Download or read book Business Dilemmas Solutions Challenges to Launching a Startup and How to Overcome Them written by Percy Preisach and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-19 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no single challenge that can stop passionate entrepreneurs from successfully launching a startup. This is not motivational; it is a fact. This book points out challenges faced by entrepreneurs in the early stages, why anyone can overcome them, and how. In this book, you will discover: Chapter 1: Seven Secrets of Successful Start-Ups Chapter 2: The Innovation Dilemma Chapter 3: The Finance Dilemma Chapter 4: The Marketing Dilemma Chapter 5: The Organization Dilemma Chapter 6: Debunking Six Startup Myths And so much more! Scroll up and click the "Buy now with 1-Click" button to get your copy now!

Download or read book Why Startups Fail written by Tom Eisenmann and published by Currency. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Download or read book The Agile Start Up written by Jeff Scheinrock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring and impactful compilation of the most important lessons of entrepreneurship The tools of a digital age make it easier than ever to start a new business. And with billion-dollar IPOs and acquisitions making weekly headlines, the potential rewards are enormous. But even with all of the advantages and resources that today's entrepreneurs have access to, the likelihood of any one business succeeding is slim. That's why you need the simple, clear lessons found in The Agile Startup. Engaging and informative, The Agile Startup doesn't offer step-by-step instructions on how to build a better mousetrap. Instead, it shows you how to build companies that continually adapt to the "real" world. Along the way, you'll discover you're not alone in your entrepreneurial endeavors, and that almost every challenge a startup can face has already been faced, and overcome, by someone in the past. Contains lessons culled from decades of creating successful companies, which includes possessing a flexible mindset Provides valuable insights, based on a market-driven philosophy, regarding launching and managing products, businesses, and brands Written by two authors who have a combined sixty-plus years of startup experience and understand the reasons behind their successes and failures A companion Website contains supplementary material that allows you to learn in a hands-on fashion long after closing the book The journey of a startup is daunting. Think about everything that has to be overcome and you'll quickly see that the odds are stacked heavily against you. But with The Agile Startup as your guide, you'll learn exactly what it takes to succeed in your entrepreneurial endeavors.

Download or read book The Founder s Dilemmas written by Noam Wasserman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the early decisions that can make or break startup ventures Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them. He looks at whether it is a good idea to cofound with friends or relatives, how and when to split the equity within the founding team, and how to recognize when a successful founder-CEO should exit or be fired. Wasserman explains how to anticipate, avoid, or recover from disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between controlling the startup and attracting the best resources to grow it, and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long term. The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders. People problems are the leading cause of failure in startups. This book offers solutions.

Download or read book Surviving a Startup written by Steven S. Hoffman and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Hoffman, CEO of Founders Space, prepares entrepreneurs to avoid mistakes, overcome obstacles, and master the skills necessary to make the right choices along their path to success. The fact is, over 90 percent of all new startups fail. Every entrepreneur must face this harsh reality and learn to master it if they hope to survive and wind up on top. In Surviving a Startup, Hoffman brings readers on a wild ride, sharing with them the tumultuous journey of launching a venture-funded startup and revealing what it takes to make it. In this one-of-a-kind guide, you will learn: A deep analysis and insights into the major challenges every entrepreneur faces when launching a business. How to make the best possible decisions and deal with crisis situations. Strategies for raising capital and growing a business, even when it seems impossible. Secrets on how to manage difficult employees, demonstrate leadership, and overcome disasters. Essential traits that enable startup founders to survive and succeed. The best way to develop innovative products, conduct guerilla marketing campaigns, obtain PR, and outmaneuver competitors. How to recruit the best talent, manage highly efficient teams, and motivate employees, even with little to no money. The steps necessary to transform an idea into a robust, rapidly growing business. As the captain of one of the world's leading startup incubators and accelerators, Steve knows what it's like to be on the front lines, how tough it can get when the battle turns against the entrepreneur, and what it takes to taste victory and overcome seemingly impossible odds. Surviving a Startup is a must read for entrepreneurs considering taking the best first steps for a new venture.

