Entrepreneurship

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.The times and circumstances in which people were raised often shape them - yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In this follow-up to the bestselling business classic The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz turns his attention to a question crucial to every organisation: How do you create and sustain the culture you want? This book is a journey through cultures ancient to modern, spotlighting models of leadership and culture-building from the samurai to prison gangs. Along the way, it answers fundamental questions: Who are we? How do people talk about us when we're not around? How do we treat our customers? Can we be trusted? Because who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It's not what you say in a company-wide meeting. It's not your marketing campaign. It's not even what you believe. Who you are is what you do. This book will help you do the things needed to become the kind of leader you want to be - and others want to follow.

Understanding Social Enterprise explores the growth of social enterprise and entrepreneurship, it's popularity, global impact, and sustainability. The 3rd edition includes new case studies and updates to literature, research, policy and legal references.

Successful startups are rare. More than 80 percent of all early stage startups fail. Most startups can build a product but, sadly, the vast majority stumble when it comes time to take those products to market. Traversing the Traction Gap exposes the reasons behind that scary failure rate and provides a prescriptive how to guide for startups to succeed.

Glenn Armstrong is known as 'The Millionaire Maker' - not just making millions for himself, but guiding others to follow their dreams and to make millions for themselves too. He made his first million at 29.

By most people's standards I would say I've had a pretty good career. Now I want to share what I've learned through my own experiences, and am still learning, to change the way you work so that female energy and power will be seen as the most valuable currency in today's new world of work.

P. Diddy 1999. The keys to success & not giving a f*ck. 12 exclusive photos 52 links to video Rare promo items. The Real Diddy unveils a core understanding of who Sean Combs is as a man, father, celebrity, artist, producer, entrepreneur and visionary. These crucial reflections symbolize the turning point of Sean Combs life IN HIS OWN WORDS! Puffy, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Black Sinatra: whatever you choose to call him, Sean Combs has used his brain, finesse, and savvy to amass a net worth currently approaching ONE BILLION DOLLARS!Exclusive Sean Combs interview. Distinctive Toronto 1999 press conference.The Real Diddy, the 12th book in the series, captures an ambitious Sean Combs TWICE in the summer of 1999. It is THE key period in his life, fundamental to understand the thought process that precipitated his current success. The crossroads of life once completely in sync with the music business and the shift to entertainment lifestyle capitalism.The GOODPuff Daddy is set to release Forever, the follow up to his 7 000 000 selling takeover No Way Out. Sean Combs entertainment lifestyle empire and the influence that comes with lording over a corner of pop culture is on a steady incline. Bad Boy Entertainment, Sean John, Justin's, Notorious magazine are in fine form.The BADA bevvy of ugly personal rumours aims for Sean Combs essence. His sexuality is questioned, and there are rumblings he is connected to the murder of Tupac Shakur.The UGLYPerilous and under the gun, Sean Combs is facing second-degree assault and criminal mischief charges, for erupting into Nas manager and Interscope Records executive Steve Stoute's office and allegedly smashing a champagne bottle over his head.Scroll up and buy it today!Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the energy that surged through music in the 90s and 2000s. It presents exclusive, original interviews as an honest record, directly from authentic creative forces, and is a distinct historical document.

The one book every entrepreneur needs to launch and grow a business.

Raised in the grim, urban decay of Thatcher's Britain, Sheffield-born Magnus Walker left school with just two O levels and drifted for several years before buying a one-way ticket to America. This is the story of succeeding through pure instinct and determination by a man who was brave enough to follow his own path.

Poke the Box is Seth Godin's spirited call to action for anybody too afraid to try something new, now relaunched and repackagedIf you are happy being just a dreamer, perhaps you don't need this book.If you're enjoying the status quo, don't even consider reading this book.If you are content waiting for success to find you, please put this book down and go find something else to read.Why has Poke the Box become a cult classic?Because it's a book that dares readers to do something they're afraid of.It could be what you need, too.'Like the man who produced it, Poke the Box is inspired and inspiring' Daniel H. Pink'A one-two punch! Half kick in the ass, half cheerleading encouragement' Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art

