Business & economics / Entrepreneurship

Four Ways You Can Start Your Own Business

by Bruce Barringer

This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Starting a Business (9780137144501) by Bruce Barringer. Available in print and digital formats.

Choose the best way for you to go into business because you have...

Getting the Money to Start Your Own Business

by Bruce Barringer

This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Starting a Business (9780137144501) by Bruce R. Barringer. Available in print and digital formats.

Minimizing the cost of launching your business--and then finding...

Summary: The 4-hour workweek - Timothy Ferriss

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This work offers a summary of the book “ THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” by Timothy Ferriss.

Timothy Ferriss is a serial entrepreneur. In addition to speaking...

Entrepreneurship and Attracting the Right Influences in Your Business

by Tricia Molloy

It's the law of attraction: like energy attracts like energy. For better or worse, our feelings and emotions powerfully influence who and what we attract into our lives. Learn how to change what you attract...

Entrepreneurship in Your Present: Avoiding the Traps of the Past

by Tricia Molloy

Don't squander your time and energy by fixating on the past or worrying about the future! Learn how to drop your burden of grudges and regrets! Tricia Molloy guides you toward living fully in the present, so...

Start Something That Matters

by Blake Mycoskie

The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good.

“A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—...

Breakthrough Branding: How Smart Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs Transform a Small Idea into a Big Brand

by Catherine Kaputa

From the grassroots growth of beverage brands like Red Bull, and Honest Tea, to the exploding growth of digital brands like Twitter, and Groupon - successful companies of all types and sizes begin with three...

Most Important Considerations for Starting Your Own Business, The: The Feasibility Study and Business Plan

by Bruce Barringer

This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Starting a Business (9780137144501) by Bruce R. Barringer. Available in print and digital formats.

A systematic, four-step plan for reducing the risk associated...

Managing Your New Business' Finances

by Bruce Barringer

This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Starting a Business (9780137144501) by Bruce Barringer. Available in print and digital formats.

A simple introduction to financial management for every new entrepreneur....

Your Service Business: Earn More-Stress Less

by Herman (Mat) Tecosky

A must-read for every service professional.

* What clients really want

* Under-promising and over-delivering

* How to run a new business meeting

* Value billing

* Raising your rates

* Partner...or not?

* Dealing...

Summary : Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter

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This work offers a summary of the book “ RICH DAD , POOR DAD: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money -- That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!” by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter.

In...

Summary: The Second Coming of Steve Jobs - Alan Deutschman

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This work offers a summary of the book “THE SECOND COMING OF STEVE JOBS” by Alan Deutschman.

Alan Deutschman is one of America's leading writers on change and innovation.

In The Second Coming of Steve Jobs,...

10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management

by Hyrum W. Smith

Written for anyone who suffers from "time famine", this essential handbook provides simple, effective methods for successfully taking control of one's hours--and one's life. Smith shows how, by managing time...

Make Money Online

by John Chow & Michael Kwan

Blogs.They may have once been the realm of personal online diaries, but blogs have quickly become just as legitimate and influential as mainstream newspapers and magazines. Did you know that you can make a very...

Keep Swinging

by Jay Myers

Myers, founder of Interactive Solutions, Inc., had many days in his business early years when he thought he was going to end up just another statistic. As one of Americas fastest growing private companies, Myers...

No Thank You, Mr. President

by John Cohoat

No Thank You, Mr. President is really a result of the frustration that many people feel about the Obama Administration's attempt to make political hay due to the misery in Elkhart County. Elkhart is very entrepreneurial...

First Contact

by Sam Hunter

"If you find yourself staring at a telephone with a daunting new business call to make and feeling alone, First Contact can help by providing step-by-step methods to devise successful strategies and tactics....

Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

by John Warrillow

Run your company. Don’t let it run you.

Most business owners started their company because they wanted more freedom—to work on their own schedules, make the kind of money they deserve, and eventually retire...

Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs

by Andy Kessler

How entrepreneurs find the next big thing-and make it huge.

The era of easy money and easy jobs is officially over. Today, we're all entrepreneurs, and the tides of change threaten to capsize anyone who plays...

Soloing: Realizing Your Life's Ambition

by Harriet Rubin

Soloing has two meanings: "going it alone" and being "complete in yourself." . . . But you don't just leave--a company/a career/a paycheck--and cross over to a more satisfying life. There's more to it. There...