Startup Money Made Easy


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With advice from Daymond John, Bobbi Brown, Mark Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck, Max Levchin, Alexa von Tobel, and other successful early stage startup investors, Inc. magazine shows you how to attract and wisely apply your firm’s first precious sources of cash. Bootstrapping, crowdfunding, VCs, payroll, profits—money makes your business boom. But mess up your finances, and the venture can go bust. It’s time to get smart. Let the experts at Inc. guide you through every critical step and potential pitfall. Their on-the-ground reporting shows how to locate funding, manage your money, and smart hack your way to a comfortable retirement. Startup Money Made Easy gathers the best advice from the magazine’s pages, spotlighting celebrated entrepreneurs and inspiring stories. You’ll hear from: FUBU founder Daymond John, who mortgaged his family home for start-up capital—and built a $6 billion empire Makeup artist Bobbi Brown, who turned a modest lipstick line into a profitable 30-store enterprise Alexa von Tobel, who dropped out of Harvard Business School to launch the equity-magnate LearnVest.com Mark Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck, Max Levchin, and other founders who overcame financial obstacles on their way to the top Interwoven with the stories are on-target tips that explain how to: Raise your first $10,000 in capital Power through the lean years Get friends and family to back you up Round up outside investors Go public or sell, while still staying in charge Reward people with great salaries and benefits Eliminate tax season surprises Grow without growing pains And more Cash flow problems are the number-one business killer. Whether you’re dreaming up a startup idea or knee deep in the craziness, learn to shore up your finances and safeguard the business.




Managing a Small Business Made Easy


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Expert guidance on managing your business for maximum profit This book examines the elements critical to running a business, picking up where the bestselling Start Your Own Business leaves off, with tips on leadership, customer service, financials, and more. It includes lessons from seasoned businesspeople experienced in the situations new entrepreneurs face daily.




Business Models Made Easy


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Don't Just Plan-Zero In on a Winning Business Model! Before you write a business plan, before you start marketing, before you look for funding, you should develop the most important tool in your business arsenal: a business model. A great business model sets amazing successes apart from failures. Don Debelak reveals how to create a winning business concept, develop a business plan around it, and turn it into a successful business venture. Whether you're starting a new business or looking to revitalize an existing operation, you'll learn: What a model is, why it's important, how it works and how it can improve your business How to maximize your chances of success with an easy-to-use scoring system How to use your business model to increase your chances of receiving funding Strategies for using your model to write a business plan that really works Take your business to the height of success with this can't-miss strategy.




Starting a Business Made Easy


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Get the look of a Fortune 500 Company without spending a fortune. This dual-language (English & Spanish) book was written from the author's personal failures and final successes when it came to starting her own business. The author takes you on her personal journey of start-up failure, losing it all, getting back in the game, and ultimately start-up success. It's as though she's having an intimate one-on-one conversation with you. She speaks candidly about her real life business failures that eventually led to her real life business success. You will be amazed at how little it costs to successfully start your business. Author Yolanda Guild doesn't hold anything back as she takes you step-by-step through the start-up process. She shares with you the exact companies she partnered with (and continues to partner with) that gave way to her start-up-success. Your Dream! Your Vision! Your Reality! With Starting A Business Made Easy: 10 Steps to Successfully Starting Any Business on a Shoestring Budget you can make it happen. Here's to you and here's to a successful business! / Buena suerte a usted y buena suerte a un exitoso negocio!




Business Made Simple


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Is this blue book more valuable than a business degree? Most people enter their professional careers not understanding how to grow a business. At times, this makes them feel lost, or worse, like a fraud pretending to know what they’re doing. It’s hard to be successful without a clear understanding of how business works. These 60 daily readings are crucial for any professional or business owner who wants to take their career to the next level. New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Donald Miller knows that business is more than just a good idea made profitable – it’s a system of unspoken rules, rarely taught by MBA schools. If you are attempting to profitably grow your business or career, you need elite business knowledge—knowledge that creates tangible value. Even if you had the time, access, or money to attend a Top 20 business school, you would still be missing the practical knowledge that propels the best and brightest forward. However, there is another way to achieve this insider skill development, which can both drastically improve your career earnings and the satisfaction of achieving your goals. Donald Miller learned how to rise to the top using the principles he shares in this book. He wrote Business Made Simple to teach others what it takes to grow your career and create a company that is healthy and profitable. These short, daily entries and accompanying videos will add enormous value to your business and the organization you work for. In this sixty-day guide, readers will be introduced to the nine areas where truly successful leaders and their businesses excel: Character: What kind of person succeeds in business? Leadership: How do you unite a team around a mission? Personal Productivity: How can you get more done in less time? Messaging: Why aren’t customers paying more attention? Marketing: How do I build a sales funnel? Business Strategy: How does a business really work? Execution: How can we get things done? Sales: How do I close more sales? Management: What does a good manager do? Business Made Simple is the must-have guide for anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed by the modern business climate, even if they attended business school. Learn what the most successful business leaders have known for years through the simple but effective secrets shared in these pages. Take things further: If you want to be worth more as a business professional, read each daily entry and follow along with the free videos that will be sent to you after you buy the book.




