If you want salient advice about your startup, you’ve hit the jackpot with this book. Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup management, primarily for the benefit of his students. This book makes his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community.You’ll find 72 posts from successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, such as Fred Wilson, Steve Blank, Ash Maurya, Joel Spolsky, and ...

From award-winning entrepreneur, inventor, and business owner Stephen Key comes the highly anticipated follow-up to his bestseller One Simple IdeaStephen Key is back, and he’s delivering a proven, straightforward process for starting, growing, and running a business—without the need for an MBA or millions of dollars in funding.Key draws on his own experience as a billion-dollar inventor to offer how-tos and other takeaways you can use to get off th...

A USA Today bestseller! Companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce are just the tip of the iceberg for the subscription model. The real transformation--and the real opportunity--is just beginning.Subscription companies are growing nine times faster than the S&P 500. Why? Because unlike product companies, subscription companies know their customers. A happy subscriber base is the ultimate economic moat.Today's consumers prefer the advantages of...

Six-Figure Freelancer: How to Find, Price, and Manage Corporate Writing Assignments - Revised & Improved! With more ideas, more detail, more examples, more inspiration and more exercises to get you started and keep you going!Paul Lima was a busy technology freelance writer, earning a six-figure income, during the dot-com boom. When it went bust, so did many of his Information Technology corporate clients. Paul developed new business and marketing plans and within 18 months...

Whether you're a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an entrepreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. Lean Analytics steers you in the right direction.This book shows you how to validate your initial idea, find the right customers, decide what to build, how to monetize your business, and how to spread the word. Packed with more than thirty case studies and insights from over a hundred busi...

Pricing is hard as it determines your market position, whether your customers buy from you and whether you can provide the level of service required by those customersLean Pricing is a practical toolkit that will positively influence your pricing strategy, revealing insights in the different pricing methods and tactics used by successful companies. You will discover a great number of case studies where these methods are successfully applied which will help you set-...

Want to build repeatable revenue for your business? Levers shows you step by step how to identify and move the levers that unlock growth and create predictability across every aspect of your business. Built on decades of experience across hundreds of companies, Levers condenses the essentials of creating a metrics-driven company into five core workshops and puts them directly into your hands so you and your team can get to work. Spanning sales and marketing, product, operations, and financ...

Around the world, product teams are waking up to the same uncomfortable truth: doing things "the right way" doesn't matter if your team loses its funding or your company goes out of business.Simply put, product teams can no longer afford to be disconnected from the business impact of their work. And well-trodden "best practices" from Silicon Valley behemoths can only provide so much guidance for teams working across vastly different business and funding models.In Impact...

If You’ve Always Dreamed about owning a Charming Store and Selling Unique Items, but Lack the Funds and Space to Do So, Keep Reading and Take the First Step Toward Making this Dream Come True!Dropshipping is a go-to method for anyone who wants to upgrade his or her budget without investing a crazy amount of money to start a business.This incredible platform provides you with an opportunity to own a store, without worrying about the logistics of it such as s...

Entering StartUpLand is your practical guide to what it’s like to work in a start-up, deconstructing the responsibilities and skills of the actual roles.Lays out expectations of what it means to join a start-up.Clear descriptions of jobs and responsibilities.Portraits of real individuals who have made the leap.Potential readers include recent graduates of MBA programs or college who are interested in joining a start-up as well as mid-career professi...

Create your “someday” life TODAY!“Get ready to let your dreams take flight! Tamara taught me things I wish I’d known years ago; it would have saved me a lot of time and money.”Jamie Novak, founder of www.BiteSizeLiving.com and author of Stop Throwing Money Away and The Get Organized Answer Book“A heart-pounding read for entrepreneurs who want answers to all those nagging questions. Read it and fly.”Ne...

The 50—60 Something Start-up Entrepreneur; How to Start and Run a Successful Small Business provides a concrete, step-by-step process that will show you exactly how to start and run your own small business.Inside you will learn:What product or service solution or system to offer based on your area of expertise, knowledge of a craft or buying into a business.How to establish your consulting fee or price structure that leads to a profitable business.