'Infuriating... Wilkin's main claim is that the super-rich have discovered 'secret' ways of both making and preserving their fortunes... like [Capital author Thomas] Piketty, Wilkin has a love-hate relationship with capitalism. He takes the view that most billionaires are rich because, one way or another, they have found ways to rig the market.' The TimesWhat does it take to make a fortune? Hard work? Great ideas? Intelligence? Business acumen? Or something else entirely? Spanning centuries and continents, from the Ancient World to the 21st century, Wealth Secrets of the 1% uncovers the economic principles that enable a fortunate few to get really rich. Witty, provocative and immaculately researched, it is essential and revelatory reading at a time when 1% of the world's population owns half of its wealth.'Clever [and] entertaining, with a distinctly satirical edge' Daily Mail'Illuminating [and] eye-opening... sure to make libertarian heads explode' Kirkus Reviews'What makes this book different is that Sam Wilkin is an inside man' Daily Telegraph'No one gets really rich reading how-to-get-rich handbooks...Wilkin offers up the real scoop in Wealth Secrets of the One Percent, a delicious - and insight-packed - send-up of the genre.' Toomuch.com

Thomas Edison famously said that genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Every day new solutions, revolutionary cures, and artistic breakthroughs are conceived and squandered by smart people. Along with the gift of creativity come the obstacles to making ideas happen: lack of organisation, lack of accountability and a lack of community support.Scott Belsky has interviewsed hundreds of the most productive creative people and teams in the world, revealing one common trait: a carefully trained capacity for executing ideas. Implementing your ideas is a skill that can be taught, and Belshy distills the core principles in this book.While many of us obsess about discovering great new ideas, Belsky shows why it is better to develop the capacity to make ideas happen - using old-fashioned passion and perspiration. Making Ideas Happen reveals the practical yet counterintuitive techniques of 'serial creatives' - those few who make their visions a reality.

Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them. He looks at whether it is a good idea to cofound with friends or relatives, how and when to split the equity within the founding team, and how to recognize when a successful founder-CEO should exit or be fired. Wasserman explains how to anticipate, avoid, or recover from disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between controlling the startup and attracting the best resources to grow it, and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long term. The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders. People problems are the leading cause of failure in startups. This book offers solutions.

Start something new, develop your career and diversify your skills - without giving up your day jobYou want to launch a business, try something new and make yourself more employable, but you don't want to lose the security of your job. You no longer have to choose. Instead, become a 10% entrepreneur. In The 10% Entrepreneur, Patrick J. McGinnis shows you how to integrate entrepreneurship into your life by investing 10% of your time and, if possible, 10% of your capital into side projects. You will generate more income, discover new opportunities, sharpen your skills - and get the life you've always wanted.

Author, kinesiologist and business alignment coach Cassie Mendoza-Jones fearlessly leads ambitious women on the path to self-discovery, success and happiness - in business and life. With practical tools, spiritual insights, coaching prompts and empowering exercises, she explains how to nurture the inner self and design a creative life aligned to who we are inside.

Robert Kiyosaki -- author of the #1 Personal Finance book of all time -- has built a legacy around simplifying complex and often-confusing subjects like money and investing. He continues to challenge conventional wisdom and asks the questions that will help readers sift through today's information overload to uncover ways to assess what's real... and what isn't. And use truth and facts as a foundation for taking control of their financial lives. In this new book--that will be released, by chapter, online to invite reader feedback and questions that will be included in the print and e-book editions--Robert fights what's 'fake' and helps readers differentiate between what's real...and what isn't. Robert pulls no punches in his assessment of what is passed off as 'fact' or conventional wisdom and believes that a strong foundation--for anything we want to build--needs to start with solid, true information. In today's uncertain times, creating a secure financial future and the peace of mind that comes with it starts with taking action and taking control. In FAKE: Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets, Robert delivers insights and answers that help ordinary people--who probably haven't had a lot of financial education--determine what's 'real' and relevant to their financial lives. Every day we are bombarded with news reports and information and opinions... How do we decipher fact from fiction? How do we differentiate between truth and lies? And determine what's real... from what isn't? Kiyosaki believes that it starts with education, financial education designed to make us smarter with our money--and able to fight what's fake and use what isn't to secure our financial future.

