MOST POWERFUL PROCESS I have ever used for myself, and my clients. It will help you sell your high-end premium products and services to people who want to buy them. Even better, it's delivered in a simple step-by-step format for you to use immediately.This is book one in the series >>> Selling Services: How to sell anything to anybody, How to Negotiate and How to Get Clients for LifeYou'll notice this first book is short and sweet. I could have made it 10,000 pages, and given you 8,000 strategies and techniques and selling skills for you to master. Blah, blah, blah. NOT HERE. Instead, we're going to get down and dirty. I've cut out all the fluff and hype and typical BS, so that you can get results - fast.For over a decade, I’ve been training and consulting entrepreneurs around the world to RE-STRUCTURE their businesses so they can have the time and money freedom they deserve. The secret: HIGH PAYING CLIENTS.In this book you’ll learn: 1. Where to REALLY find high-paying clients (there’s a surprise here that will transform your business) 2. How to design your OFFERS so that they are attractive to high-end clients 3. A proven STEP-BY-STEP process to CLOSE these premium clients 4. How to OBLITERATE any limiting beliefs you have that are currently holding you back -- and so much more!Here's my promise to you: The clients you wish you had are actually out there right now... just wishing and hoping and praying that someone JUST LIKE YOU would please - for the love of all that is holy - help them. So let’s get started!

    The right messages, to the right people, at the right time.What’s insideCHAPTER 1The Right PeopleSegment your customersCHAPTER 2The Right MessageCraft an effective messageCHAPTER 3The Right Way and TimeOptimize conversion

    In our biannual report, Hardware by the Numbers: Summer 2015, you'll learn the most pertinent data behind the latest IoT trends. Renee DiResta, Vice President of Business Development at Haven, not only reveals how many prominent accelerators around the world focus solely on hardware-and why startups participating in these programs are roughly split between B2B and B2C business models-but also examines the effect this emerging ecosystem is having in several industries

    To succeed from now , one must learn to accept the constant change to adaptation – continually unlearning old ‘rules’ and relearning new ones. That requires continually questioning assumptions about how things has changed , un-valid old paradigms, and ‘relearning’ what is now relevant to pursue in acquiring your wealth. This book is filled with excellent ideas and concepts of daily struggle to understand money science. There is a lot here in this book that can help an individual move toward financial freedom through understanding money and the mindset required to become wealthy, of which means you need to know what it is that separates the wealthy from the Not-so wealthy. What you need to know and identify with is what principles and what behavior the rich have , and that you need to relearn . Some of which , You have not taken action to Unlearn yet ,to stay Current and Get Ahead " Happiness that Money brings cannot last " , With Money ,People cannot necessarily materialize everything , However without money many things cannot be done Accumulation of wealth with the pleasure to have comfort , luxuries , reputable status , financial influence, freedom and popularity are what money usually can help to achieve , its provides a centralized role in our lives , at a general necessity stage level as it helps to clothe and feed us ,to put a nice accommodation for stay and pay the bills. Money may not be everything, they may not even guarantee a happy life, but they are a pretty good basis to learn how to build happiness on ... for now I highly recommend this book to anyone who'd like to ignore the fluff available on the Internet and take action now. Now that being said, this book assumes you know about the basics like Cash Flow, budgeting, etc. It doesn't talk about investment mediums like stock market, bond, etc. And the best part is that unlike many books, this book tells you not to lead a frugal life

    Whether in the form of mortgages or rent, we are consigned to living in conditions of perpetual debt. Real Estates: Life Without Debt explores the moral, political and economic ramifications of property and ownership in neoliberal debt economies, and asks what role the architect might play in addressing widening social and spatial inequality in the built environment.

    Organizational design practitioners face challenges gathering data to help focus and implement design, understanding the complex nature of organizations, and communicating and sustaining change over a long period of time.  Data-driven Organization Design seeks to overcome these challenges, showing how to collect meaningful data and link it to business performance data.  Through the use of case studies, practical tips, and sample exercises, the book explains how to:--Map an organization by creating and connecting hierarchies and taxonomies--Link ad-hoc organizational processes to ongoing workforce planning--Apply new analytical approaches to project planning and management, risk management, and competencies

