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What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix, and Tesla that enables their record of consistent innovation? Most people think it's because these companies are somehow able to find and attract a level of talent that makes this innovation possible. But the real advantage these companies have is not so much who they hire, but rather how they enable their people to work together to solve hard problems and create extraordinary products.

In The Optimist, the Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey presents the most detailed account yet of Altman’s rise, from his precocious childhood in St. Louis to his first, failed startup experience; his time as legendary entrepreneur Paul Graham’s protégé and successor as head of Y Combinator, the start-up accelerator where Altman became the premier power broker in Silicon Valley; the founding of OpenAI and his recruitment of a small yet superior team; and his struggle to keep his company at the cutting edge while fending off determined rivals, including Elon Musk.

In this empowering guide, Natasha gives an honest account of the blood, sweat and tears that goes into creating a successful business, from registering your company and opening a bank account, all the way to building your team and scaling for growth. Removing the glamour of #hustleculture and the illusion of how easy it might look on social media, Natasha will detail how she bartered jobs and co-founded Monday Swimwear in her living room with her best friend and grew that business (and others) to a multimillion-dollar empire.

The Dealmaker is a frank and honest account of how a severely dyslexic child who struggled at school went on to graduate from Oxford and become a serial entrepreneur. It describes Guy Hand's career in private equity, first at Nomura and then as head of his own company, Terra Firma. It looks in detail at the huge deals that Terra Firma has done over the years, involving everything from cinema chains and pubs to waste management, aircraft leasing and green energy.

As traditional marketing tactics continue to falter in today’s business landscape, simply amassing followers and leading with a corporate logo is no longer enough. This essential guide offers a new, seven-step approach to brand building and provides the tools for any leader to compete with giants by showing them how to amplify what most already do best: teaching and relationship building as a way to build trust in a way corporations cannot.

While the world slept, I was quietly breaking every rule I’d ever been taught about money. No 9-to-5. No degree. No lucky break. Just Wi-Fi, grit, and an unshakable belief that there had to be a better way. 3 AM Money Machine isn’t your typical “get rich” book written from a corner office with a view. This is the raw, uncensored story of how I turned late nights and big ideas into a six-figure income—without investors, connections, or even knowing what I was doing half the time.

“Why aren’t I as wealthy as I should be?” If you’ve ever asked yourself this question, you’re not alone. Hard-working, well-educated, middle- to high-income people often wonder why they haven’t joined the ranks of the affluent—especially when, on paper, they earn enough to get there. Other financial books have shattered myths by showing how most millionaires owe their success to hard work, diligent saving, and living below their means—not lavish spending or astronomical salaries. They’re more likely to quietly accumulate wealth in ordinary neighborhoods than flaunt it in elite zip codes.

Whether you're feeling stuck, burned out, or just ready for more, this book shows you how to clear the mental and emotional blocks that hold you back—then gives you the exact steps to build a thriving business and a fulfilling life.

As one of Marriott’s first franchisees, Bruce White built a highly successful and widely respected hospitality company.

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¿Por qué muchos emprendimientos no superan los 1000 días? Después de cuatro décadas dedicado a la creación de pymes, el empresario Néstor Salvador ha identificado los errores habituales que llevan a que más de la mitad de ellas se derrumben sin piedad. Frente a quienes plantean el emprendimiento como una aventura, el autor ha desarrollado manuales prácticos para que poner en marcha un nuevo proyecto o eestructurar una pyme deje de ser un deporte de riesgo.

Para conseguirlo, sólo necesitas un plan de 20 minutos de fitness social durante 30 días y cumplir un requisito: ser generoso y agradecido. Juntos han convertido las relaciones sociales en un arte y desarrollado una batería de ejercicios para que el oyente, con una herramienta tan sencilla y cotidiana como su smartphone, construya una red de contactos sólida, saludable, fluida, emocionante y que funcione como una cadena de muestras desinteresadas de empatía, cariño y sincera vocación de servicio. El resultado?

Wollen Sie die Performance Ihres Vertriebsteams auf ein völlig neues Level heben und Umsätze sowie Erträge steigern? Haben Sie das Gefühl, dass mehr Potenzial in Ihrem Team steckt, als bisher ausgeschöpft wurde? Die Antworten liegen in den grundlegenden Prinzipen bei der Führung von Sales Teams und in deren konsequenter Umsetzung! In diesem Hörbuch erfahren Sie: wie Sie durch exzellente Selbstführung Ihre Führungsrolle stärken, wie Sie klare funktionierende Systeme schaffen, die Spitzenleistungen fördern, wie Sie Ihre Verkäufer individuell entwickeln und zu Höchstleistungen führen.

The methods contained within this book are so simple, so instantaneous, and so effective, it’s as if they work by magic. If you implement even one tactic in this book, you’ll see the change in your prospects' demeanor. And you’ll know the $100M Offer method worked when you start hearing “What do I need to do to move forward?” ...before you even ask for the sale.

Every SaaS company on earth is careening towards its next revenue plateau. It’s called a Growth Ceiling—a moment in time where growth stops, and you’re losing just as many customers as you’re bringing in. It’s not an opinion—it’s just how recurring revenue businesses work.

It's when you're stuck in the day-to-day, putting out fires and cleaning up messes, that passion turns to frustration. Freedom seems somewhere between elusive and impossible. The secret to getting unstuck is process. This inspiring, informative field guide will prove it's possible to establish rigor and discipline for process while also increasing creativity, flexibility, and innovation. Process! will help you identify a handful of core processes that make your business uniquely valuable.

A business parable about how to create a start-up that won't trap you when you want to sell it. According to John Warrillow, the number one mistake entrepreneurs make is to build a business that relies too heavily on them. Thus, when the time comes to sell, buyers aren't confident that the company-even if it's profitable-can stand on its own. To illustrate this, Warrillow introduces us to a fictional small business owner named Alex who is struggling to sell his advertising agency.

Whether you're launching your business for the first time or looking to transform your existing business, Stu McLaren is here to help you launch a membership site. What's magical about a membership site is it not only creates predictable recurring revenue every month, but the more you put into it, the bigger potential it has to grow each month. With memberships, you never start from zero. You start every month with the momentum that you gained the previous months.

In this new edition of No B.S. Marketing to the Affluent, millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy shows you how to re-position your business, practice, or sales career to attract customers or clients for whom price is not a determining factor. Learn how to sell to those who will always be spending as Kennedy shines the spotlight on the practical strategies used by The Ritz-Carlton, Disney, Harrah's Entertainment, Dove, AARP, Dr. Oz, Starbucks, Williams-Sonoma, DeBeers, the health and wellness industry, and many other fascinating and diverse true-life examples.

We're building more products today than ever before, but most of them fail—not because we can't complete what we want to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product. What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. In this book, Ash Maurya takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving product/market fit for your fledgling venture. This new edition introduces the continuous innovation framework and follows one entrepreneur's journey from initial vision to a business model that works.