Small Business, Big Vision

Small Business, Big Vision
Author: Matthew Toren
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118098587

Lessons in applying passion and perseverance from prominent entrepreneurs In the world of entrepreneurship, your vision solidifies your resolve when things get tough, and it reminds you why you went into business in the first place. Authors, brothers, and serial entrepreneurs, Matthew and Adam Toren have compiled a wealth of valuable information on the passionate and pragmatic realities of starting your own business. They've also gathered insights from some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs. This book delivers the information that both established and budding entrepreneurs need, explains how to implement that information, and validates each lesson with real-world examples. Small Business, Big Vision provides inspiration and practical advice on everything from creating a one-page business plan to setting up an advisory board, and also delivers a call to social entrepreneurship and sustainable business practices. This powerful book: Offers instruction in whether and how to seek investors Outlines the pros and cons of hiring employees and provides guidance on how to find the best outsourced workers Presents a comprehensive action plan for effective social media marketing Explains how to build an information empire and become an expert Small Business, Big Vision proves that with a flexible mindset, practical skills, and the passion to keep pushing forward, entrepreneurs can find success, even in today's ever-changing business landscape.

Big Vision, Small Business

Big Vision, Small Business
Author: Jamie S. Walters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780369380890

While most of the business world worships size and constant growth, Big Vision, Small Business celebrates the art - and power - of small. Based on interviews with more than seventy small - business owners and on her own experiences as a successful small - business entrepreneur, Jamie Walters shows how a business can stay small and remain vital, healthy, and rewarding. If you long to run a successful, socially conscious enterprise as one element of a fulfilling personal life, Big Vision, Small Business shows you how. Covering growth options and small - enterprise advantages, inspired visioning, communication, and right - relationship, mindset issues and expectation management, and wisdom and mastery practices, Big Vision, Small Business is a must - read for every entrepreneur and futurist. Walters defines for keys essential to creating a small business with a big vision: â [ Creating alternatives to the dominant definition of ''''growth â [ Learning the art of visioning big â [ Creating ''''right relationships'''' with employees, customers, and others â [ Overcoming the common stumbling blocks, such as money, risk, competition, and success.

Big Vision, Small Business

Big Vision, Small Business
Author: Jamie S. Walters
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2002-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1609941896

While most of the business world worships size and constant growth, Big Vision, Small Business celebrates the art—and power—of small. Based on interviews with more than seventy small-business owners and on her own experiences as a successful small-business entrepreneur, Jamie Walters shows how a business can stay small and remain vital, healthy, and rewarding. If you long to run a successful, socially conscious enterprise as one element of a fulfilling personal life, Big Vision, Small Business shows you how. Covering growth options and small-enterprise advantages, inspired visioning, communication, and right-relationship, mindset issues and expectation management, and wisdom and mastery practices, Big Vision, Small Business is a must-read for every entrepreneur and futurist.

BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)

BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)
Author: Jim Collins
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0399564233

From Jim Collins, the most influential business thinker of our era, comes an ambitious upgrade of his classic, Beyond Entrepreneurship, that includes all-new findings and world-changing insights. What's the roadmap to create a company that not only survives its infancy but thrives, changing the world for decades to come? Nine years before the publication of his epochal bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins and his mentor, Bill Lazier, answered this question in their bestselling book, Beyond Entrepreneurship. Beyond Entrepreneurship left a definitive mark on the business community, influencing the young pioneers who were, at that time, creating the technology revolution that was birthing in Silicon Valley. Decades later, successive generations of entrepreneurs still turn to the strategies outlined in Beyond Entrepreneurship to answer the most pressing business questions. BE 2.0 is a new and improved version of the book that Jim Collins and Bill Lazier wrote years ago. In BE 2.0, Jim Collins honors his mentor, Bill Lazier, who passed away in 2005, and reexamines the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship with his 2020 perspective. The book includes the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship, as well as four new chapters and fifteen new essays. BE 2.0 pulls together the key concepts across Collins' thirty years of research into one integrated framework called The Map. The result is a singular reading experience, which presents a unified vision of company creation that will fascinate not only Jim's millions of dedicated readers worldwide, but also introduce a new generation to his remarkable work.

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.

Kidpreneurs

Kidpreneurs
Author: Adam Toren
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780692004241

Presents a guide for young readers on starting their own small business, discussing choosing the right business, finding customers, deciding what to charge, and using the Internet, and offering suggestions of sample businesses.

Beyond Entrepreneurship

Beyond Entrepreneurship
Author: James Charles Collins
Publisher: Business & Professional Division
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This inspiring and yet eminently practical guide shows entrepreneurs how to steer a company to enduring greatness. Leadership style, vision, corporate strategy, innovation, tactical excellence and other key elements are all explored in depth.

Vision Box Idea Book

Vision Box Idea Book
Author: Mark Montano
Publisher: Design Originals
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781574214079

Let Mark Montano be your crafty life coach as he guides you through 20 inspirational dreambox projects. Each of Mark's charming projects will help you discover the inner self, acquire a sense of wonder, and provide inspiration.

Big Vision, Small Business

Big Vision, Small Business
Author: Jamie S. Walters
Publisher: Ivy Sea
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781589750005

While most of the business world glorifies growth, Big Vision, Small Business celebrates the art -- and power -- of thinking small. Based on more than 70 interviews with small-business owners and on the author's own experience as a small-business entrepreneur, this book demonstrates that a company doesn't have to be big to make a significant impact. According to the author, a new kind of business owner is emerging. Defining business success qualitatively as well as quantitatively, these individuals ensure that their bottom line balances personal priorities and social responsibilities.The book discusses four areas integral to big-vision, small-business ownership: engaging in inspired planning, knowing which model of growth to follow, maintaining successful employee and customer relationships, and seeking balance and integrity.

Dreamcrafting

Dreamcrafting
Author: Paul Levesque
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 2486
Release: 2003-02-16
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1609943392

Many people set out to achieve a dream-starting a business or learning to play the piano or publishing a book-but they don't succeed, and the dream fizzles away. In many cases, these people have lots of skills and expertise, such as deep knowledge of the business or career they are interested in, so why don't they succeed? Paul Levesque and Art McNeil have discovered that making a dream come true requires cultivating skills of a higher order-macroskills-that inevitably spell the difference between success and failure no matter what the specifics of a person's dreams are. These are the skills Dreamcrafting outlines in detail.