The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Eric Ries
• Narrated By Eric Ries
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
• Narrated By Blake Masters
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The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1.

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Guy Kawasaki
• Narrated By Dan John Miller

Enchantment, as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It transforms situations and relationships. It converts hostility into civility and civility into affinity. It changes the skeptics and cynics into the believers and the undecided into the loyal. Enchantment can happen during a retail transaction, a high-level corporate negotiation, or a Facebook update.

The Art of Profitability

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Adrian Slywotzky
• Narrated By Scott Mosenson, Jack Ong, Adrian Slywotzky - introduction
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The Art of Profitability reveals the invisible but important governing principles that can mean the difference between business failure and success. Each of the book's 23 chapters presents a lesson from the exuberant and always challenging master - and a profit paradigm that will open your mind to the many ways to make profit happen.

The Founder's Dilemmas

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Noam Wasserman
• Narrated By Mark Mosely

Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin.

How to Start a Business: Easy Step by Step Guide to Starting a Small Business

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 6 mins)
• By Susan Kilmer
• Narrated By Korbid Thompson

Have you ever wanted to start a small business? Have you ever thought it was tough to do so? Unsure of how to get started? There's so much information out there on the Internet, and so many self-help gurus, that it either takes time to put all the information together or you have to pay top dollar to have a guru explain it to you. My name is Susan Kilmer. Over the course of my business and entrepreneurship background, I have taught hundreds and hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs how to start a business and business owners how to keep their business going.

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Michael E. Gerber
• Narrated By Michael E. Gerber
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In this audio edition of the totally revised underground best seller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed.

The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Alejandro Cremades, Barbara Corcoran
• Narrated By Jonathan Yen
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The Art of Startup Fundraising takes a fresh look at raising money for startups, with a focus on the changing face of startup finance. New regulations are making the old go-to advice less relevant, as startup money is increasingly moving online. These new waters are all but uncharted - and founders need an accessible guide. This book helps you navigate the online world of startup fundraising with easy-to-follow explanations and expert perspective on the new digital world of finance.

Taxes for Small Businesses QuickStart Guide - Understanding Taxes for Your Sole Proprietorship, Startup, & LLC

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 37 mins)
• By ClydeBank Business
• Narrated By Kevin Kollins

Did you know the typical small business owner works three to four months just to earn enough profit to pay taxes? Whether you've been in business for several decades or are breaking ground as a new entrepreneur, taxes are a significant expenditure. They must be accounted for and incorporated into your business plan from the very beginning. Failing to account for taxes when planning, budgeting, and assessing revenue goals for a business is like failing to account for the expense of your rent or mortgage.

Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Matt Blumberg
• Narrated By William Michael Redman
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A definitive audiobook for any CEO - first time or otherwise - of a high-growth company. While big company CEOs are usually groomed for the job for years, startup CEOs aren't - and they're often young and relatively inexperienced in business in general.

Job Escape Plan: The 7 Steps to Build a Home Business, Quit your Job & Enjoy the Freedom

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Jyotsna Ramachandran
• Narrated By Jessica Geffen, Michael Colman
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You can escape your boring nine-to-five job in six months or less! How many times have you felt like quitting your monotonous day job? Have you ever felt that you should be following your heart and doing something better? Are you yearning for the freedom to do what you want, when you want and from wherever you want? Then, why are you still working for somebody else? The answer is simple. You are scared of the consequences of quitting your job.

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Chris Guillebeau
• Narrated By Chris Guillebeau, Thomas Vincent Kelly
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Still in his early 30s, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations - and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. In The $100 Startup, he tells you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose - and earn a good living.

Slicing Pie: Funding Your Company without Funds

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Mike Moyer
• Narrated By Kevin Young
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You and a partner go into business together and split the equity 50/50. You do all the work and your partner slacks off. He owns half your business - now what? Slicing Pie outlines a process for calculating exactly the right number of shares each founder or employee in an early stage company deserves.

You will learn: How to value the time and resources an individual brings to the company relative to the contributions of others.

Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Brad Feld, David Cohen
• Narrated By Sean Pratt
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It is a cold, hard fact of business life that most startups fail. Even many of those entrepreneurs who ultimately succeed have stories of personal challenges, unsuccessful companies, and difficulties along the way. The founders of TechStars, a mentorship-driven startup accelerator, have worked with entrepreneurs and companies over the past twenty-five years, and have seen a number of the same issues come up again and again.

The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 3 mins)
• By David S. Rose
• Narrated By David S. Rose
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The Startup Checklist is the entrepreneur's essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start. You'll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases and how to avoid the critical missteps that threaten the foundation of your business.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Richie Norton, Natalie Norton
• Narrated By Richie Norton
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What if the smartest people in the world understand something that the rest of us don't? (They do.) What if they know that in order to achieve success, they will sometimes have to do things that others may initially perceive as stupid? The fact of the matter is that the smartest people in the world don't run from stupid, they lean into it (in a smart way). In The Power of Starting Something Stupid, Richie Norton redefines stupid as we know it, demonstrating that life-changing ideas are often tragically mislabeled stupid.

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Jason Mendelson, Brad Feld
• Narrated By Sean Pratt

As each new generation of entrepreneurs emerges, there is a renewed interest in how venture capital deals come together. Yet there really is no definitive guide to venture capital deals. Nobody understands this better than authors Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. For more than seventeen years, they've been involved in hundreds of venture capital financings, and now, with Venture Deals, they share their experiences in this field with you.

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Guy Kawasaki
• Narrated By Paul Boehmer

What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.