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  The Monk and the Riddle : The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

  by Randy Komisar

  What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life . . . ? It's a question most of us consider only hypothetically-opting instead to "do what we have to do" to earn a living. But in the critically acclaimed bestseller The Monk and the Riddle , entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real. The book's timeless advice-to make work pay not just in cash, but in experience,... (more)
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  Anytime, Anywhere

  by Robert Spector

  Anytime, Anywhere is an essential resource for any business whose success depends on delighting customers and enticing them back for more. As best-selling author and customer service expert Robert Spector convincingly argues in Anytime, Anywhere , "...it's all one business. Web site. Mail-order catalog. Telephone. Brick-and-mortar store. The customer will choose the channel. The challenge for companies... (more)
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  The Professional

  by Subroto Bagchi

  Bagchi s first best-selling book, The High-Performance Entrepreneur, shared his story of building a company. His second bestseller, Go Kiss the World, was the story of his life, a motivation to young people that anyone can achieve. But as Subroto Bagchi says: Go Kiss the World did not provide a tool kit. In The Professional he gives us his knowledge, based on his lifelong experience, of what it takes to be a... (more)
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  13 Above the Night

  by Groff Conklin

  Can music replace sex?It not only can, but does -- in a wild and way-out tale of reverse togetherness called "Mating Call" by Frank Herbert.Can a nice girl have multiple mates?The more the merrier, in a love drama of tomorrow about a "Nice Girl with Five Husbands" by Fritz Leiber.Can a game of death be played for kicks?Not on your life. Especially when it doesn't matter if you... (more)
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  Where Angels Fear to Tread: One man's journey in starting his small business

  by Mr. George H. Seaberg

  The author’s main reason for writing this story is to explain how a small manufacturing business succeeded in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries’ competitive world market. His research for this book came from the notes and diary he kept as he ventured through the launch and then growth of his small machining and fabricating company in the period from 1972 into 2006. The principles he used to start... (more)
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  The 33 Ruthless Rules of Local Advertising

  by Michael Corbett

  This book was created for the 90 percent of small business owners who reportedly are dissatisfied with the results they get from local advertising. If followed, these rules, among them don’t ask your customer what brought them in, demand absolute accountability, and sell something more profitable than a low price, will broaden the customer base and enhance the bottom line. Specific growth objectives for... (more)
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  Beauvallet

  by Georgette Heyer

  A PRIZE OF WARA great Spanish heiress, a young noblewoman and for a brilliant marriage in her native land, Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva was captured in a sea battle by the notorious English freebooter, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet. Seizing the chance, she tried to kill the hateful pirate -- but as he took her arm and held it she found herself strangely captured by his boyish smile.She could not believe it... (more)
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  Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present

  Although technological change is vital for economic growth, the interaction of finance and technological innovation is rarely studied. This pioneering volume examines the ways in which innovation is funded in the United States. In case studies and theoretical discussions, leading economists and economic historians analyze how inventors and technologically creative entrepreneurs have raised funds for their projects... (more)
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  Clicks and Mortar: Passion-Driven Growth in an Internet Driven World

  by David S. Pottruck

  Cogent, Impassioned Advice from Two Pioneers The phenomenal rise of the Internet may seem to have transformed everything about business. But according to two men who have been at the forefront of the Internet's impact, some important things haven't changed: The future still belongs to passionate companies made up of passionate people. In this book, Schwab co-CEO David Pottruck teams up with leadership... (more)
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  Think Like Your Customer, 4-cd set: A Winning Strategy to Maximize Sales

  by Bill Stinnett

  How to capture customers by learning to think the way they do. In Think Like Your Customer, Stinnett explains why the key to landing corporate customers is to do what the most successful fishermen and hunters do - think like their prey. Stinnett's clients include General Electric, Microsoft, Verizon, American Express, and other major corporations.
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  Convergence Marketing: Strategies for Reaching the New Hybrid Consumer

  by Yoram Wind, Robert Gunther

  Illuminates the 'centaur,' showing what today's customers can do, what they're choosing to do, how they're evolving, and where they're headed. Discover how to respond today and begin optimizing your entire organization to serve tomorrow's fastest growing markets and most valuable customers.