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William E Simon - quintessential American figure of the American century: Wall Street wunderkind, Treasury Secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford, successful entrepreneur, US Olympic Committee president, best-selling author, pioneering philanthropist, and devout Catholic. Simon's insightful and often humorous autobiography, A Time for Reflection, includes a diverse cast of characters whose lives intersected with his own.

Searching for a business to acquire and run is not merely a financial transaction—it is a deeply personal, psychological, and life-shaping process. This book is written by a veteran searcher for individuals considering the path of acquiring a business. It offers a grounded, honest framework for navigating one of the most consequential decisions of a professional life. Rather than presenting a rigid “how-to” checklist, the book focuses on how to think about the search process.

Knightmare Capital is the raw, unfiltered, high-stakes account of Edward W. Page’s leap from the steady lanes of surety bond underwriting and commercial banking into the unpredictable world of private equity. Driven by personal upheaval, Ed took a gamble on a scrappy New York firm and found himself on a rocket ride through high-pressure deals, nonstop travel, and boardroom showdowns that most people only witness on screen.

In their book, PropTech 101, authors Aaron Block and Zach Aarons present an insightful narrative into the PropTech and real estate industry in effort to help ensure that you don’t get left behind in the wave of change. This is not an exhaustive look at PropTech; it is, rather, a broad overview of basic history, dynamics, key stakeholders, and trends that serves as a set of keys that will open the door and let you into the PropTech space so that you can begin to explore it with confidence and a mental map of the most important contours.

What if your product could do the selling for you? In this updated edition of Product-Led Growth, Wes Bush reveals how the fastest-growing companies today are winning by letting users experience value before they ever pay. Traditional sales-led strategies are breaking down as customer acquisition costs rise, attention shrinks, and buyers demand instant results. The companies pulling ahead are the ones that remove friction, collapse time-to-value, and turn their product into the primary driver of growth.

New technologies are an investment minefield. Putting money behind them means taking a risk on unproven ventures, often from inexperienced (and potentially unscrupulous) developers. While some will lead the investor to fantastic gains, many others turn out to be mere bubbles – a flimsy veneer...

In Venture Debt Deals, innovation lending veteran Marshall Hawks pulls back the curtain on how venture debt really works. Drawing on two decades in venture banking, he explains the structure, strategy, and subtle incentives behind every major term—from warrants to covenants—and shows founders how to use debt thoughtfully as a growth tool rather than a last resort.

The 25 Steps to Accurate Property Valuation breaks down how residential property is actually valued in the real world, by appraisers, by lenders, and by the market itself. It gives you a repeatable framework to think clearly before you buy, list, or renovate.

With an easy-to-understand approach, Cost Estimation: Methods and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the quantitative techniques needed by professional cost estimators and for those wanting to learn about this vibrant career field. Featuring the underlying mathematical and analytical principles of cost estimation, the book focuses on the tools and methods used to predict the research and development, production, and operating and support costs for successful cost estimation in industrial, business, and manufacturing processes. 

If you’ve always wanted to invest in cryptocurrency, but don’t know where to start, then this comprehensive guide will show you everything you need to know. Even if you think cryptocurrency is completely overwhelming and confusing, this audiobook breaks everything down into simple, easy-to-understand language. Plus, it has the step-by-step process to how you can buy all of these, broken down into simple English. 

On 2 November 2023, in one of the largest fraud trials in history, Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty of stealing billions of dollars from the customers of his crypto-exchange, FTX. How did this 31-year-old Californian in flip-flops, board shorts and a T-shirt manage to become one of the most...

Design Thinking is exponentially transforming how brands operate in a positive way. It is changing the way in which businesses develop solutions. It is a user-centric approach that makes doing business easy for both brands and clients. Mastering Design Thinking can change the way businesses think and helps in better understanding of the client’s need. It adds value to the business and works in the growth of businesses.

You built the company. Now it’s time to build your legacy. The Entrepreneur’s Exit Playbook is the definitive, founder-first guide to preparing for and executing a successful business sale—from the first valuation conversation to the final wire hitting your account. Written by serial entrepreneur and M&A advisor Kristopher B. Jones, this book combines decades of hard-earned insight, tactical frameworks, and real-world case studies to help you exit on your terms—and win beyond the deal.

Hard work isn’t enough to become wealthy in today’s world. The key to extraordinary wealth is to leverage the resources at your disposal to multiply your outcomes. The 18 Laws of Leverage is your guide to implementing strategies that create exponential results. This book will teach you how to: Leverage the capital and skill sets of others to multiply your output. (Laws Two through Four) Monetize your reputation through partnerships, sponsorships, and endorsements. (Law Five) Buy your victories instead of working for them.

Empower yourself with value investing methods used by the world's most successful value investors! These include Ben Graham, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Phil Fisher, and more. Each valuation model is explained in a simple, easy-to-understand, step-by-step process. Now you can learn to value businesses, stocks, and bonds and estimate intrinsic value like billionaire Warren Buffett! Transform your financial life. Discover how to use both qualitative and quantitative factors to identify high-quality undervalued businesses.

Venture Adventure captures startup fundraising advice, tips, and recommendations of more than 50 top global investors. Collectively, these venture capitalists represent the who's who of this domain worldwide, across a wide range of sectors, geographies, and company stages. They have seen it all and know exactly what it takes to effectively raise capital against the backdrop of very dynamic and competitive global markets.

A start-up wastes a billion dollars making videos nobody wants to watch. A city rushes to build landing pads for flightless air taxi prototypes. Tech giants hire thousands of techies for fake projects to stop them working for rivals. The tech industry has a tendency to go crazy. In Siliconned, industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori decodes tech’s hysteria and explains why we all pay the price for it.

The world's innovation economy is broken. If you have an idea, depending on who you are or where you live, you might never get a shot. A handful of people in a handful of cities are deciding, behind closed doors, which entrepreneurs get a shot to succeed. The determining factor? Potential profit. In The Innovation Blind Spot, venture capitalist Ross Baird demonstrates how to fix the problem by helping us find better ideas, looking at people, places, and industries often overlooked.

Are you new to a board and have no idea what’s expected of you? Do you know what a board’s seven key responsibilities are? Do you know what your relationship with the Executive Director should be? If not, this audiobook is for you. So many board members – especially of small nonprofits –...

How do companies get ahead in the digital age? In this lively, accessible guide, Ram Charan - best-selling author and advisor to some of the world's top CEOs - reveals that the tech giants have radically rewritten the rules of business. If you want to be competitive, you need to learn to play a new game. Drawing on behind-the-scenes stories from the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Alibaba, Charan sketches out a map of today's business landscape.