Download or read book Entrepreneurs and Start Ups written by J B Malatji and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting a business is hard. The challenge of this era is not the lack of information but the abundance of it. There is so much information out there about anything that it has become very confusing. The irony however is in that with so much information, there are still so many problems to be solved and needs to be met as more people in the developing worlds are becoming poorer for their inability to find empowering information to help change their lives. The answer to the serious challenges mentioned here lay in the entrepreneurial and small business development in all sectors of the economy. Entrepreneurship and starting any business has to do with four most important factors - passion and interest, the market (problems to solve and needs to meet), the know-how and the resources. These are factors that every entrepreneur and business owner must understand if they want to establish profitable and sustainable businesses. There are so many books on entrepreneurship and yet there is still a high failure rate among start-ups, more than 80% to be precise within 36 months of operation. Why is this so? The experts through a huge body of articles indicate the know-how and cash flow problems as the major causes for such failures. In this book "Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups: The Fundamental Truths", the author is highlighting another factor that contribute immensely to this terrible statistics which very experts have mentioned - the foundation of the business. In any building construction, if the foundation is not right, the building is bound to fall. Some take time to fall and others fall pretty very soon. "Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups: The Fundamental Truths" highlights the importance of the ability to identify problems with the readiness to create solutions as the key to designing, planning and launching profitable and sustainable businesses. The guidance and advises offered in this book are direct, realistic and actionable. The book points to our inherent abilities to do benevolent things which we for some reasons choose not to do. The author is a firm believer in humanity's ability to do great things.Responsible entrepreneurship is not only about making money but more about providing solutions to problems and meeting needs in whichever form or shape they may be. The author views entrepreneurship as a calling. There is power in doing what responsible entrepreneurs do and with great power comes great responsibility. The author in "Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups: The Fundamental Truths" highlights humanity's inherent ability to find solutions to problems that exist, be it in business and in the environment or meeting societal needs. The author in this book addresses the fundamental foundational issues that are seldom mentioned in the discussions regarding start-up failures. "Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups: The Fundamental Truths" highlights both the human and the business expectations of entrepreneurial attributes which are critical for the success of any enterprise. It is part of the Responsible Entrepreneurs project which seeks to build knowledgeable, capable and responsible entrepreneurs.

Download or read book 10 Reasons Why You Are Yet To Start A Business written by Francis Elias and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock Your Entrepreneurial Potential: Discover the Top 10 Reasons Holding You Back and How to Overcome Them. Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business but find yourself hesitating to take the first step? "10 Reasons Why You Are Yet To Start A Business" is the essential guide for aspiring entrepreneurs who are stuck in the planning phase. This insightful book delves into the common fears, misconceptions, and obstacles that prevent many from pursuing their business dreams. Inside, you'll discover: In-depth realities of the psychological barriers to entrepreneurship.Practical advice on overcoming financial constraints.Strategies to combat the fear of failure.Inspiring stories of those who have successfully made the leap.Actionable steps to finally launch the business you've always envisioned.Whether it's a lack of resources, confidence, or direction, this book addresses the core issues head-on, providing you with the clarity and confidence needed to start your entrepreneurial journey. With "10 Reasons Why You Are Yet To Start A Business," you'll learn how to navigate the challenges of starting a business and emerge ready to thrive in the world of entrepreneurship.Don't let another year pass by wishing. Turn your business aspirations into reality. Get your copy today and start building the future you deserve!

