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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 must - read guidebook for entrepreneurs looking to get into accelerator programs and to build and scale their startups with speedAccelerator programs have become one of the most powerful and valuable resources for entrepreneurs seeking to learn rapidly, build powerful networks, raise capital, build their startups and do this at speed and scale. In recent years, the number of accelerator programs around the world has grown at an incredible rate, propelling startups such as AirBnB, Uber, DropBox, Reddit, and others -- many to billion-dollar valuations. The number of accelerators, the differences in accelerator program offerings and the unique benefits and costs of different accelerator locations makes choosing the right accelerator a challenge. Selecting the wrong accelerator, failing to be accepted in the right one, or not fully taking advantage of all the accelerator has to offer can be costly, sometimes fatal. With the stakes so high, entrepreneurs need to understand all their options, choose carefully and do the right things to maximize their chances of success.Startup Accelerators is the go to guide for any entrepreneur, providing a firsthand look into the acceptance criteria and inner workings of different accelerator programs. Written by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, this indispensable resource explains what different accelerator programs offer, how to get accepted, what to do during the program, how to raise money during accelerators, what to do after the program ends, and much more. Packed with real-world case studies and advice from leading experts on startup accelerator programs, this one-stop resource provides step-by-step guidance on the entire accelerator process.* Reveals how accelerators help founders navigate different challenges in the startup journey* Describes the differences in the benefits and costs of different accelerator programs* Explains how to prepare accelerator applications* Discloses what actions to take during an accelerator to make the most of it* Depicts case studies of entrepreneurs' accelerator applications, experiences and outcomes across different accelerators* Features interviews with accelerator program managers, founders who went through accelerators, and investors in companies going through or having gone through accelerators* Includes insightful data and reflections from entrepreneurship education researchers and academicsStartup Accelerators: A Field Guide will prove to be invaluable for startup founders considering or going through accelerators, as well as aspiring entrepreneurs, educators, and other startup accelerator stakeholders.

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

One of the start-up world’s most in-demand executive coaches—hailed as the “CEO Whisperer” (Gimlet Media)—reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical to professional success and healthy relationships in all realms of life.Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons, the psychological habits and behavioral patterns that have helped them to succeed—molding them into highly accomplished individuals—yet have been detrimental to their relationships and ultimate well-being. Now, this venture capitalist turned executive coach shares his unusual yet highly effective blend of Buddhism, Jungian therapy, and entrepreneurial straight talk to help leaders overcome their own psychological traumas. Reboot is a journey of radical self-inquiry, helping you to reset your life by sorting through the emotional baggage that is holding you back professionally, and even more important, in your relationships.Jerry has taught CEOs and their top teams to realize their potential by using the raw material of their lives to find meaning, to build healthy interpersonal bonds, and to become more compassionate and bold leaders. In Reboot, he inspires everyone to hold themselves responsible for their choices and for the possibility of truly achieving their dreams.Work does not have to destroy us. Work can be the way in which we achieve our fullest self, Jerry firmly believes. What we need, sometimes, is a chance to reset our goals and to reconnect with our deepest selves and with each other. Reboot moves and empowers us to begin this journey.

In Social Media Made Me Rich, learn the specific strategies that the world's highest-paid Internet entrepreneurs are using to multiply their impact and get rich.

From the millionaire entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author of The 10X Rule comes a bold and contrarian wake-up call for anyone truly ready for success. One of the 7 best motivational books of 2016, according to Inc. Magazine. Before Grant Cardone built five successful companies (and counting), became a multimillionaire, and wrote bestselling books... he was broke, jobless, and drug-addicted. Grant had grown up with big dreams, but friends and family told him to be more reasonable and less demanding. If he played by the  rules, they said, he could enjoy everyone else’s version of middle class success. But when he tried it their way, he hit rock bottom. Then he tried the opposite approach. He said NO to the haters and naysayers and said YES to his burning, outrageous, animal obsession. He reclaimed his obsession with wanting to be a business rock star, a super salesman, a huge philanthropist. He wanted to live in a mansion and even own an airplane.  Obsession made all of his wildest dreams come true. And it can help you achieve massive success too. As Grant says, we''re in the middle of an epidemic of average. The conventional wisdom is to seek balance and take it easy. But that has really just given us an excuse to be unexceptional. If you want real success, you have to know how to harness your obsession to rocket to the top. This book will give you the inspiration and tools to break out of your cocoon of mediocrity and achieve your craziest dreams. Grant will teach you how to: · Set crazy goals—and reach them, every single day. · Feed the beast: when you value money and spend it on the right things, you get more of it. · Shut down the doubters—and use your haters as fuel.Whether you''re a sales person, small business owner, or 9-to-5 working stiff, your path to happiness runs though your obsessions. It''s a simple choice: be obsessed or be average.

Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. People think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and good luck to become a Key Person of Influence. This book shows that there is a strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence.

Designing for the Circular Economy highlights and explores 'state of the art' research and industrial practice, highlighting CE as a source of: new business opportunities; radical business change; disruptive innovation; social change; and new consumer attitudes.

Susan-Urquhart Brown never expected to end up as an entrepreneur. In The Accidental Entrepreneur, she takes all the mystery out of going solo. For those who are just beginning to consider starting a venture as well as those who want to take their organization to the next level, she offers advice on what works and what doesn't.

The essential companion to the book that revolutionized entrepreneurship Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook provides a practical manual for working the 24-step framework presented in Disciplined Entrepreneurship.

The essential playbook for the future of your business What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy.

Proven principles for sustainable success, with new leadership insightPEAK is the popular, transformative guide to doing business better, written by a seasoned entrepreneur/CEO who has disrupted his favorite industry not once, but twice. Author Chip Conley, founder and former CEO of one of the world's largest boutique hotel companies, turned to psychologist Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs at a time when his company was in dire need. And years later, when the young founders of Airbnb asked him to help turn their start-up home sharing company into a world-class hospitality giant, Conley once again used the principles he'd developed in PEAK. In the decade since this book's first edition, Conley's PEAK strategy has been developed on six continents in organizations in virtually every industry. The author's foundational premise is that great leaders become amateur psychologists by understanding the unique needs of three key relationships--with employees, customers, and investors--and this message has resonated with every kind of leader and company including some of the world's best-known, from Apple to Facebook. Avid users of PEAK have found that the principles create greater loyalty and differentiation with their key stakeholders. This new second edition includes in-depth examples of real-world PEAK companies, including the author's own at Airbnb, and exclusive PEAK leadership practices that will take you--and your company's performance--to new heights.Whether you're at a startup or a Fortune 500 company, at a for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental organization, this book can help you and your people reach potential you never realized you had.* Understand how Maslow's hierarchy makes for winning business practices* Learn how PEAK drove some of today's top businesses to success* Help employees reach their full potential--and beyond* Transform the customer experience and keep investors happyThe PEAK framework succeeds because it elevates the business from the inside out. These same principles apply in the boardroom, the breakroom, and your living room at home, and have proven to be the foundation of healthy, fulfilled lives. Even if you think you're doing great, you could always be doing better--and PEAK gives you a roadmap to the next level.

More and more women are starting to feel like there are so many opportunities out there to turn their ideas into a reality, build a successful business and do what they love. The problem is that they don't really know how to go about it. This book provides strategies for them to make it happen. It is full of personal stories, tips and exercises.