What’s your entrepreneurial style? “This powerful, practical book gives you proven techniques to help you maximize your personal and business potential and make more money than ever before.” —BRIAN TRACY, author of The Psychology of Selling “Stop trying to fit the mold of some successful entrepreneur you’ve seen and start tapping your own DNA—this book will show you how.” —JOHN JANTSCH, author of Duct Tape Marketing and The Referral Engine “This book is the ultimate roadmap to building a thriving business and life as an entrepreneur. Joe Abraham’s ideas and insights are fresh, innovative, timeless, and guaranteed to produce real results and position you for long-term success.” —IVAN MISNER, New York Times bestselling author of The 29% Solution and founder of BNI and Referral Institute “Joe is the next-generation version of Michael Gerber.” —ERIC PLANTENBERG, founder and CEO, Freedom Personal Development “Are you interested in knowing your strengths and weaknesses as an entrepreneur and the strategies that work best for your particular DNA? If so, read this insightful and helpful book.” —RAFAEL PASTOR, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Vistage International About the Book: Entrepreneurial DNA proves the simple but critical fact that not all entrepreneurs are cut from the same cloth. After all, nobody would put Donald Trump, a multilevel marketer, and the owner of a local pizza parlor in the same category. Everyone possesses unique entrepreneurial “DNA”—and discovering yours is the critical first step to success. To help you build a successful business or optimize results within your current business, serial entrepreneur and business strategist Joe Abraham has developed the BOSI system—a simple, structured process for determining your own entrepreneurial tendencies, strengths, and growth areas. With the BOSI system, you can create a strategic plan mapped to your entrepreneurial DNA that will improve all aspects of your business and leadership journey. Abraham’s system provides four entrepreneurial categories that people fall into. Which type of entrepreneur are you? Builder: Strategic, always looking for the upper hand Talent: creating scalable business ventures Opportunist: Speculative, always in the right place at the right time Talent: making money fast Specialist: Focused, in it for the long term Talent: providing exceptional client service Innovator: Inventive, with a desire to make an impact Talent: creating game-changing products At least one of these four categories describes you—or perhaps a combination of two. Learning what type of entrepreneurial DNA you possess is critical to how you should structure and deploy your game plan in business. Whether you’re serious about becoming a successful entrepreneur or improving your existing business, start with Entrepreneurial DNA. You’ll discover your unique BOSI profi le and gain tremendous insight into how to engage the right people and develop plans and processes to match who you are.

What’s your entrepreneurial style? “This powerful, practical book gives you proven techniques to help you maximize your personal and business potential and make more money than ever before.” —BRIAN TRACY, author of The Psychology of Selling “Stop trying to fit the mold of some successful entrepreneur you’ve seen and start tapping your own DNA—this book will show you how.” —JOHN JANTSCH, author of Duct Tape Marketing and The Referral Engine “This book is the ultimate roadmap to building a thriving business and life as an entrepreneur. Joe Abraham’s ideas and insights are fresh, innovative, timeless, and guaranteed to produce real results and position you for long-term success.” —IVAN MISNER, New York Times bestselling author of The 29% Solution and founder of BNI and Referral Institute “Joe is the next-generation version of Michael Gerber.” —ERIC PLANTENBERG, founder and CEO, Freedom Personal Development “Are you interested in knowing your strengths and weaknesses as an entrepreneur and the strategies that work best for your particular DNA? If so, read this insightful and helpful book.” —RAFAEL PASTOR, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Vistage International “Discover how to succeed and stand apart from other entrepreneurs.” —ENTREPRENEUR MAGAZINE About the Book: Entrepreneurial DNA proves the simple but critical fact that not all entrepreneurs are cut from the same cloth. After all, nobody would put Donald Trump, a multilevel marketer, and the owner of a local pizza parlor in the same category. Everyone possesses unique entrepreneurial “DNA”—and discovering yours is the critical first step to success. To help you build a successful business or optimize results within your current business, serial entrepreneur and business strategist Joe Abraham has developed the BOSI system—a simple, structured process for determining your own entrepreneurial tendencies, strengths, and growth areas. With the BOSI system, you can create a strategic plan mapped to your entrepreneurial DNA that will improve all aspects of your business and leadership journey. Abraham’s system provides four entrepreneurial categories that people fall into. Which type of entrepreneur are you? Builder: Strategic, always looking for the upper hand Talent: creating scalable business ventures Opportunist: Speculative, always in the right place at the right time Talent: making money fast Specialist: Focused, in it for the long term Talent: providing exceptional client service Innovator: Inventive, with a desire to make an impact Talent: creating game-changing products At least one of these four categories describes you—or perhaps a combination of two. Learning what type of entrepreneurial DNA you possess is critical to how you should structure and deploy your game plan in business. Whether you’re serious about becoming a successful entrepreneur or improving your existing business, start with Entrepreneurial DNA. You’ll discover your unique BOSI profi le and gain tremendous insight into how to engage the right people and develop plans and processes to match who you are.

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The groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller that taught a generation how to transform their careers—now in a revised and updated edition “A profound book about self-determination and self-realization.”—Senator Cory Booker “The Startup of You is crammed with insights and strategies to help each of us create the work life we want.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project In this invaluable book, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today’s competitive world. The key is to manage your career as if it were a startup business: a living, breathing, growing startup of you. Why? Startups—and the entrepreneurs who run them—are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build their professional networks. They take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage. These are the very same skills professionals need to get ahead today. This book isn’t about cover letters or résumés. Instead, you will learn the best practices of the most successful startups and how to apply these entrepreneurial strategies to your career. Whether you work for a giant multinational corporation, stitch together multiple gigs in a portfolio career, or are launching your own venture, you need to know how to • adapt your career plans as pandemics rage and technologies upend industries • develop a competitive advantage so that you stand out from others at work • strengthen your professional network by building powerful alliances and maintaining a diverse mix of relationships • engineer serendipity that produces life-changing career opportunities • take proactive risks to become more resilient to industry tsunamis • tap your network for information and intelligence that help you make smarter decisions The career landscape has changed dramatically in the decade since Hoffman and Casnocha first published this guide. In an urgent update to the frameworks that have helped hundreds of thousands of people transform their careers, this new edition of The Startup of You will teach you how to achieve your boldest professional ambitions.

This edited volume develops an understanding of the strategies, processes, issues and concerns involved when small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) go international with their local products/services and vice versa. It is a compendium of eighteen selected chapters on the subject, supported by an introductory chapter. The contributions are organized in four parts based on the sub-themes they deal with. The first part, containing the introductory chapter, provides different perspectives on transnational entrepreneurship, returnee entrepreneurship and their linkages with the internationalization process. The subsequent parts have chapters dealing with three sub-themes of the subject – the internal factors (individual and firm-level resources), the external factors (entrepreneurial ecosystem), and the process of organizational transformation and change, respectively, in the context of SME internationalization. Special issues and challenges being faced by SME entrepreneurs in emerging economies have been highlighted in this book, discussing key contemporary issues with regard to internationalization in the three dimensions outlined above. Further, the book explains how an entrepreneur can engineer the transformation of his/her organization into an international SME. This book is a very useful resource for entrepreneurs and policy-makers in general, and for academics and researchers in particular, as it provides an overview of the contemporary research in the critical areas of SME internationalization and transnational entrepreneurship by highlighting the linkages between them with special reference to emerging economies.

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