Sentences with phrase «book as a startup»

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A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Looking back to the early days of my first startup attempt, I think something that kept me going was that I continually read books about startups and entrepreneurs and watched as many interviews of founders as I could find.

To date, the startup — co-founded with COO Igor Bratnikov, a fellow émigré Raygorodskaya met as a teenager at a Russian - language afterschool math program — has booked more than $ 1 billion in partner ticket sales and now generates over $ 100 million in annual revenue.

I've adopted many of the tools in this book to realign my time management and become even more productive while still answering to the many demands I face daily as president of a startup.»

They've included working in management for a nonprofit I loved, starting my own business, consulting for the Fortune 500, serving as an adviser to an amazing startup, and writing my first book.

Out of all the books I have read around entrepreneurship, business, and leadership success, this has hands down had the most impact on the growth of myself, our business, and the development my own leadership skills as our team has grown from a startup to a global company with offices in London, Singapore, and New York.»

From managing seven lemonade stands as an 8 - year old, Gary hasn't skipped a beat with numerous startups, bestselling books and, most recently, creating VaynerMedia.

Reading «Disrupted» strictly as a memoir of career transition — rather than as some sort of exposé of life at HubSpot or life «in the startup bubble,» as the title provocatively puts it — will open your eyes to many of of the book's finer points.

I invest in companies, advise startups, serve as a mentor for two startup accelerators, and am working on my second book.

This campaign is also an experiment designed to see how I can collaborate with all of you as part of the research process for my next book (working title: The Startup Way).

The book is a record of his attempt to realize the New American Dream, as modeled by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: moving out West and founding a successful startup.

As of now, Aspect has backed more than 30 startups, including travel booking platform HotelTonight and Chime, the provider of a savings app.

And often the winning books are very prescriptive, such as The $ 100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau, 2012 ′ s category winner, or The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, which won in 2011.

This book contains some superb insights on everything from startup through giving back as a social entrepreneur.

In his new book, Startup Rising, he makes a strong case for the Middle East, where a surprising number of young men and women are starting tech companies and where global corporations, such as Google, Yahoo and Cisco, are investing.»

Moreover, as a startup owner, be sure to read books, blogs, magazines, reports, and white papers that are relevant to your business and your industry.

«The ability to achieve organization - wide customer centricity hinges on the ability to possess a common understanding of customers,» says the founder and leading authority on buyer persona development, Tony Zambito, an advisor to the startup as well as author of the forthcoming book, A Guide To Buyer Persona Development.

With a record quarter on the books and no signs of funding slowing down, join the Director of StartUp Health Academy as she shares the latest market trends and advances in digital health technology and what's in store over the next quarter, next year, and 10 + years from now.

Created by a publishing startup in the UK, this super cute book lets you create a one - of - a-kind story based on the letters in your child's name, as well as their gender and location.

Content — Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth H. Finnegan is available as a free download from UnGlue.it, the startup's first completed pledge drive to raise funds in order to «unglue» books for Creative Commons distribution.

Not to mention homegrown startups such as Reado and Books Talk.

We've written before at GigaOM and PaidContent about startups that want to add social features to the reading experience, including Findings (a service for sharing highlighted passages in books, where the interview with Thompson appeared), as well as Readmill and Goodreads.

Trade events such as the Frankfurt Book Fair showcase not only the mainstays of the publishing industry, but also offer a launching pad for startups to demonstrate what they do.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair last October, startup founder John Pettigrew from Futureproofs noted that «Until now, publishing companies, as any other big corporations, have been adopting several softwares that came with «how - to» manuals.»

Re Tablo.io, another startup, I tried this and it is a failure for complex non-fiction books as nobody checks anything is right.

As the author of multiple bestselling books including Author Startup and High Performance Paperback, Ray Brehm has positioned himself as an expert who helps entrepreneurs become authorAs the author of multiple bestselling books including Author Startup and High Performance Paperback, Ray Brehm has positioned himself as an expert who helps entrepreneurs become authoras an expert who helps entrepreneurs become authors.

But that's akin to saying startups like us primarily need help with fundraising; to me, it's a startup founder's job to raise funds when the company needs them, just as it's a writer's task to sell his or her book.

Of course, Amazon also offers a short - form publishing platform via Kindle Single's but Hyperink CEO Kevin Gao says that while the lengths are similar the startup is focused around curation as opposed to just publishing original content with «Blog to Books.»

