Ready Set Startup

A fool-proof plan to launch your solo private practice with minimal financial investment or risk. We'll be in your back pocket the whole way through, cheering you on and advising you at each step. Our guide is intended for solo licensed clinicians, including (but not limited to) Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech and Language Pathologists, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Dietitians.We are a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed and Registered Occupational Therapist with almost 30 years of combined clinical experience, half of which has been spent running our solo practices. We have helped numerous clinicians start their own successful private practices, and are so excited to help you gain independence and achieve financial freedom.

Online startups are exploding and an entire subculture has formed out of this phenomenon. And it shouldn't be a surprise with so much media coverage of billionaire startup founders. Indeed, the dot-com founder is today's rock star, inspiring hundreds of thousands to follow their path. It is now easier to start a business than at any time in history; particularly an online business. The cost and complexity of doing so has fallen precipitously. You no longer need an office, a phone system, a climate controlled room and in many cases, you don’t even need to write a lot of the core software your business will depend upon; just plug into the cloud. And access to capital to grow your business has never been easier; particularly if you’re interested in joining one of the many tech accelerator programs sprouting up across the country. Despite all of these advantages, there are clear challenges that result from this new dynamic. This book addresses these challenges and provides a conceptual framework for solving the problems along the way, helping startup entrepreneurs by smoothing the path and improving their odds of success.

Ready, Set, Practice A SUPERB STUDENT TEXT. . . AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL OF THE TRADE FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS The only single-source reference covering all essential areas of professional practice, Ready, Set, Practice is a comprehensive textbook for professional practice courses required by accredited landscape architecture degree programs. At the same time, it is also a superb guide to professional literacy and a career planner for young professionals. Based on the author’s considerable professional and academic experience, as well as his extensive survey of more than sixty landscape architecture degree programs in the U.S. and Canada, it covers all topics deemed indispensable to a course dedicated to preparing students for the real world, including: Preparing for the LARE Legal and contractual issues Marketing your professional services Technical specifications Project management Starting and managing your own firm Getting the competitive edge And much more

82% of coaching businesses fail within two years. Ready, Set, Coach! is your guide - based on 40 years of experience - to build a thriving coaching or consulting business. Ready helps you discover who you are as a coach and if you are suited for consulting, coaching, or a hybrid model. Personalized activities help you build your own "Coach Canvas" with guidance to practically apply the insights. Set teaches you essentials of messaging and marketing, client contracts and proposals, creating and pricing services, assessments, niches, attracting clients, passive income, and hiring the right assistant. Coach! guides you through discovery calls and time management, best practices and tools for coaching, handling free service requests, managing difficult clients, and more! Ready, Set, Coach! is the "Coach's Bible" to refer to again and again.

