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ISBN: 9780692440810
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Languages : en
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Entrepreneur Success Stories
Author: Inspiring Entrepreneur Stories
Author: Lars de VeerPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Are you seeking insight from some of the world's most successful people in business, that you can learn from and transfer into success for yourself?Maybe you have been working hard towards your goals for a long time now, but you are still not quite seeing the success that you are striving for. It may be that you have taken good strides so far, but you know that you want to achieve more success.Or perhaps you are still yet to see any real success as you chase down your goals, and you are keen to see what other successful people have done to help them achieve their goals, to try and emulate that in your life for some success of your own.You might even be at the start of your journey towards success, and you want to learn as much as you can from those that have gone before you so that you make as few mistakes as possible along the way.Well, you're in luck! Inspiring Entrepreneur Stories is a collection of ten of the best success stories from the world of business, along with lessons that will help you build towards success of your own.These stories are not only extremely impressive, but there are also lots of insights that can be taken from the steps that these people took to achieve their level of success. You might be surprised to find that these steps are perfectly accessible to you as well, meaning the opportunity to succeed is right there in the palm of your hand.Inside Inspiring Entrepreneur Stories, discover: - Some of the most surprising stories of success that have come from the business world- Stories of success from a whole host of different backgrounds and start-up positions- Ways that you can bring more success to your own life- How to interpret these stories and take learnings that you can bring into your own life- A newfound respect for the effort that these people have put in to see the success that they have to date- A newfound motivation and hunger to go after success for yourself and much, much more!So what's stopping you? Grab a copy of Inspiring Entrepreneur Stories today and start learning about how to bring more success into your life immediately!
American Entrepreneur
Author: Larry SchweikartPublisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0814414125
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This book vividly illustrates the history of business in the United States from the point of view of the enterprising men and women who made it happen. Ever since the first colonists landed in the New World, Americans have forged ahead in their quest to make good on promises of capitalism and independence. Weaving stirring narrative with economic analysis, this historical deep dive recounts the successes and failures of some of the most iconic business people to grace our history books--from the founding of our country to the present day. In American Entrepreneur, you’ll learn about how: Eli Whitney changed the shape of the American business landscape; the Civil War impacted the economy, and how it was renewed by the subsequent dominance of Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan; Asa Candler, W. K. Kellogg, Henry Ford, and J.C. Penney led the rise of the consumer marketplace; and Warren Buffett’s, Michael Milken’s, and Martha Stewart’s experience in the “New Economy” in the 1990s--and how that economy continues today. It is an adventure to start a business, and the greatest risk takers in that adventure are entrepreneurs. This is the epic story of America’s entrepreneurs and how they created the economy we enjoy today.
Entrepreneur Success Stories
Author: Loral LangemeierPublisher: Live Out Loud Publishing
ISBN: 9780967933887
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Does Your Business Have the Three Things It Needs to Succeed? With the proliferation of the Internet, it seems everyone has a new list of what is most needed to make a business successful. However, no business can survive without three core elements: it must be created; its products and services must be marketed; and interested prospects must be encouraged to make a purchase. The practicality of these simple needs is the foundation of Loral Langemeier and John C. Robinson's latest volume in the Entrepreneur Success Stories. For an entrepreneur, these stories are pure adrenalin! For example, you'll discover: ** The super-successful marketing and sales strategies that any business needs to prosper; ** How to own your results and step into your power; ** The many ways to improve your results by playing a bigger and better game; ** How to identify and work adeptly within the four quadrants of wealth; ** How to create wealth through real estate; ** And much more! No two paths travelled to wealth are exactly the same – yet, each path taken has lessons learned that all can benefit from. This book will help your business multiply its success by applying the marketing and sales strategies most suited to your business and target client.
