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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy Of A Business Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide To Building A Business And Securing Your Company's Future'
What does it take to succeed in starting and running a small business? All the experts advise writing a business plan to map the trajectory of a new or existing venture. Even though writing a plan may seem like an intimidating undertaking, with the right help, anyone can do it. For expert guidance to take advantage of powerful business-building opportunities, the latest edition of the bestselling Anatomy of a Business Plan offers step-by-step, proven advice.
Updated with the latest changes affecting small businesses through 2005, the sixth edition also includes a new resource section to help businesses research financial and marketing information. Three complete sample business plans, along with the blank forms to create a plan, make this a hands-on, user-friendly guide.
Designed for beginning and growth-oriented entrepreneurs, or for those ready to move their dream businesses into action, it includes complete templates to:
" Develop an executive summary that grabs attention.
" Envision the organizational plan to lay the groundwork for success.
" Create the marketing plan that powers growth.
" Build for the future with airtight financial documentation.
While Anatomy of a Business Plan is ideal for entrepreneurs at all levels, it is also used in classrooms, workshops, and training. Many corporations use it to help their divisions, departments, and subsidiaries develop plans for new business expansion and growth. Once written, a plan is only effective when put to use! Guidelines for packaging and updating the plan complete the pictureso any business leader can create a living, accessible plan to support long-term success. [via]
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Create a polished, professional business plan with this step-by-step guide. This award-winning bestseller has successfully helped more than 500,000 people write business plans that work and will help entrepreneurs create an effective, results-oriented plan quickly and easily--showing readers how to put concepts into action. [via]
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A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new organization, a new anythingwhere theres a will, heres the way.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies'
This analysis of what makes great companies great has been hailed everywhere as an instant classic and one of the best business titles since In Search of Excellence. The authors, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, spent six years in research, and they freely admit that their own preconceptions about business success were devastated by their actual findings--along with the preconceptions of virtually everyone else.
Built to Last identifies 18 "visionary" companies and sets out to determine what's special about them. To get on the list, a company had to be world famous, have a stellar brand image, and be at least 50 years old. We're talking about companies that even a layperson knows to be, well, different: the Disneys, the Wal-Marts, the Mercks.
Whatever the key to the success of these companies, the key to the success of this book is that the authors don't waste time comparing them to business failures. Instead, they use a control group of "successful-but-second-rank" companies to highlight what's special about their 18 "visionary" picks. Thus Disney is compared to Columbia Pictures, Ford to GM, Hewlett Packard to Texas Instruments, and so on.
The core myth, according to the authors, is that visionary companies must start with a great product and be pushed into the future by charismatic leaders. There are examples of that pattern, they admit: Johnson & Johnson, for one. But there are also just too many counterexamples--in fact, the majority of the "visionary" companies, including giants like 3M, Sony, and TI, don't fit the model. They were characterized by total lack of an initial business plan or key idea and by remarkably self-effacing leaders. Collins and Porras are much more impressed with something else they shared: an almost cult-like devotion to a "core ideology" or identity, and active indoctrination of employees into "ideologically commitment" to the company.
The comparison with the business "B"-team does tend to raise a significant methodological problem: which companies are to be counted as "visionary" in the first place? There's an air of circularity here, as if you achieve "visionary" status by ... achieving visionary status. So many roads lead to Rome that the book is less practical than it might appear. But that's exactly the point of an eloquent chapter on 3M. This wildly successful company had no master plan, little structure, and no prima donnas. Instead it had an atmosphere in which bright people were both keen to see the company succeed and unafraid to "try a lot of stuff and keep what works." --Richard Farr [via]
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Built to Last became an instant business classic. This audio abridgement is read by the authors, who alternate chapters. Collins is a bit breathlessly enthusiastic, but clear and interesting; Porras, unfortunately, is poorly inflected and wooden. They set out to determine what's special about "visionary" companies--the Disneys, Wal-Marts, and Mercks, companies at the very top of their game that have demonstrated longevity and great brand image. The authors compare 18 "visionary" picks to a control group of "successful-but-second-rank" companies. Thus Disney is compared to Columbia Pictures, Ford to GM, and so on.
