First Business

Over 543,000 new businesses are started every month. Most fail. Many never get a paying customer. This book gives you a proven system on how to start a business online in just one hour a day and get your first paying customers in one month (or less). The secret is ”agile entrepreneurship” - the new way to entrepreneurial success. In the tech industry, the agile approach made possible the Airbnbs, Instagrams, and Ubers we can’t imagine living without. If agile software founders can build companies worth billions in a garage, imagine what agile entrepreneurship can do for you!

As a teenage orphan in England in 1791, Mary Reibey was sentenced to death for stealing a horse. When police cornered her, she was dressed as a boy, and she maintained that disguise until she was unmasked at her trial. Due to her 'tender age', Reibey was spared the hangman's noose and sentenced to seven years' transportation to the colony of New South Wales. With the odds stacked against her, Reibey went on to become Australia's first female business tycoon and the richest woman in the colony, founding the Bank of New South Wales, now one of the nation's biggest financial institutions.

You deserve a career that allows you to explore new cultures, challenge the way you think and provide the financial freedom to reinvent yourself. This book lays out a simple career lifecycle model called ADAPT — a five-stage career lifecycle model.

This new offering from management expert Gary S. Topchik, coauthor of The First-Time Manager, Fifth Edition, covers the basics of team building, giving novice managers all the activities and information they need to achieve team-building success. From making the transition from team member to team leader, to holding team members accountable, to managing challenging situations and resolving conflict, The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team Building tells listeners how their own management style can influence how successful their teams become.

Strategic Leaders Are Made, Not Born provides an important foundation for every leader who is seeking to be more strategic in how they live and work. Each day, all of us face an overwhelming wave of daily tasks that can keep us from focusing on what we care about most. This audiobook provides leaders with critical tools for this journey.

Competing in the global economy isn't unlike guerrilla warfare. Your competitors come at you from unexpected places with surprising force, and the marketplace is constantly shifting. As a leader, what do you do to empower your business and your people not only to survive but to thrive - and win? First, Fast, Fearless is a practical guide for the business leader who wants to learn from the best of the best how to build and lead effective teams in conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and constant change.

Money Anxiety is a behavioral economics book exploring how financial anxiety impacts consumer behavior. The book explains why we make instinctive financial decisions, why we are more risk averse when stressed, and why we hate to lose more than we love to win.

In his audiobook, Frank J. O’Connell shares his personal stories, business strategies, his passion for mentoring, and proven methods for management. Jump First, Think Fast details Frank’s many business successes – as well as some failures – in an honest and forthright way. Jump First, Think Fast is for those who want to think differently about business and learn how to find their place, trust their instincts, and enjoy the ride from a successful CEO’s stories, lessons, and life moments.

Thing First details UX Consultant Joe Natoli's no-nonsense approach to creating successful products, powerful user experiences and very happy customers. He shares countless lessons learned from more than 30 years as a UX consultant to Fortune 500, 100, and US government organizations—including a few he's learned the hard way.

Ray Zinn founded his semiconductor company without venture capital and ran it for 37 years, 36 of them profitably - an enviable record. He went blind weeks before his company went public, yet he led it for another 20 years. Tough Things First, the distillation of Zinn's astonishing career as CEO of Micrel, is a comprehensive, inspirational head-to-toe training program for entrepreneurs and leaders.

Justin Breen considers himself a results guy; he’s great at making things happen, but not so great at generating awesome ideas. But that hasn’t stopped him from creating an epic business and life! What Breen lacks in idea generation, he makes up for in his ability to recognize when an amazing idea is presented to him. The concepts that rule his life and success evolved from conversations with innovators. Learn the 30 transformational ideas Breen has gathered from some of the world’s top business leaders. Each chapter concludes with simplified takeaways.

Most first-time employees don’t know how to successfully navigate their first job opportunity. They get hired, hopefully get trained, and get a paycheck. Their first job becomes a line item on a résumé and nothing more. You need a plan to thrive at your first job. Master Your First Job is the remarkable path to get from your first day to your first promotion. In this book, you’ll learn how to build a personal brand at work, give and receive good feedback, get your first raise, get your first promotion, and use your first job to advance your career.

Your First Startup: The Startup Business Guide, From Idea To Launch by Wayne Walker is the essential guidebook that will help you successfully transition from traditional employment to entrepreneurship. Have you always wanted to start your own business but didn't know where to begin? Your First Startup is the perfect guide to help you turn your business idea into a reality. From developing your initial concept to launching your product or service, this comprehensive guide will walk you through every step of the startup process. In this groundbreaking new book, you'll descover: Business idea...

Editors H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Halil Kiymaz, and their coauthors examine PE and provide important insights about topics such as major types of PE (venture capital, leveraged buyouts, mezzanine capital, and distressed debt investments), how PE works, performance and measurement, uses and structure, and trends in the market. Listeners can gain an in-depth understanding about PE from academics and practitioners from around the world.

For the past two years as a country, as a world, we've all been faced with a crisis that none of us was prepared for. In this blindsiding which was the coronavirus, the world got an invitation to see and question things as they were. One of the major things that came up in the midst of the pandemic was "self-care".

"Your Hope Story: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Write and Publish Your First Book" is a comprehensive manual aimed at aspiring authors. It addresses common obstacles writers encounter as they consider telling their stories, and offers practical advice on overcoming these challenges.

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days at PopSugar creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home. She and her husband have three daughters, and she's the number one soccer mom who loves reading bedtime stories every night.

The Good Enough Job reminds us that the biggest goal of all is to live a life we are happy with, and in which work is but one of the multitude of facets that make us who we are. An antidote to the toxic #hustle movement convincing us all we need to find fulfilment in the office, it denounces the dangers of burnout linked to those of us who cannot answer the question: beyond work, what's left?

The word affiliate marketing is heard and seen a lot on the Internet. This book will introduce you to the world of affiliate marketing. Many people make a good career out of it. Affiliate marketing is a good career for many people. However, you cannot just treat it like a fun hobby that you can do with very minimal effort and expect to get a money printing machine. This is the interesting world. Now dive in with me.

Learn how you can generate millions of dollars in passive income through Airbnb even if you don’t own any inch of property! And when you consider the fact that the average Airbnb property currently have a higher potential for profits than the traditional long-term rentals, this sounds like music to your ears if you ever wish to venture into real estate. With the teachings in this audiobook, you will learn how to make tons of cash through Airbnb with or without property to propel yourself to the million dollar level, fast!