Are you interested in learning how to earn money online in your free time? Do you want to break free from the 9-to-5 lifestyle and build a business that empowers you to achieve financial and location freedom? Would you like to explore some unique things you can do to make an affiliate marketing endeavor successful and earn passive income while you sleep? If you’re interested in exploring the possibilities offered by affiliate marketing, this is just the right book to teach you everything you need to know! Keep reading.With affiliate marketing, you earn commission by selling products online for companies. All you have to do is advertise and entice people to buy the products you are promoting. You do not have to deal with the product design, creation, customer service, shipping, etc.Affiliate marketing is a great business model for earning income from home. It doesn’t cost much to get started. Most affiliate programs are free to join. You can create your own schedule, and your office can be anywhere that has internet access. While it does take time and effort to learn how to become a stellar affiliate marketer, it is a legitimate and lucrative way to earn an astonishing amount of money.In the Affiliate Marketing Playbook 2019, Steven Sparrow will share all the steps you need to take to get started with affiliate marketing. By the end of this book, you will discover: Stellar ways to find the ideal products to sellUnderstand the different vehicles you can use in order to set up your affiliate marketing business.How to pick out a profitable nicheFive key places to post your affiliate marketing linksHow to set up your website to bring in customers and make profitsMistakes to avoid with affiliate marketingEmail marketing strategies to help your affiliate links beat out the competitionAnd much more!While a lot of get-rich-quick schemes out there just take your money without really teaching you anything, this practical guidebook will show you exactly what you need to do to start seeing profits come in.It’s important to have realistic expectations about the results you’ll see from affiliate marketing. This can be an effective tool to help you greatly elevate your level of income, but you do have to put in effort to reap the rewards.Check out this fantastic guidebook to get started on the right foot with affiliate marketing! Why wait?Take action with one easy click of the BUY button today!

"Tales of Power meets the Peaceful Warrior... in Silicon Valley! It''s entertaining, humble, insightful and valuable - not just to entrepreneurs, but to anyone looking to manifest their dreams and make a difference in the world." -Foster Gamble, Creator and Host, Thrive: What on Earth Will It Take"You will come away with insight about yourself, guidance ... and knowledge that you may not be able to acquire anywhere else save the mountaintops of the Himalayas." -Bookreview.com Read Zen Entrepreneurship, the book that has inspired entrepreneurs and spiritual seekers worldwide! Based on a true story, this book is about succeeding in life while walking a spiritual path. Follow the travels of a young entrepreneur as he starts and grows a multi-million dollar business, only to discover that real success is tied to the hidden worlds and learn the secrets of being a Career Warrior. This book is not just for entrepreneurs, but for anyone who wants to find their work and place in life, who want to bring more integrity into their work and be more successful personally and financially. "Riz Virk brings the wisdom of ancient Eastern traditions into a purely Western setting. The result is an often hilarious but always insightful book that will change how you view career success and help you discover and walk your own unique path." -Marc Allen, author of Visionary Business, CEO and co-founder of New World Library Zen Entrepreneurship will teach you the 14 hidden keys for success, including:how to use your work for spiritual growthhow to achieve success using the Four Keys to Manifestationhow to discover and transcend your Energetic Pattern, rather than letting it run youhow to bring the magic and mystery of a treasure hunt into your career.how to find the 7 Clues that are pointing you to the person you were meant to be!How to utilize your dreams and synchronicity to serve as your guideHow to find and utilize Places of Power, and Times of Power to be more successfulHow to manifest appropriately to propel you to financial and business successHow to find and walk your own Warrior''s Path, the unique combination of lesson and contributions you are here for"Zen Entrepreneurship changed my life, it confirmed for me that ''clues'' exist in the world around us and are powerful. I shared this book with every one of my clients from that point forward. Powerful. A must read... it reinforces that there is a bigger guide within us if we choose to listen" -Lorin Beller, author of From Entrepreneur to Big Fish: 7 Principles of Wild Success

In this entrepreneurial age, it's very tempting to leave your job to start your own business. Before you do, learn all you can from the best. This book is just that. World renowned bestselling author and business consultant Brian Tracy tells you about one of today's most needed skill sets, entrepreneurship, covering these important topics:MYTHS of entrepreneurshipBEST business choice for youFINANCING the businessSHIFTING from employee mindset to entrepreneurial mindsetCREATING a realistic business planHIRING the best and managing for successFUELING your business growth with sales and marketingThis book is designed to help anyone who wants to start or grow a business. Let Brian Tracy teach you the science of entrepreneurship, tested and proven not just for years, but for millennia. If you simply study the ideas in this book, and apply them, you too, can become a successful entrepreneur.KIRKUS REVIEWA hard-line path to successful entrepreneurship for beginners...Aspiring entrepreneurs will benefit from Tracy's straightforward strategies.