A central myth, according to the authors, is that visionary companies start with a great product and are pushed into the future by charismatic leaders. Usually false, Collins and Porras find. Much more important, and a much more telling line of demarcation between a wild success like 3M and an also-ran like Norton, is flexibility. 3M had no master plan, little structure, and no prima donnas. Instead it had an atmosphere in which bright people were not afraid to "try a lot of stuff and keep what works."
If you listen to this audiocassette on your daily commute, you may discover whether you are headed to a "visionary" place of work--and, if so, whether you are the kind of employee who fits your employer's vision. (Running time: two hours, two cassettes) --Richard Farr [via]
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Successful business ideas are not so much about talent as about a systematic approach. The Business Idea encourages new ways of thinking when it comes to entrepreneurship and innovation. Too many ventures originate in the solutions the entrepreneur has to offer and not in the problem the customer needs solved. Business plans done this way can often lead to disappointment. The Business Idea leaves behind this product orientated logic. The book presents new, applicable entrepreneurship methods for developing creative market insight, for identifying windows of opportunity, creating business concepts and entrepreneurial strategies for successful market entry. Entrepreneurship is a complex and risky process compared to almost everything else in business life, so it richly deserves to have its own theoretical and methodological toolbox. The Business Idea provides the tools making it of interest to anyone who works with getting an enterprise off the ground or studies entrepreneurship. [via]
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Motivation, desire, and talent are the key qualities in starting and managing a business, as are research and planning. This book suggest that the reader take time to explore and evaluate both personal and business goals and then use that information to build a comprehensive business plan. This book provides the tools and information to turn business dreams into reality. [via]
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Corporate downsizing and outsourcing have created tremendous opportunities for millions of professionals to own and manage their own businesses. With the explosion of inexpensive home office technology, it is easier than ever to set up shop. For those about to take the plunge as consultants, the newly revised edition of this popular guide shows how to make the leap successfully. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company'
The bestselling author of phenomenally successful and continually vital The E-Myth Revisited presents the next big step in entrepreneurial management and leadership with E-Myth Mastery.
A practical, real-world program that is implemented real-time into your business, Gerber begins by engaging the reader in understanding why the entrepreneur is so critical to the success of any enterprise, no matter how small or large it may be, and why the mindset of an entrepreneur is so integral to the operating reality of the organization, of the small business, and the enterprise. He then covers seven essential skills:
Each of these seven skills is presented through a specific training module with corresponding tests and exercises that explain the content and principles to be learned, provide case studies and examples, as well as worksheets for applying those ideas to the business. Gerber ties it all together by helping readers put the pieces together in an E-Myth Business, an E-Myth Practice and an E-Myth Enterprise.
This is the book that will show you the difference between being an entrepreneur versus doing a job, how to get money when the bank won't give it to you, how to expand your customer base when big business moves in down the street, how to develop the best people when you can't afford to pay them competitive wages, how to increase the predictability of what your business is able to promise, and then how to keep that promise, every single time, no matter where you are or what you're doing.
Mastery is a business development program that helps you turn your company into a world-class operation...into a turn-key money machine!
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Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited should be required reading for anyone thinking about starting a business or for those who have already taken that fateful step. The title refers to the author's belief that entrepreneurs--typically brimming with good but distracting ideas--make poor businesspeople. He establishes an incredibly organised and regimented plan, so that daily details are scripted, freeing the entrepreneur's mind to build the long-term success or failure of the business. You don't need an MBA to understand or follow its directives; Gerber takes time to explain buzzwords and complex theories. Written in a clear and well-paced manner, The E-Myth Revisited is like receiving advice from an old friend. --Sharon Griggins [via]
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Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited should be required reading for anyone thinking about starting a business or for those who have already taken that fateful step. The title refers to the author's belief that entrepreneurs--typically brimming with good but distracting ideas--make poor businesspeople. He establishes an incredibly organised and regimented plan, so that daily details are scripted, freeing the entrepreneur's mind to build the long-term success or failure of the business. You don't need an MBA to understand or follow its directives; Gerber takes time to explain buzzwords and complex theories. Written in a clear and well-paced manner, The E-Myth Revisited is like receiving advice from an old friend. --Sharon Griggins [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law'
A must for business owners, this comprehensive yet succinct legal guide helps entrepreneurs identify legal issues and avoid legal pitfalls. It follows the progression of a start-up business and anticipates its legal concerns every step of the way - through the stages of growth up to an IPO and everything in between. Completely in tune with an increasingly electronic business market, the book offers valuable insight into legalities of the bustling e-commerce trade, including coverage of e-contracts, electronic signatures, trademarks, domain names and other issues involved with intellectual property and cyberlaw. It also covers employee privacy, e-mail monitoring and alternative dispute resolution. And The Entrepreneurs Guide to Business Law offers practical tips for buying and selling a business, as well as discussions on the implications of gaining a global presence. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epilepsy And Pregnancy: What Every Woman with Epilepsy Should Know'
Approximately 2.5 million people in the U.S. suffer from epilepsy; of these, more than one million are women of child-bearing age. With concerns about everything from medication-related birth defects to falls during seizures, many of these women are fearful of having children. The good news is that, with proper prenatal care, more than 90% will deliver healthy babies.
