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What valuable company is nobody building? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to 10, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from zero to one. This book is about how to get there.

The old economy is shattered and gone forever. It’s never coming back as it was, and in its place a generally tougher, more demanding marketplace is emerging. However, when it comes to wealth, one instrumental reality is unchanged: No matter the economic conditions - booms or recessions, including the fast-emerging New Economy - there is wealth. And who better to show you how to lure, bait, attract, and become a magnet for it than “Millionaire Maker” Dan S. Kennedy?

Content Inc. is the go-to guide to building a solid small business by establishing a loyal audience before you sell products or services. In this audiobook, Joe Pulizzi provides a lower-risk, more effective way to create a path to startup success by re-engineering the process that so often leads to failure: You’ll learn how to develop valuable content, build an audience around that content and then create a product for that audience. Content Inc. walks you through the entire process.

With a nod to Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, and other ruthless yet highly successful managers, author Dan S. Kennedy delivers the answer. In this new edition, Kennedy expands on his proven (if radical) strategies to get accountability, profitability, and productivity from employees. In his traditional "No B.S." style, Kennedy kicks traditional leadership and management ideas squarely in the teeth with a realistic, straightforward assessment of the real relationship between business owners and their employees.

Why keep lining the pockets of others when your unique ideas could take you to independence, financial security, and confident entrepreneurship? It’s easy to assume that it takes a certain type of personality to run a successful business. However, entrepreneurship isn’t a skill that you are either born with or simply don’t have. It’s more like a gardener planting their first seed. With patience, passion, and the right knowledge, that seed can turn into a thriving plant!

The Fearless Woman's Guide to Starting a Business is a book for freedom-seeking female entrepreneurs and solopreneurs who want to know how to connect with their true passions, skills, and desires - and want to get honest with themselves about their reasons for wanting their own business, so they can find true and personal success. Dream big about what being the head of a woman-owned business can do for you.

Over the past twenty years, as he first worked as an early employee at Salesforce and later cofounded Okta, a publicly traded software company now valued at over $40 billion, Frederic Kerrest met hundreds of business leaders and investors in Silicon Valley and beyond. In Zero to IPO, he's collected a trove of nitty-gritty tips for each stage of a company's growth and assembled them into a clear blueprint for how to build a business.

The meteoric rise of Johnny Wimbrey is one of the great rags-to-riches/tragedy-to-triumph tales of our time. By seizing control of his life and developing a brand-new mindset, Wimbrey gave up the hardcore streets and a world of drugs, created a business that's now worth more than nine figures, and is presently living the life of a multimillionaire with his family. Now, in Building a Millionaire Mindset, he provides the knowledge, tools, and insights you need to achieve your dreams - life-changing advice you can take to the bank.

It's easy to feel like networking is a waste of time, energy, or money - but that just means you're doing it wrong. In this new edition of Networking Like a Pro, networking experts Dr. Ivan Misner and Brian Hilliard reveal key networking techniques to help you grow your business. In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover strategies that go beyond collecting business cards and turn networking into a profitable resource for your business. Dive into this book and discover how the most successful networkers leverage their brand, expertise, and customers to achieve greatness in life.

Your message has the ability to change someone's life. The impact that the right message can have on someone at the right time in their life is immeasurable. It could help to save marriages, repair families, change someone's health, grow a company, or more... But only if you know how to get it into the hands of the people whose lives you have been called to change. Expert Secrets will put your message into the hands of people who need it.

For Nafisa Bakkar (CEO and Forbes Under 30), the secret to building a business from scratch is all about asking—and answering—the right questions. When she started out, Nafisa had an idea, some passion and £50 to spend on her venture. But over the next 12 months, she hustled to find the answer to every problem she faced. Six years later—with no network, no capital and no previous industry knowledge—her business Amaliah is the leading media platform in the UK for Muslim women and works with household names like Lush, Pinterest, Dove and Universal.

Don’t Keep Your Day Job will get you fired up, ready to rip it open, and use your zone of genius to add a little more sparkle to this world. Cathy Heller, host of the popular podcast Don’t Keep Your Day Job, shares wisdom, anecdotes, and practical suggestions from successful creative entrepreneurs and experts, including actress Jenna Fischer on rejection, Gretchen Rubin on the keys to happiness, Jen Sincero on having your best badass life, and so much more.

Unleash your inner badass, voice your value, and embark on a journey of self-empowerment! Are you tired of feeling taken advantage of, constantly sacrificing your own needs for the sake of others, or feeling undervalued? Despite your efforts to express your feelings, you experience heightened reactions or stonewalling from others, leading to further disconnects in your relationships.

All you need to know to start your own company.

You live in your dream house, but there's no mortgage. No alarm clock, no boss, no bills. No claims on the day's time other than what you choose. It is making more money before breakfast than you made for an entire week at your last job. It is a crazy expensive car parked in your garage, a victorious symbol that your dreams no longer sleep in fantasies, but are awake with reality.

You started your business because you wanted more. More wealth. More freedom. A greater impact. But these days, it feels like you're working harder than ever for less and less money, and you barely have time to take a coffee break, much less a vacation. Sound familiar? If your answer is a weary "yes," then Get Scalable is here to change the game...and your life.

When Before You Quit Your Job was written and published, it was a guidebook for aspiring entrepreneurs. Today - with the job market in shambles, overseas outsourcing and high unemployment - it can be a path to the salvation so many are looking for: A way take control of their life and use their skills and talents to create their future. Before You Quit Your Job asks: Do you have a million-dollar idea? Are you afraid of failing? Are you tired of making other people rich? Are you sick of taking order from your boss? Are you tired of working hard and not getting ahead?

You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses. But your enemies are a whole other matter. They’re the haters and the doubters who said you’d never make it, the ones who stomped on your dreams. When you think about your enemies, you get emotional. You feel like you won’t let anything—or anyone—stop you.

There's no shortage of networking and entrepreneurship advice in books and on social media in today's world-but it's harder than ever to know what's authentic. To make matters worse, taking the wrong advice can result in superficial connections, transactional relationships, and unsatisfying interactions with others without any real rapport. Fortunately, as entrepreneur and marketer extraordinaire Joe Polish has discovered, there's a simple (though sometimes not easy) way out that begins with one question: "What's in it for them?"

The only way to secure competitive advantage is to ensure that creative thinking is driving your organization. It will enable workplace satisfaction, boost performance, and encourage new ideas throughout teams. To tackle our uncertain environment - and to win in the world of future business - we all need to get serious about creativity and the potential it can unleash. The authors of Belonging have now written A Year of Creativity, which will make creativity accessible to everyone.