The Elite Entrepreneur


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If anyone knows what it takes to be an elite entrepreneur, it's Ephren Taylor. Author of a 2009 Wall Street Journal bestseller Creating Success from the Inside Out, Taylor started his first business venture at age 12, when he began making video games. By age 17, he built a multimillion-dollar technology company and took a company public at age 23. Now 27, Taylor appears weekly on FOX News and has been featured on 20/20, PBS, Black Enterprise and CNN Money, and even his own infomercial as the youngest ever African-American CEO of a publicly traded company. In The Elite Entrepreneur; How to Master the 7 Phases of Growth and Take Your Business from Pennies to Billions, Taylor, with Rusty Fischer, relays his years of successful business experience to take the guesswork out of entrepreneurialism. Full of anecdotes, tips, strategies and resources, The Elite Entrepreneur and Taylor identify and gives readers advice on the essential seven phases of business; Startup Branding Sales Hiring Innovation, joint ventures and partnerships Stock offerings Charity and social entrepreneurship The Elite Entrepreneur contains a checklist to help readers determine what their next steps should be. This book will provide the reader - young or old, doctorate or GED-holder - the motivation and tools to break the mold and become an Elite Entrepreneur.




The Entrepreneur Mind


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100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs What Every Successful Entrepreneur Knows But Won’t Tell You Achieve unimaginable business success and financial wealth. Reach the upper echelons of entrepreneurs, where you’ll find Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sara Blakely of Spanx, Mark Pincus of Zynga and many others. Develop the Entrepreneur Mind – a way of thinking that comes from learning the vital lessons of the best entrepreneurs. Through compelling stories of modern-day business tycoons, Kevin Johnson, president of the multi-million dollar company Johnson Media Inc., shares the essential beliefs, characteristics and habits of elite entrepreneurs. In this riveting book, written for new and veteran entrepreneurs, Johnson identifies 100 lessons in seven key areas: Strategy, Education, People, Finance, Marketing and Sales, Leadership, and Motivation. Lessons include how to think big, who makes the best business partners, what captivates investors, when to abandon a business idea, where to avoid opening a business bank account, and why too much formal education can hinder your entrepreneurial growth. Smart and insightful, The Entrepreneur Mind is the ultimate primer on how to think like an entrepreneur. KEVIN D. JOHNSON, president of Johnson Media Inc. and a serial entrepreneur, has several years of experience leading his multimillion-dollar marketing and communications company that now serves many of the most notable Fortune 100 businesses.




The Elite Eight


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This handbook outlines 8 key principles vital for efficiency, efficacy, and longevity of entrepreneurs that catapults them into Elitehood.




The 7 Key Habits & Principles of Elite Entrepreneurs - Develop a Powerful Entrepreneurial Mindset and Transform Your Business


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Want to Know What Mark Zuckerberg's Secret Success Weapon Is? Here's How to Be Like Facebook's Founder You have a great business idea. You have an amazing product that meets a massively unfulfilled market need. Do you know, however, that this isn't enough to become the next Forbes headline? Starting a business and being an elite entrepreneur aren't one and the same thing. What makes Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates different from everybody else? What hides inside the entrepreneurial mind? Is it an amazing idea, is it a breakthrough approach to doing business? The secret of massive entrepreneurial success is often much more trivial than that. In other words, perseverance will get you further than a brilliant idea on its own ever would. Did you know that PayPal's founder launched four unsuccessful businesses before turning idea number five into one of the world's biggest online payment platforms? Did you know that Oprah was fired from her first TV station job? Arianna Huffington, the founder of the Huffington Post, was turned down by 36 publishers before someone took on her project. Yes, even the mighty have fallen. But they found a way to get back up, learn from their mistakes and make the most of new opportunities. That's exactly what the entrepreneurial mindset is all about. To starting a successful business, you'll need the right vision, the right beliefs and the right habits. In Effective Entrepreneurship, you will discover: The 7 habits that made Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs business moguls How reading one book per week (and a few newspapers per day) can sharpen your business acumen The number one reason why most businesses will fail A crucial thing that all self-made millionaires (and billionaires) believe in Gaining a better grasp of your business by relinquishing some control and why it works Andrew Carnegie's lessons for overcoming a big problem all entrepreneurs will face sooner or later - micromanagement How to delegate like the boss that you are 4 amazing strategies millionaires use to declutter their mind and stay sharp The 9 kinds of people all elite entrepreneurs surround themselves with One thing that Arianna Huffington and Anna Wintour do each morning to become the powerful women that they are Health and wellness wisdom from the best and most inspiring entrepreneurs And much more! Are you afraid that you don't have what it takes to become the next Jeff Bezos? Are you worried that you don't have the experience, the business knowledge and the acumen to persevere and realize a grand idea in the long-run? Effective Entrepreneurship will show you that you're not alone in your fears and worries about inadequacy. It will also inspire you by detailing the real-life struggles and adversities that the most powerful and successful have had to overcome. Being a great entrepreneur isn't about education or money. it's about the little things you do every single day, the little things that add up to change your destiny. If you are ready to discover the secrets of the world's most successful entrepreneurs and take your business to the next level, scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button now.




