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1. |  By: Richard Stutely Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-NOV-2007 Insert Date: 03-OCT-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | “Truly a practical guide to better
business planning. The book is friendly and easy to read. It is
especially helpful in developing the correct thought process, which
is so essential to effective strategic planning. An indispensable
corporate tool.”
Peter N. Tan, Senior Vice President,
Hambrecht & Quist
“Richard Stutely’s Definitive
Business Plan provides the missing link between entrepreneurs
and venture capitalists: essential reading for those who need to
bridge the knowledge gap. If this book had been available 30 years
ago, life would have been a lot easier.”
Mike Brooke,...
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2. |  Smarter Consulting: How to start up and succeed as an independent consultant By: Mike Johnson Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 14-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 09-SEP-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Smarter Consulting: How to start up and succeed as an independent consultant I wish this book had been available when
I began my independent career. There’s only one word for it
— PRICELESS!!!
-Shay McConnon, psychologist, trainer,
coach, magician and mentor
This book is a MUST read, for anyone
thinking about life outside the
organisation — it helps make the
transition smooth and seamless.
- Goran Hultin, former Deputy Director
General at the ILO (International Labour Office), now a successful
independent consultant
This is a practical and essential guide
for anyone contemplating establishing their own business. Johnson
captures all the key elements which...
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3. |  So You Want to be an Entrepreneur?: How to Decide if Starting A Business is Really For You Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 15-JUL-2008 Insert Date: 11-JUN-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: So You Want to be an Entrepreneur?: How to Decide if Starting A Business is Really For You
Jon Gillespie Brown brings his extensive mentoring experience to bear in this new handbook for would-be entrepreneurs. So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? contains a series of mentoring sessions, each carefully thought out to make you consider and plan your life based on your passions, ambitions and ultimate visions. By actively taking part in each of the exercises, you give yourself the best chance of succeeding as an entrepreneur, or the sufficient clarity to decide what other career options are best suited to you.
Explore your real goals, hidden talents, passions, assets and core...
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4. |  Lessons Learned: Starting a Business By: Fifty Lessons Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Publication Date: 31-DEC-2007 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lessons Learned: Starting a Business Starting A Business
Wondering how the most accomplished entrepreneurs
from around the globe started their businesses? Now in the latest
book of the Lessons Learned series, Starting A Business, you can
learn what it takes to start a business, how to hire the best
talent, and what it takes to ensure your business will ultimately
succeed.
Lessons from leaders such as Michael Dell,
Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Dell, Inc., Lord Bilimoria, Founder
and CEO of Cobra Beer, and Robert Johnson, Founder of Black
Entertainment Television.
Contributors and Lesson
Topics
The Early...
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5. |  By: Bernard Girard Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 01-APR-2009 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Google Way, 1st Edition
Shortly after World War I, Ford and GM created the large modern
corporation, with its financial and statistical controls, mass
production, and assembly lines. In the 1980s, Toyota stood out for
combining quality with continuous refinement. Today, Google is
reinventing business yet again-the way we work, how organizations
are controlled, and how employees are managed.Management consultant Bernard Girard has been analyzing Google
since its founding in 1998, and now in The Google Way, he
explores Google's innovations in depth-many of which are far
removed from the best practices taught at the...
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6. |  Eric Sink on the Business of Software By: Eric Sink Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-MAR-2006 Insert Date: 18-OCT-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Eric Sink on the Business of Software
Eric Sink on the Business of Software is a selection of the best and most popular essays from the author's website. This insightful collection of essays explore the business concerns that programmers face during the course of their careersparticularly those programmers who are small independent software vendors.
Sink also covers issues like starting your own business, and then performing the hiring, marketing, and financesin a style that programmers understand, sprinkled with a touch of humor.
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7. |  Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days By: Jessica Livingston Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company.
Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they...
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8. |  So, You Want to Start a Business?: 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap By: Edward D. Hess; Charles F. Goetz Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 20-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 09-AUG-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: So, You Want to Start a Business?: 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
“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 I struggled with the day to day running of the
business.
So, You Want To Start A Business?
is
the blueprint I needed to get organized and put all the right
things in place.”
–KORY BAILEY, Owner, Creative
Counterpart
Build the Successful...
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9. |  From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas Into Money By: Phil Baker Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 22-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 02-JUN-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas Into Money This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
In From Concept to Consumer, renowned
product developer Phil Baker reveals exactly what it takes to
create great products and bring them to market.
Baker’s product successes range from
Apple’s PowerBook to the Stowaway portable keyboard, the most
successful PDA accessory ever created. Here, he walks you through
the entire development process, showing how to develop products
holistically, reflecting the crucial linkages between product
design, engineering, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and
distribution. You’ll discover what makes...
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10. |  What’s Stopping You?: Shatter the 9 Most Common Myths Keeping You from Starting Your Own Business By: Bruce R. Barringer PhD; R. Duane Ireland PhD Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 16-MAY-2008 Insert Date: 04-MAY-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What’s Stopping You?: Shatter the 9 Most Common Myths Keeping You from Starting Your Own Business This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
“This book dispels the myths
surrounding the process of starting a business, and gives hope and
encouragement
to people who would like to give it a try.”
–Tim Berry,
Founder and CEO, Palo Alto Software
Creators of the World’s Most Popular
“Bruce Barringer and Duane
Ireland’s new book, What’s Stopping You? is an
insightful and thought-provoking examination of nine common myths
that discourage individuals from starting new businesses. …
This book is much-needed and long overdue…. The value of
What’s Stopping You? is that it...
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