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You spent years building your business and fulfilling your vision. Now, Scott Bushkie provides sound advice and concrete steps so you can Finish Strong and exit your business on your own terms. This book includes more than two decades of insight, success stories, and completely avoidable mistakes he's seen business owners make as they transition their business. Bushkie covers more than how to maximize value (although that's here too). He helps prepare you for the entire journey ahead.

Turning your entrepreneurial dreams into reality starts with securing the right funding. 'Fund Your Dreams' provides a comprehensive guide to navigating the startup capital landscape. Explore various funding options, including bootstrapping, crowdfunding, angel investors, venture capital, and government grants. Learn how to create a compelling pitch deck, negotiate funding terms, and build a strong financial foundation for your business. This book empowers you to confidently secure the capital you need to launch and grow your startup.

Ever found yourself scratching your head trying to understand the complexities of XRP and Ripple? Perhaps you’ve attempted to invest in XRP, only to feel overwhelmed by its volatile market dynamics. Or maybe you’ve sat puzzled over articles filled with jargon, feeling more confused than when you started. It’s not your fault – the world of cryptocurrency is notoriously complex, often leaving newcomers feeling out of their depth. In today’s fast-evolving financial landscape, staying updated with the latest technologies like Ripple and XRP can be daunting.

Who do you think of when you imagine a hedge fund manager? A greedy fraudster, a visionary entrepreneur, a wolf of Wall Street? These tropes capture the public imagination of a successful hedge fund manager. But behind the designer suits, helicopter commutes, and illicit pursuits are the everyday stories of people who work in the hedge fund industry—many of whom don't realize they fall within the 1 percent that drives the divide between the richest and the rest.

Are you running a business that looks profitable on paper—but still struggling to keep cash in the bank? You’re not alone. Most business owners believe that more revenue, more customers, or lower costs are the key to success. However, the real secret to long-term growth and resilience lies in mastering cash flow. In Cash Flow: How to Build a Great Company That Endures in Tough Economies and Thrives in Booming Ones, financial strategist and entrepreneur Steve Coughran lays out a clear, actionable system that focuses on the seven levers of cash flow.

In a world where entrepreneurship often seems to be driven by tech prodigies and venture-backed unicorns, many aspiring entrepreneurs find themselves wondering: “What if I don’t fit the stereotype of a Silicon Valley wunderkind? Is there a place for me in this landscape?” In Unstoppable Entrepreneurs, Lori Rosenkopf, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship at The Wharton School, shatters these limiting perceptions, revealing a diverse array of entrepreneurial paths that are open to anyone with the drive to create value through innovation.

Companies backed by venture capital drive the U.S. economy, accounting for hundreds of billions of dollars in sales and profits. The problem is that most of the wealth created winds up enriching elites while the businesses funded by venture capitalists widen economic inequality. Committed to doing things differently, tech venture capitalists Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor launched Kapor Capital to prove that investing in gap-closing startups—companies whose services or products close opportunity gaps for both communities of color and low-income communities—is good business.

With interest rates rising, your cash could now finally earn you some interest income. Well…it could…but it may not be doing so. You see, many financial institutions are not passing along higher interest to their customers.

The official Raises.com step-by-step summary for real estate investors and business buyers explains how to create funds and raise capital rapidly. This is the culmination of practical lessons learned after Natu Myers and his team helped over 200 real estate investors and business buyers create and close over 200 million dollars for their new real estate syndications, real estate funds, and business acquisitions in less than two years.

Experiential Intelligence reveals how our past life experiences impact our present success and future opportunities in ways we often don't recognize. While you can't change what's happened to you or how you've responded to it, within your unique stories are hidden strengths waiting to be discovered. Do just that by uncovering your Experiential Intelligence (XQ)—the mindsets and abilities gained from your personal and professional life experiences.

As far back as we can trace human history, there have been entrepreneurs. Almost five millennia ago, copper tool manufacturers set up a factory in what today is southwest Spain, profiting for hundreds of years from trade around the Mediterranean. Papyri document the diverse investments of an ancient Egyptian businessperson, from grain-yielding land to flax for linen cloth. What do these figures have in common with renowned modern entrepreneurs, and how do their similarities help us achieve a deeper understanding of entrepreneurship?

You've focused on mergers and acquisitions, but how much do you know about divestitures? Wharton professor Emilie R. Feldman provides a comprehensive primer on what strategic objectives divestitures can achieve, which businesses divestitures typically involve, what divestiture structures companies can choose from, and how to implement divestitures to maximize their financial benefits.

It's become accepted wisdom that established companies can't build and scale new ventures the way startups can—after all, startups are lean and agile, while incumbents are too big, slow, and inflexible. But that's nonsense, and it's time to challenge that idea. Linda Yates, the founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Mach49, argues that to thrive, companies can and must harness their power—their ideas, talent, data, cash, resources, channels, and customers—to build a portfolio of game-changing ventures and beat the startups at their own game.

The way most business leaders deploy capex right now is nothing short of a train wreck. Very few look at their asset base as a collective network; rather, they see their assets as standalone performers, have no strategy for the role each asset plays in the grand scheme of things, and, therefore, fail to invest in their network for the long term to generate more cash for the business, asset by asset. Redesigning Capex Strategy provides an effective—and almost painfully obvious—solution to some of the greatest missed opportunities happening in business today.