Epilepsy and Pregnancy gives readers the basic facts they need to help them make medical decisions throughout preconception, pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the early days after childbirth. Topics include preconception, fertility, pregnancy risks, risks to the fetus, nutrition, keeping fit, what to expect during pregnancy, fetal development, and labor and delivery.
In addition, the book includes guidelines for the use of antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy, recommendations and questions to ask their neurologist, recommended daily allowances by age group, glossary, and much more. Epilepsy and Pregnancy is an essential guide for any woman who suffers from epilepsy and desires to have a child. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Business Needs an Angel: Getting the "Millionaires Next Door" to Invest in Your Business'
Whats the biggest problem most entrepreneurs face? Raising money: Without cash, you cant get a
business off the ground or keep it running.
However, many entrepreneurs have a problem. On one hand, the traditional sources of financingfamily, friends, personal savings, the local bankare often inadequate. On the other, the venture capitalists who have played such an important role in the high-tech industry are interested only in investing much higher sums than most entrepreneurs need.
Enter angels: a new type of investor looking to invest between $100,000 and $1,000,000 in a company. There are about three million angel investors, and theres a huge market of entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs who want to learn how to attract angels interestand their money.
John May and Cal Simmons are at the forefront of this trend. Not only do they have years of experience in advising, managing, and investing in early-stage companies, they are also the originators of The Dinner Club, a Washington, D.C.based group of successful businesspeople who hear pitches by entrepreneurs seeking funding and then decide whether to invest their own or the clubs money in those entrepreneurial ideas.
Every Business Needs an Angel offers a fly-on-the-wall look at how angel investors evaluate new entrepreneurial ideas, and provides a wealth of practical advice and insight for the countless entrepreneurs seeking help in their quest to find investors for their businesses. The book covers all phases of the process of finding angels and persuading them to invest, drawing on many examples of real-world companies that have pitched angels successfullyas well as unsuccessfully. These entrepreneurs are in a broad range of industriesfrom high-technology companies to more traditional businesses as diverse as breweries and concierge servicessome quite well-known, like Nantucket Nectars and Preview Travel, whose founders had their own guardian angels.
For entrepreneurs who need money and advice on how to find it, the authors offer enormous insight into this new breed of investor. As the title says, every business needs an angel; this book tells you how to find one. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Financing the New Venture: A Complete Guide to Raising Capital from Venture Capitalists, Investment Bankers, Private Investors, and Other Sources'
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With the astute social analysis of Faith Popcorns The Popcorn Report, this book boldly predicts the death of the conventional job. At the dawning of the new millennium, people everywhere are waking up to the fact that commitment to a traditional corporate structure does not guarantee personal validation or financial security. In what is one of the fastest growing movements today, people are rejecting the idea of corporate loyalty to explore more creative ways of making a living. [via]
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Widely acclaimed for its engaging style and provocative perspective, this book has helped thousands transform their working lives. Now the paperback edition features a comprehensive 30-page resource guide that explains the basics of working for oneself. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Growing a Business'
If you are not completely happy with your purchase, we will refund the entire purchase price if notified within 14 days of order. [via]
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"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham
We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care?
Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970. Letters, encyclopedias, newspapers, and even your local store are being replaced by the Internet.
