Embark on your startup journey with this indispensable guide. With practical advice and actionable insights, this book helps startup founders avoid common pitfalls and make informed decisions across the three, initial startup phases of:The IdeaBusiness PlanningUp & RunningAcross its 120 pages, the book breaks down overwhelming tasks into manageable steps, this step-by-step guide is everything you need to take your big idea to launch....

From idea to launch, make every decision count with the Startup Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide for Founders. This book is a comprehensive guide that assists entrepreneurs and business owners navigate the complex journey of establishing a new business venture and bringing a new product or service to the market.The Startup Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide for Founders takes aspiring entrepreneurs, founders and business owners through the first three stages of the startup lifecycle: The I...

Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling five thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.Then, on April 20, 2010, BP’s dismal safety record came home to roost. An explosion followed by a massive fireball resulted in eleven lives lost, the sinking of the rig, and the release of millions of barrels of crude oil into one of the world’s prim...

No radio distress call ever crackled from the submarine USS Grunion. In 1942, under the fog of World War II, the vessel simply vanished without a trace. For nearly sixty-five years, only a dead silence lingered regarding the fate of the sub and its seventy-man crew—until now. Here author Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the Grunion—as well as the navy's shocking and willful cover-up of the submarine's baffling disappear...

In this book, the authors integrate the three dominant approaches to organizational development-learning, performance, and change-to create a dynamic lens through which to analyze any HRD program or initiative.

It is not fun being the plain one of the family. But being the plain one of twins is a wretched position. That's why parables about grains of mustard seed, which grew up and startled everybody by their magnificence, did Pauline good.Petronella and Pauline Lane are 17-year-old twins, but not identical. "Peter", kind but utterly self-absorbed, is ravishingly beautiful while "Paul"-practical, sensitive, and loved by all-tends to slip through the cracks. Their father is the lo...

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'.Where most approaches to these issues begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to ethics, Deane-Pete...

In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean best––actors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, and Hollywood columnists––shared stories of their first-person experiences with him in interviews and in the articles and autobiographies they wrote. Their recollections of Dean became lost in fragile back issues of movie magazines and newspapers and in out-of-print books that are extremely hard to find. Until now.The Real James Dean...

In "Peter Simpel" entführt Frederick Marryat seine Leser in die maritimen Abenteuer des titelgebenden Protagonisten, eines schüchternen und ungeschickten Jungen, der sich in die Weiten der Seefahrt wagt. Marryats Erzählstil, geprägt von einer Mischung aus humorvoller Ironie und traumhaften Seefahrt-Episoden, ist sowohl unterhaltsam als auch lehrreich. Das Werk spiegelt die zeitgenössische englische Gesellschaft der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wider und thematisiert den Wunsch nach F...

It is the year 2030, and an e-mail message arrives at New York Café. ‘I want to help people and make them happy!’ But not everybody is happy about the e-mail, and soon the police and the President are very interested in the New York Café.

The engrossing, insightful, and personal musical odyssey of Peter Shapiro, perhaps the most notable independent concert promoter since Bill GrahamPeter Shapiro is the best known and most influential concert promoter of his generation. He owned the legendary Wetlands in Tribeca and has gone on to much bigger things, including Brooklyn Bowl (NYC, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and Nashville), the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, producing U2 3D, and promoting the ...

Writing in the Disciplines (WiD) is a growing field in which discipline-based academics, writing developers, and learning technologists collaborate to help students succeed as subject specialists. This book places WiD in its theoretical and cultural contexts and reports on initiatives taking place at a range of UK higher education institutions. Also includes surveys of current developments and scholarship in the US, Australia, Europe and elsewhere, making it of interest to both a ...