It is not a massive treatise on everything you should know as a CFO. But the book contains shortcuts a CFO can use to earn credibility and trust. This will help create change within the organization. One of the biggest challenges for a new CFO is often there’s not a job description. It’s usually something vague like “make the CEO look good and help the company succeed”. How do you do that exactly? This book is unlike any other of its kind. We’ve cut to the chase and shared with the CFO what they need to do and how to do it.

Dealing with a hectic ADHD brain? Want to know more about venture capital? Want to know all things venture capital but don't have the time or brain space to listen to hours of words of a book? Let The ADHD "How-to Guide" give you knowledge in a straightforward and bite-sized way. This guide works you through what is venture capital, the venture capital lifecycle, becoming a venture capitalist, and jargon buster. Check out all the other ADHD '"How-to Guide" books in this series to learn more.

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.

Investors don't back entrepreneurs, they back Investable Entrepreneurs. Too many brilliant business ideas are killed by poor communication, leaving investors unable to understand the very basics of the business. When it comes to pitching, clarity is key. 'The Six Principles of the Perfect Pitch' is a proven process that will help to make your pitch powerful, get you noticed, generate interest and have investors queuing up to help you succeed.

Renowned risk and finance expert Håkan Jankensgård delivers an extraordinary and startling discussion of how firms should navigate a world of uncertainty and unexpected events. It examines three fundamental, high-level strategies for creating resilience in the face of "black swan" risks, highly unlikely but devastating events: insurance, buffering, and flexibility.

Listen to the book that has inspired thousands of people around the world to pursue their Plan A—making bold career moves, launching dream businesses, fleeing toxic relationships, and silencing the naysayers. Feel like you’re always settling for Plan B? Have big goals but something—or someone—is holding you back? There is a counterintuitive but effective strategy used throughout recorded history to overcome impossible odds and achieve breakout success: Eliminate any thoughts of retreat.

In Anticipate Failure, Lak Ananth—CEO of global venture capital firm Next47—describes the most common patterns of failure in innovation. He starts with the premise that building a business based on innovation is a perilous endeavor, and failures big and small are always around the corner. Ananth then dives into instances of failures, guiding the listener to understand root causes. Finally, he provides listeners with insights and coaching that will enable them not just to avoid failure, but to anticipate it and then get through it on the way to success.

Once an obscure niche of the investment world, private equity has grown into a juggernaut, with consequences for a wide range of industries as well as the financial markets. The Myth of Private Equity is a hard-hitting and meticulous exposé from an insider's viewpoint. Jeffrey C. Hooke examines the negative effects of private equity and the ways in which it has avoided scrutiny. He unravels the exaggerations the industry has spun to its customers and the business media, showing the stark realities that are concealed by the funds' self-mythologizing and penchant for secrecy.

In this memoir, one of the most successful investment bankers on Bay Street shares the lessons he learned about business and life in a long and successful career as president of Burns Fry and then as vice-chairman of BMO Nesbitt Burns.

Curious about starting as an angel investor but never knew where to start? Angel investing offers amazing rewards to those who venture into this venture. This venture is all about finding those start-ups and the founders that shine with their passion and ideas and solve the painful problems we all experience with their vision and innovative thinking. Angel Investor School will give you the tools to change the world through investment, supporting new technologies and ideas.

How did a bank, which boasts ‘we’re committed to helping protect the world’s financial system on which millions of people depend, by only doing business with customers who meet our high standards of transparency’ come to facilitate Mexico’s richest drug baron? And how did a bank that as recently as 2002 had been named ‘one of the best-run organisations in the world’ become so entwined with such a criminal? Too Big to Jail is an extraordinary story brilliantly told by writer, commentator, and former editor of The Independent.

The concept is simple. You get someone with a big mailing list, a super affiliate, to promote your product, and you give them a commission on sales. What's not simple is saying the right things to make the super affiliate pick you instead of one of the other hundred people begging for his/her attention. If you diligently implement what you learn in this book, you literally could be in front of a million warm prospects in the next 90 days. This book is a time-tested, exact treatise on what to do and not to do to land powerful JV partners.

This audiobook is not a technical introduction to blockchain technology; there's plenty of freely accessible material on that. Instead, this audiobook makes the case that blockchains will have at least as much economic impact in the 21st century as corporations in the 20th century. The Blockchain Economy provides you different perspectives on the drastic potential of blockchain technology to disrupt nearly every business or political system in existence today. Some of the ideas may appear evident to you; others may not yet.

The inspiring true story of Zen Ventures, a venture impact studio for diverse founders and artists, and its uncompromising founder, Champion Muthle.

Many entrepreneurs dream of the day their company is acquired and they secure a perfect exit. But information about the process of getting your business acquired usually comes from expensive investment bankers who typically advise late-stage startups. In Selling Your Startup, serial entrepreneur Alejandro Cremades delivers an accessible guide on how to sell your startup. With first-hand experience as a fully exited entrepreneur, investment banker, and lawyer, Cremades describes the tips and tricks startup founders need to sell their early-stage to growth-stage business.

Private equity has succeeded in near-stealth—until now. In Two and Twenty, Sachin Khajuria, a former partner at Apollo, gives readers an unprecedented view inside this opaque global economic engine, which plays a vital role underpinning our retirement systems. From illuminating the rituals of firms’ all-powerful investment committees to exploring key precepts (“think like a principal, not an advisor”), Khajuria brings the traits, culture, and temperament of the industry’s leading practitioners to life through a series of vivid and unvarnished deal sketches.