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Entrepreneurs: Ignite the hidden power of brand alignment! Celebrated branding industry legend Brandon Coleman Jr is on a mission to inspire all entrepreneurs to ignite the hidden power of brand alignment in their business and life. Brand ON! is a must-read if you are an entrepreneur trying to maximize your potential in today's markets. Brandon reveals the hidden opportunities and inspires immediate action by sharing real-life client stories from small to medium businesses that have experienced quantum growth through brand alignment. You will benefit from fifty years of consulting expertise and come to understand why brand alignment is an invaluable, time-tested way of optimizing the success of your business. This essential book for entrepreneurs: Shares half a century and $Millions worth of consulting expertise for the price of a book! Explains the fundamentals of a well-aligned brand Exposes the major causes that make most businesses Brand OFF! Provides you with the tools to begin assessing your own brand alignment. Writing with an entertaining blend of creativity and candor, Brandon will give you the power to turn your Brand ON!

Become the leader your business needs.Nine out of ten startups ultimately fail. Perhaps they run out of cash, lack product-market fit, or have an ineffectual marketing strategy. But these things don't just happen. They result from founder leaders not having the right people around them and not making the best decisions. In other words, many growing companies fail due to poor leadership-and these failures are preventable.Great leadership capitalizes on the business's potential. In Founder's Legacy, you will learn how to address the breadth of challenges that founders and leaders face in a way that is consistent with your strengths, values, and purpose so you can successfully grow your business.Collecting his twenty-five years of experience in helping founders across the globe strengthen their leadership and his insights gained from founding his own consulting company, Simon Court has created fifty succinct lessons that anyone who wants to be a successful leader can benefit from. Full of relevant research, time-tested strategies, stories from Simon's extraordinary range of professional experience, and thought-provoking reflection questions, Founder's Legacy will coach you in unlocking your unique leadership potential. Whether your business is a unicorn in the making or a small startup striving to grow, this book will guide you to your desired success.

Six keys to successful self-employmentSucceeding as a Solopreneur is the definitive guide to launching and growing your own business as a self-employed professional. For current and aspiring solopreneurs, this book will help you master the critical steps for achieving success at every stage of your solopreneur journey, from determining if you're ready to "go for it," to setting a marketing and pricing strategy, to lowering your tax rate to keep more of what you earn. Veteran solopreneur and nationally recognized mentor and advocate for self-employed professionals Liz Steblay distills her twenty years of experience as an independent consultant and business owner into six keys that unlock prosperous self-employment. Packed with real-life examples from Liz's and other solo practitioners' experiences, Succeeding as a Solopreneur will provide you with practical steps and advice so you can not only make a living as a self-employed professional but also build wealth for years to come and create the career of your dreams!

