Entrepreneurship

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Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The TimesPicayune The fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the selfmade banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in ...

A global phenomenon now published in a record 43 languages. Over 3.5 million copies sold. A bestseller across five continents.Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in headtohead competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for dif...

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Fourtime New York Times bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk offers new lessons and inspiration drawn from the experiences of dozens of influencers and entrepreneurs who rejected the predictable corporate path in favor of pursuing their dreams by building thriving businesses and extraordinary personal brands.In his 2009 international bestseller Crus...

What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life It's a question most of us consider only hypothetically, opting instead to "do what we have to do" to earn a living. But in the critically acclaimed bestseller The Monk and the Riddle, entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real. The book's timeless advice to make wor...

The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary categorycreating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design.Winning today isn?t about beating the competition at the old game. It?s about inventing a whole new game?defining a new market category, developing it, and dominating it over time. You ca...

With a foreword from Steve Blank, Talking to Humans is a practical guide to the qualitative side of customer development, an indispensable skill for vetting and improving any new startup or innovation. This book will teach you how to structure and run effective customer interviews, find candidates, and turn learnings into action....

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Most startups end in failure.Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don't have are enough customers.Founders and employees fail to spend time thinking about (and working on) traction in the same way they work on building a product. This shortsighted approach has startups trying random tactics some ads, a blog post or two ...

Peter Drucker's classic book on This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service ins...

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In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose ? and earn a good living. Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth ? he?s already visited more than 175 nations ? and yet he?s never held a ?real job? or earned a regular paycheck. Rather,...

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The book explains how most companies get sidetracked by ProductDriven Thinking and how to innovate by starting with the price customers will pay, and creating the product for that price. It will present a process that SimonKucher & Partners has used to help dozens of others avoid innovation failure by making pricing and marketing their guiding li...

More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, stepbystep instructions on building successful, scalable, profitable startups. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 other leading universi...

What if the smartest people in the world understand something that the rest of us don’t (They do.) What if they know that in order to achieve success, they will sometimes have to do things that others may initially perceive as stupid The fact of the matter is that the smartest people in the world don’t run from stupid, they lean into it (in a sma...

The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing"?the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it.Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a fam...

The only way to stand out in today's and tomorrow's cluttered marketplace is to build your product or service into a brand. Think Nike, Starbuck's, Xerox, and Kleenex, and you're thinking brands in the biggest and most lucrative sense. In The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, marketing guru Al Ries, together with Laura Ries, has put together the...

Haters are not your problem. . . . Ignoring them is. Eighty percent of companies say they deliver out­standing customer service, but only 8 percent of their customers agree. This book will help you close that gap by reconfiguring your customer service to deliver knockout experiences. The nearuniversal adoption of smartphones and social media has...

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A predictable pattern of success Entrepreneurs who have read early drafts of The StartUp J Curve responded, ''I wish I had this book years ago.''A startup unfolds in a predictable pattern; the more aware entrepreneurs are of this pattern, the better able they will be to capitalize on it. Author Howard Love calls this pattern the startup J Curve...

In today's volatile business landscape, adaptability and creativity are more crucial than ever. It is no longer possibleor even desirableto 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 atte...

According to John Warrillow, the number one mistake entrepreneurs make is to build a business that relies too heavily on them. Thus, when the time comes to sell, buyers aren't confident that the companyeven if it's profitablecan stand on its own. To illustrate this, Warrillow introduces us to a fictional small business owner named Alex who is str...

In Modern Monopolies, Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson tell the definitive story of what has changed, what it means for businesses today, and how managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners can adapt and thrive in this new era.What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share They're platforms a ...

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Mark Cuban shares his wealth of experience and business savvy in his first published book, " How to Win at the Sport of Business."One of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs, Mark Cuban has collected and updated the greatest material from his popular blog, "blog maverick," to provide a handbook of insider knowledge on what it takes to become a thri...

