"The Power of Setbacks" is an inspirational journey highlighting the author's struggles with cancer and how it unexpectedly led to an amazing new life. It’s all about the intersection of life and work, connecting with family, and redefining what really matters the most in life. "The Power of Setbacks" is filled with practical advice and insights on overcoming challenges, achieving your dreams, and creating your own success. Their journey began as a distraction. After being diagnosed with cancer, the authors turned to garage and estate sales as a way to distract them from their harsh reality. The sales brought smiles to their faces, kept their minds from wavering with doubt, and over the course of their travels, infused their lives (and their home) with new and exciting objects that carried historical and personal meaning. But as their house began to bust at its seams, they decided it was time to turn their collection into a business. The next few years were welcomed with sale after sale. And as they learned more, grew more, and dove deeper into the garage and estate sale world, they quickly realized they were onto something. And it was not just limited to garage sales. "The Power of Setbacks" is the story of their journey. But more importantly, it is a resource guide to build your own small business and then scale it to amazing heights, all while having fun during the process. Are you unhappy with your current job? Could you use supplementary income? Are you ready to make a change? Whatever the case may be, "The Power of Setbacks" is your handbook to create a new reality for you and your family.

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Scrappy \’skra-pē\ adj: Full of fighting spirit—synonymous with having moxie, being feisty, enthusiastic, gutsy, lively,and spunky  Maybe you have been told time and time again that if you pay your dues and keep plugging away, you’ll gain enough experience through “the school of hard knocks” to be successful. That might be true. But maybe you want to reach your goals faster. Maybe you want to earn more, beat the odds—and do it with class and style. If so, it’s time to get scrappy. Scrappy people see big problems and come up with big solutions. Or they see ordinary challenges and find a new path to extraordinary results. They’re like the entrepreneur who turned his home into an indoor jungle—complete with waterfalls, tropical birds, and a live baboon—to sell investors on the now famous Rainforest Café restaurant chain. Or the Girl Scout who skipped the usual door-to-door cookie sales and set up a table outside a medical marijuana dispensary, selling 117 boxes in just 2 hours. It can seem like these successes are just one-off acts of ingenuity or isolated flashes of brilliance...but are they? In today’s world you need more than just an occasional burst of creativity. You need a consistent attitude, a proven strategy, and a tactical plan for execution. That’s where Terri Sjodin’s Scrappy can help you, by explaining and demonstrating the unique elements behind any successful scrappy effort. Drawing on research, interviews, and her own personal experience, Sjodin identifies the habits that will help you get into the right mind-set. She shares stories of scrappy tactics that have worked and those that have crashed and burned, in order to provide practical takeaways for achieving your vision, whatever it might be. She explains, for instance... • Why getting scrappy is a choice to play big. • How to cultivate your best ideas. • How to manage risks and bounce back from mistakes and failures. • How to scale a scrappy culture within anyorganization, big or small.As Sjodin puts it, "This is not another book about persistence, although scrappy and persistent make a winning combination. Nothing annoys a persistent person more than a scrappy person who pulls off a classy, unexpected, amazing effort to land the deal, the sale, or the opportunity."Whether you're a sales rep, a job seeker, an entrepreneur with big dreams but a small budget, or a corporate executive aiming for the next level of success, the fastest way to get what you want is to get scrappy. 

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'In this Handbook, two of the leading researchers in the field of entrepreneurial exit bring together a group of scholars who address the topic from a wide variety of vantage points. Taken together, this volume provides for a rich, multifaceted and comprehensive understanding of this important and hitherto understudied aspect of the entrepreneurial journey. It left me energized, inspired and full of ideas for researching the topic!'- Johan Wiklund, Syracuse University, US and Erling Persson Chair in Entrepreneurship, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden'Some of the best and brightest minds from around the globe bring their newest thoughts and research evidence on the topic of entrepreneurial exit together in this Handbook. This is a critical read for scholars new to the research area, or those who want to know where the field might be headed in the future. The Handbook offers a great variety of topics, levels of analysis and perspectives in the area of entrepreneurial exit!'- Melissa S. Cardon, Lubin School of Business, Pace University, US'As a counterweight to the voluminous research on entry and growth, this book on entrepreneurial exit is both timely and valuable. Can we really gain a deep understanding of entrepreneurship without also considering exit? I could not think of two better people to create this book - Professors DeTienne and Wennberg have been instrumental in developing our collective knowledge on entrepreneurial exit and in this book, they have brought together a collection of chapters that offer many new and wonderful insights into entrepreneurial exit.'- Dean A. Shepherd, David H. Jacobs Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington, and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Business VenturingWith contributions from authors around the globe, Research Handbook of Entrepreneurial Exit explores this most important phenomenon in the entrepreneurial journey. The authors present a comprehensive review of the current issues in entrepreneurial exits, and provide theoretical and methodological insights for future research.Combining historical perspectives with contemporary thinking, this Handbook examines the following topics:- Gender and Exit- Retirement- Psychological Barriers- Emotional Aspects- Venture Capital Funding- Firm Relocation- Exit from Social VenturesResearchers and habitual entrepreneurs will find the data and case studies included useful, whilst educators can find the answers to 'why' and 'how' entrepreneurs exit their venture.Contributors: H.E. Aldrich, S. el Bouzaidi, P. Davidsson, D.R. DeTienne, J. Farhat, G. Hanley, A. Jenkins, J. Lortie, S. Marlow, M.H. Morris, K.A. Packalen, A.M. Robb, G. Salomon, Y. Sarason, S. Soleimanof, J. Steen, J. Swail, I. Syed, L. van Teeffelen, M.-L. Verreynne, E. Weesie, K. Wennberg, C. Wicker

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