The Entrepreneur's Trap

The Entrepreneur's Trap
Author: Tina Forsyth
Publisher: Love Your Life Pub
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781934509623

Is Your Business Taking Over Your Life? It started with the dream of making great money, doing what you love and having lots of time to enjoy it all. But in reality you are buried in a pile of too much work, too little time, not enough help and no light at the end of the tunnel. This is NOT what you signed up for when you decided to become an entrepreneur. It is time to run your business so it does not run you! In this practical and enlightening book, by online business authority Tina Forsyth, you will discover how to: Build the right type of business for you and your goals Eliminate the headaches and hassles of hiring and managing a team Use the 10 key systems happy and successful entrepreneurs rely on Structure your day so that you can get everything done and still have plenty of time off (including weekends!) "This book lays out a simple path to help you create the business you want with finesse and Tina's trademark 'get it done fast' style." David Neagle, Author of The Millions Within & Master Income Acceleration Coach "Tina knows more about how to run and grow an online business than most business owners." Michael Port, NY Times bestselling author of Book Yourself Solid, MichaelPort.com "There are only a few people in the world who can do what Tina does, making all that 'behind the scenes' stuff simple AND fun." Andrea J. Lee, Founder and CEO, WealthyThoughtLeader.com Tina Forsyth is the leading authority on establishing key systems and building virtual teams. She is the Founder of the International Association of Online Business Managers and creator of the Automate Your Growth Business School, where she teaches entrepreneurs her proven step-by-step process to set a strong foundation for business growth.

The Content Trap

The Content Trap
Author: Bharat Anand
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0812995392

“My favorite book of the year.”—Doug McMillon, CEO, Wal-Mart Stores Harvard Business School Professor of Strategy Bharat Anand presents an incisive new approach to digital transformation that favors fostering connectivity over focusing exclusively on content. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, Bharat Anand examines a range of businesses around the world, from The New York Times to The Economist, from Chinese Internet giant Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, and from talent management to the future of education. Drawing on these stories and on the latest research in economics, strategy, and marketing, this refreshingly engaging book reveals important lessons, smashes celebrated myths, and reorients strategy. Success for flourishing companies comes not from making the best content but from recognizing how content enables customers’ connectivity; it comes not from protecting the value of content at all costs but from unearthing related opportunities close by; and it comes not from mimicking competitors’ best practices but from seeing choices as part of a connected whole. Digital change means that everyone today can reach and interact with others directly: We are all in the content business. But that comes with risks that Bharat Anand teaches us how to recognize and navigate. Filled with conversations with key players and in-depth dispatches from the front lines of digital change, The Content Trap is an essential new playbook for navigating the turbulent waters in which we find ourselves. Praise for The Content Trap “A masterful and thought-provoking book that has reshaped my understanding of content in the digital landscape.”—Ariel Emanuel, co-CEO, WME | IMG “The Content Trap is a book filled with stories of businesses, from music companies to magazine publishers, that missed connections and could never escape the narrow views that had brought them past success. But it is also filled with stories of those who made strategic choices to strengthen the links between content and returns in their new master plans. . . . The book is a call to clear thinking and reassessing why things are the way they are.”—The Wall Street Journal

The Entrepreneur's Solution

The Entrepreneur's Solution
Author: Mel H. Abraham
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1630473316

Discover the Three Elements of the Entrepreneurial Mindset—the key to twenty-first century sustainable success: “A must read.” —David Bach, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Automatic Millionaire The Entrepreneur’s Solution introduces the Business Mastery Blueprint and the concept of sustainable success—the new model for thriving in the twenty-first century, which replaces the old standard “model of mediocrity.” New-millennium companies are blazing a very different path to an achievable and sustainable future. But what is the mindset behind the methodology? In these pages, potential and beginning entrepreneurs can learn exactly what it takes to live a rich life on every level. The Nine Entrepreneurial Essentials that make up the Three Elements of the Entrepreneurial Mindset—from the moment they are put into practice—become a game changer in growing a business and a meaningful life. “A thought-provoking new way to think about business.” —Daniel Amen, MD, author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life Includes a foreword by Brendon Burchard, New York Times–bestselling author of High Performance Habits

The Entrepreneur's Success Kit

The Entrepreneur's Success Kit
Author: Kaleil Isaza Tuzman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780312329457

