Instant Entrepreneur: The faster way to start-up success

By Robert Ashton

The title of this book is a little misleading. It is not helping you learn how to think like an entrepreneur, in fact, the book teaches you how to more accurately make assessments that entrepreneurs have to make. If you do that, your entrepreneurial success should be higher. Topics range from risk assessment to basic accounting to managing resources to, yes, writing a business plan. The author mixes his philosophical musings along with anecdotes and hard business lessons (like calculating NPV and profits). His constant humour and approachable style make the book very easy and fun to read. This book will have value both for people who are thinking about becoming entrepreneurs and those who are already running small businesses. Since the book often focuses on computer consulting and computer-based training, those who are in those fields will find the book to be especially valuable. The book realistically encourages people to think about entrepreneurship. Even if you decide that having your own business is not for you, this book will give you a better basis for feeling confident about that decision.

Think Like an Entrepreneur: Your psychological toolkit for success

By Chris West & Robert Steinhouse

The title of this book is a little misleading. It is not helping you learn how to think like an entrepreneur, in fact, the book teaches you how to more accurately make assessments that entrepreneurs have to make. If you do that, your entrepreneurial success should be higher. Topics range from risk assessment to basic accounting to managing resources to, yes, writing a business plan. The author mixes his philosophical musings along with anecdotes and hard business lessons (like calculating NPV and profits). His constant humour and approachable style make the book very easy and fun to read. This book will have value both for people who are thinking about becoming entrepreneurs and those who are already running small businesses. Since the book often focuses on computer consulting and computer-based training, those who are in those fields will find the book to be especially valuable. The book realistically encourages people to think about entrepreneurship. Even if you decide that having your own business is not for you, this book will give you a better basis for feeling confident about that decision.

Brilliant Start-Up: How to run a brilliant business

By Caspian Woods

The book takes you through the stages of setting up and running a business. It is an inspiring mix of practical information and entertaining writing style. If you’re toying with the idea of setting up a business then this is definitely the book for you.

The sole mission of Brilliant Start-Up is to give you full support every step of the way by making the whole process easier, meaning you remain inspired and on the road to success. Brilliant Start-Up is structured around 8 practical stages that budding start-ups should go through, from the first idea to successful trading. It is opinionated, well judged and very well written. If you are thinking of starting up a business this book can prevent a lot of pain and grief not to mention saving you a lot of money! There’s enough information to point you in the right direction without going into too much detail. Not really suited to those looking for VC funding, but if you want to start and grow a company through organic growth, this is definitely a good starting point.

WOMEN, WORK & THE ART OF SAVOIR FAIRE:
BUSINESS SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

By Mireille Guiliano

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of French Women Don’t Get Fat, comes every woman’s guide to navigating the world of work, living the good life, and savouring every minute of it.
When Mireille Guiliano became a senior executive and spokesperson for Veuve Clicquot, she took the Champagne to the top of the luxury market, using her distinctive French woman’s philosophy and style. Now she uses those same talents and savoir faire to help readers pop their own corks and get the most out of life. Drawing on her experiences she gives women (and a few men) the practical advice they need to make the most of work without skimping on all the other good things in life. With lively lessons, and helpful hints, Mireille teaches every reader how to identify her own passions and talents, improve communication skills, balance work and life, cope with everyday stress, turn herself into a winning brand, and so much more. Mireille tells it like it is as she shares her secrets for achieving happiness and success at any stage in business and life.business.

THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES:
SEX,MONEY, BETRAYAL AND
THE FOUNDING OF FACEBOOK

By Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich’s sizzling new book “Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook” has vaulted on the New York Times best-seller list. The book reveals an American public greedy to read about the most intimate details of the sex, money and betrayal in Facebook’s formative history.
Accidental Billionaires covers the remarkable period between the autumn of 2003 when Harvard university undergraduate and programming genius Mark Zuckerberg built the first version of the instantly viral TheFacebook.com social network to the autumn 2005 when Zuckerberg fired Silicon Valley bad-boy Sean Parker, Facebook’s first President. These years are marked by a predictable surfeit of young male sexual and financial lust and betrayal, primarily of fellow Harvard undergraduate Eduardo Saverin, the unfortunate mug who bankrolled Zuckerberg’s initial dream and then ended up with nothing when Facebook headed out west and relocated to Silicon Valley. The Accidental Billionaires is a narrative about the overnight fame that inevitably go with the success of building a viral Internet business.

