High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.
In the new knowledge-based economy, information technology (IT) has become a major field of employment. However, the fast pace of technological innovation, globalization, and the volatility of the stock market have made IT an increasingly risky business. Unfortunately, some employees bear more of the burden of that risk than others. Age, Gender, and Work: Small Information Technology Firms in the New Economy examines how women and older workers in small IT companies are disproportionately vulnerable to their industry's economic uncertainty. Drawing on original survey and interview data from Canada, the United States, Australia, and England, the authors ask how gender and age affect work and workplace culture in a field dominated by young male employees. A fresh look at how paid work intersects with age and gender, this volume brings a unique empirical and theoretical perspective to the literature on inequality.
On the night of 10-11 May 1996, eight climbers perished in what remains the worst disaster in Everest's history. Following the tragedy, numerous accounts were published, with Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air becoming an international bestseller. But has the whole story been told? A Day to Die For reveals the full, startling facts that led to the tragedy. Graham Ratcliffe, the first British climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest twice, was a first-hand witness, having spent the night on Everest's South Col at 26,000 ft, sheltering from the deadly storm. For years, he has shouldered a burden of guilt, feeling that he and his teammates could have saved lives that fateful night. His quest for answers has led to discoveries so important to an understanding of the disaster that he now questions why these facts were not made public sooner. History is dotted with high-profile disasters that both horrify and capture the attention of the public, but very rarely is our view of them revised to such devastating effect.
Learn the skills you need to be a lead developer, with expert advice on mentoring teams, handling clients and project managers, and keeping your head in emergencies. In the Lead Developer Career Guide you’ll discover: What a lead developer does Writing effective technical documentation Improving development processes Communicating with non-technical clients Mentoring and inspiring a team Delivering negative feedback The Lead Developer Career Guide teaches you how to go from individual contributor to successful lead developer. It’s full of insider tips, tricks, and strategies taken from author Shelley Benhoff’s 20-year career in technology, with vital insights for navigating the challenges and expectations of the lead developer role. This one-of-a-kind book shows you how critical thinking and communication skills can upgrade your career. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology A successful lead developer is the tech expert responsible for mentoring fellow developers, making decisions about architecture, and ensuring that a team delivers quality software. This guide helps you grow from individual contributor into team leader. About the book Lead Developer Career Guide is filled with interviews and real-world case studies from industry professionals and esteemed tech experts. You’ll learn how to become the face for your development team, gathering feedback from your coworkers and communicating with clients and stakeholders. You’ll learn to reliably calculate project estimates and even plan a project from scratch. You’ll master mentoring techniques, learn how to maintain your mental health in stressful projects, and even battle imposter syndrome. By the time you’re finished, you’ll have a unique balance of soft skills and technical expertise. About the reader If you’re a junior developer, this guide will help you plan your career path to becoming a technical lead. If you’re a senior developer, you’ll master the leadership abilities that will turn your technical knowledge into an asset for your whole team. If you’re a team leader, hand this book to your best developer to help them mature into the role of lead. About the author Shelley Benhoff has over twenty years of experience in tech as a business owner, author, and speaker. She teaches leadership, communication, Docker, and Sitecore development. Shelley is currently a co-owner of HoffsTech, LLC.
This is one of the first books to fully value and realise the connection between leadership and learning in SMEs. It provides a real-life narrative, encapsulating the development of business people on a leadership programme for SME managers, whilst exp
The phenomenal success of the iPhone, iPad and the iPod touch has ushered in a “gold rush” for developers, but with well over 300,000 apps in the highly competitive App Store, it has become increasingly difficult for new apps to stand out in the crowd. Achieving consumer awareness and sales longevity for your iOS app requires a lot of organization and some strategic planning. Updated and expanded for iOS 4, this bestselling book will show you how to incorporate marketing and business savvy into every aspect of the design and development process, giving your app the best possible chance of succeeding in the App Store. The Business of iPhone and iPad App Development was written by experienced developers with business backgrounds, taking you step-by-step through cost effective marketing techniques that have proven successful for professional iOS app creators—perfect for independent developers on shoestring budgets. No prior business knowledge is required. This is the book you wish you had read before you launched your first app!