One of the most energetically expanding startups in publishing, Vancouver - based Shelfie — which began life in 2013 as BitLit Media — has some 1,400 participating publishers now in its ebook bundling scheme, which uses smart phone apps (Android and iSO) to capture the interests of print - book owners and offer them ebook editions of those print books.

This book is not to be confused with «I CAN HAZ BYTECODE,» a «collection of funny and occasionally thought provoking tweets based on my work experience as a Super Senior Software Engineer at a Silicon Valley startup!»

He has also worked as a digital bookseller for ebook startup Zola Books where he was the head of product for the ecommerce and ebook apps.

E-book giant Rakuten Kobo has announced the acquisition of Shelfie, a Vancouver - based startup that allowed people to take pictures of shelves of books, and find out which ones are available as free or discounted ebooks or audiobooks.

Every book enrolled in KDP Select is a vote to salt the earth against innovative startups such as Oyster and Scribd.

One Book Cover (which didn't actually end up being the final design) I found strikingly beautiful was the Eric Ries «Lean Startup» Japanese - styled circle (http://www.udemy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/theleanstartup.png) It's so bare and spartan as to mean nothing, but I just found it beautiful.

He also said there are five things to know about unlimited subscriptions, including the fact that startups such as Oyster and Scribd are now on borrowed time to prove their worth (about 18 months), and publishers have options, which means they can help the startups by choosing to enroll their books in those services.

CONTEC goes far beyond the talking head lectures of most publishing conferences, with a full day of deeply engaging, participatory sessions, interactive learning labs, extended networking sessions, and dynamic plenary events covering a range of topics including: data, the future of bookselling, the implications of self - publishing on the industry, responsive design, metadata, rights, distribution, trends, forecasts, partnerships with tech companies and startups, and more, as well as the debut of Frankfurt Book Fair's first international publishing startup showcase, and a dedicated Supply Chain track curated by EDiTEUR.

As handsomely awarded a startup as it is — pulling in The Bookseller's first FutureBook BookTech Gold Award at the end of 2015 and London Book Fair's Quantum Publishing Innovation Award in spring 2016 — this was a company originally built to serve the needs of independent authors and the service providers who work to professionalize self - publishers» outpuAs handsomely awarded a startup as it is — pulling in The Bookseller's first FutureBook BookTech Gold Award at the end of 2015 and London Book Fair's Quantum Publishing Innovation Award in spring 2016 — this was a company originally built to serve the needs of independent authors and the service providers who work to professionalize self - publishers» outpuas it is — pulling in The Bookseller's first FutureBook BookTech Gold Award at the end of 2015 and London Book Fair's Quantum Publishing Innovation Award in spring 2016 — this was a company originally built to serve the needs of independent authors and the service providers who work to professionalize self - publishers» output.

Shelfie's executives in Canada talk about the startup scene in book publishing — and conclude it's not as hot as it used to be.

Createspace, which makes books, CDs and DVDs on demand, was initially known as BookSurge, a startup that Amazon bought in 2005.

This startup of Autorent rental counter in airport will serve its direct walk - in customers, customers who made booking through autorent online, as well the travel partner's customers, to provide quick, round - the - clock service at the airport.

Sam Glover: Yeah, and Lukas Mathis, his point is throughout his book and now that we've highlighted this, it's obvious to me that this chapter is in some ways an exception and personas are sort of an exception to the idea that know what you need to do is, if you want to represent early stage startups, go talk to people who are early stage startups, learn in great detail and as much detail as you can, what kinds of problems they have and how they go about trying to solve them.

Beckett coached over 500 startups and authored several books on public speaking, such as Three Minute Presentation.

That seems to be the enthusiastic message from many new startups that I meet with and also from top business consultants such as Don Tapscott, who authored with his son Alex Tapscott, the recently published book, «Blockchain Revolution: How the technology behind Bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world.»

Worried that they would not be able to keep the agility and aggressiveness of a startup, the Little Red Culture Book was one way of fighting against the corporate ageing that might creep upon us as an organization.

No doubt, you've heard of this book, as the entire startup world has been transformed by lean methodology.

The process covered in the book will help organically position tech startups and other real estate professionals as thought leaders in their fields.