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Female Founders' Playbook brings together the voices of female business role models so you can truly hear what it takes to build a billion dollar business.

In this memoir, one of the most successful investment bankers on Bay Street shares the lessons he learned about business and life in a long and successful career as president of Burns Fry and then as vice-chairman of BMO Nesbitt Burns.

The concept is simple. You get someone with a big mailing list, a super affiliate, to promote your product, and you give them a commission on sales. What's not simple is saying the right things to make the super affiliate pick you instead of one of the other hundred people begging for his/her attention. If you diligently implement what you learn in this book, you literally could be in front of a million warm prospects in the next 90 days. This book is a time-tested, exact treatise on what to do and not to do to land powerful JV partners.

Un plan para dejar de improvisar en la Argentina post pandemia y evitar las crisis recurrentes que minan la confianza interna y externa, logrando así que se estabilice la economía, se reduzcan la inflación y la pobreza, y se inicie al fin un sendero inclusivo, virtuoso y de crecimiento sostenido.

This audiobook is not a technical introduction to blockchain technology; there's plenty of freely accessible material on that. Instead, this audiobook makes the case that blockchains will have at least as much economic impact in the 21st century as corporations in the 20th century. The Blockchain Economy provides you different perspectives on the drastic potential of blockchain technology to disrupt nearly every business or political system in existence today. Some of the ideas may appear evident to you; others may not yet.

The inspiring true story of Zen Ventures, a venture impact studio for diverse founders and artists, and its uncompromising founder, Champion Muthle.

This audiobook provides a compelling argument for how and why US Immigration Policy is working against our own best interest. It explores why a bipartisan Startup Visa for foreign entrepreneurs, which the US Congress has repeatedly failed to approve, is now more crucial than ever. And it reaches back through the generations to acknowledge immigrants’ contributions to America. If we want a future of economic prosperity, the Startup Visa is essential for keeping America in this global race as the rest of the world is catching up, embracing the entrepreneurs we are turning away.

Learning how to create a plan can be tough if you’ve never done it before, but it doesn’t have to be. Creating a fair and equitable family business legacy plan is possible if you start with the right mindset and your desired goals and objectives. Author and financial advisor Maria L. Ellis, MBA, has spent decades helping people achieve their financial goals so they are best prepared for their futures. In Family Business Legacy Plan, Maria will teach you why you do not need to have all your legacy issues figured out to create a plan, and more.

Have you ever dreamed of being a successful business professional? Do phrases like “intangible assets” intimidate you? The Hidden Treasures of Businesses is a brilliant guide written by successful businessman and author John Evgenidis. Its main focus is explaining how intangible assets are able to lead to competitive advantages in the market. This audiobook is not a technical manual based on IFRS or other accounting standards. Evgenidis approaches the topic of intangible assets with a clear purpose and a linguistic ability that holds listeners’ attention.

Dedicated to her late grandmother, author Helen Yu inhales multiple generations of wisdom and exhales a revolutionary framework for tech founders and CEOs that enables their businesses to scale faster and fearlessly. From Yu’s 15 years of firsthand experience in tech start-ups, listeners will learn the five fundamental growth disconnects that trap start-ups in the cliffside, keep them from reaching the summit and touching the sky.

Innovation Casino is a new playbook on how executives at large firms can grow digital revenue in the 2020s. Challenged with COVID-19 at the outset, the 2020s are also poised for higher taxes and higher borrowing costs. In this new decade, large corporates will need to change course from betting on big acquisitions (a strategy used by “players” in the innovation casino) to growing organically by creating new reasons for customers to pay a premium and stay loyal.

Learn how to invest in a start-up company, from the very beginning. Find out how simple and easy it is to invest, and what Angel platform to use.

Women receive 2 percent of venture funding and make up 9 percent of VC partners, yet research shows that companies with female leaders and board members outperform all-male companies. Changing Tides brings together experienced female venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders who share their expertise and tactical guidance through a collection of essays. This audiobook is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to win - or support a woman to win - at the heavily stacked entrepreneur and funding game.

Governo tra voto e recovery fund: La supplica del voto utile, di Stefano Folli; Zingaretti e Di Maio, il giorno da nemici in Puglia, di Giuliano Foschini; Lo spettro del super tecnico che agita il premier: "I potentati mi vogliono fuori", di Giovanna Vitale; La sfilata dei ministri a Cernobbio per blindare il governo: "Reggerà", di Giovanna Vitale; Conte nell’arena dem per fare pace. Si riapre la trattativa sul salva-Stati, di Tommaso Ciriaco; La sferzata di Zingaretti: "Hanno provato a farmi fuori ma non ci sono riusciti", di Giovanna Vitale.

Bank Job is a white-knuckle ride into the dark heart of the global financial system. Discover how art hacks life as artist and filmmaker duo Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn bring a community together to buy up and abolish crippling debt by printing their own money in a disused bank in East London. Behind the opaque language of loans and the defunct diagrams of debt, they discover a system flawed by design and ripe for hacking.

Misdirection is a step-by-step playbook for CEOs, CFOs, business owners, and HR executives that will help you identify and mitigate what can be the largest cause of negative operating leverage in your business. No matter your industry, company size, or location, this book will provide the tools to help you uncover what every other consultant has ignored. These expenses, hiding in every business, are disguised as liabilities but can become a powerful asset. 

This audiobook is written for startup founders to prepare them for successful fund raising for their company. From working on the core components of the startup to preparation of right documents and pitching to the investors, this audiobook covers all key aspects of fund raising. Atal Malviya, the founder of Spark10 has built and exited VC funded companies and has also helped hundreds of startups in raising investment globally.

The untold fact is that relying on traditional VC/angel groups for startup funding doesn't work, but now, there's a better way. The Evergreen Startup presents a radical new approach that dramatically diversifies the sources of capital and types of investments available to an early-stage startup. It has been used in the real world by hundreds of founders to raise many millions of dollars.

Small businesses are the backbone of the US economy. They are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital they need to operate and succeed. In the Great Recession, access to capital for small businesses froze and in the aftermath, many community banks shuttered their doors and other lenders that had weathered the storm turned to more profitable avenues. For years after the financial crisis, the outlook for many small businesses was bleak. But then a new dawn of financial technology, or 'fintech', emerged. 

Finance is the only function intertwined in every business decision. Despite this, it is often misunderstood and underappreciated within small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Finance is more than numbers; it is a toolbox to craft a culture of accountability, credible goals, and an enticing narrative about the future. In Relational Finance, Ben Lehrer breaks down the finance function into five easily digestible components, the finance spectrum: 1. Data 2. Reporting 3. Projections 4. Planning 5. Capital.