A SHORTCUT TO 10X YOUR GROWTH, WELCOME TO READY, SET, GROWTH HACK. After founding companies from start-to exit, Sabry has raised $120 Million mastering growth hacking over the past 25 years. Ready, Set, Growth hack is a powerful practical guide to help anyone with little or no knowledge 10x the growth of their organizations. This book helps startups become unicorns, corporations become fortune 500s, and government become world leaders. Sabry walks through a step-by-step handheld approach from what is growth hacking, why growth hacking is vital, how it works, and how to immediately start your first growth hack. Based on proven strategies with 88 tools and 50 examples, you will start growth hacking the minute you start reading. Rooted in asymmetrical warfare, Sabry shows you how the weak win and how they do it. If your in a weaker position than a competitor or another nation, this step-by-step approach will show you how to unlock unseen possibilities. These growth possibilities will identify growth problems, how to exploit the most significant growth opportunities, and then scale them into full-scale operations. In this book, the following will be covered CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: WHY DO COMPANIES NEED TO GROWTH HACK What is growth hacking, why it is essential and how it is rooted in asymmetrical warfare CHAPTER 2 GROWTH HACKING MINDSET: CREATE THE RIGHT GROWTH HACKING MINDSET How growth hacking works, how growth hackers think, and how you approach growth hacking CHAPTER 3 READY: TO DISCOVER AND UNLOCK YOUR STRATEGY How to prepare for growth hacking by profiling your growth challenges CHAPTER 4 SET: YOUR EXPERIMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS Start experimenting, discovering and developing growth hacks CHAPTER 5 GROWTH HACK: AND SCALE YOUR APPROACH How to implement, and scale growth hacks for full-scale operations GROWTH HACKER’S TOOLKIT BONUS CHAPTER A: HIRE A GROWTH HACKER BONUS CHAPTER B 50 EXAMPLES OF BONUS CHAPTER C 88 TOOLS Let's get started growing now with your first growth hack. With little to no knowledge about business, marketing, or technology, you can 10x the growth of your organization, whether a startup a corporate, or government. Editorial Reviews "Growth is a science as rare as palladium, and this book unlocks those unique elements that every CEO and entrepreneur should master. This book is a blueprint that should be on every executives desk." -- Elia Korban, Director at PwC "For many growth is an art to be mastered and a science to be discovered and this is what Nader's book has done with simplicity, illustrating how growth really works." - Hisham Farouk, Board of Governors Member - Grant Thornton International Ltd "It's not often that somebody like Nader Sabry comes along. His book Ready, Set, Growth Hack matches his extensive business and technical knowledge with an accessible, easy-to-read style that engages and entertains. Full of examples and real-world applications, Sabry's book should be a 'must-read' for every organization that wants to grow." -- Stephen Johnston, Fortune 500 Business Writing and Presentation Trainer, Complete Communications "Growth is the challenge of every company this book gives every executive at every level a blueprint on how to collaborate their part in whole growth engine." - Neil Walters, Senior Partner, McGrill Consulting Group Inc. "The fact that anyone can 10x their growth is a powerful idea, but what is even more powerful is when a master shows you the way, and this is what this book is about." - Rohit Bassi the author of, Living Through Self Compassion - Illuminate Your Life With Peace, Trust & Faith: Unshackle Yourself From Quiet Desperation, Depression & Destruction "My go to book on growth, Nader has done an excellent job in demystifying the mysterious techniques behind some of the fastest growing companies globally." - Marcel Sarousa ,Vice President, McGrill Consulting Group Inc.

“If I was going to start a new business today I would be sure to study and pay close attention to Kevin Ready’s new book, Startup. His wisdom, experience, and his self-effacing and honest writing make this a real gem for aspiring entrepreneurs and business people of all kinds.” —Bob Beaudine, author of The Power of WHO Startup: An Insider's Guide to Launching and Running a Business is for people who are excellent at something—product or web development, writing code, marketing or selling anything—but who are now toiling for others. Yet they have long had a dream: to take that special skill set and use it, on their own terms, in a startup business. This pattern is romanticized by the media in the form of the “tech entrepreneur”—the guy brainstorming with buddies in a garage who ends up selling his startup for millions. But what is the reality behind stories like that one? For that matter, what mental processes, frames of reference, hard knocks, and lessons learned make up the “back story” behind any startup success? This book not only reveals the actual experience of entrepreneurship, but it provides readers with a set of universal entrepreneurial skills and tools they can use to build a business. Author Kevin Ready has made this journey, and more than once. He earned his MBA—Master of Bruise Acquisition—through numerous encounters with “situations,” problems, black holes, bad employees, sea monsters, not enough money, and other karate chops to the organizational body. Startup illustrates in detail the lessons he learned the hard way—so you don’t have to. Backed up by stories of both his successes and failures, Ready helps readers learn shortcuts to help them do what eight out of 10 entrepreneurs can’t: Build and sustain a successful start-up. Illustrates the entrepreneurial journey from start to finish Helps readers decide—or not—to start a business Provides dozens of lessons learned and other takeaways budding entrepreneurs can put to use today

This book takes a fresh look at how identifying and utilizing role models can benefit your business and life. Through interviews and research, the author identifies the traits, motivations, and personal styles of empowered women entrepreneurs and distills it all into a practical guide that explains how to become a savvy and successful businesswoman.--Adapted from publisher description.

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