    "The Entrepreneur's Solution" is required for the start-up and for the seasoned business owner to understand the new rules of the game. It is the new entrepreneurial manual. It is filled with the very frameworks that were built through Mel Abraham's decades of experience as an entrepreneur, advisor and mentor. He gives you the recipe that not only helps you build a business but to build a life and create an entrepreneurial journey of epic proportions. "The Entrepreneur's Solution" is about harnessing your creative force, breaking free of your former state, and getting your life in alignment with your intention and purpose. It is through these frameworks (and the author's stories) that you journey to a land where your team is connected, committed and loyal, your customers become raving fans and your life full with fulfillment because the business you are creating is in congruence with your values, operated in alignment with your higher vision and connected to all stakeholders at an emotional level As a result, your business serves them by transforming their lives. All of this will translate into more profits, fans and freedom. Welcome to The Entrepreneur's Solution!

    Featuring lessons learned from successful businesses in the world's poorest countries, Jessica Jackley's Clay Water Brick will motivate readers to more deeply appreciate the incredible entrepreneurial potential that exists in every human being on this planet--especially themselves."The heart of entrepreneurship is never about what we have. It's about what we do." Meet Patrick, who had next to nothing and started a thriving business using just the ground beneath his feet . . .Blessing, who built her shop right in the middle of the road, refusing to take the chance that her customers might pass her by . . .Constance, who cornered the banana market in her African village with her big personality and sense of mission.Patrick, Blessing, Constance, and many others are among the poorest of the world's poor. And yet they each had crucial lessons to teach Jessica Jackley--lessons about resilience, creativity, perseverance, and, above all, entrepreneurship.For as long as she could remember, Jackley, the co-founder of the revolutionary microlending site Kiva, had a singular and urgent ambition: to help alleviate global poverty. While in her twenties, she set off for Africa to finally meet the people she had long dreamed of helping. The insights of those she met changed her understanding. Today she believes that many of the most inspiring entrepreneurs in the world are not focused on high-tech ventures or making a lot of money; instead, they wake up every day and build better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities, regardless of the things they lack or the obstacles they encounter. As Jackley puts it, "The greatest entrepreneurs succeed not because of what they possess but because of what they are determined to do."In Clay Water Brick, Jackley challenges readers to embrace entrepreneurship as a powerful force for change in the world. She shares her own story of founding Kiva with little more than a laptop and a dream, and the stories and the lessons she has learned from those across the globe who are doing the most with the least.Praise for Clay Water Brick "Jessica Jackley didn't wait for permission to change the world--she just did it. It turns out that you can too."--Seth Godin, author of What to Do When It's Your Turn "Fascinating . . . gripping . . . bursting with lessons . . . Jessica Jackley has written a remarkable book . . . so thoroughly well meaning and engagingly put it is too magnetic to put down."--Financial Times"Clay Water Brick is a tremendously inspiring read. Jessica Jackley, the virtuoso co-founder of the revolutionary microlending platform Kiva, shares uplifting stories and compelling lessons on entrepreneurship, resilience, and character."--Adam Grant, author of Give and Take"A blueprint for anyone who wants to make the world a better place and find fulfillment in the process, no matter how scarce their resources or how steep the challenge."--Arianna Huffington"This book is inspirational. And honest and practical. . . . Well written, thoughtful: a selfless account of how to succeed by doing right and following your heart."--Booklist

    Maxwell helps readers maximize their potential with this 90-day guide based on his #1 New York Times bestseller, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth.Named Inc. magazine's #1 most popular leadership expert in 2014, Maxwell delivers daily inspiration and practical advice for bringing out your best, personally and professionally, one day at a time. Readers can engage every day with succinct lessons, stimulating questions, and inspiring quotes, with plenty of journaling space to record progress and revelations. Inspiring and convenient, this portable, interactive growth tool gives readers everything they need to improve self-knowledge, gain confidence, and lead more satisfying lives in three short months.

    Building on strategic principles from Michael Gerber’s best selling book, The E-myth, the simple system in Tim Ferris’s 4 Hour Work Week, with the feel good outcome of Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment. The author shows you the Four Foundations for Freedom that will set even the most overwhelmed entrepreneur free. When entrepreneurs design and dream from freedom they change the world. In this book, you will uncover: · Opportunities are right under your nose that can make you a part of something that’s bigger than yourself.· Why you keep diving into projects that take you off of your true mission.· How to create a fool-proof criteria for making consistent decisions in your business.· Simple methods for taking full accountability of your family structure so you can eliminate time-wasting, internal power struggles.· Techniques for thrusting yourself into high-productivity and major organization and without doing any more work. Because without Freedom, it’s just a job.

