Sentences with phrase «which business books»

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The book teaches you to treat your business ideas as hypotheses, and test them using an MVP, which is, the least amount necessary to prove if your idea has a market or not.

Roughly half of the 112 online lenders that make business loans are direct lenders, according to Barlow, which means they hold the loans on their own books.

He is the author of the award - winning 2012 book Going Social: Excite Customers, Generate Buzz, and Energize Your Brand With the Power of Social Media, which teaches brands large and small how to use social media for business success.

Roberta Matuson, a Boston - based business consultant and author of the 2013 book Talent Magnetism, says small firms need not be bound to rigid formal HR processes, which creates the opportunity for more creative hiring practices.

It is the sequel to his first book, 2 Billion Under 20, which came out in 2015 and became the # 1 Entrepreneurship Book of 2015 according to the Axiom Business Book Awabook, 2 Billion Under 20, which came out in 2015 and became the # 1 Entrepreneurship Book of 2015 according to the Axiom Business Book AwaBook of 2015 according to the Axiom Business Book AwaBook Awards.

-- Mike Zivin, co-founder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million Series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans, as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

Like so many books about innovation and the exciting world of tomorrow's business, it's a little buzzwordy and breathless, which can get stale quickly — and when you're talking about the future, stale is the last thing you want to be.

After her mom's book published, Modi went to work creating and selling passwords using the technique at various book - promotion events, during which she seems to have learned one very valuable business lesson:

Now, 14 years later, I have read over 1,000 non-fiction business, leadership and personal development books, which include over 200 biographies and auto - biographies.

Business books also have to stimulate demand, which is why they tend to ignore the fact that plenty of people think entrepreneurial greatness is genetic, not something that can be reverse - engineered.

And you can educate people on what it takes to create sustainable demand, which is why books like Slywotzky's — not to mention business schools — aren't a waste of time.

It's not strictly a business book, but it does contextualize the Information Age and the often subtle ways in which Shannon's ideas — simple but devilishly hard to pin down — have affected everything around us.

For example, we wanted to attract high - achievers and entrepreneurs (because we knew they'd be our best backers), so we designed a «Productivity Bundle» worth over $ 1,000, which included our journal, business books, a brain fitness tool and coffee.

In his book, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, author Eric Ries highlights how «startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.»

Released this fall, his book Weology: How Everybody Wins When We Comes Before Me, outlines his leadership philosophy, which focuses on creating a positive business culture based on transparency, equality and collaboration.

The company has steeply discounted books for years and reaped low profits as a result, which has been its business strategy.

The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

In his book, which recently hit No. 8 on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list, Britton presents a strong case that Millennials have the power to disrupt everything from business to culture to politics.

His book, Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, which was published in January 2013, is a clarion call to reinstall trust in business among theBusiness, which was published in January 2013, is a clarion call to reinstall trust in business among thebusiness among the masses.

Austin, who is currently working on a book tentatively titled Not for the Faint of Heart, which focuses on the challenges faced by those navigating the new economy, predicts that psychologists will be the next big class of business writers.

PRICE RATIONALE: Since this is a business in which books sell for 50 % of their original price or less, it's no surprise that this deal feels right.

I just finished a new book on this approach, Beyond the Business Plan, by Simon Bridge and Cecilia Hegarty, which outlines tradeoffs and recommends ten principles for every new venture explorer.

That has caused many condo owners, who might fill their beds only 20 % or 30 % of the time, to pull their units out of the rental pool — which has reduced the availability of accommodations, along with booking and property management business and visitor traffic on the hills and in the village.

Tamblyn was already entrenched in the book business before he joined Kobo in 2009 (he founded the supply - chain agency BookNet Canada and co-founded Canada's first online bookstore, bookshelf.ca, which Indigo bought in 1998).

Logan says the terrorist attacks might actually create a bump up in demand for the company's service, two thirds of which are booked by business executives, celebrities, and wealthy clientele.