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New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Broke and "Shark" on ABC's hit show Shark Tank explores how grit, persistence, and good oldfashioned hard work are the backbone of every successful business and individual, and inspires readers to Rise & Grind their way the top. Daymond John knows what it means to push yourself hardand he also kn...

Launch will build your business?fast. Whether you?ve already got a business or you?re itching to start one, this is a recipe for getting more traction.Think about it?what if you could launch like Apple or the big Hollywood studios What if your prospects eagerly counted down the days until they could buy your product What if you could create such ...

At twentyseven, Bo Peabody was an Internet multimillionaire. He has cofounded five different companies, in varied industries, and made them thrive during the best and worst of economic times. Through it all, the one question everyone asks is: Was it his smarts that made him an entrepreneurial leader, or was it just plain luck The truth is, Bo w...

Legal marijuana is the hottest story in the US today. Twentyfive states and the District of Columbia have authorized sales in some form; Denver has more legal marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks franchises. We are witnessing the dawn of a new industry. And like the early days of gourmet coffee chains, the rules and players are being established ...

"Read this book right now so you can look your potential VC in the eye with confidence." David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR Finding the right venture capitalist to back your startup is a challenge. Even if you manage to get backing, you want your VC to be a partner, not some dictator who will undermine your vision and ...

Through stories of young entrepreneurs who have started businesses, this book illustrates how to turn hobbies, skills, and interests into profitmaking ventures. Mariotti describes the characteristics of the successful entrepreneur and covers the nuts and bolts of getting a business up, running and successful....

Occasionally, a great idea will sell itself. The other 99% of the time, you have to find a way to persuade others that it is, in fact, a great idea. Most executives spend the vast majority of their time creating their work, and almost no time on the presentation. Through an engaging and humorous narrative, Peter Coughter presents the tools he desig...

A practical guide to help introverts harness their natural gifts and entrepreneurial spirit Think you have to be loud and brash to be successful in business Think again. The strengths and traits of the typical introvert lend themselves well to entrepreneurship, as well as ?intrapreneurship? and a range of business roles. In The Introvert Entrepr...

Note: This is the UPDATED and EXPANDED version of The One Sentence Persuasion Course NOT the free version that was initially released in 2005. The original material was updated and expanded several years later and rereleased as a commercial mp3 product. This Kindle version contains all the material from the mp3 and is the only place you will fin...

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Business Model Generation is a practical, inspiring handbook for anyone striving to improve a business model or craft a new one.1) Change the way you think about business modelsBusiness Model Generation will teach you powerful and practical innovation techniques used today by leading companies worldwide. You will learn how to systematically underst...

The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond. It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Airbnb was the bestkept secret of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pinterest was a niche web site frequented only by bakers and crafters, LinkedIn was an exclu...

Whether you?re a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an intrapreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. Lean Analytics steers you in the right direction.This book shows you how to validate your initial idea, find the right customers, decide what to build, how to mone...

More uncommon common sense from the bestselling author of "The Art of the Start." In Silicon Valley slang, a bozo explosion is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, If the two most popular words in your company are "partner" and "strategic," and "partner" has become a verb, and "s...

Talk Triggers is the definitive, practical guide on how to use bold operational differentiators to create customer conversations, written by bestselling authors and marketing experts Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin.Word of mouth is directly responsible for 19% of all purchases, and influences as much as 90%. Every human on earth relies on word of mouth ...

One of FORTUNE Magazine's Top 5 Business Book MustReads How do you cut through the noise, commotion, and bad information that is right now cluttering up your customers' digital spaceEPIC CONTENT MARKETINGOne of the world's leading experts on content marketing, Joe Pulizzi explains how to attract prospects and customers by creating information and...

Love your work, work for what you love, and change the world?all at the same time. What matters most to you Should you focus on earning a living, pursuing your passions, or devoting yourself to the causes that inspire you The surprising truth is that you don?t have to choose?and that you?ll find more success if you don?t. That?s the breakthrough ...