Summaries of books about Business & Finance:
One Simple Idea
Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work
Stephen Key
The book provides a step-by-step guide for inventors and entrepreneurs on how to license their product ideas to companies, allowing them to profit without the need for manufacturing or marketing. It covers strategies for protecting ideas, negotiating deals, and leveraging the power of licensing to turn simple concepts into revenue-generating assets with minimal financial risk.
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Customer Success
How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue
Nick Mehta|Dan Steinman|Lincoln Murphy
The book provides a comprehensive guide on how businesses can implement customer success strategies to minimize customer churn and maximize recurring revenue. It offers insights into creating a customer-centric culture, utilizing data analytics, and developing proactive processes to ensure customers achieve their desired outcomes and enhance loyalty.
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High Growth Handbook
Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
Elad Gil
The book provides practical advice and insights on scaling startups, covering topics such as hiring, management, strategy, and fundraising. It includes interviews with successful entrepreneurs and investors, offering real-world examples and lessons learned from companies that have successfully grown from small teams to large organizations.
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The Art and Business of Online Writing
How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
Nicolas Cole
The book provides insights and strategies for creating compelling online content that captures and retains audience attention, emphasizing the importance of storytelling, personal branding, and understanding online platforms' algorithms. It also offers practical advice on monetizing writing and building a successful career as an online writer.
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The Behavioral Investor
Daniel Crosby
The book delves into the psychology of investing, exploring how emotions and cognitive biases often lead to irrational financial decisions. It offers insights into improving investment strategies by understanding and managing these psychological factors.
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Feminist Fight Club
An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
Jessica Bennett
The book provides strategies and tactics for women to counteract everyday sexism in the workplace, blending personal anecdotes with research and statistics. It offers humorous yet practical advice for navigating and challenging gender discrimination in professional environments.
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Bargaining for Advantage
Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
G. Richard Shell
The book provides a comprehensive guide to effective negotiation tactics, blending practical advice with insights from psychology and law. It outlines a systematic approach to negotiation, emphasizing preparation, the importance of leverage, and the ability to recognize and exploit the unique bargaining styles and objectives of different counterparts.
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Passive Income Freedom
23 Passive Income Blueprints: Go Step-by-Step from Complete Beginner to $5,000-10,000/mo in the next 6 Months!
Gundi Gabrielle
The book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to creating various streams of passive income, detailing 23 different business models that can be leveraged to earn money. It offers step-by-step instructions aimed at helping beginners establish and grow their passive income to achieve financial targets within a six-month timeframe.
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Reality-Based Leadership
Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results
Cy Wakeman
The book provides a guide for leaders to eliminate workplace drama by encouraging accountability and focusing on facts rather than emotions. It offers practical tools and techniques for managers to inspire employees to take personal responsibility and drive results by changing their own mindsets and behaviors.
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The Little Book That Builds Wealth
The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments
Pat Dorsey
The book provides insights into identifying companies with durable competitive advantages, or "economic moats," that enable them to sustain long-term profitability and fend off competition. It offers strategies for investors to assess these moats and make informed decisions to build a successful investment portfolio.
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