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls "an intellectual Wild West."
The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live. Topics include the importance of beauty in software design, how to make wealth, heresy and free speech, the programming language renaissance, the open-source movement, digital design, internet startups, and more.
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In a dry fashion, Packard tells the true story of the mighty Hewlett-Packard Company: Two college buddies begin a partnership by producing an audio oscillator in a Palo Alto garage in 1938 and wind up 60 years later with a $25-billion-dollar electronics company on their hands. He wraps the book up tidily with a timeline of the company's development milestones. Packard chalks up success to many things, including government contracts during wartime, but mostly to the company's management outlook ("The HP Way"), which champions openness, honesty, and flexibility throughout the organization. Entrepreneurs and technologists alike will be interested in this journey of an American giant. Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified. [via]
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In a dry fashion, Packard tells the true story of the mighty Hewlett-Packard Company: Two college buddies begin a partnership by producing an audio oscillator in a Palo Alto garage in 1938 and wind up 60 years later with a $25-billion-dollar electronics company on their hands. He wraps the book up tidily with a timeline of the company's development milestones. Packard chalks up success to many things, including government contracts during wartime, but mostly to the company's management outlook ("The HP Way"), which champions openness, honesty, and flexibility throughout the organization. Entrepreneurs and technologists alike will be interested in this journey of an American giant. Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified. [via]
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The first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as purposeful and systematic discipline which explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. A superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public survey institutions, and new yentures have to know, have to learn, and have to do in today's economy and marketplace. [via]

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Joel Spolsky began his legendary web log, www.joelonsoftware.com, in March 2000, in order to offer insights for improving the world of programming. Spolsky based these observations on years of personal experience.
The result just a handful of years later? Spolsky's technical knowledge, caustic wit, and extraordinary writing skills have earned him status as a programming guru! His blog has become renowned throughout the programming worldnow linked to more than 600 websites and translated into over 30 languages.
Joel on Software covers every conceivable aspect of software programmingfrom the best way to write code, to the best way to design an office in which to write code! All programmers, all people who want to enhance their knowledge of programmers, and all who are trying to manage programmers will surely relate to Joel's musings.
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Readers recognize their own brand of entrepreneurship and draw on their inherent capacities to create a thriving enterprise. [via]
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"Oh, screw it, let's do it."
That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Records and V2), to cola (Virgin Cola), to retail (Virgin Megastores), and nearly a hundred others, ranging from financial services to bridal wear, Branson has a track record second to none.
Losing My Virginity is the unusual, frequently outrageous autobiography of one of the great business geniuses of our time. When Richard Branson started his first business, he and his friends decided that "since we're complete virgins at business, let's call it just that: Virgin." Since then, Branson has written his own "rules" for success, creating a group of companies with a global presence, but no central headquarters, no management hierarchy, and minimal bureaucracy.
Many of Richard Branson's companies--airlines, retailing, and cola are good examples--were started in the face of entrenched competition. The experts said, "Don't do it." But Branson found golden opportunities in markets in which customers have been ripped off or underserved, where confusion reigns, and the competition is complacent.
And in this stressed-out, overworked age, Richard Branson gives us a new model: a dynamic, hardworking, successful entrepreneur who lives life to the fullest. Family, friends, fun, and adventure are equally important as business in Branson's life. Losing My Virginity is a portrait of a productive, sane, balanced life, filled with rich and colorful stories:
Crash-landing his hot-air balloon in the Algerian desert, yet remaining determined to have another go at being the first to circle the globe
Signing the Sex Pistols, Janet Jackson, the Rolling Stones, Boy George, and Phil Collins
Fighting back when British Airways took on Virgin Atlantic and successfully suing this pillar of the British business establishment
Swimming two miles to safety during a violent storm off the coast of Mexico
Selling Virgin Records to save Virgin Atlantic
Staging a rescue flight into Baghdad before the start of the Gulf War . . .
And much more. Losing My Virginity is the ultimate tale of personal and business survival from a man who combines the business prowess of Bill Gates and the promotional instincts of P. T. Barnum.