Small Business For Dummies®


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Want to start the small business of your dreams? Want to breathe new life into the one you already have? Small Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition provides authoritative guidance on every aspect of starting and growing your business, from financing and budgeting to marketing, management and beyond. This completely practical, no-nonsense guide gives you expert advice on everything from generating ideas and locating start-up money to hiring the right people, balancing the books, and planning for growth. You’ll get plenty of help in ramping up your management skills, developing a marketing strategy, keeping your customers loyal, and much more. You’ll also find out to use the latest technology to improve your business’s performance at every level. Discover how to: Make sure that small-business ownership is for you Find your niche and time your start-up Turn your ideas into plans Determine your start-up costs Obtain financing with the best possible terms Decide whether or not to incorporate Make sense of financial statements Navigate legal and tax issues Buy an existing business Set up a home-based business Publicize your business and market your wares Keep your customers coming back for more Track cash flow, costs and profits Keep your business in business and growing You have the energy, drive, passion, and smarts to make your small business a huge success. Small Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition, provides the rest.




Entrepreneurship Made Easy


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Do you want or need to start your own business but have no capital and not sure what to do or how to get started? Is your head full of business information but you are feeling stuck and unsure how to put it all into a solid, successful business?Then you need Entrepreneurship made Easy: 10 Simple Steps to Start and Grow a Successful Business with what you have now. This fun, simple and easy to follow guide takes a different approach to business start-ups, walking you into the world of entrepreneurial business one step at a time; In 10 easy steps and with basic business concepts - which you apply to your own situation - it guides you on how to build business confidence and resilience; to tap into your natural potential and create innovative, market-focused business ideas; to; get started with little capital, write a KISS marketing plan and 'ping' message, to discover your niche, cost your product or service in three easy step and set up simple money managements systems that work for busy entrepreneurs who hate paperwork. It all comes together into a smart working business plan. It's packed with practical fun assignments, examples and real success stories, and all the vital commercial business knowledge, tips and techniques that you need to build and grow a solid innovative business with the confidence, focus and direction to step out there and DO IT now- the entrepreneurial way!Initially launched in 2000 with more than 15000 copies sold and now an e-book too - it's a proven successful formula and continues to help people of all ages and circumstances to earn their own income and to start and grow successful businesses with what they have.




Starting an Online Business For Dummies®


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The nuts-and-bolts for building your own online business and making it succeed Is there a fortune in your future? Start your own online business and see what happens. Whether you're adding an online component to your current bricks-and-mortar or hoping to strike it rich with your own online startup, the sixth edition of this popular and practical guide can help. Find out how to identify a market need, handle promotion, choose Web hosting services, set up strong security, pop up prominently in search engine rankings, and more. The book explores the hottest business phenomenon today—social media marketing—with full coverage of Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other technologies that are now firmly part of the online business landscape. Dives into all aspects of starting and establishing an online business, including the very latest big trends Highlights business issues that are of particular concern to online businesses Reveals how to identify a market need, handle promotion, choose Web hosting services, set up strong security, pop up prominently in search engine rankings, and more Covers the hottest social media marketing opportunities, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and blogs Shows you specific types and examples of successful online businesses Provides the latest on B2B Web site suppliers, such as AliBaba.com Build a better online business from the ground up, starting with Starting an Online Business For Dummies, 6th Edition!




Accounting and Finance Made Easy


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Finally, a book on accounting that focuses on street-smart financial management rather than accounting mechanics Most accounting books are either too basic or too boring. This one carves a niche all its own. Instead of trying to morph you into instant CPAs, it provides practical advice through real-life examples, making it the first accounting "page-turner." Author Robert J. Low even draws on notorious financial scandals for illuminating lessons to small and medium-size businesses. He minimizes technical information and offers straight talk on the art of controllership--a key to ensuring company profits. Accounting and Finance for Small Business Made Easy includes: An accounting primer that demystifies terms and practices for the non-accountant Invaluable perspective on the critical areas for managing assets: inventory control and increasing cash flow A 10-step plan to help you start instantly to implement effective financial management




Simple Ways to Start a Business


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SIMPLE WAYS TO START A BUSINESS: Business made easy in today's world. Starting a business is exciting and scary at the same time. It's easy to get overwhelmed with all the information out there. There are so many things to think about - from the name of your company, to how much it will cost, and whether or not you should use a partner. Figuring it all out can make you want to give up before you even start. Starting your own business can seem like an overwhelming obstacle; but, it's actually not as hard as you might think. If you're looking for some simple ways to get started, this book will give you ideas to consider. Scroll up and click on the BUY button.