-- Mike Zivin, cofounder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

Those four questions are at the core of a fascinating (and slim) new book, Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business, by John Quelch and Emily Boudreau — which grew out of a conference of the same name held in April at Harvard Business School and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Presented by the Great Game of Business, the Gathering of Games is the largest open - book management conference of the year, in which hundreds attend to learn innovative best practices, introduce OBM to newcomers, invigorate current employees with new ideas, and network with fellow OBM practitioners.

Most experts agree that an apology letter should open with a salutation and a warm greeting, which helps you soften up the recipient, says Julie Miller, founder and president of Business Writing That Counts and author of a book by the same name.

His achievements are unprecedented in the track world, and upon reading his book chronicling his journey of sacrifice — in which he overcomes obstacles while staying true to himself — you think, «This could be a winning formula for anyone who wants to be successful in business.»»

The family's bank of choice has long been Deutsche Bank, which was the only bank willing to loan to Trump after he lost others money in a series of bankruptcies — something he figured «was the bank's problem, not mine,» he wrote in his 2007 book, «Think Big: Make it Happen in Business and Life.»

In addition to regularly blogging on the subject of raising funding for his own blog mpd.me and publications like Inc.com and Business Insider, Davis has written a series of soon - to - be released self - published books on navigating the startup financing maze: «Fundraising Rules,» to be released this fall and «Breaking the Rules,» which is expected out sometime next year.

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A Lawyer While a lawyer doesn't play much of a role in your company's books, he or she will be helpful with the foundational elements of your business — namely, which kind of business entity you choose.

'' [An] assistant may not understand the strategic nature of the business and may book for the first available slot, which for a busy executive will be many weeks out.

The book exemplifies how people have gained and lost power throughout the ages, which is what I find really interesting: Learning from iconic figures from past centuries and applying them to our drastically different, hyper - modern business models of the present.

Comparable sales in Barnes & Noble's retail business, which exclude its struggling Nook digital business, rose 1.3 % in its third fiscal quarter, the company reported on Thursday, as physical books continued to hold their own against e-books at the company and industrywide.

Weinzweig has received praise for many of his books, including the Zingerman's Guide to Good Leading series, which includes his latest: Zingerman's Guide to Good Leading, Part 4: A Lapsed Anarchist's Approach to the Power of Beliefs in Business.

Meanwhile, Clough will pay $ 1 million for the business which will add $ 25 million in contract value to the company's order book, it said in a statement.

The same misunderstanding happens in David vs. Goliath fights in business, which Gladwell substantiates with numerous case studies and research examples in his recently published book.

This was the book that led to me writing my first viral, breakthrough article, which then led to me launching my business, landing my Inc.com column, securing speaking gigs and more.

And it would be hard to compile any list of the best business books of the year without mentioning Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century — which «sparked a fantastic global discussion this year about inequality,» Gates writes.

Robbins's otherworldly persuasive powers and brash brand of popular insight have grown into Robbins Research International, a life - coaching empire that includes a massive book business (15 million volumes sold globally), an audio business (50 million programs sold), a life - coach certification business, and seminars for which attendees pay as much as $ 8,000 to be in the same room with the man himself.

(Consider Uber, which reportedly brought in $ 1 billion in car service bookings after just three years in business.)

Indeed, when I wrote my 2003 book, Value Leadership, after the Enron and WorldCom scandals, I was thinking about how important it is for a business to act based on values that make employees, customers, and communities better off — which ultimately benefits a company's investors.

Zagat, which was founded in 1979, grew its business by publishing long, burgundy books as guides to a city's restaurants.

«If this was a straightforward guide to business success and personal growth,» Harford writes late in the book, «this would be the point at which the author would urge you to use the principles of adapting to gain wealth and success.

When business picked up a bit, they hired a New Hampshire call center, which specialized in CDs and books, to handle customer service.

Karen and Joe published a best - selling book called Financial Intelligence with Harvard Business Review Press, which opened the door to still more clients.

Collins is the author of the best - selling business books Built to Last and Good to Great, both of which address this simple but vexing question: Why do some companies become great while others flounder?