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Using his distinctive and empowering coaching style, internationally-known business coach and entrepreneur’s best friend, Brandon Seigel, takes private practice entrepreneurs on a journey to unlocking key strategies for surviving - and thriving - in today’s business environment. In The Private Practice Survival Guide, Seigel unveils the “big picture” on how to create and scale ethical and prosperous business models to overcome the current barriers hindering success.

Building a Successful Social Venture integrates leaning from the experience of hundreds of social enterprises that have participated in GSBI accelerator programs to formalize knowledge about what works. It provides rich case studies from social ventures to illustrate practice-based theories that combine the acumen of Silicon Valley executives with the intimate on-the-ground insights of social entrepreneurs working globally to eradicate poverty.

Forget everything you've learned about creating new businesses. Forget market research. Forget customer interviews. Forget everything business schools teach. Forget about "finding pains in the market", or gaining user empathy, or validating hypotheses.

In Startup Life, Brad Feld - a Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur turned-venture capitalist - shares his own personal experiences with his wife, Amy, offering a series of rich insights into successfully leading a balanced life as a human being who wants to play as hard as he works and who wants to be as fulfilled in life and in work. With this book, Feld distills his 20 years of experience in this field to addresses how the village of startup people can put aside their workaholic ways and lead rewarding lives in all respects.

Using interviews with unconventional entrepreneurs, the author's own wide-ranging experience with weird jobs, and extensive research, 101 Weird Ways to Make Money reveals unusual, sometimes dirty, yet profitable jobs and businesses. Whether you're looking for a job that suits your independent spirit, or want to start a new business, this unique book shows you moneymaking options you haven't considered. 

Are you stuck on the truck, working endless hours in your home service business—while your dreams of freedom, profit, and growth slip further out of reach? You didn’t start your contractor business to become your own overworked employee. In Get Off The Truck, seasoned entrepreneur and coach David Moerman delivers a practical, no-fluff blueprint to help you stop trading your time for money and start running a home services business that works for you.

From the very first moment when Christian Frantz met Luna Maxwell, he thought she was perfect. However, he would eventually find out that, regardless of its size, everyone has a flaw. Even waters that seem pristine and clean on the surface can hide murk beneath them. What do you do when you find out that the one you thought was perfect is, in fact, only human? Do you ignore their imperfections? Do you give them the space to work through their issues and let them know that you’re there whenever they need you? Or do you leave?

Joe Biel, author of A People’s Guide to Publishing, draws on twenty-six years of business ownership and management experience to walk you through how to think like a business owner, plan, strategize, manage budgets, scale up, and keep your focus on what’s most important. Dr. Faith Harper, author of the bestselling Unf--k Your Brain, provides vital skills that aren’t often lauded in business books, such as overcoming imposter syndrome and other fears, communicating your boundaries, and building mutually beneficial relationships.

The Cofounder’s Handbook brings business partnerships into the spotlight where they belong. Most people don’t realize how much their partnership affects the strength of their business. The right cofounder multiplies your success. But the wrong partner divides your attention and effort, hinders your business’s progress, and potentially destroys it from within.

This book will shift your mindset from entrepreneur to EXITpreneur. After all, the majority of all the money you’ll ever make from your business comes on the day you sell—so it’s important to get the exit right. In The EXITpreneur’s Playbook, Joe Valley shares his experience in all facets of exiting an online business through direct experiences and real-life examples, with clear math and logic.

This guide will show you how to create, publish, and upload your eBook to Kindle for free. In the past, I have paid companies to do services I could have taken the time to learn myself. Now that I have figured out how to do it myself for free, I have no problems sharing that information with you.

Entrepreneurship starts with an idea and a dream: a dream of a better world for others, and a life less ordinary for yourself. These days, more people than ever are full of world-changing ideas and, thanks to technology, have the means to bring them to life. But many ideas remain just ideas, and many dreams just dreams. Startup Mixology is first and foremost a book about turning your ideas into action. From the cofounder of media company Tech Cocktail, a veteran entrepreneur and investor.

This book is your guide to effectively using online event platforms and tools. Written by three seasoned virtual event experts, The Virtual Events Playbook will guide you in becoming an expert presenter, meeting leader/facilitator, or trainer.

"Start-Ups, Pivots and Pop-Ups" is a must read for anyone with a business idea and the desire to be successful. It gives the reader the skills and knowledge to survive in today's innovation and entrepreneurial-focused world. This book is about starting a business. It's about putting your toe in the entrepreneurial water - perhaps through doing a short term business gig or a pop-up business - and then seeing what happens.

As a manual therapist, you can impact thousands of people’s lives through your academic knowledge and technical skills, but did you know that your business skills are just as or even more important? After a 36-year career as an osteopath, acupuncturist, university lecturer, and business owner, I want to share the business strategies and experience that have helped me. Two Hands will give you the confidence you need to differentiate yourself from the competition, find business success, and reconnect with a passion for the career path you chose.

While many entrepreneurs and innovators have brilliant ideas, they desperately need the skills to successfully articulate their vision to investors, prospective customers, employees, and stakeholders. In this informative and empowering book, David Riemer breaks down the storytelling clutter so you can gain the attention you need to succeed. If you have a groundbreaking invention in mind or have a plan to solve worldwide problems, Get Your Startup Story Straight is the tool you need to create better customer-focused solutions, motivate more backers, and dominate in the market.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 20 percent of startups do not live past their second year, and many more fail before their fifth year. Have you ever wondered why many new businesses fail so quickly after their inception? Over my decade-long journey of entrepreneurship, learning and observing other small companies, I've come to realize the importance of a few aspects when starting, launching, and growing a business.

If you think it takes long hours of stress-inducing, brain-numbing, back-breaking work to build a successful career or business, this book will change your mind. The simple truth: Once you put your mind to it, you can do just about anything. You can build a business that is not only profitable but sustainable, too. You can take your career to higher and higher levels, grow your profits quarter by quarter, increase your income year after year. And the best part: You can do it with ease!

The Day I Got My Pink Mustache is a book for anyone who is interested in becoming a rideshare driver. I share some stories of my experiences as a driver and reveal some critical strategies I used to maximize my rideshare earnings.

Are you passionate about dogs and dreaming of starting your own successful breeding kennel? Look no further! The "Beginner's Guide to Starting a Successful Puppy Breeding Kennel" is your ultimate companion on this exciting journey.