Respected entrepreneur Tuzman has created a five-step lesson plan and spiritual guide to help readers create and grow their own businesses.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship
Author: Timothy G. Habbershon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313070423

Entrepreneurship is credited for technological invention, the rise of corporate empires and directly linked to economic development around the world. This multi-volume set of original essays showcases emerging theory and practice in entrepreneurship to illuminate its many facets, covering such topics as business models, entrepreneurial mindset, market research, capitalization, intellectual property, risk and uncertainty, and organizational culture. Volume 1, People, focuses on the intersection between individuals and entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on the cognitive, economic, social, and institutional factors that influence people's behavior with respect to entrepreneurship. Volume 2, Process, explores such topics as idea generation, market entry, financing, team building, and growth strategies, following the lifecycle of a new venture. Volume 3, Place, considers the context in which entrepreneurship is practiced, including corporate venturing, family enterprise, franchising, and public policies designed to promote entrepreneurship and economic development. Featuring contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, and with a global perspective throughout, this unique set explores new models, trends, and practices in entrepreneurship that will be of interest to a wide array of academics, professionals, and newcomers to the field.

Poverty Traps

Poverty Traps
Author: Samuel Bowles
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691170932

Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determination when it comes to the poor. In Poverty Traps, Samuel Bowles, Steven Durlauf, Karla Hoff, and the book's other contributors argue that there are many conditions that may trap individuals, groups, and whole economies in intractable poverty. For the first time the editors have brought together the perspectives of economics, economic history, and sociology to assess what we know--and don't know--about such traps. Among the sources of the poverty of nations, the authors assign a primary role to social and political institutions, ranging from corruption to seemingly benign social customs such as kin systems. Many of the institutions that keep nations poor have deep roots in colonial history and persist long after their initial causes are gone. Neighborhood effects--influences such as networks, role models, and aspirations--can create hard-to-escape pockets of poverty even in rich countries. Similar individuals in dissimilar socioeconomic environments develop different preferences and beliefs that can transmit poverty or affluence from generation to generation. The book presents evidence of harmful neighborhood effects and discusses policies to overcome them, with attention to the uncertainty that exists in evaluating such policies.

Why Startups Fail

Why Startups Fail
Author: Tom Eisenmann
Publisher: Currency
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0593137027

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Tips and Traps for Entrepreneurs

Tips and Traps for Entrepreneurs
Author: Courtney H. Price
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780070526761

This easy-to-use guide will help entrepreneurs steer clear of often costly "trial and error" methods, and move them steadily toward success. "Tips and Traps for Entrepreneurs" is full of valuable management insights--real-life, step-by-step examples that have been used successfully by entrepreneurs in many industries.

The Entrepreneur's Toolkit

The Entrepreneur's Toolkit
Author: Lyn Christian
Publisher: HBG
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1596594217

Are you an entrepreneur? Then this book may be the next critical step towards the success you want and deserve. While that statement may seem presumptuous, it should resonate with the entrepreneur in you. Even if this book isn't the missing ingredient, the innovative business owner and manager in you may still come to treasure it and continually refer back to it. The authors wrote this book for those free thinkers who constantly look for the edge that creates the success.

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Business

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Business
Author: CJ Rhoads
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-05-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The final entry in this all-you-need-to-know series summarizes the best points in the previous 12 books, updates many of them, and integrates must-have knowledge into a unified, indispensable whole. Entrepreneurs need authors who will speak to them as equals, sharing the secrets they found as they built their own businesses. Crafted in that spirit, Praeger's Entrepreneur's Guide series provides practical, accessible, and authoritative advice on the major considerations in establishing and growing a new venture. Each book includes wisdom, tales from the trenches, worksheets, templates, sample documents, and resource lists to help entrepreneurs leverage their time and money. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Business distills and shares the important points from each of the series' previous books, making the road to success smoother and more certain. This culmination of the professional development series takes the reader through all the important steps of starting and running an enterprise. It includes such essentials as writing the business plan, hiring the team, raising capital, managing technology, doing market research, and, of course, marketing the product. Once the business is up and running, the book can be consulted for advice on managing growth and inspiring and retaining employees, as well as for knowledge about handling crises and flourishing even during a recession.