Navigating Your Way to Business Success


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Learn first-hand from a successful entrepreneur about assessing your skills and talent, envisioning your company, planning your path to success, and then tapping into available gaovernment agencies to make it a reality.




Navigating Your Way to Startup Success


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Startups, like sailing vessels, do not travel in straight lines. The wind and the waves of the real world move the ship, and your startup, in unpredictable ways. This book is designed to give you an analytical set of tools to help you navigate your startup or corporate innovation through the murky waters of real life. Every business has failures. No business succeeds without some change of plan. Navigating Your Way to Startup Success will show you how to create a startup designed to test its assumptions so those that are not worthy fail—often and fast. This book builds on modern startup management techniques like Agile and Lean to bring an analytical and quantitative framework to the most common startup failures. Navigating through those failures means finding your way to startup success. Harlan T Beverly, PhD holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, an MBA from UT Austin, and a PhD in Business from Oklahoma State University. Harlan teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also Assistant Director of the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs at UT Austin, the world's first university business accelerator. Harlan has successfully launched five hardware and 15 software products including the Killer NIC, 2007 Network Product of the Year (CPU Magazine). He has raised over $30 million in venture financing in the challenging intersection of entertainment and technology.




Go! Navigate Your Way to Success


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THE PRINCIPLES YOU NEED TO REACH YOUR DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE Anticipate the obstacles in the road ahead and prepare yourself for the adventure yet to come. Fifty-one thought provoking, entertaining stories drawn from Napoleon Hill’s original works including: • THINK AND GROW RICH • THE LAW OF SUCCESS • NAPOLEON HILL’S MAGAZINE “If life is a journey . . . having a guiding compass to assist us in our daily navigation would make things easier. By knowing whether we are traveling in the proper direction or moving toward our ultimate destination, we can better calculate our outcomes —JUDITH WILLIAMSON, Director, Napoleon Hill Foundation “Golden opportunities are lurking at every corner, waiting for the person with initiative to come along and discover them.”—GEORGE HARRISON PHELPS




The Messy Middle


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING BOOKS OF 2018 BY INC. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST STARTUP BOOKS OF ALL TIME BY BOOKAUTHORITY The Messy Middle is the indispensable guide to navigating the volatility of new ventures and leading bold creative projects by Scott Belsky, bestselling author, entrepreneur, Chief Product Officer at Adobe, and product advisor to many of today's top start-ups. Creating something from nothing is an unpredictable journey. The first mile births a new idea into existence, and the final mile is all about letting go. We love talking about starts and finishes, even though the middle stretch is the most important and often the most ignored and misunderstood. Broken into three sections with 100+ lessons, this no-nonsense book will help you: • Endure the roller coaster of successes and failures by strengthening your resolve, embracing the long-game, and short-circuiting your reward system to get to the finish line. • Optimize what’s working so you can improve the way you hire, better manage your team, and meet your customers’ needs. • Finish strong and avoid the pitfalls many entrepreneurs make, so you can overcome resistance, exit gracefully, and continue onto your next creative endeavor with ease. With insightful interviews from today’s leading entrepreneurs, artists, writers, and executives, as well as Belsky’s own experience working with companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Uber, and sweetgreen, The Messy Middle will outfit you to find your way through the hardest parts of any bold project or new venture.