If you're tired of other people's energy throwing off your goals & dreams then keep reading... Have you ever wanted to express yourself the way you want, without letting outside energy negatively affect you? All too often we let external energy invade our boundaries & lower our vibration. This tragically leads to us living nowhere near our best lives. But what if you could discover how to easily take ownership of your power & energy & become as unshakable as a mountain? What would your life be like if you could protect your own energy with healthy & firm boundaries? Can you picture how it would feel getting more respect at work & in your relationships? There is simply no reason for you not to live an abundant, happy, & fulfilled life, free of harmful energetic influences surrounding & imposing your space. The Earth is full of Source energy. Its source is always receiving and sending energy to all creation. Connecting to the Earth is not a luxury but a deep need. A study carried out by the University of Arizona researched the harmful effects of a living entity being separated from its direct source. The experiment compared two sunflowers. One of them would be grounded to the Earth and the other would not. The sunflower which was not grounded had a huge decline in health. Researchers noted that the ungrounded sunflower appeared "stressed" while the grounded sunflower appeared to be vibrant. You're living with high stress or depression simply because you've lost touch with the Earths energies. Inside you'll discover: The habit you're indulging in that's allowing invaders to cause irreparable damage How to avoid a FATAL opening that allows negative attachments to enter Why negative entities keep imposing on your auric space & how to fix it Why counseling sessions aren't clearing your emotional trauma What in your own home is creating openings for toxic energy to infiltrate your aura How to STAND FIRM, say no, & set boundaries by owning your unique power How to free yourself of these shackles the media is using to enslave your mind The easy Four-Step Effective Visualization method to allow your desired reality to materialize Unparalleled guided meditations to strengthen your aura What you must align your vibration with to prevent your body from becoming a breeding ground for disease & much more *BONUS* MEDITATION MP3 INSIDE! 'Transform Your Energy' will empower you regardless of your background, even if you have weak boundaries or give away your energy too easily. This is because the same energy that created the universe lives within you. It's time to access it! This vibration-boosting guide will empower you, even if you're an experienced energy healer, or even if you're completely new to energy work. So if you want to repel toxic energy & stand your ground like an impenetrable fortress then click "Buy Now".
'Barrett and Moores delve into the real essence of women in leadership roles, specifically but not exclusively in family business. In doing so they dispel many myths, provide compelling concepts to nurture, grow and sustain women business leaders and examples of how women in all types of business can deliver outstanding results through dynamic leadership, high emotional intelligence and a desire to achieve and succeed.' - Jaqui Lane, CEO and Founder, Focus Publishing
Updated and expanded for the new Apple iOS8, The Business of iOS App Development, Third Edition shows you how to incorporate marketing and business savvy into every aspect of the design and development process, giving your app the best possible chance of succeeding in the App Store. This book is written by experienced developers with business backgrounds, taking you step-by-step through cost-effective marketing techniques that have proven successful for professional iOS app creators—perfect for independent developers on shoestring budgets. No prior business knowledge is required. The phenomenal success of the iPhone, iPad and the iPod touch have ushered in a "gold rush" for developers, but with well over a million apps in the highly competitive App Store, it has become increasingly difficult for new apps to stand out in the crowd. Achieving consumer awareness and sales longevity for your iOS app requires a lot of organization and some strategic planning. This is the book you wish you had read before you launched your first app!
Healthcare improvements is constantly relevant and an important topic. Healthcare is frequently being called upon to be more cost-efficient and still fulfil demands regarding waiting times, quality and availability. Experience from structural changes in other contexts gives reason to be positive about the potential for logistics improvements in the healthcare sector as well. From a logistics perspective patients pass different care functions, units, organisations and health facilities. It is assumed that logistics management knowledge applied in healthcare can lead to lower costs, shorter waiting times, better patient service, shorter treatment times and increased capacity. This dissertation therefore presents an exploration of how logistics management theories can be operationalised in a healthcare context to understand care chain effectiveness. Theoretically, the operationalisation is done by systems theory creating compatibility between logistics management theories and the healthcare context. As a first step, features for a logistics system forms features for achieving care chain effectiveness. High care chain effectiveness is thus a desired condition and the care delivery system is the tool to achieve it. As the final step in the operationalisation the features for care chain effectiveness are in turn used to analyse today’s practices. Empirically, the research is based on qualitative data from a single case study with multiple units of analysis. It includes four care units at one of Sweden’s university hospitals, where the data is gathered through interviews, insight into management systems and document analysis. One of the main results is the 21 areas identified for analysing today’s practices by means of features for care chain effectiveness. Another main result is the four important concepts revealed through the operationalisation: Lead time - the episode of care from order to delivery as the amount of time for patient cases between first contact with healthcare and the last.Patient order fulfilment - fulfilment of patients’ needs, broken down into several smaller steps performed over time within different care units in one or several organisations, consisting of five sub-processes - order handling, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and discharge.True demand – patients’ needs that is to be met and thus sets what care to deliver, i.e. the production plan and the subordinate resource plan.System boundaries - defines which care units to include when focusing on the care delivery system’s performance as a whole and should be more important than the performance and productivity of each individual care unit. A number of direct suggestions for care chain improvement can also be found in the concluding remarks, for example that objectives linked to economic influx or penalty narrow the system and that lead time data on an aggregated level is needed to cover episodes of care. The theoretical contribution of the dissertation is to the field of logistics management through the methodological development of using these theories in a new context. The managerial contribution is to healthcare managers through providing opportunities to improve care chains primarily by means of a greater understanding of care delivery systems.
