Growing Business Handbook

Author : Paul Hawken
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671671642
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing a Business written by Paul Hawken and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1988-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion volume to the public television series explains what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.

Author : Adam Jolly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749461461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Growing Business Handbook written by Adam Jolly and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Growing Business Handbook is a superb reference tool for all businesses with growth potential, filled with invaluable insights and guidance from SME specialists in finance, HR, marketing, innovation, people and IT, as well as help on enterprise risk and useful legal advice. The Growing Business Handbook is the reference source of choice to help you ensure and manage business growth, particularly in challenging economic conditions. Now in its 13th edition, this book looks at all the areas ripe for exploitation by your growing business and discusses ways you can manage the associated risks. Contributors include: the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply; Mazars; Beck Greener; UKAS; and Strathclyde Business School.

Author : Elad Gil
Publisher : Stripe Press
ISBN 13 : 1953953379
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Growth Handbook written by Elad Gil and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.

Author : Vinay Couto
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119268532
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fit for Growth written by Vinay Couto and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical approach to business transformation Fit for Growth* is a unique approach to business transformation that explicitly connects growth strategy with cost management and organization restructuring. Drawing on 70-plus years of strategy consulting experience and in-depth research, the experts at PwC’s Strategy& lay out a winning framework that helps CEOs and senior executives transform their organizations for sustainable, profitable growth. This approach gives structure to strategy while promoting lasting change. Examples from Strategy&’s hundreds of clients illustrate successful transformation on the ground, and illuminate how senior and middle managers are able to take ownership and even thrive during difficult periods of transition. Throughout the Fit for Growth process, the focus is on maintaining consistent high-value performance while enabling fundamental change. Strategy& has helped major clients around the globe achieve significant and sustained results with its research-backed approach to restructuring and cost reduction. This book provides practical guidance for leveraging that expertise to make the choices that allow companies to: Achieve growth while reducing costs Manage transformation and transition productively Create lasting competitive advantage Deliver reliable, high-value performance Sustainable success is founded on efficiency and high performance. Companies are always looking to do more with less, but their efforts often work against them in the long run. Total business transformation requires total buy-in, and it entails a series of decisions that must not be made lightly. The Fit for Growth approach provides a clear strategy and practical framework for growth-oriented change, with expert guidance on getting it right. *Fit for Growth is a registered service mark of PwC Strategy& Inc. in the United States

Author : Harvard Business Review
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1633693694
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harvard Business Review Entrepreneur's Handbook written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one primer you need to develop your entrepreneurial skills. Whether you're imagining your new business to be the next big thing in Silicon Valley, a pivotal B2B provider, or an anchor in your local community, the HBR Entrepreneur's Handbook is your essential resource for getting your company off the ground. Starting an independent new business is rife with both opportunity and risk. And as an entrepreneur, you're the one in charge: your actions can make or break your business. You need to know the tried-and-true fundamentals--from writing a business plan to getting your first loan. You also need to know the latest thinking on how to create an irresistible pitch deck, mitigate risk through experimentation, and develop unique opportunities through business model innovation. The HBR Entrepreneur's Handbook addresses these challenges and more with practical advice and wisdom from Harvard Business Review's archive. Keep this comprehensive guide with you throughout your startup's life--and increase your business's odds for success. In the HBR Entrepreneur's Handbook you'll find: Step-by-step guidance through the entrepreneurial process Concise explanations of the latest research and thinking on entrepreneurship from Harvard Business Review contributors such as Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman Time-honed best practices Stories of real companies, from Airbnb to eBay You'll learn: Which skills and characteristics make for the best entrepreneurs How to gauge potential opportunities The basics of business models and competitive strategy How to test your assumptions--before you build a whole business How to select the right legal structure for your company How to navigate funding options, from venture capital and angel investors to accelerators and crowdfunding How to develop sales and marketing programs for your venture What entrepreneurial leaders must do to build culture and set direction as the business keeps growing HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, real-life stories, and concise explanations of research published in Harvard Business Review, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack--whatever your role.

