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Due to a range of frequent and unavoidable mistakes, only ten percent of startups make it beyond five years. In this game-changing guide, startup veteran and serial entrepreneur Gregory Shepard combines twelve startup exits, four private equity awards, and decades' worth of expert insight and industry experience—including interviews with real entrepreneurs, Navy SEALs, Air Force Fighter Pilots, and more—to present you with straightforward, actionable strategies for mapping out your startup and achieving success.

Tired of spending countless hours sourcing, listing, and shipping thrift store finds? Imagine scaling your reselling business while actually working less. Thrift Store Automation is your comprehensive guide to building efficient systems that free up your time and boost your profits. This isn’t just another theory-filled business book. Inside, you’ll discover actionable strategies to: Automate key tasks: Learn to streamline your sourcing, listing, and shipping processes using readily available tools and resources. Master efficient sourcing techniques: Identify profitable niches and ...

In 2014, Steve Case launched Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, an initiative to accelerate the growth of tech startups across the country. Rise of the Rest is based on a simple idea: cities can be renewed and rise again if they develop a vibrant startup culture. A visionary entrepreneur himself, Case believes that great entrepreneurs can be found anywhere, and can thrive with the proper support and investment. In fact, they’re key to the American DNA. After all, America itself was a startup. It struggled to get going and almost didn’t make it. Today it’s the leader of the free world, in part because it has the world’s largest economy—a testament to several generations of pioneering entrepreneurs.

Crisis-Proof: Building an Invincible Organization with ISO 22301 How Smart Companies Turn Disruption into Competitive Advantage Through Business Continuity Mastery In a world where businesses face constant challenges and unpredictable disruptions, it’s no longer enough to simply react to problems. Crisis-Proof: Building an Invincible Organization with ISO 22301 is your practical guide to preparing your business for anything that comes your way. By leveraging ISO 22301, the international standard for business continuity management, this book shows you how to protect your operations, ensure...

Money is a game you can win. First, understand the rules. True financial independence provides the opportunity to use money the way you'd like, look after your family and plan for your future. This book explains how money works, how to understand it better and how to protect it once your bank balance starts growing

The 7-Star Freelancer is a step-by-step guide to freelance your way to freedom. It discusses in ten chapters how to succeed in the gig economy. Each chapter focuses on essential steps in the journey of becoming a freelancer and working from home comfortably. This piece of work contains information for beginners and professional remote workers. Every beginner will understand the business of freelancing and how to grow their income level in the market gradually. The book will also help many experienced freelancers scale up their reach and improve their game. The 7-Star Freelancer identifies ...

Victor W. Hwang and Greg Horowitt propose a radical new theory to explain the nature of innovation ecosystems: human networks that generate extraordinary creativity and output. They argue that free market thinking fails to consider the impact of human nature on the innovation process. This ambitious work challenges the basic assumptions that economists have held for over a century.

Six-Figure Chicks is a book that will inspire and motivate you to achieve more success than you can imagine! What do we mean by “Six-Figure Chicks,” exactly? Yep, you guessed it...we make $100,000 OR MORE every year as business owners or in our careers. Why did we create a book about good habits and stories from women earning six figures or more? Because isn’t that what everyone wants? Well, it may or may not be what you think you want now, but it’s absolutely possible! And we’re not talking about working our tails off while earning this income, either. While some of us DID do ...

Marketing Your Aging in Place CAPS Business is your ultimate guide to mastering the art of aging-in-place marketing and establishing your business as best in class. Packed with actionable strategies and innovative concepts, this book will transform the way you think about serving older adults in their homes. Inside, you’ll discover: How to think like an Aging-in-Place Contrarian: Stand out in a crowded market with fresh perspectives. The impact of Environmental Press: Understand how EP affects older adults and how your designs can empower them. Choice Architecture for Aging in Place: ...

New York Times best-selling author and leadership expert Ken Blanchard’s popular TrustWorks! training program is now available in audiobook form! Trust Works!: Four Keys to Building Lasting Relationships is an insightful guide designed to help people navigate one of the most complex issues that affects all areas of our lives: trust. In Trust Works!, Ken Blanchard, Cynthia Olmstead, and Martha Lawrence demonstrate how to get along better with those around us.

