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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The former CEO of Clif Bar, Co-founder of Plum, and serial entrepreneur offers insights about launching and growing a business while maintaining a fulfilled life in this practical guide filled with hard-won advice culled from the authors own sometimes dark, raw experiences. With a foreword by Steve Blank.
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries laid out the practices of successful startups – building a minimal viable product, customer-focused and scientific testing based on a build-measure-learn method of continuous innovation, and deciding whether to persevere or pivot. In The Startup Way, he turns his attention to an entirely new group of organizations: established enterprises like iconic multinationals GE and Toyota, tech titans like Amazon and Facebook,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos--the Enron of Silicon Valley--by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry...
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Series
Publisher
John Wiley
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Intelligent strategies for starting and growing a small business with minimal personal financial riskA 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...
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What entrepreneur or founder doesnt aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants? The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water. The objective of Blitzscaling is not to go from zero to one, but...
31) The entrepreneur equation: evaluating the realities, risks, and rewards of owning your own business
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
By understanding what it takes to build a valuable business as well as how to assess the risks and rewards of business ownership based on your personal circumstances, you can learn how to stack the odds of success in your favor.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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"EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS HAPPENS ONLY ONCE. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world's top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The author draws on his own experience as a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur to share advice for managing a business, with special attention paid to some of the most difficult and unpleasant aspects of business leadership.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Practical Way to Get Rich . . . and Die Trying is a compelling memoir and the foundation for a campaign of honesty and vulnerability in an industry that currently allows neither. Roa aims to be the bridge to helping young leaders confront the mental health issues and abuse that too often accompany the tech startup that so many have embraced as their salvation for their future.
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Only Guide You Need to Stop Wasting Your Potential and Create a Kickass Career You Care About Daniel DiPiazza, the young founder of the massively popular Rich20Something.com, was once a typical twentysomething, logging mind-numbing hours at low-paying jobs in hopes of moving up. Then it hit him: This doesnt have to be my life. Now twenty-eight, DiPiazza has launched multiple successful businesses with zero startup capitalsimply by identifying...
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