Author : Eric Koester
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000218821
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green Entrepreneur Handbook written by Eric Koester and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a practicing business attorney with startup experience in the environmental and technology sectors, this comprehensive handbook assists entrepreneurs in tackling the wide variety of opportunities to go green. A one-stop resource for entrepreneurs, it helps readers incorporate clean technology, environmental practices, and green business approaches into the work environment. The book discusses how to sell to utilities, explores fundraising outlets for green businesses, covers government incentives, presents key startup tools aimed at green businesses, and addresses challenges of many new businesses, such as raising money and making sales. Additional resources are available on the book's website.

Author : Adam Jolly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749448073
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Growing Business Handbook written by Adam Jolly and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Growing Business Handbook is a practical source of advice and reference for companies with dynamic growth potential. Combining the knowledge and expertise of leading professional advisors with the experience of entrepreneurs, the book gives a comprehensive insight into the challenges involved in building a high-growth venture in 2007.With sections on marketing, funding, people, business technology, innovation, global expansion, acquisitions and risk control, it highlights potential new sources of value for enterprises to exploit. It also stresses that high performance is inherently complex and stressful.The Growing Business Handbook is an invaluable guide for executives as they confront decisive points in the growth cycle. It includes best practice advice from established businesses and organizations including 3i, British Franchise Association, Knight Frank, Mazars and Strathclyde Business School.

Author : Richard Willsher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749428907
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Growing Business Handbook written by Richard Willsher and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help those businesses with an established market position, this text adopts a practical approach to the issues encountered by rapidly expanding businesses. The handbook presents a range of practical strategies for managing growth, focusing on how companies can fulfil their potential by adopting appropriate funding, adapting their structure and ownership, as well as developing world-class management capabilities.

Author : Adam Jolly
Publisher : Kogan Page
ISBN 13 : 9780749477905
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Business Handbook written by Adam Jolly and published by Kogan Page. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Growing Business Handbook is a superb reference tool for all businesses with growth potential, filled with valuable insights and guidance from SMB specialists in finance, HR, marketing, innovation, people and IT, as well as offering help on enterprise risk and useful legal advice. It is the reference source of choice to help ensure and manage business growth, particularly in challenging economic conditions. Now in its 17th edition, this book highlights challenges that are likely to be making an impact on SMEs, including the UK government's new Enterprise Bill, the development of alternative sources of finance, and the recommendation that business schools become more engaged in actively supporting SMEs.

Author : David Weber
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118208811
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Food Truck Handbook written by David Weber and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to start, grow, and succeed in the food truck business. Food trucks have become a wildly popular and important part of the hospitality industry. Consumers are flocking to these mobile food businesses in droves, inspiring national food truck competitions and even a show dedicated to the topic on The Food Network. The relatively low cost of entry as compared to starting a restaurant, combined with free and low-cost ways to market them to the masses via platforms like social media, are just two of the reasons that food truck business are drawing in budding entrepreneurs. Author David Weber, a food truck advocate and entrepreneur himself, is here to offer his practical, step-by-step advice to achieving your mobile food mogul dreams in The Food Truck Handbook. This book cuts through all of the hype to give both hopeful entrepreneurs and already established truck owners an accurate portrayal of life on the streets. From concept to gaining a loyal following to preventative maintenance on your equipment this book covers it all. Includes profiles of successful food trucks, detailing their operations, profitability, and scalability. Establish best practices for operating your truck using one-of-a-kind templates for choosing vending locations, opening checklist, closing checklist, and more. Create a sound business plan complete with a reasonable budget and finding vendors you can trust; consider daily operations in detail from start to finish, and ultimately expand your business. Stay lean and profitable by avoiding the most common operating mistakes. Author David Weber is Founder and President of the NYC Food Truck Association (NYCFTA), which brings together small businesses that own and operate premium food trucks in NYC focused on innovation in hospitality, high quality food, and community development.