Business & economics / Entrepreneurship

So, You Want to Start a Business?: 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap

by Edward D. Hess & Charles F. Goetz

Build the Successful Company You’ve Always Wanted to Own!

• Avoid the 8 disastrous operational mistakes that kill new businesses
• Walk step-by-step through the entire process of building a winning business
• Master...

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...

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

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...

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...

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Samuel Johnson Prize 2010

by Barbara Demick

A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens

Nothing...

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

by T. Harv Eker

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind reveals the missing link between wanting success and achieving it!

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily, while others are destined for a life of financial...

Summary: The 4-hour workweek - Timothy Ferriss

by Must Read Summaries

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...

Business Plans For Dummies

by Paul Tiffany & Steven D. Peterson

Would you take off on a road trip to a new destination without a map or good directions? Probably not. Yet, sometimes business owners go full speed ahead without even having a destination in mind, much less...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Coffee Bar

by Linda Formichelli & W. Eric Martin

Brew up your own business.

This is a step-by-step guide to realizing what for many people is a cherished dream: opening a successful coffee bar. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Coffee Bar...

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...

Upstarts! : How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit from Their Success: How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking

by Donna Fenn

They’re young, they’re brash,they’re smart—and they’re77-million strong.Generation Y is creating startups at anunprecedented rate, and their approach tobusiness is unlike anything you’ve seen.The...

Undress for Success: The Naked Truth about Making Money at Home

by Kate Lister

This book is for the bummed out, burned out, and stressed out professional, stay-at-home parent, or retiring boomer who dreams of a home-based job or business, but doesn’t know how to make that dream a reality....

West Point Way of Leadership

by Larry Donnithorne

West Point has bred more CEOs than any business school, and the leadership skills taught there are truly matters of life and death.  Bolder than Sun Tzu, savvier than Gracian -- THE book on learning to lead....

Making Money on eBay For Dummies

by Nathan Huppatz & Marsha Collier

Sell with confidence and share the secrets of the eBay elite

Whether you want to turn clutter into cash, create a steady revenue stream or give up your job and start an eBay business, Making Money on eBay For...

Running a Food Truck For Dummies

by Richard Myrick

The easy way to drive your food truck business to success

A new generation of street food lovers are lining up at food trucks and food carts. Though the idea is a long-standing part of American and world culture,...

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

by Chris Guillebeau

In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose – and earn a good living.

Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of...

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.”—...

The Laptop Millionaire: How Anyone Can Escape the 9 to 5 and Make Money Online

by Mark Anastasi

Go from ZERO to $10,000 a month in 28 days and discover financial freedom online!

Every day thousands of people are losing their jobs, their income, and their security—perhaps you are one of them. However,...

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...