Also available in the UK from Virgin Publishing, and in Canada from General Publishing,
From the Hardcover edition. [via]
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In Natural Capitalism, three top strategists show how leading-edge companies are practicing "a new type of industrialism" that is more efficient and profitable while saving the environment and creating jobs. Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins write that in the next century, cars will get 200 miles per gallon without compromising safety and power, manufacturers will relentlessly recycle their products, and the world's standard of living will jump without further damaging natural resources. "Is this the vision of a utopia? In fact, the changes described here could come about in the decades to come as the result of economic and technological trends already in place," the authors write.
They call their approach natural capitalism because it's based on the principle that business can be good for the environment. For instance, Interface of Atlanta doubled revenues and employment and tripled profits by creating an environmentally friendly system of recycling floor coverings for businesses. The authors also describe how the next generation of cars is closer than we might think. Manufacturers are already perfecting vehicles that are ultralight, aerodynamic, and fueled by hybrid gas-electric systems. If natural capitalism continues to blossom, so much money and resources will be saved that societies will be able to focus on issues such as housing, contend Hawken, author of a book and PBS series called Growing a Business, and the Lovinses, who cofounded and directed the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental think tank. The book is a fascinating and provocative read for public-policy makers, as well as environmentalists and capitalists alike. --Dan Ring [via]
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Timmons & Spinelli's, New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship For The 21st Century, 6/e is a perforated paperback text that covers the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it and starting again. Through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises, the book guides students in discovering the concepts of entrepreneurship and the competencies, skills, know-how and experience that are sufficient to pursue different entrepreneurial opportunities. The authors recognize that there is no substitute for actually starting a company, but believe that it is possible to expose students to many of the vital issues and immerse them in key learning experiences. [via]
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Your golden opportunity to get a state-of-the-art education in entrepreneurship in your spare time and at a tiny fraction of the cost of an MBA program . . .
. . . From an all-star team that includes: William D. Bygrave, Babson College . . . Jeffry Timmons, Harvard University and Babson College . . . Karl Vesper, University of Washington . . . Gerry Hills, University of Illinois, Chicago . . . Robert Ronstadt, Pepperdine University . . . David E. Gumpert, David Gumpert Communications . . . William Wetzel, University of New Hampshire . . . Joel Shulman, Babson College . . . Elizabeth Gatewood, University of Houston . . . Richard Mandel, Babson College . . . Joseph Iandiorio, Iandiorio & Teska . . . Steve Spinelli, Babson College . . . J. William Petty, Baylor University . . . Bruce Kirchhoff, New Jersey Institute of Technology . . . Julian Lange, Babson College.
"Bygrave has assembled a thoughtful and highly usable volume. The fundamentals are all here . . . from how to recognize entrepreneurial opportunity to the development of successful business plans and financial arrangements. This book will be on the desk of every aspiring entrepreneur who wants a ready reference with a wealth of information equal to his dreams of entrepreneurial success." Alfred E. Osborne, Jr. Director, Entrepreneurial Studies Center
"Bygrave's book includes all the right stuff: the right topics, the right applications, and the right concepts for the MBA student seriously interested in entrepreneurship or providing goods and services to the growth segment of the business world." Donald L. Sexton, William H. Davis Chair of American Free Enterprise System, Ohio State University
"This book is a 'keeper.' The entrepreneur will be referring to it through the startup process and long afterward. This will be the bible for those who want to create and grow their own ventures." Frank Hoy Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Texas, El Paso
With the global marketplace now a reality, entrepreneurs and small businesses are seizing opportunities at a rate never before equaled. New markets emerge almost daily, offering boundless potential to those with the vision to see them, the courage to pursue them, and the persistence to capture them. But a keen eye, a strong heart, and a tenacious temperament do not guarantee success in this swirling maelstrom of competition. You'll also need a generous supply of the most precious commodity in the global marketplaceknowledge.
The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, Second Edition equips real-world entrepreneurs with the same state-of-the-art business knowledge and information taught to MBA candidates in top business schools. William Bygrave has reassembled his all-star team of professors, consultants, and entrepreneurs to expand and update this bestseller. Every chapter is brought into step with the times through a host of new case studies and examples, and the changing legal, tax, and regulatory climates for small businesses and entrepreneurs are examined and explained as well. New and updated topics covered in this indispensable Second Edition include:
Amazingly, while The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, Second Edition brings you the collective wisdom of some of the top guns in the academic and business worlds, you don't need an academic background to understand it. Featuring solid, substantive information written in a clear and engaging style, this book is your golden opportunity to get a five-star education in entrepreneurship at a take-out price.
