"Originate, Motivate, Innovate will stand out among comparable books for women entrepreneurs because other books either miss, overlook, or underrepresent the obstacles that women of color face at the intersection of race and gender (and sometimes sexuality) in the mostly white heterosexual male world of venture capital. This book will be unlike other business books because it will not give you one prescribed process to achieve success. Instead, it...

"There are three mission-critical pillars that contribute to building future-proof businesses: strategy, leadership, and self-care. It?s essential to strategically re-adjust a business for success, consciously shape leadership and culture, and practice self-care as we humbly accept our own limitations as entrepreneurs. Instead of celebrating the hustle culture, promoting a glamorous view of entrepreneurship, or glorifying the few that amassed incredible...

A refreshingly simple, accessible guide to getting started in business If you've ever dreamed of starting your own business, this book will give you the information, inspiration, and reassurance you need to get started. It encourages budding entrepreneurs to take the leap into the dark, while shining a bright light on the first six months of a successful start-up. It breaks down what appears to be an Everest-size challenge into a series of small hills...

Unicorns-companies that reach a valuation of more than $1 billion-are rare. Uri Levine has built two. And in Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution, he shows you just how he did it. As the cofounder of Waze-the world's leading commuting and navigation app with more than 700 million users to date, and which Google acquired in 2013 for $1.15 billion-Levine is committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking so that other founders, managers,...

Serial entrepreneur Martin Warner takes a fledgling company all the way from zero to hero, selling it for $50 million after a mere 17 months. It's a memoir of whirlwind entrepreneurial success, a narrative that puts the reader in the CEO's seat, giving the feel of what it's really like to steer a company around the toughest of tracks and come out with a massive payday"--

You've thought about starting your own business ... but how can you decide if you should really take the leap? You need answers, not bullshit. This book has them. Entrepreneurial Leap, Updated and Expanded Edition is an easy-to-use guide that will help you decide if entrepreneurship is right for you-because success as an entrepreneur depends on far more than just a great idea and a generous helping of luck. In this three-part book, Gino Wickman, bestselling...

In this episode of the Power Skills Project, Adam interviews Nishant Raj about his journey as an intrapreneur. Nishant is an agile practitioner focused on data-driven innovation in manufacturing. His passion is around bridging the adoption of Web 3.0 to solve relevant manufacturing and supply chain problems. Nishant has been practising intrapreneurship in his previous roles before very recently taking the plunge and striking out on his own. In this...

The purpose of this book is to introduce the concept of transformational coaching and to educate professional business coaches or mangers-as-coaches in their organizations on the influential and relevant elements of Transformational Coaching for Effective Leadership designed for coaching individuals, teams, and businesses or applying such elements in any level of organization development intervention, either toward individuals, teams, groups, departments,...

It's time for you to own your financial power and learn to make smarter, and more profitable, business decisions. Let's start with a question ... Do you know why 82 percent of new businesses fail? Poor money management. To focus on profit and wealth building, entrepreneurs need to become confident about understanding their business finances as well as their ability to manage them. Everything in business affects your bottom line, as do all your decisions....

As far back as we can trace human history, there have been entrepreneurs. Almost five millennia ago, copper tool manufacturers set up a factory in what today is southwest Spain, profiting for hundreds of years from trade around the Mediterranean. Papyri document the diverse investments of an ancient Egyptian businessperson, from grain-yielding land to flax for linen cloth. What do these figures have in common with renowned modern entrepreneurs, and...