Discover the transformative power of leisure to recapture your calm and creativity. We live in a time where busyness is often seen as a badge of honor. But are your busiest days really the ones that make you feel the most accomplished? If all of your hard work isn't working, it might be time to question the common assumption that “busy” = “productive.” After reaching breaking points in their careers, business coach John Fitch and AI researcher Max Frenzel both learned the critical importance of taking time off. Now these former workaholics are here to help you revolutionize the way ...

Welcome to "Market Mastery," a comprehensive guide designed to inspire and instruct those dreaming of starting and running a successful local farm store. This title is a one-stop source, offering a deep dive into the concept of the local farm store, detailing benefits, and showcasing how a well-run store can be a valuable asset in your community. "Market Mastery" doesn't stop at the conceptual stage. It goes further to present practical applications of these ideas, taking readers step-by-step through essential aspects like business planning, product selection, sourcing, and inventory ...

Mastering the Cube skillfully lays out proven organization design principles. Comparing today's complex organizations to a Rubik's Cube, the authors explain how focusing improvement efforts on just one or two facets of the organization is akin to concentrating on just one side of the cube. Doing so is bound to affect - and more likely jumble - the other areas needed to generate a healthy and sustainable organization. They advocate stepping back and taking a systems-wide, comprehensive view of change and bringing all elements into alignment with strategy.

In The Culture Solution, business consultant and The New York Times best-selling author of The Dream Manager and Off Balance presents the six enduring principles of a dynamic culture, designed in a way that is both intensely practical and inspiring. If you want to grow your business; attract, grow, and retain top talent; learn the key to hiring in the 21st century; teach every person in your organization that they have a role to play in making the culture better today than it was yesterday, this book is for you and every person on your team.

You don't have to be a 23-year-old dancer with no savings to end up with the excruciating debts young Iris is confronted with in this latest work by financial and legal advisor Tad Crawford. Every year, thousands of Americans of all ages and backgrounds overtax their bank accounts and credit cards and are left with the tricky task of pulling themselves out of their financial chaos. Rarely can they receive such high-quality financial and moral support as The Money Mentor provides.

For 50 years, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their professional development, from writing prompts and tips on technique to informative interviews with published authors, literary agents, and editors. But never before has Poets & Writers marshalled its 50 years’ worth of knowledge to create an authoritative guide for writers that answers every imaginable question about craft and career - until now.

One of the world's premier branding experts, Gabor provides invaluable insights that will help your own enterprise build positive brand equity, good will, and the "irrational loyalty" that will support your brand long-term through the best and worst of times. This is your essential guide to building Irrational Loyalty.

Imagine what would happen if you could quickly elevate the EQ score of everyone in your organization. Profitability, retention, and customer satisfaction would soar! Studies prove that emotional intelligence - knowing how to manage emotions, empathize, build relationships, and more - drives performance. But how do you get naturally resistant people to practice new ways of thinking?

Suze Orman, the woman millions of Americans have turned to for financial advice, says it’s time for a serious reconsideration of the American Dream - what promise it still holds, what aspects are in need of revision, and how it must be refashioned to fit our lives so that we can once again have faith that our hard work will pay off and that a secure and hopeful future is within our reach. In nine electrifying chapters, Orman delivers a master class on personal finance for this pivotal moment in time and addresses every aspect of the American Dream.

Discover the Power of a Side Hustle: Transform Your Life and Achieve Financial Independence! 🌟 Do you dream of financial freedom but feel held back by constant distractions and a lack of patience? It's time to unlock your side hustle potential and turn it into a thriving, lucrative business with "The Side Hustle Breakthrough: Cultivating Millionaire Success Habits to Conquer Distractions and Achieve Life-Changing Financial Independence"! Inside this must-read financial freedom book, you'll discover: Proven techniques to eliminate distractions, master focus, and supercharge your ...