“Buckle Up captures the personal commitment, dedication, and investment required to bring a new company to life and then success thereafter.” —Mike Jaroc, Senior Executive, Advisor and Author of Extraordinary Lessons From An Ordinary Life "Lisa knows how to win, and she has a gift for helping us all overcome the flat tires and bent fenders of everyday life!" —Paul Harraka, NASCAR driver/Anodize Capital Partners Entrepreneur "A powerful and inspirational book on what business ownership is truly like. Full of wisdom, hard-earned truths and lessons learned... A must-read." —Rick Wright, International Executive Coach Long hours, exhaustion, and family dynamics play a big part in your company. After inventing the concept of Automotive Warranty Network and venturing out on a new horizon from the basement of our home, I quickly realized that growing the business and our family simultaneously was a juggling act. This is a story of how a young girl with no education formed a 22-million-dollar enterprise and learned many lessons along the way. Learning how to be in the business of being in business is hard to do when the business needs you to do the work while the company grows. But if I can do this, you can too. Let me share the successes and failures and have a laugh or two along the way. Owning your own business is a wild ride, but it can be a fun and fruitful adventure.

High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.

Re-focus your business plan and achieve the success your business deserves Business owners, and their teams, often lose their way in the midst of the day-to-day stress of generating sales and profits. Whether your goal is selling millions of your product, expanding operations to a new location, or generating more profits, Start at the End offers a unique approach and action steps for business owners and entrepreneurs to redevelop your business plan and achieve ultimate success. You'll learn how to re-create your long-term vision and then make continuous progress in achieving that vision while continuing to hit your short-term goals. Start at the End offers inspiring stories of other entrepreneurs who have achieved significant success in this area, as well as easy-to-follow exercises and next steps. Shows how to develop a realistic business and financial model based on market data Explains how to identify and pursue new opportunities, raise capital, and build growth strategies Start at the End gives business owners a chance to take a step back, re-evaluate your business, and redesign your business plan to achieve the success you dreamed of when you first launched your company.

A man of many experiences in different parts of the world, the author of this book has truly lived life. Ihab wanted to write a book where he may not only share his many experiences in life but share words of wisdom to help people who want to make a change. That change could be an innate one or external. For anyone who has dreams, goals, or aspirations in life, this book will help them manifest their deepest desires into reality. The author has not only done a great job but because of his many experiences, he is the right person to generate sheer wisdom. A life of many ups and downs, a life of learning, improvisation, and consistency. Once an introvert, he transformed his life and truly became a “closer.” He became a people-person and tells us about his transformation, how he got to where he is, and how others can do it. The book speaks about the significant themes of competence, self-assessment, time management, Emotional Intelligence, branding, and entrepreneurship. This book is for everyone, a learning opportunity about life. A book for all ages, it helps you become a better version of yourself. It helps you become the man you want to be.

Mindset Matters: The Corner Stone of Sustainable Entrepreneurship By: Chris Ehiobuche Ph.D. & Bright Justus Ph.D. Mindset Matters thinks differently about mindset and its applicability. It argues that mindset is never static, and it could be nurtured in a person, the central theme being everyone has the ability to make the right mindset shifts when and where necessary to achieve the highest level of success in business and in any life endeavor.