A Secret Playbook for Transforming Stuck Startups It's common knowledge that nine out of ten startups fail. Even venture capital firms make most of their returns on one out of ten investments. Naturally, founders try to replicate the success of those winners by raising too much, scaling too quickly, and destroying themselves in pursuit of the media-celebrated "unicorn" status. For those that aren't in that rarified 10% of hyper-growth companies, there is another path. In Reignition: Transforming Stuck Startups into Breakout Winners, entrepreneur and investor Dave Hersh skillfully outlines how to transform a stuck startup into a lean, disciplined, focused organization with the time, space, and market position to find a breakout move. Dave's focus on startup transformation is unique and timely, and in high demand from entrepreneurs worldwide who have gotten stuck by trying to scale prematurely. Drawing on his own experience and stories of successes and failures, Hersh shows how companies can recover from a near-death experience and have a profoundly successful second act. Readers will learn how to shed unnecessary weight, adapt their leadership style, find their "best in the world" offering, optimize culture, and patiently navigate towards success on a larger scale. This thoughtful, practical, and unique book has a clear message for many audiences-- - Startups and growth companies with from $1M to $100M in revenue that have tasted success but now must transform to survive - Founders and leaders of healthy, or earlier-stage startups who want to avoid common mistakes around premature scaling - Acquirers (and hired leaders) of stuck companies - Investors and stakeholders involved in these companies In Reignition readers will find-- - A clear and practical playbook for transforming a stuck company - Stories of successful transformations to learn from - Interviews with industry experts - "Hard Lessons" from Dave on his own failures that led to insights - Encouragement and support for the hard work involved Readers will gain the confidence to transform their company, the skills to do it, and the reassurance that they are not alone. Hersh's ability to go deep into the human side of company-building, along with his vulnerability, accessibility, and real-world experience, makes the reader feel like he's there with them "in the boat" as they go through the difficult journey of rebooting their startup. Dave Hersh is an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor based in San Francisco with over 30 years of experience in business strategy and startups. His ideas on building lean, profitable, mission-driven businesses have helped hundreds of businesses get unstuck and find their breakaway path. He is currently a general partner at Metamorph Capital, which acquires companies in need of a reboot and transforms them into healthy, sustainable leaders. Dave was the Founding CEO of Jive (NASD: JIVE), which he grew from a small open-source project to its IPO in 2011. He then spent two years as a Board Partner (investor) at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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Being a successful entrepreneur is exhilarating, but it''s not for the faint of heart. In business today, being good is merely the entry fee. In order for your business to thrive, you must be consistently exceptional. No one knows that better than Leslie McIntyre-Tavella, who, at the age of only twenty-two years old-without a high school diploma and with the odds stacked against her-started her own business, which she bootstrapped into a $20 million award-winning firm.    Framing Success highlights Leslie McIntyre-Tavella''s keys to entrepreneurial success, including how toΓÇó build a strong foundation to construct a solid business;ΓÇó find and secure a rock-star crew through strategic and unconventional talent optimization practices;ΓÇó cut through the distractions and noise of a business and quickly get to the root issues;ΓÇó provide outstanding engagement for your customers;ΓÇó articulate, share, and grow your vision.   The lessons Leslie offers aren''t things you can learn at Harvard Business School; they are crucial lessons she learned on the job. Now you can take her hard-earned, practical, and invaluable experience and create your own rewarding blueprint for entrepreneurial triumph and success!

Create meaningful connections to achieve successThe Knock Method┬« is a five-step framework for intentionally and genuinely connecting with others for mutual benefit as you develop your career. Whether you''re working to get to the next level at your current job, seeking a new job or career, or just kicking off your career, this book will help you build confidence to reach out and open doors. It provides a networking guide to build long-lasting relationships that will strengthen your collective network and help you bridge the gap from where you are to where you want to be. You''ll be inspired; learn how much high-quality relationships matter, not only for your career but for your health and for your community; get easy steps to follow; and gain practical tools that will help you take The Knock Method off the page and into your career relationships to make a collective impact and drive change.

A true entrepreneur always looks to the future, no matter what is bearing down—9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Great Recession, or the BP oil spill.With wit, hard work, guts, and a few cold beers, Jeff O’Hara and his businesses battled, bounced back, and survived these disasters, and we are the beneficiaries of the lessons learned along the way. But O’Hara’s lessons are no dry list of rules on entrepreneurism: This first-time author is a gifted storyteller with an edgy, one-of-a-kind sense of humor who informs and entertains with tales of the tragic, the triumphant, and the places and people only New Orleans can produce. Accounts of O’Hara’s life as he earned his place in the hospitality industry deliver colorful, honest insights into just what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur. It’s clear he loves what he does and that his successes are a result of his love for his trade, his independent spirit, and, of course, a commitment to overcoming anything that gets in his way. O’Hara’s wisdom will inspire entrepreneurs and anyone who appreciates a great story—from New Orleans natives to the rest of us who are fascinated by the life of this great city.

