Jamey Stegmaier knows crowdfunding. He's a veteran of seven successful Kickstarter campaigns (and counting) that have raised over 1.4 million, and he's the proprietor of the widely read Kickstarter Lessons blog. In this book he offers a comprehensive guide to crowdfunding, demonstrating that it can be a powerful way for entrepreneurs to grow their businesses by building community and putting their customers first. This book includes over forty stories...

To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems. If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake. Here he explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four historic models of leadership and culture-building, and connecting their leadership examples to modern case-studies. The practical and often surprising advice that results will help...

"An engaging guide to excelling in today's venture capital arenaBeginning in 2005, Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson, managing directors at Foundry Group, wrote a long series of blog posts describing all the parts of a typical venture capital Term Sheet: a document which outlines key financial and other terms of a proposed investment. Since this time, they've seen the series used as the basis for a number of college courses, and have been thanked by thousands...

Though his highly acclaimed Startup Camp program, bestselling author and serial entrepreneur Dale Partridge has helped thousands of people find unimaginable freedom and financial success by assisting them in launching new startup businesses. And now, in Launch Your Dream, he has distilled the essence of that course into a hyper-practical, 30-day journey for readers looking to join these other entrepreneurs in following their dreams and achieving unimaginable...

Here, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead a life of adventure, meaning and purpose--and earn a good living. Still in his early thirties, Chris has traveled around the world--and yet he's never held a "real job" or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who...

Raz has interviewed highly successful entrepreneurs, and here he shares tips for every entrepreneur's journey. From the early days of formulating your idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, to finally paying yourself a real salary, this book offers insights and inspiration on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture. The interviews show that great ideas often come from a simple spark that can make...

Takes entrepreneurs step by step through the process of finding and securing venture capital for their own projects.

Going insider to insider with unprecedented access, New York Times bestselling author and Clickable CEO, David Kidder, shares the hard-hitting experiences of some of the world's most influential entrepreneurs and CEOs, revealing their most closely held advice. Face-to-face interviews with 40 founders give readers key insights into what it took to build PayPal, LinkedIn, AOL, TED, Flickr, and many others into household names. Special sections include...

In Silicon Valley slang, a "bozo explosion" is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, "If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don't make sense"...then it's time for a reality check.For nearly three decades, Kawasaki has earned a stellar reputation as an...

Here is everything you need to start your own business-- and everything you need to keep it running in the black as well. The book and CD are loaded with business-plan examples, useful lists, sample letters, and accounting templates.