Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2023

Browse the business section of your favorite bookstore. New business development specialists there can also provide good additional sources for the specific information you may need. These days, it’s a great way to get some work done, while enjoying a cup of coffee, so you may not even have to buy a book.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2021

There really is no excuse these days, with samples on the Internet, business-plan books in every bookstore, and dozens of apps to automate the process. A great business plan doesn’t have to be a book in length, with extensive financial statements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2020

Browse the business section of your favorite bookstore. New business development specialists there can also provide good additional sources for the specific information you may need. These days, it’s a great way to get some work done, while enjoying a cup of coffee, so you may not even have to buy a book.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Since I sell books, I’ve started a bookstore on Amazon called Mint Quality Books. I am closely connected with the folks at Mint Quality Books (it’s my favorite online bookstore) and when I stopped by the shop I heard about your book order through Amazon. The letter starts like this: “Hi Lauren, Surprise!

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deal architect

JANUARY 16, 2017

I have just come back from a round the world trip with frequent reminders of Great Britain's wide influence - Victoria Harbour, Raffles Hotel, Brabourne Stadium, Kipling's Kim in bookstores among others. You could almost visualize the rise and fall.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

His new book, “ The New Geography of Jobs “ , was recently reviewed by The Financialist and is now available in bookstores. Enrico Moretti is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Career Development Chair in Labor Economics.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. ————-.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 17, 2011

I recently passed the Ayn Rand section in the bookstore and saw her book I had read a long time ago. I also thought if she lived today, given her libertarian views, she would bristle against how many businesses take.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Will (23:00): Yeah, pick up a copy at your local indie bookstore. Support your indie bookstore, and you can find me at will katy cady.com. Is there a place you'd invite people to connect with you or obviously to pick up a copy of which way is North? I'm on LinkedIn, I'm on Instagram. Will Cady, you know where to find me. Happy to chat.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2012

Every book published in the United States that’s offered for sale through bookstores or Amazon must carry an ISBN number and bar code. In other words, the book ranked 100th on the list may outsell the 101st book by a factor of 10, but you’d never know it.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Jeff Young offers an insightful piece on the challenges facing campus bookstores. Read the full piece on campus bookstores in the digital age from the Chronicle of Higher Education. and later in the piece; For one futuristic vision of the college bookstore, visit the University of Kansas. .&#.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

If you like to support local independent bookstores, Book Passage , one of my favorite SF bookstores will be on hand selling copies, which I'm happy to sign. We'll be in the concourse from 5:30-7:30pm. Please come celebrate.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Despite his young age he’s no stranger to entrepreneurship or e-commerce – he previously started the now-defunct online bookstore Zakoola ( www.zakoola.com ). . “ Household.sg was created to solve this problem.&#. His Story of e-Commerce. He’s also taken the hard-earned lessons from his earlier startup to heart.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 18, 2020

Books have played a huge role in my life – always an enthusiastic reader and my first jobs were at a hometown public library and then a local indie bookstore. It’s modest in size but made us part of a worldwide network called Little Free Libraries.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2016

LocalBiz stories are really fun for me since my first high school job was working in an independent bookstore. This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). How did it all begin?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2011

Bookstore customers can be pretty odd – [link]. Apple snags 50% of handset industry profits ahead of first 100M iPhone year – [link]. The United Nations chooses its crowdsourced logo design – [link]. The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race? Agriculture – [link]. I hope you enjoy these links!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2012

Visit the local bookstore. Browsing in the business section of your local bookstore is a great way to do market research, while enjoying a cup of coffee. Almost every county and municipality has an economic development office which features market research on popular market segments in your area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Browse the business section of your favorite bookstore. New business development specialists there can also provide good additional sources for the specific information you may need. These days, it’s a great way to get some work done, while enjoying a cup of coffee, so you may not even have to buy a book.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2016

LocalBiz stories are really fun for me since my first high school job was working in an independent bookstore. This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). How did it all begin?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

