Entrepreneurship

The Small Business Start-Up Kit explains how to set up a small business in your state, while clearing state and local bureaucratic hurdles. It will explain how to: choose between an LLC and other business structures write an effective business plan pick a winning business name and protect it get the proper licenses and permits manage finances and taxes hire and manage staff, and market your business effectively, online and off. Includes access to cash flow projection and profit/loss forecast worksheets, state-specific business resources, and more.

The award-winning guide for any woman starting or running a business. Learn how to: draft a solid business plan raise start-up money choose a legal structure and hire employees manage finances and taxes qualify for special certification programs and contracts for women-owned businesses, and efficiently market and brand your business online and off. Updated to cover the latest IRS rules, changes to the Affordable Care Act, and legal developments on classifying workers and online sales tax.

The book discusses common business model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition.

Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business: creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This book explains how to use the "Value Proposition Canvas" to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually want. The book will help you understand the patterns of great value propositions, get closer to customers, and avoid wasting time with ideas that won't work. You'll learn the simple process of designing and testing value propositions, that perfectly match customers' needs and desires.

The Startup Owner's Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the customer development process to work. This how-to guide includes over 100 charts, graphs, and diagrams, plus 77 valuable checklists that guide you as you drive your company toward profitability.

The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on "validated learning," rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs--in companies of all sizes--a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it's too late.

The Startup Way discusses established enterprises like iconic multinationals GE and Toyota, tech titans like Amazon and Facebook, and the next generation of Silicon Valley upstarts like Airbnb and Twilio. Drawing on his experiences over the past five years working with these organizations, as well as nonprofits, NGOs, and governments, Ries lays out a system of entrepreneurial management that leads organizations of all sizes and from every industry to sustainable growth and long-term impact.

Big data entrepreneur Allen Gannett overturns the mythology around creative genius, and reveals the science and secrets behind achieving breakout commercial success in any field. By understanding the mechanics of what Gannett calls "the creative curve"--the point of optimal tension between the novel and the familiar--everyone can better engineer mainstream success. Gannett reveals the four laws of creative success and identifies the common patterns behind their achievement.

Change by Design explains design thinking, the collaborative process by which the designer's sensibilities and methods are employed to match people's needs, not only with what is technically feasible, but what is viable to the bottom line...This is not a book by designers for designers; it is for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization, product, or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.