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21) Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Everyone Else Can Learn from the Innovation Capital of the World
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While the global economy languishes, one place just keeps growing despite failing banks, uncertain markets, and high unemployment: Silicon Valley. In the last two years, more than 100 incubators have popped up there, and the number of angel investors has skyrocketed. Today, 40 percent of all venture capital investments in the United States come from Silicon Valley firms, compared to 10 percent from New York. In Secrets of Silicon Valley, entrepreneur...
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With the easy-to-read tips and business strategies taught in this book, readers will learn how to make a handyman business profitable. The book provides tips for both doing the job and the skills needed to run the business. The work life of a handyman can be very rewarding. It means finding creative solutions to everyday problems, learning new things, and enjoying a wide variety of tasks. Handymen can set their own hours and be their own bosses. But...
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The Smart StartUp helps readers start strong and stay strong in the early phases of growing their businesses, providing fundamental strategies for beating the odds. Tom Hopkins and Omar Periu want readers to be part of the statistics for businesses that not only succeeded in their first two years, but exceeded their own expectations for success. With this information, readers will be able to establish a solid foundation on which to build their businesses...
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Have you ever stayed in a bed and breakfast and thought how exciting it would be to open your own B&B? This book shows you the business side of opening your home to visitors. The clearly written text, along with dozens of easy-to-follow worksheets and explanatory samples, shows you how to plan everything.
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For every attempt to create a successful small business, there are dozens of trip wires and trap doors that send you to Small Business Hell. Jack Borden, creator of the Faster, Cheaper, Better program of entrepreneurial excellence, guides you through the challenges and helps you start and operate a small firm that becomes profitable and sustainable.
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This is an ebook that makes entrepreneurs and people who want to do business understand the basic knowledge of the business. This book discusses factors that can make you avoid business failures. Making mistakes is part of the game but knowing factors as discussed in this guidebook will help you avoid them reducing your chances of business flops and failures. The causes of business failures and startups can be avoided easily with a proper mindset...
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Part Time Income Enterprise will get you focused on how you can earn that extra income you need. It will motivate you to discover your own money earning potential that will enable you to take the first step along the way to certain success. Part Time Income Enterprise will act as a workbook for action that will enable you to reach your extra income goals.
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What are the ten most common marketing mistakes? How do you avoid costly mistakes when planning for a new business? What should be avoided when planning a business web site? These are only a few of many important questions answered in "The Small Business Planner", the most comprehensive book available to assist new and established entrepreneurs operate a successful enterprise. Written in understandable terms. "The Small Business Planner" provides...
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I put down what I have learnt when I had to run a retail shop. It was a humbling experience because retailing is so complex. Customers depend on you, and suppliers always have their own agendas and push what they think you should sell. However these are not what customers want to buy. Your duty is to the customer. At the same time, your investors trust you to bring back a certain return on their backing and support for you. Finally I found the secret...
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Struggling with a maze of information while trying to turn your entrepreneurial dreams into reality?
Do you often wake up in the morning overcome with feelings of doom and gloom? The thought of dragging yourself to another grueling day at work never fails to get you down. You can't wait to escape it all and finally follow your heart's true desire.
You've been nursing entrepreneurial dreams for as long as you can remember. But, you just can't take...
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Are You Ready to Create Your Entrepreneurial Masterpiece?
Whether you start your business with zero dollars, $50, or $50,000, you need to think strategically and analytically about what you do before you start and while you're growing the business. You want to start smart and move forward with confidence. Your success does not depend on whether the economy is, up or down. Your mindset, drive, and your blueprint for forging ahead is what determines...
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In “Today's Superpower - Building Networks: 7 Mindsets Principles to Thrive in a Fast-Changing World”, Mikel Mangold explores the intersection between the new startup and multistakeholder economy, mindset and networks.
Change happens when people with a collaborative and ecosystem mindset are plugged into the right networks. This book discusses seven mindset principles enabling the reader to thrive in the startup and multi-stakeholder economy...
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Desarrollo de las Habilidades de Liderazgo Este texto apoya a los estudiantes en el desarrollo de las habilidades de liderazgo y la aplicación efectiva del manejo de las funciones de liderazgo en los negocios y en su vida. De esta manera se entrega a los aprendices un claro recorrido a travez del desarrollo de las habilidades de liderazgo y enseñanzas para ver cual es actualmente su posición y forma para planificar el desarrollo de fortalezas en...
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Home security and safety are key personal concerns, but the protection business is rife with amateurs. This book is the definitive guide on how to successfully launch a security business to save time, money, and legal problems. It offers practical advice on how to develop business clientele, deal with safety issues, and overcome liability. Author Katherine Matak teaches readers how to create a respected company and market their brand, all while avoiding...
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There are books out there for marijuana entrepreneurs opening retail locations; there are also books about how to grow cannabis. 'CannaBiz' is the only book at the moment that is for the retailer and also for growers/producers/suppliers of marijuana, and everything in between. As there are dozens of (new) opportunities in this emerging industry such as providing security and courier services; making concentrates and edibles; growing and distribution...
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Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist and Serial Entrepreneur teaches how to succeed in taking your startup from idea to product to company.
Accelerated Startup takes entrepreneurs through the startup minefield from fostering revolutionary ideas to building the right team and launching the product to raising angel and venture capital to finding the first 10,000 customers and ultimately taking the company to a successful exit. It is filled with practical...
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Más de dos tercios de las empresas en el mundo son de propiedad familiar. Estas empresas aportan más de la mitad del PIB y del empleo en la mayoría de los países. Esto es especialmente cierto en Latinoamérica, donde no sólo la inmensa mayoría de las empresas pequeñas y medianas son familiares, sino que también entre las grandes compañías y grupos económicos predominan las empresas controladas por familias. No obstante la gran importancia...
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Author, Vicki May Thorne, writes with authority borne of first-hand experience about the Do's and Don'ts of having a successful vending side hustle. Vicki bought a 'healthy vending franchise' in 2016 and started with 10 machines. After the franchise went bankrupt and left her high and dry in 2018, she not only increased her sales but also hired a stocking assistant and expanded to additional locations!
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Ce livre met les apprenants dans un univers de développement des compétences de leadership, en appliquant efficacement les fonctions de leadership dans tous les domaines de leur vie. Ce livre donne aux apprenants une feuille de route claire à travers le développement des compétences de leadership. Les apprenants peuvent ainsi percevoir leur statut et leur position actuelle, et ainsi de former un plan pour développer leurs compétences de leadership.
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