    Yet, while these research streams have increasinglyreceived a great deal of attention, they have developed largely independently of one another. The Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship addresses the critical need to integrate these three interrelated literatures.The handbook features contributions from the leading scholars in these research areas. As a group, the chapters examine the intersections of these topics to synthesize contemporary research and provide direction and stimulation for further interdisciplinary investigations of organizationalcreativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

    That means we need to create value. In his new book, Sandy Ogg shows us what successful CEOs do-differently from those who fail-to powerfully mobilize their organizations to create and capture value. As Ogg points out, not only do CEOs need to focus on very specific things to deliver the biggest delta in value. They also need to apply force at exactly the right points to produce acceleration. In /move, he shares a Mobilization methodology that does just that. Developed through decades of experience working with the everyday realities of business and then tested in the private equity world, Ogg's five-part model gives CEOs a flexible, adaptable framework within which they can make informed judgments as they move their companies forward. Filled with lessons learned by six senior executive leaders who have applied the methodology in their companies, this playbook offers CEOs significant insights into how to focus on value from Day One while bringing a doable process to their work.

    But other ancient Chinese scholars also shared critical knowledge for businesspeople, including Fan Li, a strategist turned entrepreneur also known as Tao Zhu Gong, who achieved great wealth before writing a treatise on business and enterprise. His twelve principles of business continue to be relevant, and you'll learn them in this book, along with tips from other ancient Chinese scholars, such as Bai Gui, who founded the first business school in China. Bai Gui outlined four characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and emphasized that businesspeople could be compassionate and moral while achieving great wealth. In his teachings, he explained that strength does not mean power or skill; he used the word to represent the fortitude in self-discipline. Filled with inspirational quotes and easy-to-follow examples, this book includes business lessons from modern businesspeople that achieved fortune or suffered disaster as a result of following-or not following-ancient Chinese wisdom. Kick your career into a higher gear and enhance business operations with The Business Wisdom of Ancient Chinese Entrepreneurs.

    Unashamed of her husband’s success or her family’s choices, Caroline shares practical tools and thoughtful insights she gained on her journey to finding meaningful work that was right for her and her family. Caroline’s refreshing honesty, captivating story and powerful insight into what well-educated mom’s actually need makes this a must-read for any mother who is ready to truly matter. Inside you’ll find tool to help you: • Discover what you really want, • Create connections that count, • Overcome common obstacles, • Craft your ideal job description and more. "Caroline Greene’s Matter is like a homecoming for every mother who has felt isolated, worried about whether she’s doing the right thing for her family, for her children and for her own life, who has felt guilt or shame or confusion trying to live up to the impossibly high standards our society now requires to be considered a “good” mother. Read this book to feel understood, to learn skills to find and follow your own internal compass, and to realize that taking time to do so isn’t selfish, but the only way to begin to rewrite outdated social scripts in order to create full lives that matter." - Brigid Schulte, Author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play When No One Has the Time “MATTER packs a lot of intensity into a little package. If you’d like to build a better life, with work that contributes to your happiness, this is a great tool for getting unstuck.” - Laura Vanderkam, Author of 168 Hours and I Know How She Does It “Caroline Greene has written an essential guide to one of the most important challenges we all face – how to create a life of meaning and how to make career choices that work for our family. Drawing on her personal experience and training as a lawyer, coach and mother, she gives practical, easy to read and easy to follow step by step guidance to living a happy, healthy and meaningful life. This book is both wise and inspiring.” - Barrett Avigdor, Managing Director – Major, Lindsey & Africa and Co-Author of What Happy Working Mothers Know”