And, even though I am desperate for real-life bookstores not to vanish as a consequence of sites like Amazon, I still prefer to buy my books on Amazon because it saves me a lot of money. Were it up to me, I’d own a Tesla, I’d only buy books from independent bookstores, and I’d buy all my food at local farmers markets.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 9, 2012

Who Decides What Gets Sold in the Bookstore? Google Is About Failure — The Failure Of Brands – [link]. E-commerce calls to action: 10 best practice tips – [link]. The Collapse of Print Advertising in 1 Graph – [link]. – [link]. Connecting Nonprofits With Pro Bono Help – [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Industries that we all grew up with, industries that enjoyed decades of market dominance – like newspapers, bookstores, video rentals, personal computers — are being swept away.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Librarians and bookstore owners are the most generous and thoughtful people, and it’s always a treat to talk to them about their favorite books in the genre and hear about their strategies for engaging teen readers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2021

[4:47] What are the pros and cons to the self-publishing route versus the route that maybe some people are more familiar with which is going with the book publisher and being sold in bookstores? [5:10] 5:10] How do you help people work through finding what the best option is for them? [10:12]

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Up and Running

MAY 19, 2015

For example, the COGS for a bookstore are the costs of buying the books it resells to its customers. Expenses make up just one of the three common types of spending in a normal business. The first is costs, also called direct costs or costs of goods sold (COGS), what you spend on what you sell. Those go in your sales forecast.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Instead, they will now need to rely on customer feedback to create stories that appeal to the new generation, and they will also need to replicate the ‘pick up and browse’ experience of a bookstore online to continue to reach their audience. Thanks to Teigan Margetts, Ethicool Books !

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Visit the local bookstore. Browsing in the business section of your local bookstore is a great way to do market research, while enjoying a cup of coffee. Almost every county and municipality has an economic development office which features market research on popular market segments in your area.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This reminds me of a sign I saw in a bookstore in Manhattan: Don’t deal with somebody who doesn’t read books! Thanks to Antoni Comas, Tibidabo Publishing ! #10- 10- Build a cohesive leadership team. Photo Credit: Tom Malesic.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

And many entrepreneurs thought at that time that they could offer products and services to offline bookstores to compete against Amazon’s growing power. Just adding a website to now offer books for sale will not suddenly make an offline bookstore a serious competitor to Amazon.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2017

So if you start your book campaign, ideally, six to nine months before on-sale, every book that’s pre-ordered during that time counts when publications like The New York Times and independent bookstores count sales to determine bestsellers, a coveted honor in the publishing and media world. Indie Store Support.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 1, 2014

I hustle to get the word out about my books, bringing them to events, doing signings at bookstores, and sticking them in supermarket cereal boxes in hopes that people will think it is the coolest prize inside, ever. And yet, at the end of the day, it doesn’t move many books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

Browse the business section of your favorite bookstore. New business-development specialists there can also provide good additional sources for the specific information you may need. These days, it’s a great way to get some work done, while enjoying a cup of coffee, so you may not even have to buy a book.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I'm looking for a book cover that will grab someone's attention, whether it's on a shelf in a bookstore or (more likely) on Amazon.com. My upcoming book, The Five-Day Turnaround , is focused on helping leaders at established businesses act more entrepreneurial, allowing them to unlock faster growth and achieve greater success. Yellow - Words.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 23, 2023

You can find these on Amazon, and be sure to find your local bookstore to support them as well. Discover valuable insights, strategies, and motivation that will empower you and your business to reach new heights in your endeavors.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 5, 2019

Enough utility would even change what we photograph and why (for example, a whole wall of books at a bookstore and then tell me which five I’d like most). Not auto-organizing and facial recognition but using an understanding of the image contents to supplement with information and applicable actions.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 11, 2016

If you stroll through your local bookstore and make your way to the business literature section, you’ll likely notice a blond, remarkable man smiling at you from the cover.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2017

This book is available at all bookstores and online booksellers. Adapted from “ The Emigrant Edge: How to Make It Big in America (Howard Books)” by Brian Buffini. Copyright (c) 2017 by Brian Buffini. All rights reserved.

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