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"Anything you want is a manifesto about living life, appreciating enough, and doing what matters. It's most of what fabled entrepreneur Derek Sivers [and founder of CD Baby] learned in ten years of starting and growing a small business, compacted into something you can read in an hour."--Dusk jacket.
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"Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, [this book] provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices that keep these creative entrepreneurs on track. With Q&As, insider tips, and DIYs from each maker, these pages offer guidance and encouragement to artists just starting their careers and to professionals looking to take their creative business to...
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Two-time heavyweight champion of the world and record-busting businessman George Foreman has spent his career challenging prevailing conceptions of success and achievement. In this book, he's stepping into the ring as a coach to teach entrepreneurs the knockout business secrets that lead to extraordinary levels of success. You'll learn how to focus on smart growth, fearlessly seize opportunities, and build an organization of significance. Knockout...
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In The Kinfolk Entrepreneur, author Nathan Williams introduces readers to 40 creative business owners around the globe, offering an inspiring, in-depth look behind the scenes of their lives and their companies. Pairing insightful interviews with striking images of these men and women and their workspaces, The Kinfolk Entrepreneur makes business personal. The book profiles both budding and experienced entrepreneurs across a broad range of industries...
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"By now, we all know the mythology of the digital revolution: it improved efficiency, eliminated waste, and fostered a boom in innovation. But as business reporter David Sax shows in this clear-sighted, entertaining book, not all innovations are written in source code. In fact, businesses that once looked outdated are now springing with new life. Behold the Revenge of Analog. Sax has found story after story of entrepreneurs, small business owners,...
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There has been an explosion of interest in entrepreneurs in the popular media, as well as in business, policy, and education. But what do entrepreneurs do? What is entrepreneurship and why is it important? What is distinctive about entrepreneurs? And where do they come from? This book weaves a pathway through the debates about entrepreneurship, providing a guide to the entrepreneurial process. It looks at how the actions of entrepreneurs are shaped...
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With advice from Daymond John, Bobbi Brown, Mark Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck, Max Levchin, Alexa von Tobel, and other successful early stage startup investors, Inc. magazine shows you how to attract and wisely apply your firm's first precious sources of cash. Bootstrapping, crowdfunding, VCs, payroll, profits -- money makes your business boom. But mess up your finances, and the venture can go bust. It's time to get smart. Let the experts at Inc. guide...
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Open a door into the complex and active mind of Sharper Image founder, Richard Thalheimer. This successful entrepreneur shares stories about creating his visions, taking risks, sharing rewards, cultivating generosity, and showing respect, as well as knowing there always is a way to solve every problem.
"An unprecedented view into the mind of Sharper Image Founder, Richard Thalheimer. Learn to adapt his Billionaire Mindset. Whether you're starting...
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How would you describe chutzpah? Does it include persuasion? Leadership? Perseverance? Risk? Reward? Intestinal fortitude?
There is a skillset, a set of behaviors and characteristics fundamental to business, team, and personal success.
This skillset is called "chutzpah," and it will give you a decided advantage when used for constructive purposes.
Simply put, that is the purpose of this book, The Chutzpah Advantage.
Could chutzpah be your...
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A guide to starting and sustaining creativity-based businesses—from culinary to crafting to film to fashion and beyond.
Many "creative types" don't think they're cut out for business—but Doug Richard, founder of School for Creative Startups, believes entrepreneurs are made, not born. In this user-friendly guide he shows how artists, chefs, designers, musicians, and others can turn their hobbies and passions into sustainable lifestyle...
Many "creative types" don't think they're cut out for business—but Doug Richard, founder of School for Creative Startups, believes entrepreneurs are made, not born. In this user-friendly guide he shows how artists, chefs, designers, musicians, and others can turn their hobbies and passions into sustainable lifestyle...
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"The promise of entrepreneurship is to create a lifestyle of freedom--but the pursuit often leads to a time-bankrupt life. If you're an overworked employee who's done with the 9-to-5, a serial entrepreneur who has yet to realize the American dream, or a burned-out side hustle owner who's tired of the grind, this book was written for you. Passive income expert Brian Page will guide you step-by-step through 38 bite-size chapters that will teach you...
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Our economic crisis has shown that we need a fundamentally new kind of business leader-able to make ethical decisions in the face of strategic unknowns, serve the environment and society while also serving the needs of investors and shareholders, and understand how their personality and the social context in which they operate impacts their leadership. This book lays out a compelling model for creating and developing these new entrepreneurial leaders....
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"Are the rich bad for society? The author of this book, a successful Canadian entrepreneur who made his fortune and created 3000 jobs, has written a manifesto celebrating the achievements of people who have earned their wealth. He says that many of the critics are overlooking one crucial thing: We need business people to build companies and generate wealth to keep the economy going. That's the only way to generate the wealth that pays for government...
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An inspiring entrepreneur, known for his popular The #AskGaryVee Show, highlights the most interesting questions ever posed to him and offers insights and advice on marketing, using social media, creating a personal brand and how to hire superstar employees. --Publisher's description.
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What's your entrepreneurial profile?
Do you have what it takes to build a great business?
In this book, three prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs-now venture capitalists and CEO advisers-share the qualities that surface again and again in those who successfully achieve their goals. The common traits? Heart, smarts, guts, and luck.
After interviewing and researching hundreds of business-builders across the globe, the authors found that...
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Yes! You Can Escape Your Job---If You Win the 10 Battles Required to Go Out On Your Own! Yes, you can do this. You can quit your job, start a business, and never have to work for anybody else ever again. You can do this regardless of whether you feel confident or afraid, your age, your family situation, your education, where you live, and how much time and money you have. You don't have to tolerate a crummy job, lousy boss, long commute, tedious tasks,...
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"In this engaging guide, top thinkers and entrepreneurs Ted Ladd and Alessandro Lanteri show how to create innovations that deliver customer value. Their Innovation Pyramid outlines a strategic process that is rooted in the right cultures and mindsets and uses a range of methods, techniques, and themes to reach the pinnacle of maximum impact. Throughout the book, stories and examples from different organizations and contexts bring the text to life....
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"Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world's top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture"--
Raz has interviewed highly successful entrepreneurs, and here he shares tips for every entrepreneur's journey. From the early days of formulating your idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, to...
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