The leading authority on network marketing shares everything you need to know to lead a successful direct sales team.Defcon 1 Direct Selling is the must-have playbook for anyone leading a direct sales team. It's Gage's follow up to the international bestseller, Direct Selling Success, and it's a handbook for leaders.DEFCON is the U.S. military acronym for "Defense Readiness Condition." DEFCON 1 is reserved only for imminent catastrophic events, like a nuclear war. Luckily, you don't have to fend off missile attacks in direct selling, but you will face some extremely difficult challenges and urgent crises leading your MLM team. No one knows how to lead teams better than author Randy Gage, a former high school dropout who rose to become a self-made multi-millionaire and inspire millions around the world. In this highly anticipated book, Randy teaches you how to hold your team together in the mostdifficult circumstances --the stuff no one likes to talk about, but that is vital for top-level leaders.It takes much more than a positive attitude and motivational words to be a successful field leader. True leadership requires you to deal with messy, complicated scenarios when there is not always a clear-cut solution. Many of these challenges are caused by factors completely out of your control--from economic, regulatory, and political setbacks, to having top leaders quit, to companies going out of business, and a host of other issues. It's at times like these, when it seems like your team is falling apart, that you must draw upon your resilience, persistence, and character to ride out the storm and lead your team through the chaos. This indispensable resource will enable you to:* Create a team culture of maximum readiness* Deal with toxic leaders and effectively handle conflict resolution* Use your leadership to make your team more powerful and build their self-esteem* Handle corporate incompetence, poor decisions, and PR crises* Know what to do when you or a team leader leave a companyMost leadership books will tell you, wrongly, that every situation has an ideal solution. Not this one. Defcon 1 Direct Selling: Manual for Field Leaders delivers the plain, unadulterated truth that everyone leading a direct sales team needs to know.

The Way Forward for Entrepreneurship Around the WorldWe are in the midst of a startup revolution. The growth and proliferation of innovation-driven startup activity is profound, unprecedented, and global in scope. Today, it is understood that communities of support and knowledge-sharing go along with other resources. The importance of collaboration and a long-term commitment has gained wider acceptance. These principles are adopted in many startup communities throughout the world.And yet, much more work is needed. Startup activity is highly concentrated in large cities. Governments and other actors such as large corporations and universities are not collaborating with each other nor with entrepreneurs as well as they could. Too often, these actors try to control activity or impose their view from the top-down, rather than supporting an environment that is led from the bottom-up. We continue to see a disconnect between an entrepreneurial mindset and that of many actors who wish to engage with and support entrepreneurship. There are structural reasons for this, but we can overcome many of these obstacles with appropriate focus and sustained practice.No one tells this story better than Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem explores what makes startup communities thrive and how to improve collaboration in these rapidly evolving, complex environments.The Startup Community Way is an explanatory guide for startup communities. Rooted in the theory of complex systems, this book establishes the systemic properties of entrepreneurial ecosystems and explains why their complex nature leads people to make predictable mistakes. As complex systems, value creation occurs in startup communities primarily through the interaction of the "parts" - the people, organizations, resources, and conditions involved - not the parts themselves. This continual process of bottom-up interactions unfolds naturally, producing value in novel and unexpected ways. Through these complex, emergent processes, the whole becomes greater and substantially different than what the parts alone could produce.Because of this, participants must take a fundamentally different approach than is common in much of our civic and professional lives. Participants must take a whole-system view, rather than simply trying to optimize their individual part. They must prioritize experimentation and learning over planning and execution. Complex systems are uncertain and unpredictable. They cannot be controlled, only guided and influenced. Each startup community is unique. Replication is enticing but impossible. The race to become "The Next Silicon Valley" is futile - even Silicon Valley couldn't recreate itself.This book:* Offers practical advice for entrepreneurs, community builders, government officials, and other stakeholders who want to harness the power of entrepreneurship in their city* Describes the core components of startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems, as well as an explanation of the differences between these two related, but distinct concepts* Advances a new framework for effective startup community building based on the theory of complex systems and insights from systems thinking* Includes contributions from leading entrepreneurial voices* Is a must-have resource for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, executives, business and community leaders, economic development authorities, policymakers, university officials, and anyone wishing to understand how startup communities work anywhere in the world