Small Business Development

Cracks are forming in the myth of the VC-funded, IPO-driven billion-dollar company. They're unprofitable, unethical and unsustainable - so why bother chasing unicorns? The Minimalist Entrepreneur is the manifesto for a new generation of founders who would rather build great companies than big ones. Packed with hard-won, battle-tested lessons from Lavingia's own journey of building Gumroad, The Minimalist Entrepreneur teaches founders how to start from anywhere to build any kind of software-enabled business.

Transform your business into a High-Value Asset, ready for expansion or sale. Are you a business owner striving to grow your company or prepare it for a lucrative exit? This book is your comprehensive guide to achieving both goals with confidence and clarity.

The Mushin Way teaches tools and techniques to help you reach peak performance and transform your business and personal life. Regardless of what we want to achieve in business or in life, transformation can be difficult and we tend to be our own worst enemies. We hold ourselves back without even realizing what we are capable of. In this audiobook, you'll learn how to break through the cycle of stress and setbacks to act with clarity, purpose, and direction - achieving peak performance and transformation along the way.

Running a business can be discouraging, overwhelming, and lonely. Everything looks good from the outside, but on the inside, you’re struggling to take your business to the next level while still living your best life. What you need is a holistic strategy for running a stable company that makes money and allows you to sleep well at night. This might seem like a fairy tale, but it’s not. After years of research and honing their strategies, Kathryn and Michael K. Redman have developed a framework that offers you the dream with the means of implementation.

50 Things to Know Before Becoming a Stay at Home Mom by Lisa Rusczyk and Amanda Walton offers an approach to being a stay at home mom that is realistic and comes from years of experience. Most books on being a stay at home mom tell you to forget the finer things in life and worry about your child first. Although there's nothing wrong with that, you should be worrying about yourself equally. Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, you will learn great tips to be able to be a great stay at home mom.

Public speaking is the art of using spoken words to convey information or a message to an audience. Public speaking is part of public relations and business communication, attaching one's ideas or thoughts for others to understand. It can be anything from a meeting presentation to a press conference speech. This audiobook is a great guide that will help you to overcome your fear of public speaking and open up to the world. The audiobook will help you how to speak better in public and in front of groups, how to apply the principles of persuasion, how to deal with criticism and audience.

So you have an idea, or maybe a service and you’ve decided you want to open your own business…But where do you start? Whether it's simple like a local window cleaning business you want to begin ... .or a software idea that could take over the globe, we help you cover all of the basics & foundational steps so you learn to walk before you run! Now, it's time to get to work so you can get back to doing what you do best…serving your customers.

Boomer Business: How to Monetize the Silver Tsunami and Shortcut Your Path to Business Ownership is your ultimate guide to monetizing the silver tsunami and embarking on a thrilling path to business ownership. I've seen the transformative power of this approach firsthand, and now it's your turn to tap into this goldmine. Get ready to fast-track your success and create the life you've always dreamed of.

> Enterprise Value walks you step-by-step through the most important challenge of your career. Peter Worrell, the CEO of Bigelow LLC, a renowned private business M&A advisory firm, has spent the last 30 years helping owner-managers make the right decisions for their futures. In this one-of-a-kind guide, he helps you overcome every challenge and make the wisest decisions about selling your company, while ensuring a positive and generative legacy.

Turn Your Passions into Profits outlines step-by-step guidance for turning your passions into a profitable and lasting business. Author Matt McWilliams, a successful entrepreneur and in-demand online business coach, shows you exactly how to do just that. He details how to find and attract your audience, build a following, and ultimately how to monetize your venture quickly and sustainably.

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

Great ideas, concepts, and initiatives seldom break through the sea of business mediocrity. As a senior international leader with more than 30 years of corporate experience, Hamish Thomson has discovered that true transformation and breakthrough comes from personal insight-derived not from intellect or technical mastery, but from experience and observation of real-life occurrences. It's Not Always Right to Be Right offers unique business and leadership insights, teachable models, and practical advice on what one needs to do differently to achieve desired results.

In How to Start a Kids Party Entertainment Business, VentureNest Books provides a thorough roadmap for turning your passion for children's events into a successful business. This guide addresses common challenges faced by aspiring entrepreneurs, such as defining your niche, promoting your services, and managing logistics effectively.

Most books out there will show you the process, the ingredients you need, and how it all works, but none of them show you how to make it just right. If you learn how to make a cheap $5 bottle of wine, you might as well just buy that and not spend your valuable time and effort, but what if you knew how to make that $100 bottle of wine, wouldn’t that be worth spending your time and energy on? Something you can share and enjoy with your friends and family? In this book, I show you just how to make it all perfect and how to eventually sell your wine and make some extra income.

Entrepreneurship is the process of building a business venture from scratch. More than that, it is a way of life. The path of the entrepreneur has been taken by many famous individuals like Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Richard Branson, among others. These people have brought significant contributions to the world, by creating new things and defying the status quo. By becoming an entrepreneur, you will be one of a handful of people in the world who takes the road less traveled and become one of the creators of this world.

Wish you knew how to walk up to anyone and break the ice effortlessly? Do you hope to avoid awkward silences and make an instant impression? You'll get more than that in this book: not only what, when, and how to say it, but the exact roots of why from human psychology and interaction.

A comprehensive guide for entrepreneurs from one of the most successful business creators in recent years, The Reluctant Entrepreneur: Turning Dreams into Profits addresses the fears and misconceptions that many people have about starting their own businesses, walking prospective owners through the necessary decisions they need to make before even putting a business plan in place.

Running a business involves a constant learning curve. And that applies whether you’re a rookie entrepreneur just starting out with a great idea for a new business or a more established small business owner with a quickly growing business that needs to expand. When it comes to running a business, knowing your numbers is one of the most important things you need to know. Without a good grasp of financial terms, you could be operating a glorified hobby and not a real business. Also, financing your business is probably a top concern of yours.

I Wish I Knew This Years Ago by small business entrepreneur Nick Warren teaches you what the wealthy know that the little guys don’t that has the potential to slice and dice your tax liabilities. This step-by-step process has the extreme benefit of passive income creation that is most owner’s day dreams and can become your dream come true, granting you and your family unshakeable confidence in the future.

In Start Your Own Successful Small Business, I show you a simple and easy to follow step-by-step process of starting your very first business, from idea to launch, in a very short period of time. I show you how to come up with a viable business idea and evaluate your idea to see if it would fly or not. I show you how to bring the idea into reality in a very detail step by step process. I also show you how to craft a Business Plan that actually helps you through the whole startup process.