America's foremost small-business advice guru offers readers seven steps to identify the right business for them--from determining one's entrepreneurial type to exploring the wide range of business options with 25 in-depth analyses and over 200 at-a-glance evaluations.

This book comes from the author's 20 years of experience in working with, teaching, and advising several hundred entrepreneurs. Short and to-the-point, the book offers practical, powerful information for anyone who is contemplating starting a business.

24 Steps to Success! Disciplined Entrepreneurship will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great entrepreneurs aren’t born with something special – they simply make great products. This book will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehensive, and proven 24-step framework that any industrious person can learn and apply. You will learn: Why the “F” word – focus – is crucial to a startup’s success Common obstacles that entrepreneurs face – and how to overcome them How to use innovation to stand out in the crowd – it’s not just about technology Whether you’re a first-time or repeat entrepreneur, Disciplined Entrepreneurship gives you the tools you need to improve your odds of making a product people want. Author Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship as well as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For more please visit http://disciplinedentrepreneurship.com/

The bestselling classic that launched 10,000 startups and new corporate ventures - The Four Steps to the Epiphany is one of the most influential and practical business books of all time. The Four Steps to the Epiphany launched the Lean Startup approach to new ventures. It was the first book to offer that startups are not smaller versions of large companies and that new ventures are different than existing ones. Startups search for business models while existing companies execute them. The book offers the practical and proven four-step Customer Development process for search and offers insight into what makes some startups successful and leaves others selling off their furniture. Rather than blindly execute a plan, The Four Steps helps uncover flaws in product and business plans and correct them before they become costly. Rapid iteration, customer feedback, testing your assumptions are all explained in this book. Packed with concrete examples of what to do, how to do it and when to do it, the book will leave you with new skills to organize sales, marketing and your business for success. If your organization is starting a new venture, and you're thinking how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development you need The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Essential reading for anyone starting something new.

SEVEN STEPS TOWARDS A SUCCESSFUL LIFE Circle of Success This circle of success shows different stages and dimensions of the growth of the dream, or vision, in your mind. Steps 1 to 3 happen in your mind without most people seeing what you are trying to do. Other people will begin to see what you are doing when you are at stages 4 to 7. 1. All success begins as a dream conceived through thoughts, imagination in the mind. 2. Speaking out your dream is the second stage in the growth of a dream, or vision. 3. Planning is the third stage toward growth and achieving your dream, or vision. 4. Working out your dream, or vision, according to plan is the fourth stage. 5. Praying and fasting are means of connecting with God to get Power to work. 6. Giving and generosity will keep you within an infinite supply of blessings from God. 7. Time, Courage, Faith, and fear nothing except God, and then just do it.

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