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  Founder vs Investor - The Honest...

  Elizabeth Joy Zalman, Jerry Neumann

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  “The rarest of business books, one that provides genuinely actionable counsel delivered without empty cliches.” – KIRKUS 
  How many world-changing startups will fail because the founders and investors never figure out how to work together?  Founder Elizabeth Zalman and Investor Jerry Neumann square off in this one-of-a-kind book, exposing how startups are built, broken, and fought over.  
  Every iconic tech company was once a startup. And while these companies like to paint an origin story full of surefooted confidence, the truth is usually something different: the early life of most startups is pure chaos. 
  This chaos comes from the vastly different motivations and incentives between those with the vision and those with the money. From fundraising paranoia to boardroom coups, Zalman and Neumann train their inimitable voices on the gulf between what founders and investors promise to do and what they end up actually doing. 
  Founder vs Investor is the brutal truth, from each side’s perspective, of the pitfalls of this tenuous relationship—where bad blood can turn sure things into shattered dreams. It is the only book written by insiders with the temerity to pull back the curtain on the world of high growth venture-backed startups. 
  Accompanying charts, tables, and a glossary are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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  Beyond Fundraising - New...

  Kay Sprinkel Grace

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  Do you or your volunteers fear rejection or feel like a beggar when fundraising? Do you worry about soliciting donors too often? Are you tired of the relentless cycle of fundraising activities necessary to generate revenues for your programs?  Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment, Second Edition dispels these concerns and helps you:    Learn how to position your organization in the community as a constructive, vital, and successful social investment  Develop an investor relationship with donors and engage their values-based commitment capacity to make a difference in their communities    In this revised and updated Second Edition, fundraising expert Kay Sprinkel Grace presents her internationally field-tested core beliefs, principles, and strategies for developing long-term relationships with donor-investors and volunteers. Share in the wisdom and experience that have helped countless nonprofit organizations grow their base of support and go beyond fundraising into true donor and fund development.

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  Perception - Take Charge of How...

  Franziska Iseli, Christo Hall

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  Sure, being the best sounds great. But simply being the best is no longer enough to position you at the front of the pack. You also need to be perceived as being the best.And that's why Perception is so important.With this book, authors Franziska Iseli and Christo Hall show you how to harness the power of perception to achieve success - whether you are leading a small business, trying to climb the career ladder, or simply working to achieve greater success in relationships and improve your personal life.Perception is a book about how to do marketing right for small businesses and solo-entrepreneurs by focusing on what makes you stand out. Rather than pushing business owners to spend more money on brochures or advertising or marketing campaigns, Perception will teach you how your prospects think and make buying decisions. You must master how customers and prospects perceive you and your business because it doesn't matter how many flyers you print or how much you spend on ads if your message doesn't fit. If the perception you are generating doesn't resonate with your prospects and reflect the true value you offer, no one will buy from you (and you'll waste a lot of money on advertising that doesn't work).The approach we take is first and foremost to get crystal clear on how you want to be perceived by your ideal customers and prospects. You sure don't want your competitors or anyone else to be defining how you are perceived (anyone remember the Pepsi - Coca Cola challenge?). And, even worse, you don't want your prospects to have no perception of you at all!Perception teaches you to take charge: to define and then create the perception of you or your business that will lead you to the lasting success you desire.Perception is for small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to grow quickly by creating a clear, authentic message and brand strategy.

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  CIO Communication Skills Secrets...

  Dr. Jim Anderson

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  Isn't technology a wonderful thing? As CIO you are in charge of one of the most technologically sophisticated parts of the company. It's very easy to fill your days dealing with issues regarding servers, networks, routers, switches, firewalls, etc. However, it turns out that if you do this, then you'll be overlooking one of the most important tasks that a CIO needs to accomplish: communication.
  
  Keeping all of the moving parts that an IT department has in alignment is a challenging task. The good news is that you don't have to do it all – that's what the rest of the IT department is there for. However, you do need to clearly communicate to everyone both inside and outside of the IT department what you want to have done. This is going to require you to have good communication skills.
  
  What You'll Find Inside:
  FORGOTTEN IT SKILLS: HOW TO ASK QUESTIONS
  CIOS ASK THE QUESTION: IS TWITTER A FRIEND OR A FOE?
  SHOULD A CIO BOTHER WITH THAT ITIL STUFF?
  3 SKILLS THAT MOST CIOS ARE MISSING
  
  Communication skills include knowing how to ask good questions, understanding how to use social media tools like Twitter, and realizing how to apply ITIL to your IT department. All of this stuff takes time to both learn and do.
  
  This book has been written in order to show you what you need to be doing in order to get your message out. In order to get the rest of the company to line up behind you and do what you need them to do, they first have to hear and understand your message. I'm going to show you many different ways that you can connect with the people who have to hear your message and how you can make your requests "stick" with them.
  
  It is my hope that after having read this book you will be aware of how to clearly communicate with not only your IT department, but also with the rest of the company. Do this correctly and your CIO career will last a long time…!

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  The Excellence Book - 50 Ways to...

  Kevin Duncan

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  We can all be better in every aspect of our lives. Kevin Duncan (author of the bestselling The Diagrams Book and The Ideas Book) draws together 50 ingenious thoughts and inspirations to improve your attitude, your approach to life and work, the questions you ask, the decisions you make, and even your timing in the things that you do. We are the owners of our success, and the main source of that success is excellence. Practical and highly accessible, this is a life-affirming handbook to help you be the best you can be - whoever and wherever you are.

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  Minimum Viable Product with...

  Paul VII

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  In this class, you will be given a complete set of tips for developing a minimum viable product. This will allow you to learn valuable information about your customers and product as early as possible. You will also obtain tips that will boost the productivity of your development team and your business, when developing new products. In this class I give you a concise overview of the MVP planning and development process. I then give best practices to use when you build an MVP. Following this I teach you about common issues that arise in the MVP development process and how to avoid them. As usual, I give you plenty of examples and best practices along the way. In this class, you will learn: What is an MVP? A brief overview of agile scrum which can be used to develop an MVP How to plan for an MVP Best practices for MVP development Alternative approaches to MVP development Concise tips for gaining early customer buy-in So, let us get started right away, so you can begin developing your Minimum Viable Product!

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