The number one business plan guide of all time. This essential step-by-step guide for anyone launching or expanding a business has been used by over two million entrepreneurs. It includes expert help, worksheets to jumpstart the process, a sample business plan, tips on impressing funders, winning tips for competitions, secrets to successful crowdfunding, building a global business, and much more. Used in over 1000 business schools worldwide and loved...

Provides tips on developing an entrepreneurial mind-set, showing you how to change the way you think, network, and make a living.

Chapter 7: Designing for Scale; Fall in Love with the Problem; Benefit As Many People As Possible; Designing for Accessibility; Don't Get Lost in the Aesthetics; Systems and Processes; Systems for Designers and Engineers; How Do We Create a Design System?; When to Use and Not Use Design Systems; Summary; Chapter 8: Psychology, Culture, and Design; Visual Perception; Affordance; Gestalt; Comprehension and Memory; Progressive Disclosure; Mental Models;...

"Too many of us feel trapped by work that doesn't allow us to live our purpose, feed our passions, or use our gifts. We fantasize about starting our own business, but we're told this will mean going deeply into debt, spending years working eighty hours a week, and coping with the relentless pressure to grow. Sharon Rowe says there's another way: go tiny. She is here to show you how. Tiny isn't a size--it's a state of mind. Like a tiny house, a tiny...

No matter where you are in the business creation process, this invaluable guide is the tool you need to build a brand from scratch that you can enthusiastically and effectively implement in real time. --

"David J. Muchow, an award-winning, thirty-year serial entrepreneur and lawyer, gives you practical legal and business advice covering every aspect of entrepreneurship--and it's fun to read! It includes all the basics of building and growing a business--management, fundraising, marketing, intellectual property, and risk management--plus much more, like how to avoid the hidden mistakes that cause "Startup Suicide" and kill 80 percent of startups in...

This book offers a comprehensive model for explaining the success and failure of cities in nurturing startups, presents detailed case studies of how participants in that model help or hinder startup activity, and shows how to apply these lessons to boost local startup activity. Startup Cities explains the factors that determine local startup success based on a detailed comparison of regional startup cities--pairing the most successful and less successful...

"Accelerator programs have emerged as one of the most powerful vehicles for helping entrepreneurs to learn rapidly, create powerful networks, raise money, build their startups, and do this at speed and at scale. Since Y Combinator brought Accelerators into the public consciousness in 2005, the number of Accelerator programs have exploded around the world; spawning successes such as AirBnB, DropBox, Reddit, Stripe, Zenefits, Pillpack and Uber--many...