Entrepreneurship category: 8703 books
by Robert N. Lussier, David Kimball
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
As business schools expand their entrepreneurship programs and organizations seek people with entrepreneurial skills, it has become clear that the skills and mindset of an entrepreneur are highly valued in all business contexts. This latest edition of Entrepreneurial New Venture Skills continues to...
The Second Bounce Of The Ball
Turning Risk Into Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
'One of the best books written on entrepreneurship in recent years' FINANCIAL TIMES
In business, everyone can see the first bounce of the ball. It is the second bounce that is uncertain. Ronald Cohen, one of the world's leading private-equity investors, argues that the entrepreneur's aim is...
Startup Cities
Why Only a Few Cities Dominate the Global Startup Scene and What the Rest Should Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
This book offers a comprehensive model for explaining the success and failure of cities in nurturing startups, presents detailed case studies of how participants in that model help or hinder startup activity, and shows how to apply these lessons to boost local startup activity.
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So, You Want to Start a Business?: 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap
8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
“Hess and Goetz present a roadmap for how to avoid the things that can cause you to stumble and how to build a business the right way.” –JEFF ZEIGLER, CEO, TechTurn.com, Austin, TX “When I started my graphic design business, I knew I had enough talent to impress and keep my clients, but...
by Tricia Molloy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Never underestimate the power of gratitude! Learn how to show appreciation and give thanks...keep a gratitude journal...be grateful for the gifts that accompany failure and disappointment...refocus on what you appreciate about difficult people...express gratitude through service...discover how gratitude always returns way more than it costs!
The Entrepreneur's Growth Startup Handbook
7 Secrets to Venture Funding and Successful Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
An accessible guide to handling the unforeseeable consequences of becoming an entrepreneur in today and tomorrow's economy
The spirit of an entrepreneur is often characterized as one of unbridled passion and a sense of fearlessness. But what about the consequences of choosing to become an entrepreneur?...
Lessons from the Poor
Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
An important contribution to the literature of economic development, this book presents case studies of productive entrepreneurship in contemporary Africa and Latin America. It looks at the growth of Kenya's chain stores and one-person kiosks, the rise of barter clubs in Argentina, and Nigeria's clothing-design...
From the Other Side of the World
Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Elmira Bayrasli's worldview was turned upside down when a woman in Bosnia told her, thanks for the help. But we need work and jobs, not foreign aid.” That prompted Bayrasli to embark on a worldwide quest to find how talented people have overcome insurmountable obstacles to build high-growth businesses...
by Anubha Singhania
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Expert ReviewsEngaging & Inspiring! Maverick Minds is one book that I would recommend to anyone who aspires to become an entrepreneurAmit Burman DaburAnubha tells a story of the transformative power of great entrepreneurship. Stories of some of the very successful Indian entrepreneurs of our times will...
by Mike Kiett
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This was written to open the eyes and mind of the Urban Demographic. To show a community of people, who have taken unwanted risk in life to survive, how they can use those learned skills, to now live, in poverty stricken neighborhoods, many men choose to sell drugs, to provide for their family, and...
The Entrepreneurial Imperative
How America's Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World (and Change Your Life)
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world's leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise: that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our economic success, and that for the United States...
by ISHAN GUPTA, RAJAT KHARE
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Whenever you will be entrusted with an important task, you may wonder if you would be able to do it. This book encourages you to take a step ahead and become the captain of the problem and not let the problem rule you. You will then overcome the problem for sure. This book is a recipe for your success.
Social Startup Success
How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up, and Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Kathleen Kelly Janus, a lecturer at the Stanford University Program on Social Entrepreneurship and the founder of the successful social enterprise Spark, set out to investigate what makes a startup succeed or fail. She surveyed more than 200 high-performing social entrepreneurs and interviewed dozens...
New Venture Creation
An Innovator's Guide to Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Structured around the idea that innovation is at the core of successful entrepreneurship, New Venture Creation: An Innovator's Guide to Startups and Corporate Ventures, Second Edition by Marc H. Meyer and Frederick G. Crane is an insightful, applied-methods guide that establishes innovation as a necessary...