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  Equity Crowdfunding - The...

  Nathan Rose

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  For many startups and growing companies, gaining marketing exposure and raising external funding from investors are first and second on their priority list. But, until recently, they were always separate activities - first you would raise the money, and then you would spend it on marketing.
  
  The advent of equity crowdfunding means these two critical tasks can be done at the same time. This is a game-changer.
  
  Unlike venture capital, the company founders get to set their own offer terms, retain their company culture, and bring on dozens, or even hundreds of shareholders rather than just a tiny handful - and gain all the promotional benefits that come with this.
  
  And unlike the crowdfunding offered by sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, equity crowdfunding allows a company to offer shares in itself, instead of a pre-ordered product. This means equity crowdfunding can be used by far more types of businesses, and typically attracts a lot more money. Companies regularly raise hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars through equity crowdfunding.
  
  This book will tell you how!
  
  Equity Crowdfunding offers amazing potential for startups and growing companies, but it is also a very steep learning curve. Many companies begin with no real idea of how to choose a platform, how to craft their pitch, or what they should be doing to drive people to their offer site.
  ©2016 Nathan Rose (P)2016 Nathan Rose

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  Succeed On Your Own Terms -...

  Herb Greenberg, Patrick Sweeney

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  WHAT MAKES TOP ACHIEVERS SUCCESSFUL?
  
   
  Is it more energy? Luck? Drive? Focus? Vision? These are some of the questions answered in Herb Greenberg and Patrick Sweeney's illuminating book, Succeed on Your Own Terms.
  
   
  Greenberg and Sweeney spent two years traveling in more than two dozen countries interviewing some of the world's most accomplished individuals - including renowned architect Michael Graves; Chief Financial Officer of Dun and Bradstreet, Sara Mathew; former Dallas Cowboy Roger Staubach; legendary civil rights advocate Congressman John Lewis; actor Ben Vereen; Holocaust survivor Samuel Pisar; President of Home Depot Canada, Annette Verschuren; mountain climber Rebecca Stephens; the shortest NBA player of all time, Muggsy Bogues; Senator Barbara Boxer; cancer survivor Janet Lasley; and Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie.
  
   
  Through in-depth interviews and results from a comprehensive personality assessment, the authors uncover the defining qualities that set each of these remarkable individuals apart. These inspiring individuals exemplify 19 defining qualities that can drive your success, such as
  
   
  * Optimism * Resilience * Empathy * Persuasiveness * Courage * Perseverance * Willingness to Take Risks * Creativity * Competitiveness * Confidence * Self-Awareness
  
   
  And you'll learn how to identify these qualities in yourself by taking a free, in-depth personality assessment that can help you discover your unique potential and strengths. Then you will be poised to seek out situations that play to your natural abilities, recognize your defining moments and seize opportunities to succeed on your own terms.

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  CEO School - Insights from 20...

  Stanislav Shekshnia, Kirill...

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  This book focuses on what makes a successful CEO and the paths to becoming one in today's global economy. Chapters in the book include insights by twenty top CEOs—one from each G20 country—gathered from an extensive global qualitative research project. Through seven easy-to-digest "master classes" that demystify the role of the twenty-first-century CEO, the authors present their findings in an accessible, conversational style that serves as a step-by-step guide for those who aspire to become CEOs and develop essential character traits, experience, and skills required of the role.

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  Beyond the J Curve - Managing a...

  Thomas Meyer, Pierre-Yves Mathonet

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  In recent times, venture capital and private equity funds have  become household names, but so far little has been written for the  investors in such funds, the so-called limited partners. There is  far more to the management of a portfolio of venture capital and  private equity funds than usually perceived. Beyond the J  Curve describes an innovative toolset for such limited partners  to design and manage portfolios tailored to the dynamics of this  market place, going far beyond the typical and often-simplistic  recipe to 'go for top quartile funds'.   Beyond the J Curve provides the answers to key questions,  including:    Why 'top-quartile' promises should be taken with a huge pinch  of salt and what it takes to select superior fund managers?  What do limited partners need to consider when designing and  managing portfolios?  How one can determine the funds' economic value to help  addressing the questions of 'fair value' under IAS 39 and 'risk'  under Basel II or Solvency II?  Why is monitoring important, and how does a limited partner  manage his portfolio?  How the portfolio's returns can be improved through proper  liquidity management and what to consider when  over-committing?  And, why uncertainty rather than risk is an issue and how a  limited partner can address and benefit from the fast changing  private equity environment?    Beyond the J Curve takes the practitioner's view and  offers private equity and venture capital professionals a  comprehensive guide making high return targets more realistic and  sustainable. This book is a must have for all parties involved in  this market, as well as academic and students.

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  Between Debt and the Devil -...

  Adair Turner

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  A classic book now available on audio 
  With narration by Richard Lyddon, who reveals why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woes 
   
  Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn’t happen because banks are too big to fail—our addiction to private debt is to blame. 
   
  Between Debt and the Devil challenges the belief that we need credit growth to fuel economic growth, and that rising debt is okay as long as inflation remains low. In fact, most credit is not needed for economic growth—but it drives real estate booms and busts and leads to financial crisis and depression. Turner explains why public policy needs to manage the growth and allocation of credit creation, and why debt needs to be taxed as a form of economic pollution. Banks need far more capital, real estate lending must be restricted, and we need to tackle inequality and mitigate the relentless rise of real estate prices. Turner also debunks the big myth about fiat money—the erroneous notion that printing money will lead to harmful inflation. To escape the mess created by past policy errors, we sometimes need to monetize government debt and finance fiscal deficits with central-bank money. 
   
  Between Debt and the Devil shows why we need to reject the assumptions that private credit is essential to growth and fiat money is inevitably dangerous. Each has its advantages, and each creates risks that public policy must consciously balance.

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  The Hive Mind at Work -...

  Siobhan McHale

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  Learn a new model for understanding how organizations really operate and implement changes that get real results. 
  With so many forces of change buffeting the business world today, a scary state of flux has replaced any sense of certainty, stability, and familiarity, delivering a wake-up call to make crucial changes happen, make them happen quickly, and make them stick.  Traditional approaches to change management fall into one of two categories: Organizations function like machines, where managers pull change levers to “fix” problems with an engineer’s mindset (IQ).   Or People form social networks wherein individual “influencers” make change happen by developing effective interpersonal relationships (EQ).  Neither of these models offer a full picture to what really happens in an organization. 
  In this groundbreaking new book, change expert Siobhan McHale offers a third option: organizations are complex ecosystems that require a Hive Mind or Group Intelligence (GQ) to bring about meaningful and lasting change.  We can learn a lot of lessons from how bees operate:Hard work: An individual bee spends its entire 40-day life span gathering food for the hive.Teamwork: Inside each teeming beehive an entire community works collectively to achieve shared goals.Role clarity: Every bee has a specific job, with the queen, drones, and worker bees faithfully playing their part.Resilience: Bees can overcome daunting challenges, including all the parasites, pathogens, pesticides, and climate fluctuations from Maine to Miami and beyond. 
  See how a hive mindset solves many of the common problems all businesses struggle with today!

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