Software Business

The second edition of The Consulting Bible remains the most comprehensive and practical guide to the consulting profession, from launch to high growth, from marketing to implementation. Legendary consultant, speaker, and best-selling author Alan Weiss shows you how to create an independent or boutique consulting practice and take it to seven-figure success.

Start Small, Stay Small is a step-by-step guide to launching a self-funded start-up. If you're a desktop, mobile, or web developer, this audiobook is your blueprint to getting your start-up off the ground with no outside investment.

Listening and following the exercises in Doing Discovery can transform individuals, teams, and organizations from undifferentiated sellers into high-performing practitioners who achieve their sales objectives while truly enabling buyers, resulting in mutually successful outcomes that endure.

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods.

Written in the trenches of helping hundreds of B2B SaaS businesses, The Pricing Roadmap will help you pour gasoline on the fire of your pricing. Ditch the guesswork with this step-by-step guide to designing SaaS pricing that grows your business—whether you’re a startup, prerevenue venture, or an established market leader.

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING AN APP-BASED BUSINESS Do you have a great app idea but no coding skills? ‘How to Make an App Business’ contains no get-rich-quick talk, but just exactly what you need to go from idea to app business. ‘How to Make an App Business’ guides you all the way from idea to launching your app and making a business out of it. The book covers proven and essential steps to build a killer app, get your app off the ramp with solid marketing, and make a viable business. From this book you will learn how to: Build and test early prototypes before starting programming ...

The Compound Effect contains the essence of what every super achiever needs to know, practice, and master to obtain extraordinary success. Inside you will hear strategies on how to win-every time; eradicating the bad habits that are derailing your progress; painlessly installing the few key disciplines required for major breakthroughs; the real, lasting keys to gaining and sustaining motivation; capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum; and the acceleration secrets of superachievers.

Introducing Excel 2024 for Beginners! Do you want to learn how to use Microsoft Excel software? Do you need a step-by-step manual that will walk you through on how to use the spreadsheet program as a beginner? If you said yes, this book is for you. The book is written by someone who has great experience in Microsoft programs and has helped many users to be up and running in technology. You will learn from her wealth of knowledge contained in this great asset. This is a beginner-friendly guide that will give you everything you need to start using Excel program. Every step is accompanied with...

2025 3rd Edition Master Cybersecurity, Protect Your Data, and Advance Your Career—Now with AI-Powered Support 📈 Do traditional cybersecurity books overwhelm you with dry theory and complex jargon? Looking for a clear, streamlined guide that helps you build real-world skills—fast? Prefer learning through practical strategies, hands-on labs, and expert-driven tools? Now, with the powerful addition of AI Mentor Pro, you'll have a 24/7 digital mentor by your side to explain concepts, answer questions, and coach you through every challenge on your path to success. Why Choose This Guide? ...

The era of spending months learning programming syntax is over. Terminal AI agents have revolutionized software development, and this comprehensive guide shows you exactly how to harness their power. Command Your Code teaches entrepreneurs, founders, and non-technical builders how to use Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI to build real applications—from simple tools to full SaaS platforms—using nothing but clear English commands. What You'll Master: • The Big Three AI Agents: When to use Claude Code for complex reasoning, OpenAI Codex CLI for rapid prototyping, and Gemini ...

Top 100 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools of 2025 for Creators, Engineers, and Innovators The Most Powerful Artificial Intelligence Apps for Writing, Design, Video, Audio, Coding, Business, and Creativity 🚀 Discover the 100 AI Tools Shaping the Future Artificial Intelligence is no longer futuristic—it’s part of our daily workflow. From writing and graphic design to coding, automation, and video production, AI is revolutionizing how we work, create, and think. This book is your complete guide to the best AI tools of 2025—ranked, explained, and ready to use. 🧠 Inside This Book, ...

Author Andrew Harmel-Law shows you how architects and development teams can collaborate to create and evolve more efficient architectures for their systems. Techniques in this book will help you learn how to create a mindset that allows everyone to practice architecture and build the best systems they've ever experienced.

Every SaaS company on earth is careening towards its next revenue plateau. It’s called a Growth Ceiling—a moment in time where growth stops, and you’re losing just as many customers as you’re bringing in. It’s not an opinion—it’s just how recurring revenue businesses work.

Attention all aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners! Are you ready to take your bookkeeping skills to the next level? Look no further than "From Scratch to Success," the ultimate guide to building and growing your own bookkeeping business. In this comprehensive eBook, you'll learn everything you need to know to start and manage your very own bookkeeping service. From understanding the importance of bookkeeping to assessing your own qualifications, researching your market, and developing a solid business plan, every step of the process is covered in detail. We'll show you how to ...

This audiobook is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years–and then some more. This audiobook follows the structure of a “typical” career path for a software engineer, from starting out as a fresh-faced software developer, through being a role model senior/lead, all the way to the staff/principle/distinguished level. It summarizes what I’ve learned as a developer and how I’ve approached coaching engineers at different stages of their careers.

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a core discipline of Software Engineering, and the most overlooked. Requirements work is the basis for all other software development disciplines. A requirement failure has a cascading impact on the project. The PMI states that poor requirements management is the main cause of project failure. This book introduces Requirements Engineering from a practical perspective, with exercises and case studies. The content was prepared from the authors' practical experience and industry references such as the PMBOK, the BABOK, and all the content of the IREB CPRE-FL (...

Transform your organization using AI-driven solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption: A Practical Guide for Business Leaders and Consultants. This book draws on real-world case studies and insights from Microsoft’s early adopters to provide a practical framework for successful AI integration. It emphasizes the importance of leadership alignment, cultural readiness, and continuous skill development, equipping listeners with the mindset and methods needed to foster innovation and efficiency in an AI-driven workplace.

Are you curious about AI coding tools but skeptical of the hype? Everyone's talking about "vibe coding"—using AI to generate code by describing what you want. Most of those conversations are either breathless hype or dismissive skepticism. This book is neither. The Vibe Coded SaaS is the honest story of building voding.ai from initial idea to paying customers using AI agents as the primary development method. Not a weekend prototype. Not a toy demo. A real SaaS with authentication, payments, analytics, and actual users. What you'll learn: How to use Claude Code and AI agents to build ...

Transform Your Ideas Into Professional Applications—No Coding Experience Required The barrier between brilliant ideas and working software has collapsed. What used to require engineering teams and six-figure budgets can now be built by anyone willing to learn the new rules of AI-assisted development. Build Anything with AI is your practical roadmap from idea to launched product, written by Tom Anderson—a former Director of Engineering who managed 80+ developers before discovering that AI tools had fundamentally changed who gets to build technology. This isn't theory about what might be ...