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Everything You Need to Start and Succeed in Your Own Venture
Trevor Blake built three successful startups and sold them for more than $300 million. Now he's written a complete instruction manual that covers everything the budding entrepreneur or existing business owner needs to know to build the career or business of their dreams.
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One of his most innovative contributions is an emphasis on cultivating the right mindset, and he tells you exactly how to do that. "The secret to success isn't in the plan", he writes. "It's in the person holding it." His proven methods will give you the confidence to take the entrepreneurial leap and turn your winning idea into an efficient, profitable company.
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- By Lee on 06-15-15
By: Guy Kawasaki
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Scale
- Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back
- By: Jeff Hoffman, David Finkel
- Narrated by: David Finkel
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Business owners want growth but fear it will take over their lives. Surprisingly, the only way to truly grow your company is to reduce its reliance on you - to scale. Jeff Hoffman and David Finkel offer a blueprint to rapidly grow your business while also gaining more freedom. Based on their own experiences starting, scaling, and effectively exiting from multiple successful companies, they provide seven clear principles that will help you determine the best strategy for growth in your company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All stuff no fluff
- By Jonathan Bonanno on 05-25-21
By: Jeff Hoffman, and others
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The Last Safe Investment
- Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever
- By: Bryan Franklin, Michael Ellsberg
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Michael Ellsberg and Bryan Franklin think you've been fed a lie: that if you save for decades and invest in 401(k)s, IRAs, and a home, these investments will grow steadily over decades, allowing 20 to 30 years of secure, peaceful retirement. This might have been true at some point in the last century, but it is not true any longer. If you want to get ahead and enjoy a life of prosperity, the authors argue that you must invest in the most powerful source of wealth you'll ever know: your own earning power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Paradigm Shift For Me...
- By Brad Spencer on 07-01-16
By: Bryan Franklin, and others
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Finish Big
- How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top
- By: Bo Burlingham
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 128
When pioneering business journalist and Inc. magazine editor at large Bo Burlingham wrote Small Giants, it became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem - how to handle the pressure to grow. Now Burlingham is back to tackle an even more common problem - how to exit your company well. Sooner or later, all entrepreneurs leave their businesses and all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Begin with the end in mind
- By D. Hartzell on 02-05-15
By: Bo Burlingham
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Shortcut Your Startup
- Speed Up Success with Unconventional Advice from the Trenches
- By: Carter Reum, Courtney Reum
- Narrated by: Carter Reum
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Courtney and Carter Reum have years of experience in the field, from investing in over 130 companies, including Lyft, Pinterest, Warby Parker, and ClassPass, to driving the success of their own liquor brand, VEEV Spirits. The Reum brothers have learned from every triumph and tribulation and over the years have developed an effective and easy-to-understand guide to help entrepreneurs through the startup journey from inception to sale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for start ups
- By Dave on 02-09-18
By: Carter Reum, and others
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Reality Check
- Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
- By: Guy Kawasaki
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4 out of 5 stars 55
In Silicon Valley slang, a "bozo explosion" is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, "If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don't make sense"...then it's time for a reality check.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Reality of Reality Check
- By Ben on 08-18-09
By: Guy Kawasaki
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Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain
- How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur
- By: Ryan Blair, Don Yaeger
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 190
Ryan Blair knows about building a business from the ground up. Like many entrepreneurs he had no formal business education. But he had great survival instincts, tenacity, and, above all, a "nothing to lose" mindset.Blair's middle-class childhood came to an abrupt end when his abusive father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned the family. Blair and his mother moved to a bad neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining a gang just to survive. Then his mother fell in love with a successful entrepreneur who took Ryan under his wing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I wouldn't read it again
- By Blahhhhhh on 01-07-13
By: Ryan Blair, and others
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Street Smarts
- An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs
- By: Norm Brodsky, Bo Burlingham
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,736
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,527
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,528
People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran company-builder Norm Brodsky, there's a mentality that helps street- smart entrepreneurs solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise. Brodsky shares his hard-earned wisdom every month in Inc. magazine, in the hugely popular "Street Smarts" column he cowrites with Bo Burlingham. Now they've adapted their best advice into a comprehensive guide for anyone running a small business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This great audio was originally called The Knack!
- By morton on 12-16-11
By: Norm Brodsky, and others
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The Entrepreneur's Playbook
- More Than 100 Proven Strategies, Tips, and Techniques to Build a Radically Successful Business
- By: Leonard C. Green, Paul B. Brown
- Narrated by: Leonard C. Green, Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Big new ideas rarely make great businesses. Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time. You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do. Counterintuitive concepts like these have helped the world's best entrepreneurs succeed. Yet most of us only learn them the hard way. Len Green, an experienced investor, entrepreneur, and business professor, shares inside secrets and proven tactics for launching a business.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Need a narrator who is not phlegmy
- By Leo on 01-19-18
By: Leonard C. Green, and others
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The Automatic Customer
- Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry
- By: John Warrillow
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 902
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 892
The lifeblood of your business is repeat customers. But customers can be fickle, markets shift, and competitors are ruthless. So how do you ensure a steady flow of repeat business? The secret--no matter what industry you're in--is finding and keeping automatic customers. These days virtually anything you need can be purchased through a subscription, with more convenience than ever before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can be applied to almost any business
- By C Mason on 02-25-15
By: John Warrillow
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- Guillermo
- 11-03-22
GREAT resource for beginners
This book was such a great resource as a tried-and-true framework. I wish I had this book 10 years ago!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-17-23
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The reader was amazing. I love his inflection. But the book! The author breaks down how to start your own business step-by-step. I mean, step by step, Imagine you’re sitting in a current classroom having a brilliant professor teach you how to start a business. He says the phrase “now we move on to” and you go to raise your hand. The author anticipates this question! I cannot tell you how many times I thought to myself “I’m gonna have to look some things up” and the next 20 minutes explain in detail the subject that I am on. I cannot wait to re-listen.
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- Shawn
- 01-18-23
Excellent Book
Great information for entrepreneurs at any level! Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, have tried and failed, or are already in business, this book is a must read for any small business venture or startup.
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- karin coart
- 08-23-20
Much appreciated
Thank you!
Such a generous book of information.
There is a ton to learn here in this book.
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