Download or read book Small Business Problems written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building a Business with a Beat Leadership Lessons from Jazzercise An Empire Built on Passion Purpose and Heart written by Judi Sheppard Missett and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform your passion into a profitable business—with the help of the legendary entrepreneur who turned an innovative idea into a $100 million global powerhouse. Judi Sheppard Missett is a fitness icon who, at just three years old, discovered a passion for dance that would eventually fuel a global dance fitness empire. After an early life spent honing her dancing skills and a career as a professional jazz dancer, Judi had an epiphany: why not combine the art of jazz dancing with the science of exercise to help others achieve a healthier, happier self-image and life? The wildly enthusiastic response from her first 15 students inspired her to launch Jazzercise, Inc., the world’s leading dance fitness program with a cumulative $2 billion in global sales. In Building a Business with Beat, Judi reveals for the first time the secrets behind the company’s five decades of enormous success. In addition to helping millions of men and women improve their health and well-being through the fun and fitness of dance, Judi has inspired 8,500 franchisees to achieve their dream of owning and running their own business. Now, through powerful personal stories, practical proven-successful advice and insights, Judi shares how you, too, can transform your passion into a profitable business. This inspirational guide will teach you how to: • Create a successful business by discovering and defining your larger purpose• Use your unique perspectives and abilities to enhance the lives of others • Deftly handle everyday obstacles and unplanned events• Develop an open mindset and embrace innovation and new possibilities• Inspire your staff to connect to a purpose greater than day-to-day work, and more Filled with helpful tips, smart strategies, and no-nonsense advice, this book is essential reading for anyone who has ever dreamed of creating a thriving, purpose-driven business. The author is living proof that when you’re doing what you love, it may not seem like work at all.

Download or read book How to Overcome the Challenges of Life written by Usen Ikidde and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has aptly been described as the "Encyclopaedia of Knowledge"- the knowledge to tackle the most pressing challenges of life. It must be acknowledged from the outset that no single book can solve every problem. Such a book would be several thousand pages and the sheer volume and complexity could actually defeat the purpose by driving potential readers away.In order to overcome such difficulties, the author has concentrated on the most common and important challenges in life: 1.Financial problems are some of the most devastating challenges to befall anyone. It includes how to get a job, maintain it, severe financial difficulties-what to do and what not to do. It emphasises prevention which is better than cure in all circumstances. In fact, the solution to this problem may be just around the corner whilst you have been running from pillar to post. This book tells you how to find it and how to prevent, avoid and deal with this very perplexing challenge with examples. If you seriously want to overcome financial challenges, then read this book and apply the principles and practice.Some people simply think that they can sit down and fold their arms and money will somehow come to them. Others choose to apply some of the get-rich-quick schemes other than start a business or apply and get a good job. There are many others also who resort to making friends with those they consider rich, in the Social Media, such as in Face Book and begging for money. This has become a way of life for them but for how long can such lifestyle be sustained?.This book gives you the tips on how to start your own business and ensure the free flow of customers, without which the business is bound to fail. There are very few easy ways in life. Most people have to work very hard to succeed; you should be aiming to do that. Read this book and see how it can be done, in particular how to drive customer traffic to your business. This is one of the most important factors in the success of any venture. 2. Relationships problems are perhaps some of the worst challenges to deal with. For the first time, this author provides a solution to one of the most burning and heart- breaking relationship problems: how to get someone to marry when all hope is lost. Even if you did not intend to read this book fully, you should at least, read this chapter and see how your life could be transformed. There are millions of people who have this perplexing challenge and simply keep it to themselves, weep all night, get up in the morning and present a brave face to the world. They have been having one heart-breaking disappointment after the other which has resulted in a vicious circle with no solution in sight. Often their biological clock is ticking; they are restless, anxious and have no one to turn to. They have been through hell and back, have had the most devastating disappointments; severely mentally scarred and find it difficult to confide in or trust anyone. This author has given a step by step solution that will amaze you and make you wonder why you didn't realise and apply it long before now. Fortunately, it's never too late. The sooner you embrace this method, the better. The author has given examples of very successful outcomes by applying this method. The question of how to maintain a relationship and marriage have been brought to the fore. Infertility and how to deal with it in a manner you never thought possible has been emphasised. The author has also dealt with the complex issues of separation and divorce and how they can be prevented if possible as well as how divorce is best handled when all hope of reconciliation is gone.