Unsexy Business
Author: Jamie WallerPublisher:
ISBN: 0857197134
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Forget the hype and the sexy headlines, this is where you’ll make your fortune. In this revealing new book Jamie Waller, entrepreneur and self-made multimillionaire, shows how you don’t need to come up with some amazing new invention or app, or raise millions, to be a business success. What you need is hard work and determination. And you need to be looking for a business idea that is pretty unsexy if you really want to make it big. We’re talking about businesses that collect debts, sell sofas or ship goods – real, solid businesses that you probably use all the time. They won’t grab the headlines, but they can make you very, very rich. And that’s what makes unsexy so attractive. These are ordinary businesses made extraordinary by the people behind them and their commitment to taking their businesses to the top. Jamie has spoken to 11 amazing entrepreneurs who have created just this type of business and in face-to-face interviews he uncovers the secrets to their successes and gets firsthand accounts of their compelling, and sometimes dramatic, business stories. Jamie also tells his own inspirational story, of how he took his debt collection business from nothing to £33 million, facing stabbings and having a gun pointed at him along the way. Discover how you too can make it really big by ignoring the glitz and glamour and building your own unsexy business. Unsexy Business features: Mike Clare, Dreams | Matt Storey, M&M Supplies | Lara Morgan, Pacific Direct | Reginald Larry-Cole, Buy2Let Cars | Rami Ranger, Sun Mark | Thomas Delgado, WeBuyCarsToday.com | Harry Clarke, RingGo | Kate Lester, Diamond Logistics | Nick Broom, PVL | Charlie Mullins, Pimlico Plumbers | Martyn Dawes, Coffee Nation "A real insight into what it takes to make your fortune in business" Duncan Bannatyne “Unsexy Business is brilliant. I read every word, took pages of notes and felt inspired to ingest what I learned and apply it into my life. Jamie Waller has assembled an amazing group of entrepreneurs who share their roller coaster stories of how they made it and how you can do the same.” Michael Heppell, Best Selling Author, Speaker and Coach "What Jamie and the business leaders in this book have achieved is incredible and a real inspiration to the next generation of entrepreneurs” Ian Collins, LBC Radio Presenter “This collection of stories is a testament to the entrepreneurial spirit, that with hard work and determination, people can achieve the extraordinary. Read this book to learn how great businesses and ubiquitous brands were established against all odds”. Lord Karan Bilimoria, entrepreneur and Founder of Cobra Beer "A fantastic book which will inspire many people to start a business and also give huge insights into what will make it a success . A must read book for every potential entrepreneur.” Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith, former CEO of Mitie Group PLC "Jamie has told his own remarkable story and that of a dozen others in order to distil lessons from everyday businesses that we take for granted. While we get drawn like moths to a flame of the so called Unicorn businesses or other businesses that make the headlines, this book pulls out lessons that are personal as well as practical from entrepreneurs who have made fortunes quietly by meeting our needs." Shailendra Vyakarnam; Director of Entrepreneurship at Cranfield University. "A really thought provoking and interesting angle on business success, a book we should all read! it’s impossible not to learn something from this book – great insight." Sarah Willingham, BBC Dragon and Entrepreneur
The Storytelling Entrepreneur
Author: Melissa AddeyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781910940334
Category :
Languages : en
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Storytelling in business works. It enhances memory, enthusiasm and commitment in listeners. But where do you get the stories from and when should you use them? The Storytelling Entrepreneur was developed during workshops and one-to-ones held by business consultant and author Melissa Addey with real-life entrepreneurs at the British Library's Business & IP Centre. It includes: How to find the right stories and when to use them; creating a Sacred Bundle of your organisation's history, values and magical moments; the six stories you should learn by heart and using stories at every stage of the entrepreneurial journey. The Storytelling Entrepreneur offers you a new path to business success, through deeper and better communication with the people who matter most: your investors, customers and employees. "Succinct enough to be digested on the run, practical enough to meet immediate needs and far reaching enough to take you to the places you dream of, Addey has created the essential guide to storytelling for entrepreneurs." Sue Hollingsworth MBA, Director of the Centre for Biographical Storytelling "As a professional speaker, public speaking coach and storyteller, I found this book comes from a really unique and exciting perspective of the importance of storyteller for small business and entrepreneurs. Full of insightful and useful storytelling guidance, tips and exercises. It is a must read for those wanting to master the art of storytelling." Elaine Powell SWC Training & Consultancy Ltd
6 Secrets to Startup Success
Author: John BRADBERRYPublisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN: 0814416063
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
It takes passion to start a new business. But that same entrepreneurial enthusiasm can also lead you astray.Over six million Americans start businesses every year. That's 11 startups a minute launched by passionate dreamers hoping to transform their lives for the better. But a huge gap exists between the skyrocketing levels of desire and what entrepreneurs actually achieve. The harsh reality is that most new businesses fail within a few years of launch. Why do so few startups make it? And what distinguishes those that do succeed? Entrepreneur, consultant, and investor John Bradberry set out to discover the answer and came to a surprising conclusionùthat the passion that drives and energizes so many founders is also the very thing that leads many of them astray. Filled with compelling real-life stories of both success and failure, this groundbreaking book reveals the key principles entrepreneurs must follow to ensure their big idea is on the right track. In 6 Secrets to Startup Success, readers will learn how to: Convert their passion into economic value with a moneymaking business model ò Improve their readiness to launch and lead a new venture ò Manage funding and cash flows ò Chart a path to breakeven and beyond ò Avoid the pitfalls that often accompany unfettered passion ò Build the stamina needed to persevere over time Complete with indispensable tools including an assessment to gauge a venture's strengths and weaknesses, 6 Secrets to Startup Success will help entrepreneurs everywhere turn their dreams into reality.
