Entrepreneurship

Takes business owners from recession warriors to new economy entrepreneurs. Suitable for entrepreneurs who are faced with a crashing economy and a fickle market, this title uncovers new opportunities, revealing new requirements, and restoring time-honored business principles, and steers entrepreneurs in the right direction - toward success.

Helping you get the financing you need, this book assists discover how to: tap personal sources of financing; approach customers and vendors for financing; hook up with commercial lenders; find angel investors; get an SBA loan; raise cash through private equity offerings; and, woo and win investment bankers and venture capitalists.

Bornstein's How to Change the World studies a remarkable group of individuals around the world-what he calls social entrepreneurs. These people are bringing innovative, and successful, grass-roots approaches to a wide variety of social and economic problems, from rural poverty in India to discrimination against gypsies in Central Europe.

Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. This is a biography of Andrew Carnegie who is one of the America's famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists.

We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. Were building more products than ever before, but most of them failnot because we cant complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. Thats the promise of Running Lean.In this inspiring book, Ash Maurya takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving a "e;product/market fit"e; for your fledgling venture, based on his own experience in building a wide array of products from high-tech to no-tech. Throughout, he builds on the ideas and concepts of several innovative methodologies, including the Lean Startup, Customer Development, and bootstrapping.Running Lean is an ideal tool for business managers, CEOs, small business owners, developers and programmers, and anyone whos interested in starting a business project.Find a problem worth solving, then define a solutionEngage your customers throughout the development cycleContinually test your product with smaller, faster iterationsBuild a feature, measure customer response, and verify/refute the ideaKnow when to "e;pivot"e; by changing your plans courseMaximize your efforts for speed, learning, and focusLearn the ideal time to raise your "e;big round"e; of fundingGet on track with The Lean SeriesPresented by Eric Riesbestselling author of The Lean Startup: How Todays Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful BusinessesThe Lean Series gives you solid footing in a proven methodology that will help your business succeed.