BOOM!
Disciplines to control, grow,
and add impact to your business

By Emma Wimhurst

Put a boom into your business with Emma Wimhurst’s latest book to help your business grow. If you’re looking to take control of your business, inject new life into it, sort some under-performing operational issues for good, make more profit and add a generous wow factor to your business then this book is a must read. By self-made millionaire, business mentor and business turnaround expert, Emma Wimhurst unveils her expertise to help your business thrive. She describes her 7 business disciplines methodology that has helped hundred of business owners over the past few years, of whom she’s been mentoring. These disciplines include; focus your vision; Business Planning; Marketing Management; Practical Finance; Teambuilding; Customer Commitment and Personal Development.
BOOM! Promises to inspire, encourage and guide business owners to achieve greater success and profit. It is an easy to read self-help business manual with Emma's infectious passion for business and knowledge right from the start.
So what are you waiting for! Put the boom back into your business!

Who runs britain?
And who’s to blame for the economic mess we’re in?

By Robert Peston

If you want a clear and simple explanation of the international financial crisis we are facing, this is the book for you. Robert Peston, an award-winning journalist for his coverage on the credit crunch, explains the recession, where and why it started, and where we are now. From his years of experience as the business editor of the BBC News, he uses a style that appeals to both businesses and people who have bank accounts in the UK.

Pocket life coach: Coach yourself to health and happiness

By Pete Chapman

Do you need a coach to lead your life back to health and happiness? Pete Chapman takes that role by writing a self-help guide providing objective guidance to run your life. He also addresses issues such as stress management, motivation and positive thinking. Chapman tries to keep the readers personally involved by leaving space for them to write down their own feelings, the way they dealt with them and what they ate that day just to keep up with a healthy lifestyle.

Trading places - SMEs in the global economy a critical research handbook

Edited by lester lloyd-reason and leigh sear

Revealing the current situation of the SMEs in the global market from an academic and practical perspective, authors, Lloyd-Reason and Sear, explore the problems businesses encounter and benefits they can gain when operating as part of international economy. With a contributors’ team of professionals and explanatory graphs and tables the handbook covers marketing, strategic and policy areas of the industry.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

By Ruta Aidis and Friederike Welter

Since the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 Europe’s neighbour countries’ markets have been described as hostile environments. However, the honorary senior researcher’s Ruta Aidis’s and professor’s Friederike Welter’s study shows that innovation can be successful in post-Soviet enterprises looking at Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Ukraine. With examples of enterprises specialising in new technologies, science, tourism and problem solving and even a Knitwear Factory. In most of the cases entrepreneurs were forced to take initiative to survive the dramatic change of the economy. Aidis and Welter call it the ‘push motive’ – common in the transition periods. Then again the motivation and determination is not enough.

Managing Complexity and Change in SMEs: Frontiers in European research

Poul Rind Christensen and Flemming Poulfelt

Christensen and Poulfet argue that the process of nurturing and growing new enterprises has become a far more complicated process than it was say 20 years ago. Again, with an international perspective they team up to look at the complications small businesses face by sifting through copious case studies and looking at entrepreneurs within different sectors. Both authors hark from large business schools respected on the written topic-Aarhus School of Business and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. The chapter on extreme entrepreneurs is particularly engaging as they look at those challenging the institutional framework.

Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions Around the World, Theory, Evidence and Implications

Phillip H. Phan, Sankaran Venkataraman and S. Ramakrishna Velamuri

Phan, Venkataraman and Velamuri join together to fix the lack of entrepreneurship literature with emphasis on individuals, their firms and strategies. The book illustrates institutional determinants, government and non-governmental organisation influences, emergence of venture capital and firm level responses in relation to entrepreneurship and suggests new theoretical frameweorks for understanding businesses in areas lacking financial and human capital, favourable geography or institutional infrastractures.

All-time Essentials for Entrepreneurs

By Jonathon Yates

Remember the Book of Answers? The All-Time Essentials works in a similar way, although without mention of the ‘Place your hands on the cover and visualise your question’ malarkey. Each page has a quote from an entrepreneur of some kind, from Aristotle to Frank Zappa, and an interpretation from Yates as to how you might relate their wisdom to the sphere of business. The unimaginative might find this useful, although the links are sometimes tenuous.

Your internet cash machine: The insiders guide to making big money, fast

Joe Vitale and Jillian Coleman Wheeler

Written by two of the most successful consultants this book works more as an everyday guide for an aspiring entrepreneur. It starts off by taking a personal look at the readers’ interests to discover their individual desires in the business sector, and then takes you step-by-step to help guide you into building a business using simple online methodology. It takes a closer look at sales sites, and marketing through social networking sites including teaching the readers how to set up their own website while marketing their product. The layout is simple, yet engaging and provides a good starting board for those wishing to increase their online visibility and develop a sustainable brand online.

Liquid Millionaire

By Stephen Sutherland

Sutherland says he created this new way of investing to help people like him retire financially secure. He believes that his secrets of wealth building can help people avoid the stress of the current economic climate and generate enough cash to never have to worry about money again. Inside this book you will discover a brand new time friendly way to get rich via ISA trend investing, and how to make millions from the up and coming stock market boom.