Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

By John Warrillow

A business parable about how to create a start-up that won't trap you when you want to sell it.

According to John Warrillow, the number one mistake entrepreneurs make is to build a business that relies too heavily on them. Thus, when the time comes to sell, buyers aren't confident that the company-even if it's profitable-can stand on its own.

Entrepreneurial DNA: The Breakthrough Discovery that Aligns Your Business to Your Unique Strengths

By Joe Abraham

Entrepreneurial DNA proves the simple but critical fact that not all entrepreneurs are cut from the same cloth. Everyone possesses unique entrepreneurial “DNA”—and discovering yours is the critical first step to success.

The Myths of Innovation

By Scott Berkun

In this new paperback edition of the classic bestseller, you'll be taken on a hilarious, fast-paced ride through the history of ideas.

6 Secrets to Startup Success: How to Turn Your Entrepreneurial Passion into a Thriving Business

By John Bradberry

Over six million Americans start businesses every year. That's 11 startups a minute launched by passionate dreamers hop ing to transform their lives for the better. But a huge gap exists between the skyrocketing levels of desire and what entrepreneurs actually achieve. The harsh reality is that most new businesses fail within a few years of launch.

The Wow Factor: The 33 Things You Must (and Must Not) Do to Guarantee Your Edge in Today's Business World

By Frances Cole Jones

In today’s volatile business world, success requires an edge - a factor that sets you apart from the crowd. Who needs the Wow Factor? Executives seeking to reinvent themselves, recent graduates facing fierce competition, entrepreneurs looking for funding in a world where funding is seemingly nonexistent, or anyone who has been downsized, outsourced, or simply blindsided by harsh economic realities.

Never Get a "Real" Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke

By Scott Gerber

This book gives you the no-bull reality on turning your business idea into a viable enterprise capable ofgenerating real income now—based on his hard-knocks lessons learned in the entrepreneurial trenches.

Making Ideas Happen

By Scott Belsky

Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare.

Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers

By Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo

This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. The authors have identified tools and techniques from some of the world's most innovative professionals, whose teams collaborate and make great things happen.

Business Model Generation - A Handbook for Visionaries Game Changers and Challengers

By Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Peigner

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.

100 Great Business Ideas: From leading companies around the world

By Jeremy Kourdi

Poised to be the catalyst for business success, this collection of great ideas provides the fuel for companies of all sizes to create value and success. Some of the biggest corporate names supply their fire-tested strategies, accompanied by advice on applying their suggestions to different business situations.