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  The Lean Startup

  How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

  by Eric Ries

  Most startups fail. But those failures, says entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. New ventures, from the garage to those within Fortune 500 companies, are designed to create innovative products or services that have never existed before.  When these startups fail, it is usually not because they didn’t execute well enough—on the contrary, they “achieved failure” by building the wrong things very efficiently... (more)
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  Business Model Generation

  A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

  by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur

  Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation . Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners... (more)
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  The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

  by Steve Blank, Bob Dorf

  Now a decade after The Four Steps to the Epiphany sparked the Lean Startup revolution, comes its sequel... The Startup Owner's Manual. The Manual incorporates 10 years of learning and best practices that have swept the startup world. It incorporates the Business Model Canvas as the organizing principle for startup hypotheses, provides separate paths and advice for web/mobile products versus physical products,... (more)
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  The Nonprofit Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Nonprofit Organization (Nonprofit Handbook)

  by Gary M. Grobman

  The definitive reference manual for starting and running a nonprofit corporation in the United States, this handbook provides information on everything from legal issues to fundraising techniques. Details of how to incorporate, register to lobby, apply for tax exemptions, and comply with charitable solicitation laws are included for every state and for the District of Columbia. Information about current federal... (more)
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  Getting to Plan B

  Breaking Through to a Better Business Model

  by John W. Mullins

  Unlock better opportunities with a new strategy for reinventing any business model. Succeeding with a new business whether in a corporation or a venture based setting requires taking a leap of faith. But in order to grow, the business will need to morph and adjust many times before it meets the needs of a viable market. "Getting to Plan B" guides you through specific steps to effectively reinvent your... (more)
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  How to form a nonprofit corporation

  by Anthony Mancuso

  Create a nonprofit in your state without spending big on attorney's fees! The process of becoming a tax-exempt organization may appear intimidating, but with How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation, you can do it quickly, easily and with confidence. This bestselling book includes complete instructions for obtaining federal 501(c)(3) tax exemption and for qualifying for public charity status with the IRS.... (more)
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  The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: It's Not About the Money...It's About Being the Best You Can Be!

  by Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, Jay Papasan

  Anyone who wants to turn their real estate practice into a highly successful business must understand the fundamental models that drive the best real estate agents in the industry. In The Millionaire Real Estate Agent these models are revealed and explained. This book represents the culmination of decades of real estate experience, research, and consulting, with case studies from some of the top millionaire agents... (more)
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  Nonprofit Management Guides

  Wise Decision-making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively

  A follow-up to our best-selling Effective Economic Decision-making by Nonprofit Organizations, this new volume focuses on the challenges faced by nonprofits in the post-9/11 world. Demands on essential nonprofit services have escalated, while the bursting economic bubble of the 1990s and the government’s preoccupation with terrorism has reduced funding.Moving beyond the core principles set out in... (more)
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  The One Page Business Plan for Non-Profit Organizations

  by Jim Horan

  The edition of the One Page Business Plan Series has been specifically designed for Non-Profits. If you are responsible for founding or managing a non-profit organization... this book was written just for you! Now you can easily write a draft plan on a single page in less than two hours. Thousands of non-profits have already successfully written and implemented One Page Plans with this simple and effective... (more)
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  The streetwise guide to being enterprising : increase your career, business or social enterprise prospects by using the e-factor

  by David A. Gibson

  Students, with the help of the E-Factor self-assessment questionnaire, will be able to identify areas of improvement in entrepreneurship, as well as to understand how to apply these skills in practice to develop a range of competencies. Practice in, and reflection on, the E-Factor skills provides the potential for students to become more entrepreneurial in whatever career they follow. "The StreetWise Guide to... (more)
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  Ready...or Not: A Risk Management Guide for Nonprofit Executives

  by Melanie L. Herman

  This brand-new book by the Centers executive director Melanie Lockwood Herman explores the topic of risk management in the nonprofit world and reflects the authors view that effective risk management is readily within the grasp of every nonprofit executive and sound risk management policies, activities and approaches can be adapted and adopted without delay and without undue burden. Subjects covered in this... (more)
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  $a Filmmakers and financing

  by Louise Levison

  The first, most crucial step in making a film is finding the funds to do it. Let Louise Levison, who wrote the innovative business plan for "The Blair Witch Project," show you how. This unique guide teaches you not only how to create a business plan, but also how to avoid common business plan mistakes, so that you can attract and secure an investor. In jargon-free terms, the author leads you through every step.... (more)
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  How to Start a Home-Based Bakery Business (Home-Based Business Series)

  by Detra Denay Davis

  Home-based baking is one of America’s best-kept business secrets. This sleeper industry offers even novice bakers the opportunity to bake from home for profit using tried and true recipes and equipment already on hand. And yet its many rules and how-tos are so elusive that few people out there who love to bake and dream of taking their products from the kitchen to the market actually end up doing so. Enter How to... (more)
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  Nonprofit sustainability : making strategic decisions for financial viability

  by Jeanne Bell

  Praise for NONPROFIT SUSTAINABILITY "This is much more than a financial how-to book. It's a nonprofit's guide to empowerment. It demystifies mission impact and financial viability using The Matrix Map to provide strategic options for any organization. A must-read for every nonprofit CEO, CFO, and board member." — Julia A. McClendon , chief executive officer, YWCA Elgin, Illinois "This book... (more)
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  Finding Money for Your Small Business

  by Kris Solie-Johnson

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  Start here, go anywhere

  by Business Link

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  Starting your own business

  by HSBC

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  Teach Yourself be Your Own Boss: When You Quit Your Job or it Quits You (Teach Yourself Business Skills)

  by Matt Avery

  From weighing up the pros and cons of jumping ship in the first place to establishing and maintaining a successful solo enterprise, this book is all you need to make the leap to working alone. All aspects of setting up a new business are covered including: - managing resources, time, clients etc. - establishing good working practices and maintaining a desirable work/life balance for those who choose to work from... (more)
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  Writing a Results-Driven Marketing Plan: The Nonprofit's Guide to Making Every Dollar Count - 2nd Edition

  by Tiffany A. Meyer

  It's a Vast Wilderness Out There ...Where is Your Nonprofit Headed? This fully revised, 2nd edition handbook offers far more than step-by-step guidance to create the most user-friendly and effective marketing plan you've ever written. And that's because in the increasingly hypercompetitive landscape in which nonprofits now operate, even the best marketing plans won't be successful unless what it is you're... (more)
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  The Smarta Way To Do Business: By entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs; Your ultimate guide to starting a business

  by Matt Thomas, Shaa Wasmund

  A fully enhanced edition of the definitive start-up guide, with all the advice you'll ever need to start and run a successful business… straight from the UK's leading entrepreneurs. Anyone who is anyone in the world of entrepreneurship has contributed their expert advice to this unique book. Watch interviews with... Theo Paphitis Deborah Meaden Duncan Bannatyne Sarah Beeny Doug Richard Martha Lane Fox Caprice... (more)