by Louis Patler (2016)
"Like the ocean, the marketplace constantly changes and todays cresting reward becomes tomorrows crashing risk. Before you venture out, take a lesson from the experts: big wave surfers. Like successful entrepreneurs, they rely on preparation, passion, and persistenceand they relish a challenge. So its no surprise that countless surfers have pioneered products and launched thriving businesses (GoPro Cameras, ONeil, Reef, Quicksilver). Packed with stories of surf innovators, entrepreneurs, and legends, Make Your Own Waves reveals 10 rules of the water,"--Amazon.com.
Tom Severance
This is a reference on creating, growing, and managing a sucessful business. Wheter you are in the thinking, planning, or operating stage, you will gain creative new insights and learn many practical ideal that you can implement immediately.
Elmira Bayrasli
"Elmira Bayrasli's worldview was turned upside down when a woman in Bosnia told her, "thanks for the help. But we need work and jobs, not foreign aid." That prompted Bayrasli to embark on a worldwide quest to find how talented people have overcome insurmountable obstacles to build high-growth businesses that are driving wealth and building communities, regions and countries. Through seven remarkable stories, Elmira Bayrasli shows why the next Steve Jobs and the next Apple, Google or Facebook is as likely to come from Nigeria, Pakistan or Mexico as Silicon Valley. She discovers that what distinguishes techies in Silicon Valley from women selling bamboo stools in Bangladesh isn't their sophistication but simply the conditions that are necessary to sustain and scale business ideas. In the absence of these obstacles, global entrepreneurship can flourish. Bayrasli paints compelling stories of extraordinary entrepreneurs creatively battling corruption, lack of infrastructure, capital shortages and underdeveloped supplier and customer networks. She offers solutions that can be utilized by entrepreneurs everywhere, and shows why micro-finance, social entrepreneurship, and foreign aid are not enough. Most importantly, she shows how the key to building successful entrepreneurial ecosystems is to provide the framework that enables start-ups to scale. "--
Ronald Cohen with Terry Ilott
"Everyone can see the first bounce of the ball. It is the second bounce that is uncertain. Ronald Cohen, one of the world's leading private-equity investors, argues that the entrepreneur's challenge is to take advantage of that uncertainty: for it is only in situations of uncertainty that substantial gain can be made." "The Second Bounce of the Ball is the distillation of Cohen's 33-year career building Apax Partners into the largest global private-equity firm based in Europe. When he stepped down in 2005, Apax had more than $20 billion under management and offices in eight countries. He draws upon Apax's experience of backing entrepreneurial businesses across the world, among them AOL, Apple, Computacenter, Tommy Hilfiger, Inmarsat, Kabel Deutschland, Calvin Klein, Molnlyke, Panrico, PPL Therapeutics, Q-Cell, Travelex, Waterstone's, Virgin Radio, Vueling and Yell." "The book is required reading for entrepreneurs and all those who are interested in entrepreneurship. It is the essential insider's guide to risk and opportunity."--BOOK JACKET.
Lionel Sosa
Guía para latinos que manejan o desean iniciar una empresa de negocios en los EUA, ofreciendo consejos prácticos para enfrentar los principales problemas a enfrentar, y narrando anécdotas de destacados hispanos en EUA.