Transforming Ideas For Entrepreneurship And Greatness

Ideas rule the world. Who has ideas? How can I turn the ideas I have into projects, products, and profits? What happens to ideas when they are shared with the right or wrong persons? How can I use my ideas to become an entrepreneur? These and many more questions are what this book is ordained to address. There is no need to waste that unique and life changing idea. Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Boeing, etc. were all ideas in somebody’s’ mind. The cloth you wear, the shoe on your feet, the watch, house, cars, televisions, etc. were once mere ideas. But what happened? They were quickly turned into projects, products and today, the owners are smiling home with profits. You too can turn that idea into a project. While the first seven chapters of this book dissect ideas, the last six focused on entrepreneurship. This book will show you how you can turn your ideas into profitable businesses.

The essence of this book is about turning a good business idea into a great business. The former does not always lead to the latter. Turning Good Ideas Into Great Businesses is the amalgamation of more than two decades of the author’s business experiences, gleaned from starting companies as well as working with companies of various sizes, as an investor and mentor. Whether you are thinking about starting a business, taking the first steps, already running your own business, managing a company, or simply interested in investing in a business, this comprehensive guide provides you with a structured way to study a business from a fresh perspective. The SPARK model is presented, simple and cutting through the clutter to present what really matters in today’s businesses. Each letter of SPARK represents an important milestone in the journey that takes a good idea and turns it into a great business.

Kyle includes more than 400 of the latest, greatest, and newest small business ideas and innovative new product/service-based small business approaches from all around the world in this comprehensive survey of business.

Ideas rule the world. Who has ideas? How can I turn the ideas I have into projects, products, and profits? What happens to ideas when they are shared with the right or wrong persons? How can I use my ideas to become an entrepreneur? These and many more questions are what this book is ordained to address. There is no need to waste that unique and life changing idea. Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Boeing, etc. were all ideas in somebody's' mind. The cloth you wear, the shoe on your feet, the watch, house, cars, televisions, etc. were once mere ideas. But what happened? They were quickly turned into projects, products and today, the owners are smiling home with profits. You too can turn that idea into a project. While the first seven chapters of this book dissect ideas, the last six focused on entrepreneurship. This book will show you how you can turn your ideas into profitable businesses.

From Jim Collins, the most influential business thinker of our era, comes an ambitious upgrade of his classic, Beyond Entrepreneurship, that includes all-new findings and world-changing insights. What's the roadmap to create a company that not only survives its infancy but thrives, changing the world for decades to come? Nine years before the publication of his epochal bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins and his mentor, Bill Lazier, answered this question in their bestselling book, Beyond Entrepreneurship. Beyond Entrepreneurship left a definitive mark on the business community, influencing the young pioneers who were, at that time, creating the technology revolution that was birthing in Silicon Valley. Decades later, successive generations of entrepreneurs still turn to the strategies outlined in Beyond Entrepreneurship to answer the most pressing business questions. BE 2.0 is a new and improved version of the book that Jim Collins and Bill Lazier wrote years ago. In BE 2.0, Jim Collins honors his mentor, Bill Lazier, who passed away in 2005, and reexamines the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship with his 2020 perspective. The book includes the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship, as well as four new chapters and fifteen new essays. BE 2.0 pulls together the key concepts across Collins' thirty years of research into one integrated framework called The Map. The result is a singular reading experience, which presents a unified vision of company creation that will fascinate not only Jim's millions of dedicated readers worldwide, but also introduce a new generation to his remarkable work.

The new playbook for innovation and startup success is emerging from beyond Silicon Valley--at the "frontier." Startups have changed the world. In the United States, many startups, such as Tesla, Apple, and Amazon, have become household names. The economic value of startups has doubled since 1992 and is projected to double again in the next fifteen years. For decades, the hot center of this phenomenon has been Silicon Valley. This is changing fast. Thanks to technology, startups are now taking root everywhere, from Delhi to Detroit to Nairobi to Sao Paulo. Yet despite this globalization of startup activity, our knowledge of how to build successful startups is still drawn primarily from Silicon Valley. As venture capitalist Alexandre Lazarow shows in this insightful and instructive book, this Silicon Valley "gospel" is due for a refresh--and it comes from what he calls the "frontier," the growing constellation of startup ecosystems, outside of the Valley and other major economic centers, that now stretches across the globe. The frontier is a truly different world where startups often must cope with political or economic instability and lack of infrastructure, and where there might be little or no access to angel investors, venture capitalists, or experienced employee pools. Under such conditions, entrepreneurs must be creators who build industries rather than disruptors who change them because there are few existing businesses to disrupt. The companies they create must be global from birth because local markets are too small. They focus on resiliency and sustainability rather than unicorn-style growth at any cost. With rich and wide-ranging stories of frontier innovators from around the world, Out-Innovate is the new playbook for innovation--wherever it has the potential to happen.

Everyone needs to scale new heights. But not all will scale new heights due to ignorance, community fables and various commandments of men (Titus 1;14). This is highly limiting. This book will debunk a number of myths and open you up to the scriptural perspectives in several life changing issues. This I have done by the help of the Holy Spirit. The book is divided into five main sections grouped into Run to Obtain, Life Realities, Strategies, Be the Change and Facts of Life. In this book, you will see titles that may look unconventional to you. Take a deep breathe, read the segments and I am sure that you will be enlightened. You will be a completely new man by the time you are done with this book and scaling new heights will henceforth be a daily experience for you. Enjoy and share your insights with me.

This is a book on Nigeria. I began this book with who I am and why I think I am qualified to speak on Nigeria – born towards the end of the Biafra war, I suffered. I lost my twin sister, Ogechi and am yet to recover from it. I have also lived most of my life in Nigeria across the six geopolitical zones. This book detailed my views and those of 100 respondents drawn from across the nation on what the issues (problems/challenges) are, the root causes, the perpetuating factors, the results and the viable solutions to the national problems. While what you already know as regards these – corruption, tribalism/ethnicity, poor/bad leadership and poor citizen participant topped the list of challenges; national restructuring, constitutional review and citizen engagement were cited as viable solutions. I also took the liberty to introduce the concept of a United Nations of Nigeria (UNON) – similar to the UAE algorithm. We need to take relevant steps to rebuild Nigeria. The time to start is now. Join the campaign.