The 9 Super Simple Steps to Entrepreneurial Success
The 9 Super Simple Steps to Entrepreneurial Success

Author: Martin J. Grunder

Publisher: Betterway Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558706583

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This book is perfect for anyone who's ever dreamed of starting their own business, or for small-business owners who want to grow the business they already have. Inside, entrepreneurial wiz Marty Grunder offers readers a step-by-step approach to formulating good business ideas, then executing them successfully. Grunder derived these nine simple strategies from the traits shared by all successful business people. He devotes one lengthy chapter to each step, along with illustrative anecdotes and Reality Check sidebars, which offer warnings and issues for further thought. To ensure readers clearly understand what steps to take and why, Grunder also provides examples from both his own business and those of other management experts. Marty Grunder is the founder and president of Grunder Landscaping Co., which generates $3 million a year in sales and continues to grow. He started the business as a 15-year-old with a $25 used lawnmower. Marty is a two-time Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the state of Ohio and in 2001 won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Dayton/Miami Valley. He also holds seminars on entrepreneurship and business management through the Winner's Circle, a small-business consulting firm he founded in 1995 (at age 27). He publishes Winning Strategies for Business and Life, a motivational newsletter on marketing and management. He lives in Dayton, Ohio.

Three Simple Steps
Three Simple Steps

Author: Trevor G Blake

Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.

Published: 2012-08-23

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1936661721

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How many self-help books are written by authors whose biggest success is selling self-help books? Three Simple Steps is different. Despite stock market crashes, dot-com busts, and the specter of recession, the author started a virtual company from home, using a few thousand dollars of his savings. A few years later, without ever hiring an employee or leaving his home office, he sold it for more than $100 million. As the economy slipped into another free fall, he did this again with a company in a different field. He accomplished this through no particular genius. Rather, he studied the habits of the many successful men and women who preceded him, and developed three simple rules that, if followed diligently, virtually ensure success. Using them first to escape poverty, then to achieve a life of adventures, he finally turned them toward financial independence. Written in a straightforward and no-nonsense style, Three Simple Steps shows you how to take back control of your destiny and reshape your mind for increased creativity, serenity and achievement. While building on the wisdom of great thinkers and accomplished individuals from East and West, Three Simple Steps isn't a new age text or guide to esoteric fulfillment. Rather, it's a practical guide to real-life achievement by a pragmatic businessman who attributes his incredible successes to these very simple ideas. Three Simple Steps is a must-read guide for everyone who wants to achieve more, live better and be happier.

The Start-Up J Curve
The Start-Up J Curve

Author: Howard Love

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1626342938

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A predictable pattern of success Entrepreneurs who have read early drafts of The Start-Up J Curve responded, ''I wish I had this book years ago.'' A start-up unfolds in a predictable pattern; the more aware entrepreneurs are of this pattern, the better able they will be to capitalize on it. Author Howard Love calls this pattern the start-up J Curve: The toughest part of the endeavor is the time between the actual start of a new business and when the product and model are firmly established. The Start-Up J Curve gives entrepreneurs the tools they need to get through the early challenges so they can reach the primary value creation that lies beyond. Love brings thirty-five years of start-up experience to this comprehensive guide to starting a business. He outlines the six predictable stages of start-up growth and details the activities that should be undertaken at each stage to ensure success and to avoid common pitfalls. Instead of feeling lost and confused after a setback, start-up founders and investors can anticipate the challenges, overcome the obstacles, and ride the curve to the top.

Seize the American Dream
Seize the American Dream

Author: Jim H. Houtz

Publisher: JaGrand Ventures

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780971701205

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This work is for entrepreneurs and people who yearn to build or grow a business, improve lives, and achieve financial freedom. Whether you are a company of one or a company of 1000 the strategies of this book should take you from dream to reality using practical methods that have proven successful in businesses nationwide.

Align Expand, and Succeed
Align Expand, and Succeed

Author: Christine Kloser

Publisher: Thomas Noble Books

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781934509319

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The world is experiencing an urgent wake up call because the paradigms of the past don't work in today's changing times. "Align, Expand, and Succeed" contains personal stories, tips, tools, and strategies from successful conscious entrepreneurs around the world who are pioneers in creating a new world through their business.

The Entrepreneurs Book of Actions: Essential Daily Exercises and Habits for Becoming Wealthier, Smarter, and More Successful
The Entrepreneurs Book of Actions: Essential Daily Exercises and Habits for Becoming Wealthier, Smarter, and More Successful

Author: Rhett Power

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1259859185

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The action plan for building your entrepreneurial empire—one day at a time While every entrepreneur knows that the key to success is business growth, few ever see it happen. Why? Because they know how to plant seeds, but they don’t understand that the real work lies in helping that seed grow—which takes knowledge, persistence, and patience. The Entrepreneurs Book of Actions helps you develop the mindset of a true entrepreneur and provides manageable steps for making your business vision a reality. Informative, inspiring, and based on real-life, hard-earned lessons, it provides common-sense, daily exercises you can jump into on day one. Learn how to drive sustainable business growth by: * Breaking bad habits—and developing good ones * Managing your time and money more effectively * Hiring the right people for the right job * Minimizing the effort required to perform basic tasks * Motivating your staff to be mission-focused * Creating “free” time to feed your innovative side You’ll begin to see your business in a completely new way—with a sense of clarity and purpose. You’ll begin identifying the issues that really affect your business—not the ones that feed your anxiety. You’ll become the kind of leader other entrepreneurs look up to—calm, optimistic, driven. The Entrepreneurs Book of Actions will provide the direction you need to make the best use of your time, your energy, and your creativity. It’s not isn’t a quick-fix. It’s work. But it’s manageable, it’s proven effective—and it will pay off big.

The Smart Entrepreneur
The Smart Entrepreneur

Author: Bart Clarysse

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904027881

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More people than ever are becoming entrepreneurs, but the perils of starting your own business are well-documented. Two lecturers on the subject from Imperial College, London, have written 'The Smart Entrepreneur' to show how to avoid these pitfalls and make your business a success.

Why Startups Fail
Why Startups Fail

Author: Tom Eisenmann

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0593137027

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If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

50 Steps to Business Success
50 Steps to Business Success

Author: Peter M. Cleveland

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1550225189

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How to implement proven techniques to take advantage of business opportunities. Here is a master plan for leaders who want to know the dynamic, proven techniques any business leader -- from the fruit stand owner to the Fortune 500 chairman -- must use to build a successful entrepreneurial enterprise. At the heart of this program is a fundamental belief in the continuous work necessary to improve all activities -- a constant quest to improve the conduct of business, from mission statements to the simplest of action plans. Each principle, or "bite," is a business fundamental that every business leader needs to understand. They are simple, proven leadership principles of successful people. Each bite moves the reader one step ahead, and each bite combines with others that work together to create a building block toward total leadership. Each bite represents a stepping stone towards sound business practice that, if applied with patience, discipline, consistency, and ethics, will result in success.