The Entrepreneurs Book of Actions: Essential Daily Exercises and Habits for Becoming Wealthier, Smarter, and More Successful


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The action plan for building your entrepreneurial empire—one day at a time While every entrepreneur knows that the key to success is business growth, few ever see it happen. Why? Because they know how to plant seeds, but they don’t understand that the real work lies in helping that seed grow—which takes knowledge, persistence, and patience. The Entrepreneurs Book of Actions helps you develop the mindset of a true entrepreneur and provides manageable steps for making your business vision a reality. Informative, inspiring, and based on real-life, hard-earned lessons, it provides common-sense, daily exercises you can jump into on day one. Learn how to drive sustainable business growth by: * Breaking bad habits—and developing good ones * Managing your time and money more effectively * Hiring the right people for the right job * Minimizing the effort required to perform basic tasks * Motivating your staff to be mission-focused * Creating “free” time to feed your innovative side You’ll begin to see your business in a completely new way—with a sense of clarity and purpose. You’ll begin identifying the issues that really affect your business—not the ones that feed your anxiety. You’ll become the kind of leader other entrepreneurs look up to—calm, optimistic, driven. The Entrepreneurs Book of Actions will provide the direction you need to make the best use of your time, your energy, and your creativity. It’s not isn’t a quick-fix. It’s work. But it’s manageable, it’s proven effective—and it will pay off big.




Building an Elite Organization: The Blueprint to Scaling a High-Growth, High-Profit Business


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At the tail end of your company's startup phase, the same opportunities that generate revenue and fuel growth also bring new challenges. You need to hire-and train-rock-star team members, scale operations, prioritize opportunities, "wow" customers, and clearly communicate strategy throughout your organization-all while bringing on new clients and driving profitability. You don't have time for theory when you're growing at breakneck speed. You need a blueprint for profitable scalability, a toolbox of plug-and-play tools, and direction on how to maximize execution. That's where ​Building an Elite Organization ​comes in. Don Wenner is a master of scaling high-growth, high-profit entrepreneurial companies. In ​Building an Elite Organization​, he walks you through the Elite Execution System his company and other highly successful organizations use to drive growth and improve profitability. Don's system will give your team clarity on where you're going, the insight to know if you're on the right track, and the disciplined system needed to consistently leverage every opportunity. Learn how you can leave a legacy and make an enduring impact for decades to come.




Entrepreneurial and Business Elites of China


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This important reference title provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of elite entrepreneurs of new China and contains over 100 substantial profiles of top overseas returnees who have made noteworthy contributions to Chinese society in general and economic development in particular since the reform era began in 1978.




The Unicorn's Shadow


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Bringing hard data to the way we think about entrepreneurial success, this bold call to action draws on the latest scientific evidence to dispel the most pervasive startup myths and light a path to entrepreneurship for those eclipsed by the hype. When you think of a successful entrepreneur, who comes to mind? Bill Gates? Mark Zuckerberg? Or maybe even Jesse Eisenberg, the man who played Zuckerberg in The Social Network? It may surprise you that most successful founders look very different from Zuckerberg or Gates. In fact, most startup origin stories are very different from the famous "unicorns" that have achieved valuations of over $1 billion, from Facebook to Google to Uber. In The Unicorn's Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths that Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors, Wharton School professor Ethan Mollick takes us to the forefront of an empirical revolution in entrepreneurship. New data and better research methods have overturned the conventional wisdom behind what a successful founder looks like, how they succeed, and how the startup ecosystem works. Among the issues he examines: Which founders are most likely to succeed?Where do the best startup ideas come from?What's the most foolproof way of securing the funding needed to take a company to the next level?Should your sales pitch really be something out of Hollywood?What's the best way to grow and scale your company and create a thriving culture that won't hinder expansion? Mollick argues that entrepreneurship is too important, both for society and for the individuals who start companies, to be eclipsed by the shadows of unicorns. He shows we can democratize entrepreneurship—but only by following an evidence-based approach that puts to rest the false narratives that surround it.




Entertaining Entrepreneurs


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The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle class, and strengthened the position of the very wealthy. Against this backdrop, the hit reality show Shark Tank premiered in 2009. Featuring ambitious entrepreneurs chasing support from celebrity investors, the show offered a version of the American Dream that still seemed possible to many, where a bright idea and a well-honed pitch could lift a bootstrap business to new heights of success. More than a decade later, Shark Tank still airs regularly on multiple networks, and its formula has sparked imitators everywhere, from elite universities to elementary school classrooms. In Entertaining Entrepreneurs, Daniel Horowitz shows how Shark Tank's version of entrepreneurship disguises and distorts the opportunities and traps of capitalism. Digging into today's cult of the entrepreneur, Horowitz charts its rise from the rubble of economic crisis and its spread as a mainstay of American culture, and he explores its flawed view of what it really takes to succeed in business. Horowitz offers more than a look at one television phenomenon. He is the perfect guide to the portrayal of entrepreneurship in business school courses, pitch competitions, popular how-to books, and scholarly works, as well as the views of real-world venture capitalists.




Entrepreneurs and Capitalism since Luther


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In Entrepreneurs and Capitalism since Luther: Rediscovering the Moral Economy, Ivan Light and Léo-Paul Dana study the history of business, capitalism, and entrepreneurship to examine the values of social and cultural capital. Six chapters evaluate case studies that illustrate contrasting relationships between social networks, vocational culture, and entrepreneurship. Light and Dana argue that, in capitalism’s early stages, cultural capital is scarcer than social capital and therefore more crucial for business owners. Conversely, when capitalism is well established, social capital is scarcer than cultural capital and becomes more crucial. Light and Dana then trace moral legitimations of capitalism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, the Gilded Age, and finally to Joseph Schumpeter whose concept of “creative destruction” freed elite entrepreneurs from moral restraints that encumber small business owners. After examining the availability of social and cultural capital in the contemporary United States, Light and Dana show that business owners’ social capital enforces conventional morality in markets, facilitating commerce and legitimating small businesses the old-fashioned way. As their networks become more isolated, elite entrepreneurs must claim and ultimately deliver successful results to earn public toleration of immoral or predatory conduct.