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The Portable MBA, with over 150,000 copies sold, continues to provide instant "MBA literacy" to managers, professionals, and business owners. Now, with the Portable MBA Series, Wiley takes this idea one step further by providing readers with a continuing business education. These titles provide comprehensive coverage of the primary business functions taught in MBA programs, as well as focused coverage of today's vital business topics.
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As one of today's most influential business thinkers, Seth Godin helps his army of fans stay focused, stay connected, and stay dissatisfied with the status quo, the ordinary, the boring. His books, blog posts, magazine articles, and speeches have inspired countless entrepreneurs, marketing people, innovators, and managers around the world. Now, for the first time, Godin has collected the most provocative short pieces from his pioneering blog-ranked #70 by Feedster (out of millions published) in worldwide readership. This book also includes his most popular columns from Fast Company magazine, and several of the short e-books he has written in the last few years. A sample: Bon Jovi And The Pirates Christmas Card Spam Clinging To Your Job Title? How Much Would You Pay to Be on Oprah's Show? The Persistence of Really Bad Ideas The Seduction of "Good Enough" What Happens When It's All on Tape? Would You Buy Life Insurance at a Rock Concert? Small is the New Big is a huge bowl of inspiration that you can gobble in one sitting or dip into at any time. As Godin writes in his introduction: "I guarantee that you'll find some ideas that don't work for you. But I'm certain that you're smart enough to see the stuff you've always wanted to do, buried deep inside one of these riffs. And I'm betting that once inspired, you'll actually make something happen." [via]
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Written for small businesses, self-employed individuals, employers, professionals, independent contractors, home businesses, and Internet businesses, Small Time Operator is the most popular business start-up guide ever. In clear, easy to understand language, the author covers: getting permits and licenses; how to finance a business; finding the right business location; creating and using a business plan; choosing and protecting a business name; deciding whether to incorporate; establishing a complete bookkeeping system; hiring employees; federal, state and local taxes; buying a business or franchise; dealing with - and avoiding - the IRS; doing business on the Internet; insurance, contracts, pricing, trademarks, patents, and much more. [via]
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"At age seventeen Fred DeLuca borrowed $1000 from a friend-and started Subway(r). Paul Orfalea, without business experience or start-up money, leased a garage, rented a copy machine-and launched Kinko's(r). Mike Ilitch, knocked out of pro baseball by a broken ankle, started making pizzas, two pies at a time-and created Little Caesar's(r). How did they do it? How did other penniless dreamers end up millionaires? How can you do it? Fred DeLuca shares their secrets in....
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With more than 13,000 stores in more than 60 countries and annual sales exceeding $3 billion, Fred DeLuca's Subway(r) is a success story with a message. It's one echoed by the 22 microentrepreneurs whose stories are included in this book. All of them started on a shoestring-often less than $1000. Each of them-such as Jani-King(r), the world's largest commercial cleaning company...AHL Services(r), a billion dollar contract staffing business...and TomKats(r), a catering business serving the movie industry-followed 15 Key Lessons that took them from empty pockets to bulging bank accounts.
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With this newly updated edition, the experts show you how to make your dreams of starting a business come true! [via]
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Everything you need to start a successful business...except the money. (But we'll show you how to get that, too!)
Previous editions of this bestselling book have already helped hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. Now, the revised and updated Third Edition is packed with additional advice on new topics, including:
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This completely updated third edition of Rhonda Abrams' best-seller is a complete, step-by-step guide to researching and writing a knock-out business plan. Required reading at America's top business schools, it's been called "the entrepreneur's bible," having helped thousands of successful business people get the funding they need to launch their businesses. With a foreword by renowned venture capitalist Eugene Kleiner, THE SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PLAN is packed with insider tips on writing and formatting a business plan that will stand out from the crowd.
