Finance Career

Finding the right venture capitalist to back your start-up is a challenge. Even if you manage to get backing, you want your VC to be a partner, not some dictator who will undermine your vision and take control of your life's work. Jeffrey Bussgang is one of a very few people who have played on both sides of this high-stakes game. Now he draws on his unique perspective to offer high-level insights, colorful stories, and practical advice. He reveals how to get noticed, perfect a pitch, and negotiate a partnership that works for everyone.

It's the ultimate road trip. Legendary investor Jim Rogers and his fiancee travel to 116 countries in a custom-built, four-wheel-drive, bright yellow Mercedes. Over three years, they make their way through war zones, are guarded by military convoys, observe a 50-million-person pilgrimage, eat disgusting food, put the car on barges for transport between countries, and have their lives threatened at every turn.

Airbnb For Dummies is here to help you prep your property and post your first listing on the popular short-term rental site. Even if you don't have a house, you can become an Airbnb host. A spare room at your place, a camper, a boat, a treehouse, a castle—you can turn just about anything into an Airbnb and earn additional income hosting guests. You can even offer tours around your hometown. This comprehensive resource helps you make your goals a reality.

Especially relevant in today's world of corporate scandals and new accounting laws, the numbers in a financial report contain vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is going. Packed with new and updated information, Reading Financial Reports for Dummies, 3rd Edition gives you a quick but clear introduction to financial reports - and how to decipher the information in them.

In The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, the pioneers of the industry share the investing and management wisdom they have gained by investing in and transforming their portfolio companies. Based on original interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories on the subjects that most matter to the high-level investor, such as selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private equity principles to non-profits, and much more.

Feeling stuck in the 9-to-5 grind? Wondering how others are making $10K/month with AI while you're still "figuring it out"? Tired of watching the AI gold rush from the sidelines and feeling like it's passing you by? It’s time to stop scrolling and start earning. ChatGPT Side Hustles 2025 is your no-fluff blueprint to building real, scalable income streams using ChatGPT—even if you have zero tech skills or experience.

Read by the author. Don’t trade your 40-hour workweek for an 80-hour-a-week side hustle. The promise of entrepreneurship is to create a lifestyle of freedom—but the pursuit often leads to a time-bankrupt life. If you’re an overworked employee who’s done with the 9-to-5, a serial...

दौलत कुछ चुनिंदा लोगों का अधिकार नहीं; आपका भी जन्मसिद्ध अधिकार है। डॉ. जोसेफ मर्फी की इस विख्यात पुस्तक की सहायता से आप यह जान लेंगे कि उस अधिकार को वास्तविकता में कैसे बदलें। जीवन में सफलता की प्रेरक और सशक्त सच्ची घटनाओं से भरी यह पुस्तक आपको सच्ची दौलत के रहस्यों को खोलना और उस संपत्ति; सत्ता और समृद्धि का स्वाभाविक रूप से आनंद उठाना सिखाएगी; जिसके आप हकदार हैं। बस आपको डॉ. मर्फी की चिरपरिचित जमीनी; व्यावहारिक सलाहों पर चलना है; और आप यह जान लेंगे कि कैसे.

*USA TODAY Bestseller* “A compass for those navigating their professional journeys” (Forbes) that “reveals often surprising work advice” (New York Post), this empowering guide, from former PepsiCo COO Grace Puma and former Nike President of Consumer Direct Christiana Smith Shi, shows how...

What are venture capitalists saying about your startup behind closed doors? And what can you do to influence that conversation? If Silicon Valley is the greatest wealth-generating machine in the world, Sand Hill Road is its humming engine. That's where you'll find the biggest names in venture...

The Plateau Effect is a powerful law of nature that affects everyone. Learn to identify plateaus and break through any stagnancy in your life - from diet and exercise, to work, to relationships. The Plateau Effect shows how athletes, scientists, therapists, companies, and musicians around the world are learning to break through their plateau - to turn off the forces that cause people to “get used to” things - and turn on human potential and happiness in ways that seemed impossible.

What will your 100-year life look like? Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time? Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse.

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En esta entrega de la serie Padre Rico, Robert T. Kiyosaki expone "los valores ocultos" de los negocios de mercadeo en red: los innumerables beneficios que ofrecen. . . ¡aparte del dinero! En este libro aprenderá que los negocios de mercado en red.

Ready to escape the 9–to–5, build multiple income streams, and launch a business that actually fits your life? This powerful 2-in-1 collection combines Practical Passive Income Mastery Blueprint and The Practical Starting a Business Blueprint to give you proven strategies and step-by-step guidance for taking control of your financial future.

Entering into a joint venture is a major decision. This audiobook gives an overview of the main ways you can set up a joint venture, the advantages and disadvantages of doing so, how to assess if you are ready to commit, what to look for in a joint venture partner, and how to make it work.

As a therapist, Joyce Marter noticed an extraordinary trend: as her clients improved their mental health, they leveled up in other areas of their lives. They received raises, they got promotions, and some even started their own business. This epiphany led her to develop an insightful and ingenious process for releasing limiting habits and beliefs so you can begin your journey to freedom and prosperity. Here, Joyce shares the culmination of her life’s work as the go-to expert on the “Psychology of Success”—a proven method to help you improve your financial well-being.

Part personal development guide, part adventure tale, Tribe of Millionaires teaches listeners six timeless lessons about the power of those around us to transform our lives.When Ethan Martinez receives a mysterious invitation after the death of his father, he embarks on an adventure not only to save his struggling business, but to discover his past.

Decisions equal success - nothing happens until one is made. Businesses make millions of decisions every day. But once in a great while a leader makes a truly game-changing decision that shifts not only the strategy of a single company but how everyone does business. These big decisions are counterintuitive - they go against the conventional wisdom. In hindsight, taking a different direction may seem easy, but these bet-the-company moves involve drama, doubt, and high tension.

Discover your core values and find your place in life, love, and work. We all want to be our most authentic selves in every space that we are in―in our relationships, our work, and our communities. But often we feel a disconnect, a tension between who we are and what the people around us...