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One of Silicon Valley’s most successful angel investors shares his rules for investing in startups. There are two ways to make money in startups: create something valuable—or invest in the people that are creating valuable things. Over the past twenty-five years, Jason Calacanis has made a...

The indispensable guide to earning a six-figure take-home income on your own terms, from Forbes.com contributing writer Elaine Pofeldt. The rise of one-million-dollar, one-person businesses in the past five years is the biggest trend in employment today, offering the widest range of people the...

The ancient Babylonians were the first people to discover the universal laws of prosperity. In The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason reveals their secrets for creating, growing, and retaining wealth. Through these entertaining tales of merchants, tradesmen, and herdsmen, you'll learn how to save more out what you earn, get out of debt, put your money to work, attract good luck, choose wise investments, and safeguard a lasting fortune.

Are you looking for the competitive edge to take your personal brand to new heights and be in control of your career?The secrets to drive massive amounts of traffic to your content without paying for it and dominate your competitors?... That’s what this audiobook is about. To get consumers to walk across the bridge to your content. The opportunity to provide value and establish yourself as an authority figure. The chance to leave a legacy behind by turning your brand viral so you can automatically turn your followers into customers.

Learn everything you need to start the business you’ve always dreamed of! This comprehensive, step-by-step guide walks the listener through everything an aspiring small business owner needs to know before getting started. It’s not as easy as just hanging up an “Open” sign and letting the money roll in! Planning every step of your business and being aware of all the questions, demands, and challenges you will face will make the difference between just opening up shop and actually running a successful business.

In Book Yourself Solid for Creatives, bestselling author Michael Port and Joana Galvao deliver a game-changing and super-specific playbook for creative professionals seeking to fill their pipeline with dozens or hundreds of qualified leads and convert them into paying clients. The authors explain how to achieve your business goals, pack your calendar with high-value clients, and increase your top- and bottom-lines.

Brought to you by Penguin. *An instant New York Times Bestseller* A momentous look at the private companies driving the revolutionary new space race, from the 3-million copy, New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk In 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a...

An entrepreneur is someone who has a great, innovative idea that identifies the need for the creation of a new business, taking on the financial risk in the hope of profit and driving that business forward in a measured way. This book draws on the stories, experiences and words of iconic...

Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of...

The #1 Wall Street Journal Business Book Bestseller & Top 10 New York Times Bestseller. Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, his book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch and build a successful...

The Risk-Driven Business Model will help you manage risk better by showing how the key choices you make in designing your business models either increase or reduce two characteristic types of risk - information risk, when you make decisions without enough information, and incentive-alignment risk, when decision makers' incentives are at odds with the broader goals of the company. Leaders who understand how the structure of their business model affects risk have the power to create wealth, revolutionize industries, and shape a better world.

From an entrepreneur and investor, an inspiring, easy-to-follow guide to pinpointing, understanding, and improving your financial standing. Expert Roger James Hamilton has designed nine steps in an accessible color-coded manner that ranges from red (barely living paycheck-to-paycheck) all the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions, and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But it's also on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society in its single-minded pursuit of maximizing shareholder value...

Are you a: “Wannabe” entrepreneur in school or college with big dreams in your eyes? “Friday-night-after-drinks” aspiring entrepreneur in your 20s/30s? “Ready-to-go” soon-to-be entrepreneur? “Already-on-the-train” entrepreneur? Loved ones of any of the above (wife/husband, boyfriend/girlfriend, friend, parents)? An aspiring VC/angel investor who has never built a business? This audiobook has been especially written for you.

Bloomsbury presents How to Be a Founder by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford, read by Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck. *WINNER OF THE STARTUP/SCALEUP BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 2023* An essential guide to equip the next generation of founders with the mindset and tools they need to take the leap to...

What if the way you earn money could stop depending on every hour you work? Most of us were taught one equation: show up, do the work, get paid, and when you stop, the money stops. It feels like a law of nature. It is actually a design, and designs can be changed. Inside, you will learn how to...

The goal isn't to make more money. It's to build systems that make money. Too many businesses depend on constant manual effort. Every sale requires more work. Every customer demands more time. Growth becomes exhausting because the business cannot operate without its owner. But today's...

Are you ready to scale your business easier with less drama? Start to Scale gives you the proven tools and strategies that have helped over 102,000 companies around the globe achieve sustainable growth. Leaders across industries have used these techniques to start and scale businesses from day...

Why do some individuals and businesses thrive despite impossible odds? Vusi Thembekwayo and Michael Hinton challenge the conventional wisdom that life is about becoming the 'top dog' and argue that the greatest competitive advantage in business and in life is the willingness to think differently, embrace adversity and keep moving forward when all odds seem stacked against you. Drawing on stories of business disruptors, visionary entrepreneurs and purpose-driven organisations, Underdogs uncovers the mindset, habits and values that enable ordinary people to achieve extraordinary outcomes.

From globally recognized entrepreneur Robin Wilson—founder of a multimillion-dollar lifestyle empire—comes the business blueprint for turning obstacles into opportunities and setbacks into success. Every visionary entrepreneur faces the same brutal truth: the path to building something...