Noted CEOs, academics, and military personnel share their experience as visionary leaders The Vision Code explores the concept of "vision" and leadership. The book reveals the secrets of building and executing a strong vision within any organization.
Your one-stop guide to starting a small business Want to start a business? Don't know where to begin? The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to set up a small business in your state and deal with state and local forms, fees, and regulations.
In The Startup Story: An Entrepreneur's Journey from Idea to Exit, renowned 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.
Based on the world-renowned Babson Entrepreneurship program, this text emphasizes practice and learning through action. Students will walk away from this text with the entrepreneurial mindset, skillset, and toolset that can be applied to startups as well as organizations of all kinds.
Part starter-kit, part encyclopedia, and part inspiration, Self-Made Boss is an essential survival guide for small businesses.
An inspiring and revelatory guide to starting and scaling a small business, from powerhouse duo Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson. Fifteen years into their entrepreneurial journey together, they have tackled the obstacles that many business owners face: how to grow sustainably, hire thoughtfully, and keep up with the Goliaths in your industry.
Starting up a business is one of the most interesting journeys you can take up in your life; it's your 'only shot' and a 'big risk'. It can be stressful, chaotic and filled with many sleepless nights, but the payout is always worth it if you do your job right. In this book, we lead you through every single step in building a start-up.
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The Business Market Research Collection database allows you to conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - covering 40,000 global public and non-public companies including financials, competitors, officers, and more; OxResearch - succinct articles covering regional economic and political developments of significance; US and Worldwide Industry & Market Reports from Barnes Reports - covering global industries in depth; and Snapshots - market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries.
Check out select streaming videos below from the library's databases. View additional videos from Films on Demand and Academic Video Online
From Films on Demand: Raising capital can be a make-or-break task for startups, especially those struggling to get off the ground and toward profitability. Unfortunately for entrepreneurs, fundraising is a complex game.
From Films on Demand: Highlighting topics of entrepreneurship, starting a business, marketing a small business, and financial control, this program follows two young people who set up a hi-tech business in their own way.
From PBS Video Collection: Kira Radinsky founded Sales Predict when she was in college. She sold it to Ebay for 40 million dollars and became their Chief Scientist. She shares her personal story, visionary process and many aspects of finding investors, customers, hiring and growing people and other aspects of scaling a business.