Your Sales Funnel Has a Fatal Flaw The sales funnel was invented over a century ago. No wonder it's not working like it used to! How can you drive companyrevenue in an age when customers hold all the power, the lines between sales and marketing have blurred, and business disruption is the norm? From the authors of Fire Your Sales Team Today! comes another industry redefining guide to business success in the21st century: Smash the Funnel. Discover how to create an entirely newrevenue strategy, whether your buyer is a corporation or consumer, an enterprise or entrepreneur.

Americans enjoy the finest healthcare delivery system in the world, but most people will tell you that we still have a long way to go. Far too frequently, patients leave the doctor's office or hospital feeling confused, angry, or neglected. Healthcare leaders recognize this problem, but in their focus on patients (and sometimes financials), they often overlook the true key to lasting patient loyalty and satisfaction: their employees.  Patients Come Second shakes up the traditional healthcare model, arguing that in order to care for and retain patients, leaders must first create exceptional teams and find ways to engage nurses, administrative staff, physicians, supervisors, and even housekeeping staff and switchboard operators. By connecting employees' work with a higher purpose and equipping them with the tools to become leaders themselves, patient care can be dramatically transformed. And with continuing healthcare changes on the horizon and ever-rising pressure to acquire and keep patients, doing so now is more important than ever.  Britt Berrett, president of an 898-bed hospital, and Paul Spiegelman, founder and CEO of a successful patient-experience company, are the perfect guides to the changes needed in healthcare leadership. With a rich combined experience in their field, they have filled each chapter with an abundance of engaging, insightful stories and write with a humor and friendliness that balances and enhances the urgency of their message.

Is it possible for entrepreneurs to succeed at growing ventures without early-stage venture capital? Based on the fact that more than 9 out of 10 of America's billion-dollar entrepreneurs did take off without early-stage VC, Dileep Rao says YES!In Nothing Ventured, Everything Gained, Dileep Rao shatters the dominant myth that entrepreneurs need early-stage venture capital to build a giant business. In fact, says Rao, by avoiding or even delaying VC, billion-dollar entrepreneurs can control their companies and the wealth created by them-and retain more of that wealth. The book is based on 30 of Rao's interviews with billion-dollar entrepreneurs (BDEs) and hundred-million-dollar entrepreneurs (HMDEs) and the analysis of the strategies of 85 BDEs. The author introduces the finance-smart skills, opportunity secrets, and strategy secrets of BDEs who took off without VC, and proves his points via stories of successful giants like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs.Every entrepreneur will do well to read and benefit from Rao's invaluable insights and expertise.Dileep Rao, PhD, financed the growth of hundreds of businesses and real estate projects over the twenty-three years he was VP of financing and business development at a venture development and finance institution. He advises entrepreneurs, governments, Fortune 1000 corporations, and financial institutions on building big businesses with finance-smart strategies. Dr. Rao is a clinical professor of entrepreneurship at Florida International University and has taught at Stanford University, the University of Minnesota, and in executive MBA programs in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Where are you in your business journey?Most entrepreneurs are looking for ways to push their companies to grow and get bigger. But they struggle with decisions about how big they want to become, how much money to keep investing in their company, and how to even go about it. They want more, but they’re not sure how to think about the problems, obligations, and risk that come with growth. This is the growth dilemma.In The Growth Dilemma, Ami Kassar, author and nationally renowned expert on access to capital for entrepreneurs, shows you how to sort through your choices to build your business to the size and complexity that makes the most sense for you. He’ll walk you through exercises that help you:•    Answer the crucial million-dollar question•    Figure out what entrepreneurial stage you’re in•    Determine your personal risk profile•    Identify your own growth aspirationsKnowing these parts of your puzzle will not only influence how you think about your growth dilemma but also allow you to discover your financing comfort zone. Through the profiles of fifteen real entrepreneurs and companies, you’ll also be able to see, throughout the book, examples of how different financing decisions affect every kind of business. As you apply the strategies you learn, you’ll find the financing structure that will help you reach your goals.