Why Startups Fail
Author: Tom EisenmannPublisher: Currency
ISBN: 0593137027
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.
How We Did It
Author: Anand SrinivasanPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497599758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Aspiring entrepreneurs have a number of concerns that stop them from launching their own business - How do you pay your monthly bills when you are not making money? How do you find the right manufacturer so that you do not get swindled? How do you find the right developer? How do you actually find customers? What happens if you fail and do not find a job again? Unlike what is commonly believed, most entrepreneurs are pretty risk averse. What separates them from aspiring entrepreneurs is their ability to take calculated financial decisions and actually doing things that they are passionate about. So how do you be like them? In this book, author Anand Srinivasan; a digital media consultant and a struggling entrepreneur himself, talks to 100 different entrepreneurs about the challenges they faced while starting up and how they overcame them. Entrepreneurs interviewed include the likes of Matt Barrie from Freelancer.com; the world's largest online freelancer marketplace, Beth Shaw from YogaFit; the world's largest Yoga training school and Dianne Crowley from Wild Wing Cafe; a popular restaurant chain in South Eastern USA. The list of interviewed entrepreneurs include people from all hues and backgrounds - people who grew their business as a side-job, those who risked it all and jumped in to entrepreneurship, mommy entrepreneurs who had to take care of children, entrepreneur couples who did not have the luxury of a stable spouse income. The idea for this book is simple - we want to understand the struggles of entrepreneurship from multiple perspectives; including those who failed and had to go back to a regular job. This is a book targeted at all aspiring entrepreneurs and those like the author himself who are still struggling to make their business successful. Get to learn the tips and tricks that made other entrepreneurs successful. Learn how they really did it. List of chapters1 : Validating Your Business Idea 2 : Setting Your Finances Straight 3 : How To Fund Your Start-up 4 : Finding The Right Manufacturer 4a – Setting Up Your Own Manufacturing 5 : Finding A Development Team 6 : How To Get The Very First Customers 7 : Getting Those First Big Customers 8 : Tackling The Chicken & Egg Problem 9 : Growth vs. Revenue - What Comes First? 10 : What Do You Charge Your Customers? 11 : Challenges With Increasing Demand 12 : Strategies To Retain Your Customers 13 : Handling Negative Press & Reviews 14 : Achieving Work-Life Balance 15 : Entrepreneur Couples And Finance Planning 16 : Female Entrepreneurs' Challenges 17 : Raising Kids While Starting Up 18 : Tech Startups Outside USA 19 : Hiring – Mistakes & Lessons Learned 20 : How Important Is A Co-Founder? 21 : Rejected By VCs. Are VCs Necessary? 22 : Start-up Failure – How Do You Recover? 23 : Risk Taking For Starting Up 24 : Selling Your Business 25 : The Lows Of Entrepreneurship 26 – Lessons From Startup Journey
The Startup Squad
Author: Brian WeisfeldPublisher: Imprint
ISBN: 1250180392
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Girls mean business in a brand-new series about friendship and entrepreneurship that Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal-winning author of The One and Only Ivan, calls “A great read!” All the great leaders had to start somewhere. And Teresa (“Resa” for short) is starting with the lemonade stand competition her teacher assigned to the class—but making it a success is going to be a lot harder than Resa thinks. The prize: line-skipping tickets to Adventure Central. The competition: Val, Resa's middle school nemesis. And the biggest obstacle to success: Resa's own teammates. Harriet is the class clown, Amelia is the new girl who thinks she knows best, and Didi is Resa's steadfast friend—who doesn't know the first thing about making or selling lemonade. The four of them quickly realize that the recipe for success is tough to perfect—but listening to each other is the first step. And making new friends might be the most important one... The back of each book in this middle-grade series features tips from the Startup Squad and an inspirational profile of a girl entrepreneur! An Imprint Book "An inspiring story about entrepreneurial girls. I loved this story of girls finding their way in the world of entrepreneurship." —Ann M. Martin, author of the Baby-Sitters Club series and Newbery Honor winner A Corner of the Universe “The Startup Squad encourages girls to dream big, work hard, and rely on each other to make good things happen. It teaches them how to succeed—and reminds all of us that girls mean business!”—Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.Org and OptionB.Org “A great read that is fast-paced, fun, and empowering. The Startup Squad comes complete with a treasure trove of tips for starting a business.” —Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal-winning author of The One and Only Ivan This title has common core connections.
