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To succeed, a startup needs to fulfill certain criteria and processes regardless of how tedious they may be. With a focus on streamlining and value creation relevant to innovations across all sectors, the Lean philosophy examines the best way to approach a project. Lean Startup teaches us how to eliminate wasteful practices and underlines the importance of both a strong sense of direction and flexibility toward the success of your project.

You've often asked yourself what it would take to lead a wholly luxurious life once you’ve reached retirement; this highly exclusive circle where abundance reigns in an extraordinary million-dollar lifestyle is fully within your reach. You can achieve any of this, for there is a shortcut which allows you to access riches directly. However, to do so, you must forget everything you’ve learned about money. Noteworthy: This text is not a miracle recipe for riches, but rather a deliberate road map filled with good advice and common sense.

These days - in the age of the internet and so called “social networking” - the seemingly bold actions of my own generation seem very mild in comparison. Now days, two kids that think they're in love send each other sexually explicit text messages - known as “sexting” - complete with nude photos taken with their cell phone cameras.

This is a The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People book summary of Stephen R. Covey's book. Not the original book.

You’ve got this idea that is pretty cool. It could easily be a career booster. But not so fast. You’ve got this boss who loves squashing ideas. You could stop thinking for awhile, tread water, and wait for a new boss. Or, you could use a secret tool to get your idea approved. Jon Spoelstra used such a tool to get even the craziest ideas approved by his bosses, owners of pro sports teams.

This book was designed with the modern-day Christian in mind. Take a journey through "Man vs Woman" to explore the issues between men and women and ultimately how to solve them from a Christian point of view. The goal of this book is to help one restore him or herself and his or her broken relationships. The knowledge contained in this book can help you restore your marriage, your relationship with your mother and father, sisters and brothers, kids, friends, and so on.

In May of 2013, Gene Kenworthy - widower, semi-retired ad exec, and air personality - wheels his RV onto Cape Cod for a summer radio job, anticipating sunshine, solitary beach walks, and good seafood. Instead, he and some new friends encounter disturbing phenomena in the air, and on the air, and the clock is ticking on what could become a global tragedy.

The purpose of this series of audio texts is to compile the best of the better known and the least known of the ancient sacred texts. Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts.

Sparhawk, a struggling alcoholic, agrees to help find the killer of an accused pedophile priest. When two more priests are slain in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood, it becomes evident that it is the work of a sadistic serial killer who crucifies his prey after killing them. Sparhawk blazes an unconventional trail to the killer that puts him at odds with the very people he is trying to help and initiates a turf war with law enforcement.

Once, not so long ago,a warlock named Vond built an empire in the southern part of the Small Kingdoms. Vond is gone, but his empire survives under the rule of a seven-person Imperial Council and a young regent named Sterren. The Empire of Vond was hardly trouble-free after Vond's departure. Its neighbors are understandably wary of further expansion, there are questions about how Vond's magic became so potent, and so on. Most of the World, though, doesn't care - Vond is off there in the southeastern corner of the World, far away from anywhere important.

Crease is going back to his quaint, quiet hometown of Hangtree. It's where his father, the sheriff, met ruin in the face of a scandal involving the death of a kidnapped little girl and her missing ransom. It's where Crease was beaten, jailed, and kicked clear of the town line 10 years earlier.

Warren Buffett is a legend primarily for his investment philosophy. He isn't concerned about the intricacies of the market, but instead focuses on the quality of the companies Berkshire Hathaway stands behind. Yet we know little about the leaders of the companies that Buffett handpicks. In Behind the Berkshire Hathaway Curtain: Lessons from Warren Buffetts Top Business Leaders, author Ronald W. Chan founder and CEO of Chartwell Capital offers a behind-the-scenes look into the careers of Berkshire Hathaway executives.

Dermot Sparhawk, a former All-American Boston College football hero, is stacking cans in a parish food pantry in Boston's Charlestown, when his godfather, Jeepster Hennessey, shows up with a knife in his back and dies at Dermot's feet. Once slated for a professional football career, now a recovering alcoholic with a torn-up knee, Dermot sets out to solve the murder of his godfather with the help of his Micmac Indian cousin, his paraplegic tenant, and a former teammate.

This book, the first ever by prolific author T. M. Wright, is an extensive, probing survey of the state of UFO experiences circa the late 1960s. It is a thoughtful, well-written book with a lot of examples. Its contents include the 12 questions most often asked about flying saucers, classic cases (20 cases typical of the UFO phenomena), explanations, flap periods, contactees, and a summary.

Including interviews with hiring managers and successful home-based workers, Work at Home Now is the ultimate guide to finding the work-at-home job or project you want most

The Theme is Freedom presents a new reading of the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the constitutional founding, and the religious clauses of the First Amendment. Evans draws the conclusion that our liberties have always been dependent of the religious traditions of the West - directly contrary to accepted theory.