Navigating Your Way To Business Success

Startups, like sailing vessels, do not travel in straight lines. The wind and the waves of the real world move the ship, and your startup, in unpredictable ways. This book is designed to give you an analytical set of tools to help you navigate your startup or corporate innovation through the murky waters of real life. Every business has failures. No business succeeds without some change of plan. Navigating Your Way to Startup Success will show you how to create a startup designed to test its assumptions so those that are not worthy fail—often and fast. This book builds on modern startup management techniques like Agile and Lean to bring an analytical and quantitative framework to the most common startup failures. Navigating through those failures means finding your way to startup success. Harlan T Beverly, PhD holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, an MBA from UT Austin, and a PhD in Business from Oklahoma State University. Harlan teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also Assistant Director of the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs at UT Austin, the world's first university business accelerator. Harlan has successfully launched five hardware and 15 software products including the Killer NIC, 2007 Network Product of the Year (CPU Magazine). He has raised over $30 million in venture financing in the challenging intersection of entertainment and technology.

Learn first-hand from a successful entrepreneur about assessing your skills and talent, envisioning your company, planning your path to success, and then tapping into available gaovernment agencies to make it a reality.

Startups, like sailing vessels, do not travel in straight lines. The wind and the waves of the real world move the ship, and your startup, in unpredictable ways. This book is designed to give you an analytical set of tools to help you navigate your startup or corporate innovation through the murky waters of real life. Every business has failures. No business succeeds without some change of plan. Navigating Your Way to Startup Success will show you how to create a startup designed to test its assumptions so those that are not worthy fail—often and fast. This book builds on modern startup management techniques like Agile and Lean to bring an analytical and quantitative framework to the most common startup failures. Navigating through those failures means finding your way to startup success. Harlan T Beverly, PhD holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, an MBA from UT Austin, and a PhD in Business from Oklahoma State University. Harlan teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also Assistant Director of the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs at UT Austin, the world's first university business accelerator. Harlan has successfully launched five hardware and 15 software products including the Killer NIC, 2007 Network Product of the Year (CPU Magazine). He has raised over $30 million in venture financing in the challenging intersection of entertainment and technology.

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THE PRINCIPLES YOU NEED TO REACH YOUR DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE Anticipate the obstacles in the road ahead and prepare yourself for the adventure yet to come. Fifty-one thought provoking, entertaining stories drawn from Napoleon Hill’s original works including: • THINK AND GROW RICH • THE LAW OF SUCCESS • NAPOLEON HILL’S MAGAZINE “If life is a journey . . . having a guiding compass to assist us in our daily navigation would make things easier. By knowing whether we are traveling in the proper direction or moving toward our ultimate destination, we can better calculate our outcomes —JUDITH WILLIAMSON, Director, Napoleon Hill Foundation “Golden opportunities are lurking at every corner, waiting for the person with initiative to come along and discover them.”—GEORGE HARRISON PHELPS

Despite the fact that more Canadian women are starting small businesses than ever before, a whopping 79% of them earn less than $22K a year; Statistics Canada reports that fewer than 5% earn more than $100K annually. For business mentor Diana Lidstone, this just isn't good enough. Time and again over the past 30 years, she has watched in frustration as countless women started a business full of hope, only to sink into despair as the family finances evaporated and the debts mounted. Diana's own career trajectory, fueled by an outrageous determination, has seen her to build five highly profitable businesses, and she has faced first-hand-and navigated around-the unseen roadblocks that threaten the success of all entrepreneurs. She has distilled her wisdom into a different kind of business book, one that is dedicated to ensuring that other women can generate the results they desire and deserve. Shift Into Rich is about results. It takes readers on a "road trip" that sees the entrepreneur as the driver of a vehicle: you know your business's starting point and you have some idea of where you want to go. Diana fills in the points in between, outlining the nine major roadblocks that get in the way of an entrepreneur's success, and providing powerful action steps to avoid them. Shift Into Rich provides the GPS you need in order to avoid the unexpected detours, potholes and roadblocks that are slowing you down on your business journey. It will help you save time and money and ensure you reach your destination ... wherever that may be. Advanced Praise: .... A must-read for any entrepreneur or small business owner..." ..".an easy to follow road map of how to plan, implement and succeed in your business" ..".an incredible too that every entrepreneur should have in their library...." ..".. I loved the book.! It's a great resource for any business owner..." ..".great easy-to-read book with key concepts for any entrepreneur!"

What is a "Micro-business?" *Micro-business (n.) - Micro-businesses is a type of business that requires low start-up costs and can be operated by one person.* Think Small for Big Results explores the budding world of micro-businesses and how to run yours successfully. Think Small for Big Results shows that anyone - students, recent grads, even full-time employees - can start a successful micro-business with minimal funds and limited time. Jappie lays out a clear three-stage process that you can apply to almost any micro-business to reach the goal of making revenue. Using a step-by-step method, Jappie shares the ins and outs of the micro-business world through each of the four enterprises he started. Whether it is a website, podcast, social media marketing company, or a sneaker reselling business (each of which Jappie founded), these lessons are applicable. Combining extensive research with his variety of experiences, and a hint of wisdom from other successful entrepreneurs, Jappie provides readers with a guide for turning your interests, passions, and hobbies into to a successful micro-business.