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Product Description: The fashion business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive and express ourselves in our environment. The brands and the firms that shaped this industry have, in many ways, defined the fashion business. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global fashion industry, from its emergence to the present day, with a focus on the entrepreneurs at the nucleus of many of the world's influential brands...read more

Product Description: An updated edition of the best-selling handbook, this all-encompassing guide for jewellery entrepreneurs of all levels covers key lessons for setting up, running and growing a jewellery business.From the college graduate looking to set up a workshop, to the established maker ready to expand their business, Setting up a Successful Jewellery Business equips creative jewellers with the essential knowledge and tools to operate a professional jewellery business...read more

Product Description: Now a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller"I raced through Radical Candor--It’s thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. Radical Candor is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories from Kim Scott’s own experiences at places like Apple, Google, and various start-ups...read more

Product Description: Many people have million-dollar ideas. They’re confident that their new product or service or innovation will make them rich and that all their dreams will come true. The problem is: Most people don’t know how to turn their million-dollar idea into millions of dollars...read more

Product Description: The world of work has changed. People in previous generations tended to pick one professional path and stick to it. Switching companies every few years wasn’t the norm, and changing careers was even rarer.Today’s career trajectories aren’t so scripted and linear...read more

Product Description: Most start-ups fail. And they die remarkably young: The typical start-up lasts 20 months and burns through $1.3 million in financing before closing its doors. So what’s the formula for success for those start-ups that make it through the early trials, leveraging their early success into either getting acquired or issuing an IPO (initial public offering)? What are the lessons that first-time entrepreneurs and employees need to know to navigate their way to success? The Ultimate Start-Up Guide offers practical advice, insights, lessons, and best practices from the world of start-ups, including: Strategies for hiring and building your team, culture, and values...read more

​The Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CI2E) is a three-volume electronic and print reference that uniquely covers the broad spectrum of topics relating to the process of creativity and innovation, from a wide variety of perspectives (e.g., economics, management, psychology, anthropology, policy, technology, education, the arts) and modes (individual, organization, industry, nation, region). The resource is comprised of some 300 topical entries, definitions of key terms and concepts, and review essays, from a global array of more than 250 researchers, business executives, policymakers, and artists, illuminating the many facets of creativity and innovation, and highlighting their relationships to such universal concepts as knowledge management, economic opportunity, and sustainability. Entries feature description of key concepts and definition of terms, full-color illustrations, case examples, future directions for research and application, synonyms and cross-references, and bibliographic references.

Product Description: Plenty of books in the business section lay out strategies for success in the working world and in life, but many of them seem like they are designed for people who want an excuse to avoid real work, making unrealistic promises about “life-hacking” and other dubious efforts...read more

Product Description: The Underground Culinary Tour is a high-octane, behind-the-scenes narrative about how the restaurant industry, historically run by gut and intuition, is being transformed by the use of data.   Sixteen years ago, entrepreneur Damian Mogavero brought together an unlikely mix of experts—chefs and code writers—to create a pioneering software company whose goal was to empower restaurateurs, through the use of data, to elevate and enhance the guest experience...read more

Product Description: Businesses often find themselves trapped in a competitive dogfight, scratching and clawing for market share with products consumers view as largely undifferentiated. Conventional wisdom suggests that dogfights are to be expected as marketplaces mature, giving rise to the notion that there are "bad" industries where it is unlikely that any company can succeed...read more

Product Description: Project management is the art of analyzing and managing risks. Without risk, there is little need for project management. Project Risk Analysis Made Ridiculously Simple offers a step-by-step guide on how to perform project risk analysis and risk management for a wide range of readers: students, project schedulers not exposed to project risk analysis before, and to project risk experts...read more

Product Description: A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things.The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from outsiders―users or communities...read more

Product Description: This multi-volume set focuses on a topic of growing interest to academics, policymakers, university administrators, state and regional economic development officials, and students: entrepreneurship. In recent years, we have witnessed a proliferation of entrepreneurship courses, programs, and initiatives at universities...read more

Product Description: As an entrepreneur, Anna Akbari learned that one of the best things about startups is their ability to “pivot” quickly―basically a euphemism for failing and starting over. And she quickly found that personal success is no different...read more

Product Description: China’s top Internet visionary reveals his secrets to online business disruption The most valuable commodity for an Internet-based business is the user, not the customer. No matter how “big” your ideas are, they’re tiny in comparison to users’ desires...read more

Product Description: Innovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact.Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate...read more

Product Description: The single most important task for a prospective franchisee (or small businessperson) is to prepare a realistic cash flow statement that accurately reflects the economic potential of a franchise (business). How Much Can I Make? is an “insider’s guide” that provides historical sales, expense, and/or profit data on actual franchise operations to establish a solid basis upon which to make these critical financial projections...read more

Product Description: Bond's Top 100 Franchises, 2017 is an effort to pick the "best" franchises from among the 3,500+ franchises available. While picking the Top 100 or Best 100 of anything is very subjective in the final determination, every effort has been made to ensure that all of the critical variables have been properly assessed...read more

Product Description: Dieses Handbuch vereint erstmals die konzeptionellen Aspekte im Bereich Entrepreneurship in einem Werk. Die Beiträge ausgewiesener Experten vermitteln eine Übersicht über Formen und Instrumente des Entrepreneurship, aktuelle Entwicklungen der Entrepreneurship-Forschung sowie Rollen und Aufgaben des Gründers unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der gesellschaftspolitischen Aspekte von Entrepreneurship...read more

Product Description: Das Fachbuch beinhaltet eine umfassende Darstellung von Tools, mit deren Hilfe systematisch innovative Ideen für neues Unternehmenswachstum generiert werden können („Opportunities“). In der Praxis lässt sich beobachten, dass Unternehmen erhebliche Anstrengungen unternehmen, Ideen für Innovationen zu identifizieren, die ihre Branche entscheidend prägen können...read more

Product Description: The former CEO of Clif Bar, Co-founder of Plum, and serial entrepreneur offers insights about launching and growing a business while maintaining a fulfilled life in this practical guide filled with hard-won advice culled from the author’s own sometimes dark, raw experiences...read more

Product Description: LLC vs. C-Corp vs. S-Corp: The most important business decision you’ll make Whether you are starting a new business or thinking about an existing one, the big question is "which legal structure is best?" The answer has important legal and tax consequences...read more

Product Description: Reduce your taxes Completely updated for 2016 returns! Deduct It! shows you how to maximize your business deductions quickly, easily and legally. Easy to read and full of real-world examples, Deduct It! will pay for itself many times over...read more