Entrepreneurship Small Business

A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington’s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation’s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire.

Adam Savage is a maker. From Chewbacca’s bandolier to a 1,000-shot Nerf gun, he has built thousands of spectacular projects as a special-effects artist and the cohost of MythBusters. Adam is also an educator, passionate about instilling the principles of making in the next generation of inventors and inspiring them to turn their curiosity into creation. In this practical and passionate guide, Adam weaves together vivid personal stories, original sketches and photographs from some of his most memorable projects, and interviews with many of his iconic and visionary friends.

Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions.

The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a start-up or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice.

Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean, Karen Berman and Joe Knight present the essentials of finance specifically for entrepreneurial managers. Drawing on their work training tens of thousands of people at leading organizations worldwide, the authors provide a deep understanding of the basics of financial management and measurement, along with hands-on activities to practice what you are learning.

Ali Tamaseb has spent thousands of hours manually amassing what may be the largest dataset ever collected on startups, comparing billion-dollar startups with those that failed to become one—30,000 data points on nearly every factor: number of competitors, market size, the founder’s age, his or her university’s ranking, quality of investors, fundraising time, and many, many more. And what he found looked far different than expected.

As an entrepreneur, when your business starts to take off, things get wild - it can feel like you have a tiger by the tail! From one day to the next, you don’t know what challenges will come your way. This upbeat and motivating business book is for every entrepreneur who got past the startup phase, only to find the challenges of operating a business got bigger and wilder!

Are you ready to go from being stuck and complacent to courageous and capable of creating a business offering you the time and financial freedom you never dreamed possible? Amy Porterfield, host of the top-rated podcast Online Marketing Made Easy and a 9-to-5 escapee who built an 8-figure online business on her terms, shares her tried and true strategies, inspiring stories, and mindset shifts.

Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and learning about - and solving - an extraordinary range of problems, from the mundane to the most daunting. Today it is machine learning programs that enable Amazon and Netflix to predict what users will like, Apple to power Siri's ability to understand voices, and Google to pilot cars.

Les montagnes russes de l'entrepreneuriat n'attendent que vous. Oserez-vous monter à bord ? Nous vivons une époque formidable. Les millionnaires sont chaque jour plus nombreux, et rejoindre leurs rangs n'a jamais été aussi facile. Quels que soient votre réseau, votre formation ou votre capital de départ, vous pouvez bâtir un empire colossal dès aujourd'hui. Attention toutefois : la création d'entreprise ressemble à un grand huit !

The Line of the Ball reveals the extraordinary life journey of Dr. Beh Chun Chuan, who transformed a single medical laboratory into one of Malaysia's largest healthcare groups while becoming an accomplished international polo player.

Entrepreneurship doesn't have to be synonymous with exhaustion and sacrifice. In a world where hustle culture is fading and intentional business-building takes center stage, Organize Your Business Like a Boss book offers her finely tuned six-step method to optimize your business for sustainable success and personal freedom. Drawing on her extensive experience transforming failing businesses into profitable ones, this system will help you gain control over your business without the burnout.

Whether you're launching your business for the first time or looking to transform your existing business, Stu McLaren is here to help you launch a membership site. What's magical about a membership site is it not only creates predictable recurring revenue every month, but the more you put into it, the bigger potential it has to grow each month. With memberships, you never start from zero. You start every month with the momentum that you gained the previous months.

You’ve got the idea. You crave freedom, flexibility, and fulfillment. But then reality hits - legal forms, business plans, taxes, operations. Where do you even start? Most businesses don’t fail because the idea is bad, but because the execution is flawed. Entrepreneurs get stuck in confusion, skip key steps, or burn out trying to do everything alone.

Imagine transforming your side hustle into a thriving empire or scaling your business to millions—all while working smarter, not harder. Digital Marketing for Beginners 2026 is your ultimate guide to making that dream a reality. This book is a treasure trove of cutting-edge strategies, AI-driven tools, and actionable insights designed to help you conquer the digital landscape and boost your income in the competitive American market and beyond.

This unique guide features the start-up stories of regular people launching side businesses that almost anyone can do: an urban tour guide, an artist inspired by maps, a travel site founder, an ice pop maker, and many more. In 100 Side Hustles, best-selling author of The $100 Startup Chris Guillebeau presents an "idea book" filled with inspiration for your next big idea. Distilled from Guillebeau's popular Side Hustle School podcast, these case studies feature teachers, artists, coders, and even entire families who've found ways to create new sources of income.

Michael E. Gerber, the world's leading small business guru and best-selling author of the phenomenally successful The E-Myth Revisited, presents the next big step in entrepreneurial management and leadership with E-Myth Mastery. This audiobook presents a practical, real-world program that can be implemented in real-time in your business.

Take a second to imagine how you’ll feel once you finally become the successful business owner that you’ve always dreamed of becoming, and how your family and friends will react when they can share in the joy and success with you.

In a world of rapidly evolving technologies and business paradigms, your consulting business needs to radically adapt its techniques and models. Taking full measure of these changes, Alan Weiss, the "Rock Star of Consulting," will guide you through the process with a revised and completely updated sixth edition of his authoritative guide to consulting success.

Built from Scratch is the story of how two incredibly determined and creative people - and their associates - built a business from nothing to 761 stores and $30 billion in sales in a mere 20 years. Built from Scratch tells many colorful stories associated with The Home Depot's founding and meteoric rise; shows that a company can be a tough, growth-oriented competitor, and still maintain a high sense of responsibility to the community; and provides great lessons useful to people in any business, from start-ups to the Fortune 500.