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Jamey Stegmaier raised $1 million in funding, engaged thousands of enthusiastic supporters, founded a successful board game company, and has established him as a leading expert on crowdfunding. Stegmaier argues that crowdfunding is more than simply a new way to raise money it's a new way to do business. Crowdfunding enables you to create a loyal community before you even have a product, a community that will continue to support your efforts in a variety...
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2020.
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"Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world's top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture"--
Raz has interviewed highly successful entrepreneurs, and here he shares tips for every entrepreneur's journey. From the early days of formulating your idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, to...
4) Nothing to lose, everything to gain: how I went from gang member to multimillionaire entrepreneur
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Ryan Blair knows about building a business from the ground up. Like many entrepreneurs he had no formal business education. But he had great survival instincts, tenacity, and, above all, a "nothing to lose" mindset.Blair's middle-class childhood came to an abrupt end when his abusive father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned the family. Blair and his mother moved to a bad neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining...
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Simon & Schuster
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2015.
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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. A follow-up to the authors' Abundance (2012).
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A guide to launching a profitable entrepreneurial venture in less than a month shares practical exercises and inspiring stories about how to plan, launch, and refine a side business with minimal revenue and without having to quit a full-time job.
"For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to strike out on their own as an entrepreneur is exhilarating. For many others, it's terrifying. After all, a stable job that delivers a regular paycheck...
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There is an epidemic of unhappiness in the American workplace. A full 70 percent of workers in the United States report that they are disengaged from their jobs. When asked, "Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?" only 20 percent of nearly 2 million employees said yes. It is no wonder that 56 percent of all Americans dream of starting their own business. So why don't they do so? Because starting one's own business is seen as...
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"...Danny Warshay, the creator of the Entrepreneurial Process course and founding executive director of Brown's Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, shares the same set of tools with aspiring entrepreneurs. He overturns the common misconception that entrepreneurship is a hardwired trait or the solve province of high-flying MBAs, and provides a proven method to identify consequential problems and an accessible process anyone can learn, master, and apply...
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Success
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[2015]
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"The entrepreneur roller coaster: why now is the time to #JoinTheRide, will prepare you for the wild ride of entrepreneurship. It will warn you (of forthcoming fears, doubts, and the self-defeating conditioning of your upbringing and past), inoculate you (from the naysayers, dream-stealers, and pains of rejection and failure), and guide you (as you build those under-developed skills of independence, self-motivation, and self-accountability) safely...
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2013.
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As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is harnessed to create new communities, technologies, businesses or charities, the results can be absolutely stunning. In this book, Alexis will share his ideas, tips and even his own doodles about harnessing the power of the web for good, and...
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"Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have...
19) Agency
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"Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly...
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"Everything you need to know to run a profitable and satisfying mail order business from your home ... From painless business planning to achieving success in cyberspace, this book's step-by-step methods are practical and easy to understand ... Whether you are looking to assess your personal skills, estimate your start-up costs, choose the right products, or stay profitable once you are in business ..."--P. [4] of cover.