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El progreso humano es un hecho de la vida, dice el profesor Steven Pinker. Pero si el progreso fuera realmente un hecho de la vida, entonces América Latina no sería como es. Basta con sentarse en una cafetería de Tegucigalpa para advertir que las cosas no pueden estar peor. En el televisor colgado en una esquina del local los noticieros reportan, sin cesar y sin misericordia, los hechos violentos de la noche anterior. Quien pretenda huir de la...
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Most of the problems small businesses experience have more to do with the business owner's behaviors than they do with markets, competitors, or having the right processes in place. This is because small businesses are reflections of their owners and frequently take on the owner's behavioral characteristics.
Addressing a business problem without addressing the underlying behavior that causes it is like trying to correct a building's structural defect...
44) From Black Market to the Man: 10 Steps to Becoming a Multimillionaire in the Legal Cannabis Industry
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Are you curious about the marijuana industry? Have you thought about getting into the business, but you don't know where to start?
Do you feel overwhelmed by the abundance of opportunities just staring you in the face?
Would you like to discover your point of entry into the cannabis space? If you are considering moving into this wild frontier, you need to know how to overcome serious challenges and barriers. But there is so much more to be considered!
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Getting the money you need to finance your business with Private Equity When starting a new business, you will need money. Depending on your business idea, you may not have the necessary funds to realize your idea. Most people think that going through a bank and getting a loan is the only way to get started. They soon realize that banks are not willing to lend money on an idea. Too often, this is the end of the dream. Another way to finance your business...
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Cualquier persona puede crear un negocio sin importar su estado civil, edad o país de residencia. Lo cierto es que la mayoría de nosotros somos afortunados y vivimos en un ambiente pacífico.
Son pocos los que logran salir adelante y vencer a los contrincantes, haciendo así un negocio sólido, con ventas abundantes y unos clientes fijos y fieles.
No es imposible hacerlo. Solamente se necesita tener visión, una gran capacidad de distinguir lo que...
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If you think that you have a good business idea, but don't know how to start to realize it, OR you don't know if this idea is good enough to be fulfilled, OR you don't know what to do, but want to run your own business and earn a lot of money on the Internet ¬you couldn't find a better place than this! Your destiny made you find this eBook.
You will find here how to come up with a good idea, how to motivate yourself to take action, you will discover...
48) Everything I Need to Know About Business I Learned from Hip-Hop: A Millennial's Guide to Making Bank
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A whole generation of Americans has grown up with rap music and Hip-Hop culture, but apart from entertainment television, specialty broadcasting, or a brief mention in the mainstream media, Hip-Hop was viewed in large part as merely an interesting subculture. The stories of Hip-Hop giants like Drake, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Dr. Dre, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Young Money, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Macklemore, Eminem, P Diddy, Ice T, and more keep us riveted. Their...
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Book Two, Creating the Enterprise, commits the entrepreneur to establishing a new business venture. The organizational, legal, technical and managerial elements of putting an enterprise together are complemented by the writing and submission of a business plan for the eyes and ears of investors, financiers, partners and managers. The book takes the entrepreneur through the art and science of Investing and Financing. For entrepreneurs considering the...
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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...
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Creating business value is not easy. The facts are sobering: Out of 27.3m US enterprises, 26.7m are employing less than 20 people and only 5,000 to 10,000 US enterprises are selling out for $10m or more each year. That's a 1 in 6,000 chance. Therefore, I ask you, are you sure you are increasing business value? Operational tips are needed more than ever. After nearly 100 blog posts of The Smith Report-and many requests for a compilation--I decided...
52) Attract Money
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If you lost your job, your possessions, your marriage and your family, would you know how to start over? It happened to Jamie Wolf. Almost overnight, she went from a successful businesswoman with a husband, three children, a nice home and a six-figure income to an unemployed single woman who couldn't get a job bagging groceries and could barely pay the bills. As she says, 'I had two choices: give up or start over.' From agonizing experience, Wolf...
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96% of small businesses fail within ten years -- so what does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? How can you beat the statistics, create, and grow a successful business? Allon Raiz challenges readers to find their entrepreneurial passion and to have the courage to stay focused and determined to find the path to business success. Raiz has made a business out of growing entrepreneurs and he knows that success is not about the business plan, it...
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"Yo puedo, yo quiero, yo voy a lograrlo", los tres yoes del éxito.
En esta obra el reconocido emprendedor, empresario e inversionista John Mitre desvela su método para lograr el éxito.
El poder dentro de mí: Una mente millonaria te enseña a cambiar tu mentalidad para alcanzar tus sueños, objetivos y, además, ganar dinero. El cambio en nuestra forma de pensar es lo más importante para comenzar y logar todas las metas que te propongas.
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Visionaries are business superstars as rare as pop divas-and richer, too. But instead of using natural talent, they learn their craft: one that powerfully impacts segments of our lives, often in ways that we don't even recognize. And their cunning is accessible, once defined. In Visionarie$ Are Made Not Born, retired Kellogg School of Management Professor Lloyd Shefsky illustrates the concrete steps you can take to achieve, explain and use visions...
56) Banner Ad Bomb
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Banner Ad Bomb will help you learn how to utilize banner ads to stop the competition in it's tracks! Are you ready to have the world eating out of the palm of your hands? Read on to find out how you can realize your dream of wealth!
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In 2012, the world was slowly recovering from the Great Recession while Facebook and other social media platforms disrupted global life and business, ushering in a new era of startup optimism. From his desk at a consulting firm in Stockholm, Sweden, Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm watched in disbelief, wondering, "How could such a waste of time become so popular?"
Bursting with ideas of how to break out of business monotony, Henneville-Wedholm and his...
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Small firms in Chicago employ more than 1.6 million individuals-nearly 50 percent of the private work force, according to a new study released this fall by the Small Business Administration. The survey, which defines small firms as those employing less than 500 people, also shows that these businesses generate 47 percent of the area's total receipts of $278 billion dollars. However, SBA statistics also reveal that, on average, of the small businesses...
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Justin Breen considers himself a results guy, he's great at making things happen, but not so great at generating awesome ideas. But that hasn't stopped him from creating an epic business and life!
What Breen lacks in idea generation, he makes up for in his ability to recognize when an amazing idea is presented to him. The concepts that rule his life and success evolved from conversations with innovators.
Learn the thirty transformational ideas Breen...
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The average age of beginning an entrepreneurial endeavor is 42, and the average entrepreneur spends between 30 and 70 percent of their own capital to fund the start-up. This isn't a necessarily "safe" investment. In fact, the financial industry staple investment advice is to pull back; to invest in safe moderates, to mix in bonds and to maintain cashables. Starting a business is not the low risk investment that most mid-aged, business-minded individuals...
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