You built the business. Now learn how to cash out right.You have spent years, maybe decades, pouring everything into your company. You have survived the lean seasons, scaled through the chaos, and built something real. But now you are staring down the biggest question of your professional life: What is it all actually worth, and how do you walk away without leaving millions on the table? Too many owners stumble into this moment unprepared, losing deals to messy financials, buyer re...

Entrepreneurs have a problem: startups. Almost all startups either fail or never truly reach a sustainable size. Despite the popularity of entrepreneurship, we haven't engineered a better way to start. ...Until now.What if you could skip the startup phase and generate profitable revenue on day one?In Buy Then Build, acquisition entrepreneur Walker Deibel shows you how to begin with a sustainable, profitable company and grow from there. You'll learn...

Getting in-from the ground floor to the attic!The incredible growth of the real estate market over the past few years has more and more people looking to change jobs and get in on the action. Fully revised and updated-and written by a highly regarded real estate broker, author, and lawyer-this book covers everything from whether or not real estate sales is the right career move to how to master the skills necessary to be successful. Includes a cons...

Turn your great idea into BIG PROFITS with a powerful, persuasive business plan!With any endeavor, good planning is the key to good results—especially in the launch of a new business or product. Business Plans That Work gives you an easy-to-follow template for conceptualizing, writing, focusing, and revising a business plan that converts your business idea into financial profit.A virtual blueprint for entrepreneurial success, this new edition of th...

Hotel Revenue Management takes readers from the core principles of hotel revenue management to the cutting edge of pricing science, merchandising, and strategic decision-making—equipping today’s professionals to lead in a rapidly evolving landscape.In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, revenue management has undergone a profound transformation. No longer confined to pricing and inventory control, it now sits at the center of a broader commercial strategy. ...

A comprehensive guide on creating, growing, and leveraging a board of directors written for CEOs, board members, and people seeking board roles.The first time many founders see the inside of a board room is when they step in to lead their board. But how do boards work? How should they be structured, managed, and leveraged so that startups can grow, avoid pitfalls, and get the best out of their boards? Authors Brad Feld, Mahendra Ramsinghani, and Matt Blumberg have ...

Note on the Third Edition: The first version of The Fundraising Field Guide was written and published via Reedsy in 2015 and has been used by many to help navigate their fund raise. However, a lot has evolved since then, so this updated version 3.0 has been written with new content, ideas, and strategies to help early-stage tech startup founders decipher and navigate the fundraising process.Gone are the days of easy fundraising. Today's market environment looks very different from ...

If you're one of the millions of people considering a career in the potentially lucrative world of real estate, The Everything Guide to Being a Real Estate Agent is the book you need to make it happen. Seasoned real estate professional Shahri Masters shows you what it really takes to succeed in this competitive business-including how to manage time, clients, and a business network for a fruitful career.This how-to guide covers it all-from deciding to become a real estate agent, to...

Why should you go to the trouble of creating a written business plan? There are three major reasons:The process of putting a business plan together, including the thought you put in before beginning to write it, forces you to take an objective, critical unemotional look at your business project in its entirety. The finished product your business plan is and operating told which, properly used, will help you manage your business and work toward its success. The completed business pl...

In a fast changing world, brimming with social and economic uncertainty, financial information plays a vital role in the life of an organization and does so with two sets of eyes. One set looks back to see what has happened. This is the accounting function, which is simply about the recording of events and the production of the financial reports that satisfy the stewardship responsibility of management. The other set looks forward to determine the most appropriate strategic direction for a...

Are you a CFO for a company looking for more challenge from your job? Perhaps you are a banker, CPA, or entrepreneur and have thought about becoming a CFO. Or you are between jobs and looking for the next phase of your work career. If these are your thoughts, a fractional CFO career is a very realistic and viable option. This is the book for you if you want answers to these questions.*Can I make a living being a fractional CFO?Will I enjoy or be challenged being a fractiona...

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