    According The World Bank, 80% of the developed world’s wealth now resides in human capital.Perhaps President Ronald Reagan said it best in his address to Moscow State University on May 31, 1988: “Like a chrysalis, we’re emerging from the economy of the Industrial Revolution — an economy confined and limited by the Earth’s physical resources — into, as one economist titled his book, “the economy in mind,” in which there are no bounds on human imagination and the freedom to create is the most precious natural resource.”Written by Ronald Baker and Ed Kless, hosts of The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Knowledge Economy, the popular radio show on Voice America’s Business Channel, The Soul of Enterprise: Dialogues on Business in the Knowledge Economy sounds the clarion call that organizations can no longer ignore this seismic shift that has occurred in the economy since 1959. The Soul of Enterprise introduces the three components of Intellectual Capital — human capital, social capital, and structural capital — and how to leverage them to create wealth in today’s economy, by revealing:•The physical fallacy — why wealth no longer consists of tangible things, but of ideas, imagination and knowledge from human minds•The best learning tool ever invented: After Action Reviews•Why Frederick Taylor and the Scientific Management movement was a fraud and the wrong focus for knowledge workers•The fact that effectiveness always and everywhere trumps efficiency•The First Law of Pricing: All value is subjective•The Second Law of Pricing: All prices are contextual•The Morality of Markets: Doing well and doing good•Why your organization — and you — need to be driven by a higher purpose than profitThe Soul of Enterprise will inspire and challenge readers to unlock the enormous financial and competitive power hidden in the intellectual capital of their organizations and knowledge workers.

    Along the way, this highly visual guide provides easy-to-follow examples for the most common calculations related to cap table building.Expanding on these key skills every startup founder should know, this Founder's Pocket Guide helps you learn how to:Build your basic cap table step by step, including founder's shares, option pools, angel investor rounds, and VC rounds. Decipher cap table specific lingo, such as fully-diluted shares outstanding, preferred shares vs. common shares, Series A, Series B, and so on. Establish a stock option pool in your cap table and understand the option pool effect on founder dilution. Understand the simple math behind cap table formulas and calculations, including calculating fully diluted shares outstanding, investor equity ownership percentages, and share price.

    Behind every great product is a great support teamChapter 1 - Building and growing your teamChapter 2 - Supporting your customersChapter 3 - Working with the rest of the business

    Gender equality is a human rights issue, but engaging women in the workforce is primarily an economic issue-diverse leaders drive bottom-line growth and high-level innovation for global corporations. This book isn't only for women, chief inclusion officers or HR practitioners. It offers insight and case studies from global leaders on why it's a priority for everyone in an organization. To attract, retain and promote women, the best companies worldwide have made inclusion part of their entire culture, not just their hiring processes. Diversity in the workplace isn't just the "right" thing to do-it's a financially savvy strategy in today's hyper-competitive digital marketplace.

    By 2017, it’s expected that 2.5 billion users will connect through messaging-based apps.Seven of the top 12 most-used apps are messaging based apps.Everyday an average of 20 messages a day are sent through on of these apps . In addition to Snapchat and WhatsApp, there are Hidden dragon players like WeChat, LINE and KakaoTalk, which are BIG in Asia as the World has Gone Mobile . The increasing popularity of the Internet — coupled with maturing online payment systems and enhanced logistics service reliability — has fuelled e-commerce growth globally . The world is witnessing a shift in how people discover and share information using mobile internet enabled devices worldwide and typically the Greater china where the social, digital and mobile ecosystem in China is unlike anywhere else on earth. It utilizes both the processing and mobility advantage which smartphones offer. Real-time experience means that we can reach out and engage with friends, associates and customers at any time, place at anywhere without constraints. Consumers are sharing information and, at the same time, gaining immense knowledge at a faster speed.This is thanks to the services like tweets, social media posts and the newly evolved messaging -based apps with prominent new social platforms namely Snap chat ,LINE , Whisper and Wechat who themselves has evolved from simple SMS text to becoming increasingly influential service provider with messaging ads and stickers that trends well with Mobile phone users, Social media services therefore will become more noisy with crowded ads contributing to messaging apps and user with preference for user- friendliness apps will seek out simpler, clearer and easiest platforms to make communication and have fun at the same time at no expense The Easy Access of the Internet on smartphones and other mobile devices has changed the way people communicate and consume information. It has created new ways of information dissemination and consumption; and it is still on its way to creating new ones. These allow consumers to make more and more quickly and informed decisions based on real-time data on-the-go. What does this mean for businesses enterprises and Branding throughout the World? As consumers start to adapt to the power of mobile devices, it will cause a domino effect on every economy and starts to transform. It will adapt to the new mobile technologies which has proven to be challenging. Mobile social media technologies have proven to be highly effective and valuable when consumed http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010...