Business Success Secrets


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Every Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs started out as nothing more than a person with an idea – and ideas are a dime a dozen. The mindset, processes, and teams that you build are where the real magic happens. Leverage the wisdom within Business Success Secrets from Tamara Nall, et al, and discover your own success story! BEYOND THE HIGHLIGHT REEL: AN HONEST, RAW AND REAL LOOK AT SOME OF THE BEST KEPT ENTREPRENEURIAL SECRETS! Buried beneath the impressive awards and accolades of each successful entrepreneur lies the hard-knocks story of the grit, determination, and resourcefulness it took to mount the summit of a dream. What you don’t know is just how much they learned along the way…. Business Success Secrets is a book written for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. Forget the flashing banners, false promises of overnight success, and the phony internet gurus – this is business insight straight from the source. Laying it all on the line, each author in the anthology has come together for one singular purpose: to bring you the undiluted truth of what it takes to make your business dream a reality. The only question now is, what’s standing in your way? Start reading now to: embody some of the best kept secrets to successful navigation and leadership learn sustainable methodologies for scalable growth develop a mindset that welcomes challenges and adversity via constant and renewed goal setting and metrics analysis explore the various iterations of the entrepreneurial mindset and how to tailor each one to your own personal brand avoid some of the most common pitfalls and traps for business owners in today’s professional landscape learn how entrepreneurialism is a market open to anyone regardless of age, race, gender, or nationality discover how CEOs, presidents, and founders narrowly avoided major disasters to come out on top learn vicariously from the mistakes of those that have gone before you and propel yourself into the life you’ve always wanted to live! There’s no need to reinvent the wheel! Start your entrepreneurial journey off on the right foot: grab your copy of Business Success Secrets today!




How to Navigate Life


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An essential guide to tackling what students, families, and educators can do now to cut through stress and performance pressure, and find a path to purpose. Today’s college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They’re performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they’re “supposed” to in order to reach the next tier of a relentless ladder. Then, their mental and physical exhaustion carries over right into first jobs. What have traditionally been considered the best years of life have become the beaten-down years of life. Belle Liang and Timothy Klein devote their careers both to counseling individual students and to cutting through the daily pressures to show a better way, a framework, and set of questions to find kids’ “true north”: what really turns them on in life, and how to harness the core qualities that reveal, allowing them to choose a course of study, a college, and a career. Even the gentlest parents and teachers tend to play into pervasive societal pressure for students to PERFORM. And when we take the foot off the gas, we beg the kids to just figure out what their PASSION is. Neither is a recipe for mental or physical health, or, ironically, for performance or passion. How to Navigate Life shows that successful human beings instead tap into their PURPOSE—the why behind the what and how. Best of all, purpose is a completely translatable quality to every aspect of life, from first jobs to last jobs and everything in between.




CliffsNotes Roadmap to College: Navigating Your Way to College Admission Success


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Let the experts at CliffsNotes steer you toward college admission success! Applying to college can be a daunting process, but with the expert help of CliffsNotes, you'll get all the advice you need to navigate your way through the entire admission process and get into the school of your dreams. Inside, you'll get: What College Admission Officers Are Looking for What You Should Be Looking for in Colleges Planning Worthwhile Campus Visits How to Write a Winning Personal Statement Do's and Don'ts for Essay Writing Sample Essays That Worked Application Nuts and Bolts How to Salvage Your Senior Year How to Pay for College Appendices Packed with Useful Web Sites and National Scholarships




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Business Success In Your 20s & 30s


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Calling all go-getters! Even in this economy, an outstanding business career for 20- and 30- somethings is possible, and this book can help get them on the fast track to success. It includes: finding motivation; setting goals; networking; how to work with and rise through management; and overcoming specific obstacles. ? Addresses an age-specific set of obstacles and issues ? Author has experience with early business success ? Even more necessary during the recent economic downturn




HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business


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An all-in-one guide to helping you buy and own your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a firm means you can be your own boss, put your executive skills to work, fashion a company environment that meets your own needs, and profit directly from your success. But finding the right business to buy and closing the deal isn't always easy. In the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business, Harvard Business School professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff help you: Determine if this path is right for you Raise capital for your acquisition Find and evaluate the right prospects Avoid the pitfalls that could derail your search Understand why a "dull" business might be the best investment Negotiate a potential deal with the seller Avoid deals that fall through at the last minute Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Business Success in Your 20s and 30s


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Calling all go-getters! Even in this economy, an outstanding business career for 20- and 30- somethings is possible, and this book can help get them on the fast track to success. It includes: finding motivation; setting goals; networking; how to work with and rise through management; and overcoming specific obstacles. ? Addresses an age-specific set of obstacles and issues ? Author has experience with early business success ? Even more necessary during the recent economic downturn