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If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, you’ve come to the right place. In Million Dollar Launch, bestselling author and superstar consultant Alan Weiss shows you how to get your business up and running—fast! Step by step, Weiss reveals how to create a revenue-producing practice quickly and successfully—while funds last and while support systems remain passionate. This is an indispensable guide to those critical first 90 days.

Here's the truth about fundraising: no one is born a great fundraiser. It's just a skill you can learn, refine, and master. This book is your guide to improving your major donor fundraising. Whether you're new to fundraising or a seasoned nonprofit leader, the principles in this book apply to you. In this book, you'll discover the 3 Levers of Fundraising Growth and how to pull them effectively. You'll learn how to craft a persuasive pitch that moves donors to action, and how to treat your major donors like the valued partners they are.

For more than 40 years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside.

Due to a range of frequent and unavoidable mistakes, only ten percent of startups make it beyond five years. In this game-changing guide, startup veteran and serial entrepreneur Gregory Shepard combines twelve startup exits, four private equity awards, and decades' worth of expert insight and industry experience—including interviews with real entrepreneurs, Navy SEALs, Air Force Fighter Pilots, and more—to present you with straightforward, actionable strategies for mapping out your startup and achieving success.

Filled with illuminating case studies and brilliant in-depth analysis, this invaluable book provides a multitude of insights that will help you weather market upheavals, adapt to disruptions, and optimize your resources to your best advantage.

Too often, thanks to multiple rounds of equity investment, company founders wind up with only a small fraction of the businesses they start. But this situation isn't inevitable. The intelligent use of a variety of financing options—including debt financing—can help to maintain, or even grow, a founder's stake. In All Money Is Not Created Equal, renowned Silicon Valley veteran David Spreng delivers an expert guide for entrepreneurs and founders seeking to maintain as much ownership stake as possible in the companies they create as they move through the various stages of the financing process.

Every business relies on customers, and new businesses often have to seek them out at an early stage so that they build a solid customer base that will allow them to thrive. Cold calling is sometimes a necessity that many business owners detest. At best, it is sometimes a chore, but at its worst, it can bring about an almost paralyzing fear. This audiobook, The Holistic Guide To Cold-Calling: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Create New Business Opportunities, will help rid you of that fear, get chatting, and start creating a stream of new business opportunities.

Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.

Entrepreneurs and early-stage company participants get taken advantage of so frequently that we hardly notice. Bad equity deals are the rule, not the exception. The Slicing Pie Handbook outlines a framework for perfectly fair equity splits for early-stage, bootstrapped startup companies. Based on the model popularized by the book Slicing Pie, Slicing Pie Handbook will help you determine the right share for people who contribute the things you need to start your company including help, equipment, supplies, rent, and even credit.

"Launching an Interior Design Business" by VentureNest Books is a comprehensive guide designed for aspiring interior designers eager to transform their creative passion into a thriving business. This essential resource addresses common challenges faced by individuals at the beginning of their entrepreneurial journey, particularly those lacking the necessary business know-how.

In the early stages of a tech startup's life, it's hard to decipher the meaningful metrics from the distractions. How do you know if your product is working? Is it the number of new signups? Average amount of time spent on the site? Revenue, even if you don't have a revenue model yet? In Scaling Lean, serial entrepreneur and author of the startup cult classic Running Lean Ash Maurya offers a tactical handbook for measuring and scaling a tech startup with maximum efficiency and efficacy.

Success doesn’t have to mean burnout! Effortless Success for Women redefines the traditional hustle and introduces a smarter, more sustainable path to achievement. This book explores how women can break free from the cycle of overworking and instead leverage balance, influence, and strategic action to accomplish more with less stress. By embracing a fresh perspective on hustle, rest, and personal power, you’ll learn how to work smarter—not harder—while still achieving your biggest goals.

One Page Talent Management shows you how to quickly identify high-potential talent without complex assessments; increase the number of "ready now" successors for key roles; generate 360-degree feedback that accelerates change in the most critical behaviors; and significantly reduce the time required for managers to implement talent-building processes.

The Cheer Gym Owners' Handbook is your indispensable guide to building a profitable and thriving all star gym. Recognized as the #1 industry resource, this book is packed with actionable advice and practical strategies, covering everything from enhancing your marketing and optimizing staffing to mastering the financial aspects of gym ownership.

Every year, six million companies and more than 100,000 products are launched. They all need an awesome name, but many (such as Xobni, Svbtle, and Doostang) look like the results of a drunken Scrabble game. In this entertaining and engaging book, ace naming consultant Alexandra Watkins explains how anyone - even noncreative types - can create memorable and buzz-worthy brand names. No degree in linguistics required.

Psychological impasse brings with it the sense of being stuck or paralyzed. Getting Unstuck provides a practical, authoritative road map for moving past your immediate impasse and defining a meaningful path forward.

What if you were guaranteed that every new customer buying from you would spend the next five years buying more products at ever higher price points? Or you were certain every dollar spent on your advertising would return extra dollars to you down the road? Or you could finally look at your marketing efforts as investments, rather than expenses? Now, you can...by following the proven strategies and techniques for buying customers outlined here for the first time by Action COACH Founder and Chairman, Brad Sugars.

From a global CEO and transformational catalyst to top-performing senior leadership teams comes a groundbreaking playbook, unlocking limitless growth. In a world turned upside down by the disruptive force of AI, a select group of visionary business leaders is rewriting the rules and playing an entirely new game. Now, you have the chance to join their ranks. Conventional success strategies are obsolete.

Are you a skilled developer wanting to transition into your own app development business from home? 'How to Start a Home-Based App Development Business' equips you with the essential knowledge and tools to turn your passion into a profitable enterprise. Whether you're experienced in mobile, web, or cross-platform apps, this guide will help you define your niche, set up your home office, attract clients, and refine your business operations.

Imagine running a business without a strategy. It would be akin to driving blindfolded, to building a house without a blueprint. The concept of strategy changed all that, paving the way for the creation of the modern corporate world. The Lords of Strategy provides listeners with a deeper understanding of the world they compete in, and a sharper eye for what works — and what doesn’t — when forging strategy.