No. Finance is not confusing. Finance is not boring. Finance is definitely not something you can ignore. Through simple examples, actionable points and practical insights, Sangeeta Shankaran Sumesh shows entrepreneurs what finance really is – the most valuable secret weapon of your business. From how to arrive at your pricing strategy to managing your cash flow and how you can maximize your profits, the book covers all aspects of finance. Using her two decades of experience in the industry, the author has also peppered the book with real-life stories of successful entrepreneurs – how they overcame their financial woes. What the Finance also gives the reader a glimpse of the challenges these entrepreneurs faced and how, in reflection, they see the value in learning about finance. A must-read for a smart entrepreneur, who sees the significance of understanding the language of finance. This is not a book for your accounts guy. It is carefully written for entrepreneurs to learn business finance in its entirety.

As an entrepreneur or business leader, are you feeling anxious about: How to grow your business further? How to be more profitable? What actions need to be taken for better financial performance? Worry no more! Where’s the Moolah? will help you grow your profits and manage your cash flow better. It tells you how to pivot for high financial performance, and how the different functions of a business can contribute to overall financial growth. You will find takeaways in the form of tools to capitalize on various aspects of the business for enhancing financial growth, maximizing efficiencies, dos and don’ts, and scorecards.

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

How do you feel when you · Accomplish a task with speed, efficiency and finesse? · Achieve something that you thought you could not? · Keep getting consistently better in what you do? You will feel proud, happy and experience a sense of accomplishment, right? You get a kick and feel high and mighty about yourself, don’t you? So, when you achieve what you want to, you surely “Get High”! That is what this book is about. To enable you to get to a higher version of yourself in whatever work you do. It has short stories that you can learn from and activities that will enable you to achieve your goals to maximize your growth potential. Go ahead. Be your own coach for high performance. Achieve what you want. Because YOU CAN. Reviews: If you want to up your game, get to the next performance level and improve yourself, you need to read this book! Packed with real, actionable points in every chapter, Sangeeta will teach you how to achieve maximum potential in your professional life. Dr Marshal Goldsmith, New York Times Bestselling Author & Thinker 50 #1 Executive Coach Looking for the low-down on how to coach yourself to become the highest version of yourself? Look no further. Sangeeta shares practical, actionable advice to help you get better. Get this book. And then get ready to Get High." Prakash Iyer, Leadership Trainer, Motivational Speaker & Author “Achieving high performance by uplifting yourself and your service to others is the timely message of this vital book. Discover precious ideas and actions through this book to navigate well in the joy of living and giving.” Ron Kaufman, New York Times Bestselling Author

This book examines the proliferation of new sources of entrepreneurial finance and how these sources have the potential to make it easier for ventures to raise capital and grow. To date, entrepreneurial finance literature has developed a rich tradition of research on venture capital and angel finance. However, the emergence of ‘new’ sources of finance – such as crowdfunding – and the limited attention paid to ‘traditional’ debt financing and financial bootstrapping offer opportunities to explore, from different points of view and theoretical perspectives, the challenges that ventures face. The objective of this book is to explore these new and traditional sources of finance; suggest how these phenomena can be better understood conceptually; and guide new ways of understanding the topic in future, especially for researchers. The introduction outlines the new sources of entrepreneurial finance, and in comparing them with more traditional sources, proposes challenges in our conceptual understanding of these new and traditional sources. The subsequent chapters deal with important topics, including looking at the way different funding sources may interact; factors that impede family firms from getting external funding; how best to succeed with equity crowdfunding by looking at pre-selection processes; considering differences in perceptions towards funding sources arising from whether entrepreneurs are native born or immigrants; factors to consider when funding specialized assets in high uncertain sectors such as biotechnology; and the internationalization of business angel activity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Venture Capital journal.

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.