Entrepreneurship / Start-ups Books

After watching her successful team be mercilessly gutted in a preventable round of layoffs, Rebecca Hoffman has decided she's done with the corporate world. Nothing excites her more than a challenge, and she sets off to find success in the...

Are you a Black woman seeking personal growth and fulfilment despite having all the trappings of success? Tired of yearning for a more purposeful life, collecting self-help books and continuing to doubt your worth? Then this book was put together just...

Dave LaRue is an international businessman and entrepreneur who owns and leads more than a dozen thriving companies. He also spends a great deal of time coaching entrepreneurs on how to achieve the same level of success that he is enjoying in life...

This book offers an original critical evaluation of how freelance careers can be established and sustained in the increasingly uncertain global creative economy. Developing from the author's theoretical and empirical research at the nexus of precarious...

This volume discusses the seminal interface between social entrepreneurship and sustainable development along with their inter-linkages. It traces the role of social entrepreneurship and innovations in societal transformation in creating sustainable...

Having and running a business is more than a job-it's a challenge that you signed up for.As time goes by, your relationship with your business changes. It can often be a struggle, yet you're still there.This guide is designed to help you get some control...

  Successfully starting a new business venture depends upon more than having a brilliant idea, getting funding, and getting the product or service to market.  Entrepreneurs must also learn to read the market and understand the environments in...

With the global economy in a precarious position, nurturing new entrepreneurial high-technology firms is likely to comprise a key component of any policy to encourage economic growth, both in developed and developing countries...

The entrepreneur is involved in the dance of two questions - what is needed and what is possible. The interplay of these two questions is an ongoing process and innovation varies internationally and regionally, depending on differing legal and policy...

This practical book introduces readers to the essential business aspects of innovation and new product planning. The product planning process is discussed across two broad themes: product development and product management. Importantly, the book...

Identities can potentially serve as powerful elements that both drive, and are shaped by, entrepreneurial actions. Entrepreneurial identity is a complex construct with multidisciplinary roots, and therefore there is scope to more fully enrich our...

She is seen as a strong woman. One that holds the family together. She is resourceful, and has the answers to almost everything. She is the mother, wife, daughter, friend, hard worker and Sunday School teacher— you name it and that’s her. But...

WomenPreneurs: 21st Century Success Strategies, will appeal to three groups of interested readers. The first consists of higher education faculty teaching courses in management, entrepreneurship and women's studies and directors of professional...

This concise guide aims to increase what we understand by innovation in the arts and identify and support opportunities and strategies for the unique ways in which artists and arts administrators think about, engage in, and pursue successful innovation...

The book introduces basics of entrepreneurship and a methodology for study of entrepreneurship in electrical and other engineering fields. Entrepreneurship is considered here in three fields of electrical engineering: power semiconductor devices, power...

The co-creative university has become the main driver of social and economic development stimulating internal (students and academics) and external creativity (companies and institutional environment) as well as cooperation in various areas (e.g. applied...

World economics and the industrial environment has recently created a fertile ground for the creation of new enterprises and start-ups. This book skilfully identifies the challenges of building a new business venture from an idea to a marketable product...

Proven Solutions for Self-Employed ProfessionalsMany self-employed professionals earn part, or all, of their livelihood by helping people make a difference in their lives.As coaches, consultants or mentors, self-employed professionals attract and serve...

Clint Arthur reveals his secrets of multi-million dollar Celebrity Entrepreneurship, using a simple 5-step system to create unassailable unique positioning and a "category of one" for your career as an Author, Speaker, Coach,...

This booklet is the first practical publication of ostrich farming in over 20 years. It is designed for the producer who may either wish to diversify his own livestock operation or be ready to go into production for the first time. It is also a ready...

This is an inspirational story about two blue collar grunts who placed one vending machine over thirty years ago and built themselves a successful and rewarding business along the way.

What if every day felt free, fun, and fulfilling - like a Friday?There is a specific process for making every day feel like a day of accomplishment and celebration (like a Friday!) This book provides you with the ACTT Blueprint to restructure the way you...

This book discusses the idea that there is a specific Islamic form of entrepreneurship. Based on extensive original research amongst small and medium sized enterprises in Saudi Arabia, it shows how businesses are started and how they grow in the context...

The financial environment of small and entrepreneurial firms is changing rapidly and is a topic where significant disagreement remains amongst researchers and policy advisers. This concise textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current and...

This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations-the privatization of New York City's Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the...

This book presents a new view of innovation, seeking to disclose how strategic reflexivity is embodied in specific innovation practices and management roles.From an evolutionary point of view, the contributors argue that firms and organisations are...

This monograph presents the experience in the implementation of smart specialization strategies (S3) from multilevel policy governance, as well as from the bottom-up perspectives of firms, clusters, and networks in selected European countries. The...

This story is based on a kid named Hoggie. The name Hoggie comes from the nickname of the author Jordan Arnell given to him by his family when he was a kid. Hoggie is a kid artist who is discovering his talents and putting them to use in the real world...

The U.S. is a world leader in exporting - roughly $2 trillion in total export sales each year. Yet, astonishingly, only 1% of all U.S. companies and only 25% of our manufacturers are pursuing this veritable goldmine. If you are among the majority who are...

Are you ready for success? Learn how to rake in the profits with your lawn care and landscaping business.The entertaining story of how Paul Jamison went from launching his landscaping business out of the trunk of a rusty 1997 Honda Accord to now serving...

Three-times author and female business leader Julia McCoy brings multiple genres together in her electrifying, non-fiction true story, Woman Rising: A True Story, guaranteed to have you turning each page.Growing up under a narcissistic cult leader,...

Does your business feel like one never-ending list of sacrifices?Is your quest for success leaving you burnt-out and isolated? The CEO Life can help! Starting a business takes guts, but sustaining it takes careful planning, strategy and - ideally -...

Be released into a whole new level of influence and distinction!Do you ever feel like a stranger in a foreign land? Have you been surrounded by people yet feel alone, desperately trying to understand whyyou don't fit in? As a unique agent of change and...

Social entrepreneurship is a growing area, and we frequently hear of new ventures committed to social change. In academia, however, social entrepreneurship has typically been taught as a 'version' of entrepreneurship, ignoring the unique structure,...

In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200...

In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200...

The information age is reshaping current socio-economic structures and processes and this book touches upon the nature of clusters in the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0; I4.0). It focuses on the spatial perspective of digital business...

You know there is a novel locked inside of you--chock-full of conflict, humor, irony, enthralling events and fascinating characters. What you don't know is how to set it free.Practical Advice, Hands-On HelpRespected author and professional writing...

The digital and increasingly digitised world is shaped by the interplay of new technological opportunities and ubiquitous societal trends. Both lead to drastic changes facing artificial intelligence (AI), cryptocurrencies and block-chain technologies,...

The term 'networking' can mean very different things in different contexts: formal organisational structures, personal or career development, or a technique for increasing sales. This is an approachable book which brings together the basics of all these...