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What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers. The Art of the Start will give you the essential steps to launch great products, services, and companies-whether...
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As laws change, North Americans are gaining greater legal access to marijuana through local dispensaries. But the rise of the dispensary brings a mountain of challenges. This book treats the fledgling industry as a serious prospect and identifies the best practices to start and run a dispensary. From business basics to ensure sufficient cash flow, to science basics to ensure proper sourcing and care of the products, author Jay Currie walks dispensary...
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A book for anyone who has started a business, thought about starting a business, or just been close to someone who has, All In Startup introduces the reader to the latest advances in entrepreneurship, including a new understanding of how to launch a company in a way that dramatically improves its chances of success.The business plan curriculum taught in most M.B.A. programs is on the verge of extinction. A new scientific method of entrepreneurship...
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2019.
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What type of business should you start?
For the past 10 years, Inc. 500 CEO and #1 national best-selling author, Ryan Levesque—featured for his work in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Entrepreneur—has guided thousands of entrepreneurs through the journey of answering this question.
One of the biggest reasons why so many new businesses fail is because in the quest to decide what business to start,...
For the past 10 years, Inc. 500 CEO and #1 national best-selling author, Ryan Levesque—featured for his work in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Entrepreneur—has guided thousands of entrepreneurs through the journey of answering this question.
One of the biggest reasons why so many new businesses fail is because in the quest to decide what business to start,...
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Wiley
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c2011
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xiv, 175 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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A primer for pursuing entrepreneurial ambitions and achieving successFilled with strategies and powerful anecdotes about defining and setting goals and pushing for entrepreneurial success, The Everyday Entrepreneur reveals how readers can apply the ambitions of a go-getter in their own lives, position themselves ahead of the pack, examine how to calculate risk, and understand the mindset necessary to venture forward on their own.Unlike other books...
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Raise Capital on Your Own Terms. How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul. You're an entrepreneur-you want to be your own boss, life a live you love, and do something great. But businesses need money, so you max out your credit cards, take out a second mortgage, and maybe even drive for Uber at night. You do everything yourself and on the cheap. Why? Because you think the only alternative is to make a devil's bargain with some venture capitalist...
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BenBella Books, Inc
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[2019]
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239 pages ; 22 cm
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"You've thought about starting your own business . . . but how can you decide if you should really take the leap? There's a lot on the line, and you have to ask yourself difficult questions: Do I have what it takes? Is it worth it? And how the hell do I do it? You need answers, not bullshit. This book has them. Entrepreneurial Leap: Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Entrepreneur? is an easy-to-use guide that will help you decide, once and for...
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2015.
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The "useful and inspiring" (Diane von Furstenberg) guide for female entrepreneurs who want to take their businesses into the big leagues.
"Do you have an ambitious vision for your business, but aren't sure what to do next? Successful entrepreneur Julia Pimsleur provides an invaluable guide for any woman who wants to make a big jump" (Gretchen Rubin, author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project).
Over the past...
"Do you have an ambitious vision for your business, but aren't sure what to do next? Successful entrepreneur Julia Pimsleur provides an invaluable guide for any woman who wants to make a big jump" (Gretchen Rubin, author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project).
Over the past...
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Crown Business
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[2014?]
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210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS HAPPENS ONLY ONCE. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 27 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Tossed is a new salad bar chain set up by twenty-something entrepreneur Vincent McKevitt in the teeth of catastrophic economic conditions. Will the credit crunch make or break his new business? The entrepreneur: Vincent started young - selling ice cubes to his sisters! He funded his new business with loans from friends, family - anywhere he could get the money. Against the odds, Tossed opens a new store at London's Baker Street - on time. Branding:...
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When Nick Sarillo decided to open a family-friendly pizza restaurant in the suburbs of Chicago, people thought he was nuts. Having worked as a carpenter for much of his adult life, he lacked any formal experience in restaurants or in managing a small business. Everyone told him no one else would ever care about his place the way he did. They warned he would have to work 20-hour-days and monitor every employee just to stay in business. But Sarillo...
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Crown Business
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2011.
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320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from someone's garage or are created within a mature Fortune 500 organization, new ventures, by definition, are designed to create new products or services under conditions of extreme...
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REDI report volume 2020 August
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Colorado State University, Regional Economic Development Institute
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2020.
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1 online resource (3 unnumbered pages) : illustration
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English
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We analyze 20 years of venture-capital funded startups, founded between 1992 and 2011, in the Front Range around Denver, Colorado, and in the Bay Area around San Francisco, California, including Silicon Valley. While Silicon Valley is the classic model for entrepreneurial ecosystems, the Denver Front Range may in fact be more representative of most regional economies. The Bay Area gave rise to 6,938 VC-funded startups in our data over those 20 years,...
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