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Based on the author’s experience in the world of inventing and promotion, Hardcore Inventing offers the kind of advice you can only learn from experience: how to developing an idea into an invention, how to build a prototype for show, how to safeguard intellectual property, how to market both strategically and in “guerilla" mode, how find investors, and much more. And all of that is based on his IP 3 Tacitical Method which breaks everything down to Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit.

Berkshire Hathaway, the $300+ billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book challenges that assumption. In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire's subsidiaries, Lawrence Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's perpetual prosperity.

Comment faire de la culture d’entreprise un avantage concurrentiel... Pour développer Zappos entreprise américaine de vente en ligne de chaussures devenue légendaire dans le monde entrepreneurial Tony Hsieh n’a pas misé sur les profits et les rendements. Il a mis au cœur de ses préoccupations le bonheur de ses employés et de ses clients. Cette culture d’entreprise passionnée et différente a fait de Zappos un modèle de succès : son chiffre d’affaires a atteint 1 milliard de dollars en moins de dix ans.

Um dos mais influentes empresários da área de entretenimento no país, Érico Borgo é antes de tudo um apaixonado pela cultura pop. Foi cofundador do maior portal da área no Brasil, o Omelete, e também cofundador e diretor da CCXP, maior evento nerd do mundo. Mais recentemente, fundou com outros sócios a produtora Huuro. Mas participar desse boom das últimas décadas não teria sido possível sem as histórias contadas aqui. Para trabalhar com fãs e criar uma conexão profunda de respeito com eles, é preciso ter uma verdadeira paixão pelo universo nerd.

Et si donner sans condition était, dans le domaine économique, la clé du succès ? Les auteurs sont partis à la rencontre d'un univers inconnu ou presque : celui des entreprises altruistes (en France, en Scandinavie, aux États-Unis, au Japon...) pour comprendre leurs convictions, leurs épreuves et les transformations radicales qu'elles ont opéré.

How did a small southwest town transform itself into a hotbed of research science, advanced technology, and money? Tracking key figures in Santa Fe's emerging industries, Ed Regis explains how entrepreneurial scientists are using complexity theory and powerful, experimental computer programs to create practical - and profitable - applications. Their efforts to convert vast, diverse data, whether chemical or biological or computational, into useful information is leading to new drugs and medical therapies, ultimately revolutionizing our understanding of effective business strategies.

In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, and consultant, for the last 16 years August Turak worked alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey, watching firsthand as they undertook new enterprises and sustained an incredibly successful business practice. Service and selflessness are at the heart of this 1,500-year-old monastic tradition’s remarkable business success, an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions.

As the world's economies continue to melt down, Dr. Goldsmith gives us the information we need to help us make it through this difficult and scary time. Anyone who wants to keep his or her job - and any leader who wants to keep his or her company afloat - needs to learn how to deal with and utilize the power of emotions.

Johannes Gutenberg was our first geek, the original technology entrepreneur, who had to grapple with all the challenges a Silicon Valley startup faces today. Jeff Jarvis tells Gutenberg's story from an entrepreneurial perspective, examining how he overcame technology hurdles, how he operated with the secrecy of a Steve Jobs, but then shifted to openness, how he raised capital and mitigated risk, and how, in the end, his cash flow and equity structure did him in.