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5 Fall Must-Read Books for Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

As fall replaces summer, I know I become tempted to curl up with a window view of the falling leaves, a cup of tea, and a good book. When that happens, I like to turn to books that are not only engaging, well-written, and interesting, but also happen to be about business. It’s a great way to enjoy some “me time.”.

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". He didn't just "tell it like it is," he gave up his marketing secrets and opened his company books. That's what we do: Bring the benefits of peer review to software development.

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Are You A Necessity Entrepreneur? Ask These 7 Questions

YoungUpstarts

As the bookstore CEO, you may see some cost-savings at scale—buying books in bulk, for example — but you are still on the hook for rent per store, employees per store, advertising per store, and so forth. His healthcare venture, benefitsCONNECT, innovated healthcare benefits administration and resulted in a highly successful acquisition.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

One of the respondents said they called it a “Desperate marketing attempt—everybody just tries to book a meeting, try to generate sales qualified opportunities and they don’t have results.” In 2020 we applied the same approach to two of our customers: idronect (software to manage drone businesses) and Opsfleet (software development company).

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“Did I intend to stay there for seven years? Hells no. But man, it’s a tough place to leave.” Five Questions on Startups, Newsletters & Life Post-Airbnb w Lenny Rachitsky

Hunter Walker

But when Airbnb can knocking, we quickly realized that our most likely long-term outcome was going to be an acquisition, and that we couldn’t think of a single better company to end up at. Along this same timeframe I’ve gotten to know you, she published a best-selling book. It’s partly what convinced me NOT to write a book.

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Q&A With The Founders Of AgileZen

Feld Thoughts

As I’ve written in the past, I encourage companies I’m an investor in to continually explore small acquisitions when entrepreneurs have created something that is on their roadmap. AgileZen was one such company and the acquisition has been a successful one for everyone. Why did you start AgileZen ?

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Two Must-Read Books for Micropreneurs

Software By Rob

→ Two Must-Read Books for Micropreneurs Cool News, Links & Reviews , Micropreneurship If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Bob Walsh’s new book The Web Startup Success Guide comes out next week. I picked up Pamela Slim’s book Escape from Cubicle Nation a few weeks ago.