    Rather than allowing yourself to become overwhelmed by the task at hand, you will learn time management, the value of healthy habits, and useful communication skills.This is Book 1 in a three part series. The following chapters will guide your understanding of a CEO’s mindset, management strategies, and the value of creating a positive culture for your business. We encourage you to engage with the following materials at your own pace, and implement them as you see fit in your professional life.Being a successful entrepreneur is all about making choices, and this three part series allows you to do just that. Please take advantage of all three e-books. Each contains valuable tools that will enable you to set goals, delegate responsibilities, and discover your highest potential. So are YOU ready to read about becoming a CEO and STARTING your own company? Scroll up and download my book now and discover some helpful techniques

    Hard-hitting management may deliver short-term results but in the longer term, key people burn out or leave, and business performance falls back.Designing the Purposeful Organization explains how to implement a more enlightened and authentic leadership style that aligns people's strengths to the delivery of a compelling future. It draws on a unique framework that helps leaders manage the eight elements essential for high performance -- purpose, vision, engagement, structure, character, results, success and talent.It moves beyond the boundaries of transactional performance (pay me X and I'll deliver Y) to purpose-centered performance that releases talent, creativity and engagement. Featuring the approach used by innovative businesses like GE, Google and Novartis, this book reveals how to remove the boundaries from an organization's performance.

    Now, imagine your Board of Directors asking you question after question about your business knowledge and decision-making process. Pass--you leave the meeting knowing you have the skills to lead your organization for the next three years. Fail--you are put on an improvement plan or need to fi nd a replacement. Author Randy H. Nelson knows that business doesn't work this way--the majority of Entrepreneurial CEOs are not required to be Qualifi ed to lead their organizations. In The Second Decision, Randy has combined his 6 years of Naval service, 25 years of business experience, and thousands of hours with business leaders to develop, The Entrepreneur Qual Card(TM). Chapter by chapter, you will discover whether you are a Leader that will put the company on your shoulders, a Role-Player that takes another position in the company, or a Creator that moves on to the next big idea. Determine your role and make the hard leadership decisions to help your company beat the odds and keep growing for years to come. Whichever role suits you best, The Second Decision will give you the self-awareness and the step-by-step guide to be--or to train--the Qualifi ed leader that your company needs.

    The first of its kind, written by an author on the forefront of this new trend.

     This new edition of Freedom Without Permission expands upon the authors' radical call to action to take control of your own life and live on your terms. With new essays on how to change the world, how to live happily, and how to control your education and career, Freedom Without Permission is your personal guide to personal freedom. "Freedom Without Permission takes the idea of human liberty seriously, not just as a policy for a free society but a personal philosophy for free people. There is so much wisdom here. A careful reading will save you years of diversions and get you on the right track toward building a new way of life." -- Jeffrey Tucker Too many people seek permission when trying to advance their own lives. They want external actors to open gates for them without realizing that the gates don't exist. Permission isn’t needed and those who think it is create their own barriers to advancing their lives and realizing personal achievement. People believe they must look to others for permission to live their lives. They elect politicians to change the world. They believe schools award education. They believe external validation is the way to a career. They externalize their personal hardships instead of recognizing how often they inflict the hardships onto themselves. They wait for an invitation to create value when the impetus lies in their own hands and minds. They develop dependencies and preconditions that keep them from entrepreneurship. These are all myths. You don't need to ask for permission. But how do you do create a life without permission? The point of this book is to break more than to build. We are not attempting to provide a full-fledged philosophy on life without permission. Instead, the goal is to deconstruct and then offer exercises and habits of thought that will enhance your freedom. The core idea is that you don’t need anyone’s permission to do the things you want to do in life, or learn what you want to learn or feel how you want to feel. An entire intellectual edifice has been constructed to convince you of the opposite, and most of us start out seeing only though its windows. We want to help you tear it down or at least break a few panes so you can see beyond it and begin to form your own ideas about what your life can be. We wish to shatter some paradigms so you can begin to build your own process of learning and living. We begin with lessons that can be learned from history regarding our own freedom. We then look at politics, then education and move into career and entrepreneurship, finally, we end with practices for personal freedom. We span the process of growing up and moving from learning to living, creating the process as you go. This process requires knowledge (starting with self-knowledge), skill, experience, confidence, and relationships, but it doesn’t necessarily require schooling, grades, credentials, or submission to a system or plan created by anyone else. The resources you need are already within you. We peel back some myths and help you see freedom as your own, not something you need permission to enjoy.