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"Thinking Like An Entrepreneur" teaches you to reason entrepreneurially and to make fundamentally sound business decisions. Whether you contemplate starting a business or are in the process of growing a business already, this book is for you. "Thinking Like An Entrepreneur" helps you make the transition from employee to company founder and successful entrepreneur. Ultimately, this book provides you with the tools to take control of your financial destiny and to pursue your dreams. It teaches you how to think like an entrepreneur. The book discusses Cash Flow; Growing A Business; Intellectual Capital and Bootstrapping; Personality and Business Choice; Risk Shifting and Pursuing Larger Opportunities; The Role of Luck In Business; Buying a Business; Writing A Business Plan; and Supplier and Customer Financing. [via]
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In the United States, over 1.7 million startups were registered in 2001. The dream of owning, launching, and managing your own business is alive and well. With so many details to address and challenges and obstacles to overcome, where can entrepreneurs turn to find solid, authoritative, and up-to-date information? The Entrepreneur's Bible is one-stop shopping for anyone thinking of taking the entrepreneurial plunge or looking to grow an already established business. Expanding upon the dynamic database developed for Business: The Ultimate Resource, The Entrepreneur's Bible includes a wealth of insightful tools and information, and success stories and interviews from entrepreneurs who have experienced the joys and frustrations of business ownership firsthand. Covering all aspects of business creation and growth-from planning to launching to managing to growing-The Entrepreneur's Bible will be an essential resource for business owners, whether you're a company of 1 or 1000. [via]
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A #1 New York Times bestseller, Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a true story on the lessons about money that Robert Kiyosaki learned from his two dads. One dad, a Ph.D. and superintendent of education, never had enough money at the end of the month and died broke. His other dad dropped out of school at age 13 and went on to become one of the wealthiest men in Hawaii. Rich Dad, Poor Dad will: Explode the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich; Challenge the belief that your house is an asset; Show parents why they can't rely on the school system to teach their kids about money; and teach you what to teach your kids about money for their future financial success. This Bestseller is changing how the world views money by shifting your context to that of a rich person. If you are like many - dependent on your paychecks to cover your monthly expenses - then you don t think like the rich. The rich don t accumulate cash; they accumulate assets that generate cash flow for them. In reading Rich Dad Poor Dad, you ll better understand the power that thinking can have on your life.
Description in Spanish: Un plan integral para consolidar e incrementar la bonanza financiera. La inteligencia resuelve problemas y produce dinero; el dinero sin inteligencia financiera es dinero que pronto se pierde. Con esta sentencia, Robert T. Kiyosaki nos descubre un panorama excepcional para hacer que el dinero trabaje para nosotros y como lograr el anhelado crecimiento financiero. Padre rico, padre pobre cuenta la propia experiencia de Robert T. Kiyosaki cuando descubrio en la ninez la tenacidad al servicio de la inteligencia y la forma calculadora y firme en que se deben tomar las decisiones. Gracias a los consejos de su padre real, el superintendente de educacion de Hawai, el padre pobre, y el ejemplo de su padre rico en realidad padre de su mejor amigo de la infancia , hombre de negocios sagaz, de perspectivas amplias y agudeza financiera a toda prueba, Kiyosaki pudo elegir el exito y el crecimiento economico y rechazo la realizacion profesional incierta, la prosperidad convencional llena de ataduras. La obra esta estructurada en 6 lecciones basicas sobre el dinero, extraidas de la sabiduria del padre rico; en ellas se revela lo siguiente: el rico no trabaja por dinero, el dinero trabaja intensamente para el; es indispensable aprender alfabetizacion financiera, luchar por la consolidacion de nuestros propios negocios; se explica la historia de los impuestos y el poder de las corporaciones; la destreza de los ricos para multiplicar el dinero: inventarlo!; la importancia de trabajar para dominar y producir. El autor expone a su vez las razones por las que las personas no logran ser financieramente competentes para gozar la vida que siempre han sonado, estas son: el miedo, el cinismo, la pereza, los malos habitos y la arrogancia. Padre rico, padre pobre ha cautivado a millones de personas con sus formulas originales y asombrosas para hacer que nuestro dinero se multiplique en forma extraordinaria. Las lecciones de Kiyosaki sin duda cambiaran nuestra vision de los negocios y las inversiones, y haran que unicamente nosotros determinemos el destino de nuestro dinero. [via]
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