Corporate Career

As each new generation of entrepreneurs emerges, there is a renewed interest in how venture capital deals come together. Yet there really is no definitive guide to venture capital deals. Nobody understands this better than authors Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. For more than seventeen years, they've been involved in hundreds of venture capital financings, and now, with Venture Deals, they share their experiences in this field with you.

A revised second edition of the book that shows you how to use Bible-based leadership principles to improve your business.

In How to Run Your Business by The Book, famed leadership guru Dave Anderson reveals biblical lessons to help transform the people, culture, and results of your business. You'll read what the Bible has to say about hiring and training people, managing money, creating a leadership vision, achieving ambitious goals, and much more.

For millions of men and women in sales today, the workplace offers little in the way of effective, on-going training or guidance to improve careers or lives. If you have the desire to pull away from the pack, raise your earnings to higher levels, and derive more enjoyment out of what you do, the path to greater achievement must often be developed on your own. Selling Above the Crowd is your coaching guide for that journey.

This book is a collection of questions and answers from my Quora and responses to students. It addresses a broad range of issues that come up about the nature of financial statements, how to value a company or startup, how to analyze financials, and how to create personal wealth. Check out the table of contents and see if this material is of interest to you.

Twice a year in the heart of Silicon Valley, a small investment firm called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs from around the world for three months of intense work and instruction. Their brand-new two- or three-person start-ups are given a seemingly impossible challenge: to turn a raw idea into a viable business, fast.

The world is changing fast. Political risk - the probability that a political action could significantly impact a company's business - is affecting more businesses in more ways than ever before. A generation ago, political risk mostly involved a handful of industries dealing with governments in a few frontier markets. Today, political risk stems from a widening array of actors, including Twitter users, local officials, activists, terrorists, hackers, and more. In today's globalized world, there are no "safe" bets.

Want to turn empty rooms, unused buildings, or underutilized spaces into consistent monthly income? How to Start an Event Space Business: Turn Empty Rooms into Cashflow is your complete guide to launching a profitable event venue—perfect for weddings, parties, pop-ups, workshops, and more.

There are almost endless benefits to starting an S-Corp that give both you personally and your company a financial and legal edge. Still, often, the process can be very daunting. It can seem like there's an NEVER ENDING amount of paperwork and legal terminology that is meant to trip you up. The truth is it's very easy to get things wrong when forming an S-Corp. It can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars, countless hours, and serious legal trouble. Don't risk it.

Part memoir, part manifesto, Soulbbatical is an invitation to become Chief Soul Officer of your own life - and to open up a whole new world of possibility. Former Harley-Davidson executive Shelley Paxton did just that. She walked away at the peak of her 26-year marketing career and embarked on a profoundly personal journey to reconnect with her true purpose and deepest desires. She called it her “Soulbbatical”, and it not only changed her life, it became her calling.

New Edition 2024. Lyn Kelley, Ph.D., Certified Professional Coach with over 20 years experience in business coaching gives you the step-by-step method to become a corporate or business coach or consultant. Most importantly she shows you how to promote it, how to get in with big corporations, and how to maintain your professional ethics and integrity. Dr. Lyn shows you exactly how you can become rich in the Corporate Coaching boom! You can easily earn $250/hr to $2500/day with business and corporate coaching. Plus she gives you samples of all the forms, contracts, letters and ads you’ll ...

Most business leaders understand the power of a dynamic, positive culture - but almost every effort to change culture fails. Why? The approach is often all wrong. Rather than attempt to "transform" a new culture from the ground up, leaders need to instead spearhead a culture renovation. In Culture Renovation, Kevin Oakes provides tangible, tactical insights drawn from a robust data set and informed by CEOs and HR leaders at many of the world's top companies.

You subscribe to the basic idea that business can do more than make money, but you're not sure how to act on that conviction or how to share it with the rest of your organization. The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide - the authoritative follow-up to the best-selling book Conscious Capitalism, by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, and leadership expert Raj Sisodia - gives you the tools for sharing and implementing the principles of higher purpose and conscious business throughout your organization.

AudioLearn Law School Course Outlines presents Corporate Law. Written by distinguished law professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this outline covers what is typically taught in a law school corporate law course. Included are detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master the course.

Innovation used to be seen as a game best left to entrepreneurs, but now a new breed of corporate managers is flipping this logic on its head. These Corporate Explorers have the insight, resilience, and discipline to overcome the obstacles and build new ventures from inside even the largest organizations. Corporate Explorer is a guidebook to the practices that enable these managers to go from idea into action. This actionable and proven framework explains how managers can become successful corporate innovators.

Founder and CEO of ColorComm Corporation Lauren Wesley Wilson reveals the unwritten rules that women of color need to know in order to succeed in the workplace. Drawing from her own career experiences, Lauren shares the playbook you’ll need to advance to the C-Suite. Told through stories from her own career and those of her friends and connections—including Whoopi Goldberg, Gayle King, Ann Curry, Michelle Lee—as well as through tools, resources, and practical strategies, Lauren uncovers the secrets of how women of color can reach executive leadership positions.

Imagine running a business without a strategy. It would be akin to driving blindfolded, to building a house without a blueprint. The concept of strategy changed all that, paving the way for the creation of the modern corporate world. The Lords of Strategy provides listeners with a deeper understanding of the world they compete in, and a sharper eye for what works — and what doesn’t — when forging strategy.

Wright gives you the tools necessary to feel confident and ready to standout amongst your peers. A must read for any one out in the job market. Ever feel like the job interview process can sometimes be a little too much? this book is more than just how to answer the tough questions in a job interview. When you read this book, you will learn not what to say, but how to say it. Most people don't see it, but 80% of someones opinion of you is formed within the first 5 minutes of meeting you. You don't even have to say anything for this to happen, it is all in how you look and how you act. With ...

Based on extensive insider interviews and participation, acclaimed author Ben Mezrich's Straight Flush tells the captivating rags-to-riches tale of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local dive bar into AbsolutePoker.com, one of the largest online companies in the world. But then the U.S. Department of Justice placed a bull's-eye on Absolute Poker. Did they fold - or double down and ride their hot hand?

Over the last 30 years a host of new technologies have begun to change every industry, driving us into a new era of human existence. The companies who have been most able to tap into these new innovations have become the most highly valued companies in the world. To do so, they have created a new approach to corporate innovation.

What you're reading here is what I wish someone had told me at the beginning of my career. I hope it's still time for you to change your ways and meet the success you deserve. Every lesson you read has been learned through great sacrifice, wasted years and missed opportunities. I want you to avoid these mistakes. This book answers painful questions like these: - Why do colleagues who are less competent and less motivated than you advance faster in their careers? - Why are other people's ideas accepted while yours are rejected? - A small success of your colleague is celebrated while your ...