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Masterclass in Entrepreneurial Development
We all want to be in charge of our own lives, but what happens when the game of business keeps changing?
How can you successfully find new clients, beat the competition, and do it on a shoestring budget?
Lisa J. MacDonald has coached 1000s of business owners for over 25 years, has a PhD in the school of hard knocks, and is the mother of eight. In The Most Common Entrepreneurial Mistakes and How to Avoid Them,...
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Zero to $10 Million is a practical step-by-step guide that teaches entrepreneurs' how to build a $10 million dollar technology business. It describes in detail how to create a great product, find a brilliant team, raise money from professional investors, and then scale the company globally. It is what works in the "real world".
This book is written by Shane Brett, a serial technology entrepreneur with many years' experience of setting up, funding,...
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Many creative founders and freelancers share a longing for connection, reassurance and motivation.
In this book, I've interviewed inspiring, brave and creative experts across the UK and US, tapping into some incredible insights and pulling them together into this friendly guide, to offer that support which we all need from time to time.
This book's for you if you've stopped feeling 'hungry' for new client work, you're starting up for the first (or...
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This book is perfect for anyone looking at business and entrepreneurship. It is ideal for anyone with an interest in business and anyone who has aspirations to start their own business—outlining key principles of the entrepreneurial adventure and the business world, bringing it to life using case studies.
Within this text you will find useful and practical information about business and entrepreneurship. The author provides a robust understanding...
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A Cynic's Business Wisdom is an entrepreneur's manual from the edgy perspective that cynicism teaches us to have a healthy respect for the unexpected.
It equips us to effectively deal with real-world business challenges and capitalize on opportunities. Essentially, it is the flip side of all those "instant-gratification-sugar-coated-success-guaranteed-get-rich-overnight" books.
This manual is a keen reflection of converting collegiate knowledge...
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This book focuses on the concepts, mindset, philosophy, and qualities of entrepreneurship.
There are many books on entrepreneurship available in the market today, but very few speak to the mindset and philosophy required. This book focuses on the concepts, mindset, philosophy, and qualities of entrepreneurship. The author provides guidance and suggest helpful activities at the end of each chapter to inspire the reader to take positive steps toward...
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This book is written for those who may be responsible for, or are generally interested in, the activities of organizations but do not have the knowledge to interpret the financial information that is available.
As an owner of a business or a manager, you will deal with numbers of various types. This book is written for those who may be responsible for, or are generally interested in, the activities of organizations but do not have the knowledge to...
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This book focuses on the values of blockchain across industries.
If you think that blockchain is everything you don't understand about technology, finance, and law mixed together, then this book will help you appreciate its value more clearly. While it is a complex technology that is still largely experimental today, it will be transformative in the future.
This book focuses on the values of blockchain across industries. Among other things, it explores...
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It is an important time to celebrate the advancement of women. We have made visible progress in the last few decades. The number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing. However, there are still many challenges women face that are different from their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success.
The book...
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Succeeding as a Young Entrepreneur describes Harvey Morton's inspirational journey from being bullied at school, told by teachers that he would never succeed, to winning his first business award when he was fourteen years old. Later, becoming an Ambassador for Youth Employment UK, and going on to work with a long list of well-known brands including Sheffield Hallam University, Santander, and the BBC.
The importance of being passionate about the career...
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Starting a Business? What You Need to Think About, Know, and Do
Planning a business needs to start somewhere. This playbook is it.
The objective of this manageable and plainspoken playbook (and workbook) is to sometimes gently, and sometimes less so, prod you toward making an informed decision about your proposed entrepreneurial undertaking or, conversely, help you realize and understand why you need to let go, walk away, and look elsewhere for...
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The book discusses how to keep your startup running and stop it from falling into the pitfalls.
Starting up a business is one of the most interesting journeys you can take up in your life; it's your 'only shot' and a 'big risk'. It can be stressful, chaotic and filled with many sleepless nights, but the payout is always worth it if you do your job right.
In this book, we lead you through every single step in building a start-up. The book discusses...
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We are currently experiencing the second wave of an unprecedented global pandemic–the COVID-19 crisis, which is destroying established industries such as tourism and attributing to the death of millions of people worldwide. The authors believe that the pandemic is analogous to the ancient Roman tragedy of Pompeii when the citadel was buried under four to six meters (13 to 20 feet) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD...
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This book presents time and resource management lessons and tips from senior system administrator Giulio D'Agostino and aims to help increase time management skills and raise questions on how to possibly improve them.
Time is one of the most precious commodities, especially if you are the system administrator of a ''unicorn company'' (a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion). In the 2018 year alone, more than 50 startups around...
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THESE STRATEGIES WILL GIVE YOU SUPERPOWERS
Many books have been written about the high-performance habits successful entrepreneurs adopt, from their daily meditation to how they lead their teams. For Marina Nicholas, her fascination was more about their entrepreneurial journey.
• 1. From Zero: When starting a business, what strategies did they adopt to overcome the odds?
• 2. To Hero: As a highly successful entrepreneur, how did they use their...
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This book covers the financial aspects of a business, including those that are important to start, grow, and sustain an enterprise.
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, over 99 percent of businesses are small or medium size yet the majority of books are focused on large corporations. This book aims to close that gap and also focus on the practitioners-the entrepreneurs, small business owners, consultants-and students aspiring to practice...
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This book is aimed at assisting Western entrepreneurs, SMEs, investors and business students to understand and ideally enter the Chinese e-merging market.
Over the past decades China gained the reputation of being the world's factory, focusing solely on manufacturing exports. This is about to change.
The role of e-commerce is tremendously important in the context of the Chinese government's stated goal of relying less on exports to the recession-stricken...
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Do you want the most up-to-date knowledge on the Chinese market all in one place? Now you can have it, in a set of 3 must-reads. This three-title collection is a must-have for Western entrepreneurs and SMEs doing business in or with China. The books are packed with practical advice, applicable decision-making processes and strategy options.
The Chinese Market Series set includes:
“The Chinese Market”
An essential factor for the success of entrepreneurs...
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This book is primarily focused on the post-pandemic Gen Z and Millennial business opportunities, most of which didn't even exist a generation ago.
No one will forget the year 2020.
The year that a pandemic shut down social, work, and public contact.
There are two particular changes that have had a pronounced effect on business and finance, which this book will provide the guidance currently lacking in traditional business school texts.
The first is...
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The Power of Direct Selling.
Direct selling is not an industry per se nor is it merely a go-to-market business model and channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any of this - direct selling is people. The ability for people with entrepreneurial spirit to build a successful business, whether it be from the ground up or by representing a company's product, is at the heart of direct selling and it is people who made (and continue to make) direct...
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