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My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley

My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley

by Ben Casnocha

Ben Casnocha discovered he was entrepreneur at age 12 and hasn't slowed down since. In this remarkably instructive book, Ben dissects the entrepreneurship "gene," explaining that everyone has inherited it if they have an idea to make the world a better place. In Casnocha's case, he found a better way for city governments to communicate with constituents on the Web. Six years later, Comcate has dozens of municipal... (more)

Make Your First Million: Ditch the 9-5 and Start the Business of Your Dreams

Make Your First Million: Ditch the 9-5 and Start the Business of Your Dreams

by Martin Webb

Thinking of starting your own business? You've come to the right place. Thousands of people take the plunge every year for thousands of different reasons; the lifestyle, the opportunity to start over again, the chance to make serious money. No one ever got rich lining their boss's pockets. So you really want to go it alone? Here's how. Make Your First Million shows you how to set up your business the right way. It... (more)

The " Financial Times " Guide to Business Start Up 2008

The " Financial Times " Guide to Business Start Up 2008

by Sara Williams

Ron Brinkmann's Experience at Amazon

One Man’s Descent into Corporate Hell

by Ron Brinkmann

Published shortly after his departure from Amazon in the Fall of 2009. This provocative memoir is sure to be an instant New York Times bestseller!

Crossing the Chasm

by Geoffrey A. Moore

Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for bringing cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets. This edition provides new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing, with special emphasis on the Internet. It's essential reading for anyone with a stake in the world's most exciting marketplace.

The Art of the Start

The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

by Guy Kawasaki

What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers. The Art of the Start will give you the essential steps to launch... (more)

Burn Rate : How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet

Burn Rate : How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet

by Michael Wolff

For much of the 1990s, starting up a business on the Internet offered young go-getters with a taste for risk the fastest route to glittering prosperity. Our light-speed economy has made possible a new American dream, to take an idea overnight from the kitchen table to hundreds of millions of dollars in market value. But the desperate Internet entrepreneur knows every day, every night -- that the chances of success... (more)

Bottled for Business: The Less Gassy Guide to Entrepreneurship

Bottled for Business: The Less Gassy Guide to Entrepreneurship

by Karan Bilimoria

"Every bit as good as the beer itself." —SIR RICHARD BRANSON, Founder and Chairman, Virgin Group So what does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? There are many different answers, but according to Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer, do the following and you won't go far wrong: be creative, go the extra mile, have confidence in yourself and your team, get lucky, be disciplined, take the... (more)

Anyone Can Do It: Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table - 57 Real-Life Laws on Entrepreneurship

Anyone Can Do It: Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table - 57 Real-Life Laws on Entrepreneurship

by Sahar Hashemi

"The story of <Sahar's> trip to New York and subsequent cravings for skinny lattes is the stuff of coffee shop legend." The Sunday Times <Sahar is> the Lawyer who put the cream in our coffee." The Guardian "A business book charting her experience from the kitchen table to the boardroom table." The Financial Times "The vitality of our economy depends on encouraging more people to... (more)

The Four-Hour Work Week

Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by Timothy Ferriss

What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: “I race motorcycles in Europe.” “I ski in the Andes.” “I scuba dive in Panama.” “I dance tango in Buenos Aires.” He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life... (more)

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