Download or read book Managing Human Resources In Smes And Start ups International Challenges And Solutions written by Leo-paul Dana and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human resources are the most important and costliest assets in businesses of any nature and size, no matter where they are based in the world. Talent management is a key managerial function in MNCs and other organisations with a global presence, but its importance in small businesses and start-ups cannot be overlooked.At its most basic level, managing people in small businesses encompasses compliance with the applicable labour laws, hiring, and creating a channel for dealing with employee issues. The price of not having the right employees in a small business can be extremely high. Workers who are inefficient or in the wrong role can have critical consequences on the sustainability of a small business. While most entrepreneurs focus on marketing, finance, operations, and customers in their initial stages, this means that they at times fail to establish and address their HR function and the associated challenges that, if overcome, may help the organisation to meet all of its targets. This book aims to highlight these HR challenges and shed new light on how to answer them.

Download or read book Good Strategy Bad Strategy written by Richard Rumelt and published by Currency. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.

Download or read book Start up Marketing Strategies in India written by M. Anil Ramesh and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start-Up Marketing Strategies in India is a comprehensive book of cases based on real-life marketing challenges faced by Indian start-ups across a wide range of industries.

Download or read book Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming written by Helen Sharp and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2016. While agile development has already become mainstream in industry, this field is still constantly evolving and continues to spur an enormous interest both in industry and academia. To this end, the XP conference attracts a large number of software practitioners and researchers, providing a rare opportunity for interaction between the two communities. The 14 full papers accepted for XP 2016 were selected from 42 submissions. Additionally, 11 experience reports (from 25 submissions) 5 empirical studies (out of 12 submitted) and 5 doctoral papers (from 6 papers submitted) were selected, and in each case the authors were shepherded by an experienced researcher. Generally, all of the submitted papers went through a rigorous peer-review process.

Download or read book How to Start Your Business with or Without Money written by Bridge Adams Eshun and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOW TO START YOUR BUSINESS WITH OR WITHOUT MONEY will... - Offer you the best step by step practical and strategic guide on how a get your ideas off the ground to an amazing start with or without money - Offers the reader practical strategies that has been tried and tested by many successful entrepreneurs - Prove by real life stories and theories that we have whatever we need even before we ask - Prove to people why they cant rely only on money to start their businesses - Practically define once and for all the roadmap to starting a business without money - Serve as a hands-on manual for business start-up's - Defeat the myth that it is difficult to start a business without money - Teach parents how to teach their children how to start a business with whatever 'Talent' they have

Download or read book Overcoming Challenges in Retirement written by Aniekan Mbah and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this book emphasize the concept of retirement education, beginning from the point of entering service (be it civil service, military, paramilitary and parastatal) to the point of leaving; and also provide a guide to avoiding unnecessary pitfall. A well planned retirement is an organizational stability factor. Especially when there exists a deliberate plan, well coordinated both at personal and organizational levels. On the personal level, the worker puts something down for the future irrespective of the size of the pay package and takes what he learns at training programs seriously. On the side of the organization, it makes certain contributions, along with learning programs to the staff. This book covers a wide range of related topics - from pre- retirement challenges and challenges after disengagement; in bid to providing constructive solutions to retirement problems and having extraordinary life in your golden years. It is also noted the great importance of understanding that the environment we create for money is largely what provides us with either wealth or poverty in future - whether as individual, community or country.

Download or read book Start With a Win written by Adam Contos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen your leadership skills and achieve success at work and at home with advice from a proven business leader In Start with a Win: Tools and Lessons to Create Personal and Business Success, CEO of RE/MAX Holdings Adam Contos delivers a powerful exploration of how leaders process information and lead boldly, especially (or even) during times of crisis. Packed with the practical lessons he learned as the leader of one of the most recognized real estate brands in the world, the book shows you how leaders recognize emotion, chaos, and fear and transform those negatives into opportunity. Whether you lead a team of one—yourself—ten, or 10,000 and up, you'll also find actionable advice on: How to develop effective leadership skills by seeking out situations that require you to practice leading Avoiding the experience of becoming overwhelmed by relying on time-tested frameworks to organize your thinking during stressful situations Overcoming fear and self-doubt by recognizing that your doubts are only as powerful as you think they are Perfect for executives, managers, and other business leaders, Start with a Win is an indispensable resource for entrepreneurs seeking to clarify and accomplish their goals.