Entrepreneurship Small Business

You and a partner go into business together and split the equity 50/50. You do all the work and your partner slacks off. He owns half your business - now what? Slicing Pie outlines a process for calculating exactly the right number of shares each founder or employee in an early stage company deserves.

You will learn: How to value the time and resources an individual brings to the company relative to the contributions of others.

Whether you're imagining your new business to be the next big thing in Silicon Valley, a pivotal B2B provider, or an anchor in your local community, the Harvard Business Review Entrepreneur's Handbook is your essential resource for getting your company off the ground. Starting an independent new business is rife with both opportunity and risk. And as an entrepreneur, you're the one in charge: Your actions can make or break your business. You need to know the tried-and-true fundamentals - from writing a business plan to getting your first loan.

It has never been harder to find good employees. Government handouts and programs, publicly traded behemoths with an insatiable appetite for front-line staff, and a burgeoning gig-economy has made hiring extremely hard for small business owners. The golden question is how do we attract good talent and then retain them long-term? How do I determine rates of compensation for my highest performers that are always demanding raises? How do I scale my business without having to constantly micro-manage my Team when they are in the field working? The answer is Pay-For-Performance (P4P).

If you want to discover how to dominate your niche using Instagram marketing, then pay attention... Instagram is one of the largest social media platforms in the world, and the platform is rapidly growing into one of the most powerful online marketing tools for small businesses and personal brands. If you are currently in business, or if you are planning on launching a business in 2019, you need to consider getting your business on Instagram and start building engagement on this social media giant.

How can you take your skills and expertise and package it to become a successful consultant? There are proven time-tested principles, strategies, tactics, and best practices the most successful consultants use to start, run, and grow their consulting business. Consulting Success teaches you what they are.

The international best seller - don't compete without it! A major best seller in Japan, Financial Times top-ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club best seller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneauvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basics of good strategy-making and then shows how you can apply them in any area of your life.

Punch above your weight class when selling your business. Every owner must part with their business one day. Many will close their doors, realizing little for their life's work - while a select few will become fabulously wealthy. The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top is the last in a trilogy of books by author John Warrillow on building value.

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.

The Seven Figure Agency Roadmap is the must-have resource for digital marketing agency owners. Increase your income, work when and how you want, get your clients get incredible results, and live your desired lifestyle. For the last five years, the author has been working with a select group of agencies, taking them from struggle to success and from scale and significance. Josh Nelson has a very new approach, and he shares the very best of what is working in his business and for the agencies he works with to build million-dollar agencies.

In The Billionaire Mindset, Daniel Strauss, the Strauss in the investment firm Stocks & Strauss, and a highly successful venture capitalist, explains how to adopt this life-changing new mindset. He shares his secrets of success, including how to access capital, where to find the right people to help you reach your goals, and explains how to free your mind from self-imposed limitations, so that you can also think like a billionaire.

Have you ever wondered why some people are super-achievers and seem to go from success to success while others never seem to get out of the starting blocks? In my 40 years of coaching high-achieving entrepreneurs, I’ve noticed that they all go through a process to help them break through to the next level of success. I call this process "The 4 C’s Formula". The 4 C’s Formula is a universal process that can be used by anyone who wants to achieve greater success in any part of their life.

Profitable Painter is the ultimate financial playbook for residential and commercial painting contractors who want to grow their business with clarity and confidence. Whether you're stuck under $1.5M in revenue or pushing past $3M, this book shows you how to identify the hidden constraints in your business, price for real profit, manage cash flow like a CFO, and protect the wealth you’re building.

In Great Fundraising Organizations renowned nonprofit consultant Alan Clayton delivers a proven blueprint for charities and non-profits worldwide to scale their fundraising efforts and their effectiveness.

In Nine-Figure Mindset, Brandon Dawson unveils how to tap into the remarkable potential hidden inside each and every one of us. Drawing from his own awe-inspiring journey, Brandon shows that success and leadership are attainable to anyone willing to cultivate the right shift in thinking. Combining personal experiences with actionable strategies, Nine-Figure Mindset serves as a guidebook to next level achievements you’ve never imagined were possible.

Everything you need to run your business as an author. This is not a book on creativity or the craft of writing. This is not a book for hobbyists. This is a book that will take your writing into the realm of actually paying the bills. You will learn how to go from being an author to running a business as an author.

Googled by God is a fast moving financial thriller that takes the listener on a journey to the dark realms of entrepreneurship and technology. Revolving around the ever-changing worlds of stock markets, investments and money, listeners will soon find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game of emotions and karma.

Stop waiting for "someday" to save for retirement. This book shows freelancers and gig workers exactly how to build real wealth—even with irregular income. Sam Patterson gets it. After an $8,400 IRS surprise revealed he didn't understand self-employment taxes, this IT trainer and consultant spent four years obsessively researching retirement planning for people like him—people juggling multiple income streams without a corporate safety net.

What does your name attract? How much fortune, fame, and career advancement have you achieved? No matter how well you may have done in the past, until you develop your own unique personal brand, you will only be skimming the surface of the true potential that lies within you.Welcome to a brand-crazed planet.

People don’t open restaurants just because they want to start a business. People open restaurants because they are building a dream. You can create the restaurant of your dreams. You can also be profitable, pay your vendors, your staff, and yourself, and savor the joys of hospitality without stress and uncertainty.

The Third Circle Theory is the theory that the founder of Secret Entourage created to explain how visionaries are made and billion dollar ideas born from nothing more than your observations. The theory which has proven to be the same for all the successful individuals who have not only found their purpose in life but have executed on their beliefs, and as a result established themselves as successful innovators, explorers, educators, and entrepreneurs is now clearly defined and will teach you how to live successfully.