Colin C Campbell

Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. by Colin Campbell is the go-to guide for entrepreneurs who want to build, grow, and sell businesses on their terms. Drawing from Campbell’s own experience founding and exiting multiple companies, this book skips the theory and delivers real-world, actionable advice. It breaks down how to start with clarity, scale efficiently without burning out, and plan the kind of exit that rewards your hustle. Campbell shares proven strategies, hard lessons, and smart shortcuts to help readers avoid common pitfalls and make smarter moves at every stage. Whether you’re launching your first venture or prepping for your next big sale, this book hands you the mindset and playbook to move fast, stay focused, and build something worth selling.

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Kass Lazerow

Mike Lazerow

Entrepreneurship is brutally hard. Instead of swimming in seas of cash, many founders find themselves buried under mountains of crap. In Shoveling Sh!t: A Love Story, Kass and Mike Lazerow share hard-learned lessons from decades of shoveling as co-founders and early investors in startups that have generated more than $10 billion in realized gains. As the co-founders of GOLF.com and Buddy Media, which Salesforce bought for $745 million, they’ve lived the “Imbalanced Life” and have the scars and gains to prove it. Whether you’re deciding to leap or have already lept, their book will teach you to embrace the beauty of the struggle and use the tools and entrepreneur’s mindset to overcome the misery and uncertainty that awaits. Their raw, deeply personal stories are universal strategies for choosing cofounders, greenlighting and funding ideas, building high-performing teams, creating the right culture, and pivoting businesses before it’s too late.

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Jeff Swartz

"The Intentional Leap" is designed to help entrepreneurs be successful by providing a strategic roadmap for building a business that is both profitable and sustainable. It teaches how to be disciplined with your finances, avoiding panicked decisions, scaling, getting started, pricing, and more.

More than just professional success, a core theme is designing a life you actually enjoy living. The book emphasizes that "life balance is a business strategy" and encourages you to build a company that supports your personal well-being, rather than consuming it. By focusing on clear processes, building a strong team, and avoiding burnout, the book ultimately aims to help you achieve success without losing yourself along the way. In short, it's indented to be one of the most useful books for soon to be and newer entrepreneurs to give them an edge.

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Tony Jeton Selimi

"Navigate the new business frontiers with unparalleled precision and insight." Dr John Demartini – Author of The Values Factor “In Climb Greater Heights, Tony J. Selimi shows you how to turn doubt and adversity into purpose, passion, and profit.” Steve Harrison – Author Success Climb Greater Heights is a transformative guide for entrepreneurs, business owners, leaders, and CEOs aspiring to achieve extraordinary success. Tony J. Selimi, who rose from homelessness to spearheading billion-pound technology transformations, masterfully combines practical business acceleration strategies with profound insights into human behavior, emotional intelligence, leadership excellence, resilience, and life mastery. In this powerful book, he unveils a proven system that has helped his clients generate over a billion pounds in sales, enhance their credibility, and amplify their influence.

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David Sinkinson

Chris Sinkinson

Startups are sexy. From revolutions to disruptions to pivots, running your own startup is an appealing but unfortunately overdramatized endeavor. The problem is that startup-land is full of myths and misnomers. Will early funding actually help your business in the longer term? Do you need a bunch of staff? Making the wrong call on questions like these can actually crush your dream rather than getting you closer to it.

And it’s not just business decisions. Entrepreneurs also feel constant challenges to their legitimacy—doubts from family, friends, their employees, mentors, the market. That insecurity causes many founders to follow a pop-culture approach to decision-making that doesn’t move their business forward.

Our book proves that you can create a legitimate startup without all the nonsense and mythology. It provides readers a chronological framework for building your business—everything from idea generation to selling for millions and moving on—that dispels the common "myths"

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John Abrams

From Founder to Future is helping small business owners to make succession plans that include less well-known options: the various forms of employee ownership. There are approximately three million American small businesses with employees whose founder(s) are over 55. In each of these, a transition will occur as owners age out during the coming years. Those who advise small business owners – accountants, attorneys, financial planners, business brokers, and succession consultants – are mostly unaware of the different employee ownership options. From Founder to Future brings these into focus. As well as nuts-and-bolts information, the book provides stories of exemplary companies to help owners visualize and internalize the benefits of conversion to employee ownership.

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Sara Howard

Beyond Solo helps small business owners and solopreneurs who feel stuck or overwhelmed take back control of their business – and their life. My practical frameworks make it easy to explore alternative paths to growth, and I go behind the scenes in real businesses to unpack what works – and what doesn't. Through reviews, emails and conversations, readers tell me my book has given them permission to make bold changes in their work and business – and it has resonated with both employees and entrepreneurs.
The sustainable approach of growing better (not just bigger) is timely in a disrupted market.
My readers say it best:
“I devoured it over the weekend, feeling quite the gamut of emotions as it caused me to reflect on what I’d really like to do for the remainder of my working years.”
“Her five growth models gave me real clarity.”
“Like having the business coach you’ve always wanted on speed dial.”

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Kass Lazerow

Mike Lazerow

Entrepreneurship is brutally hard. Instead of swimming in seas of cash, many founders find themselves buried under mountains of crap. In Shoveling Sh!t: A Love Story, Kass and Mike Lazerow share hard-learned lessons from decades of shoveling as co-founders and early investors in startups that have generated more than $10 billion in realized gains. As the co-founders of GOLF.com and Buddy Media, which Salesforce bought for $745 million, they’ve lived the “Imbalanced Life” and have the scars and gains to prove it. Whether you’re deciding to leap or have already lept, their book will teach you to embrace the beauty of the struggle and use the tools and entrepreneur’s mindset to overcome the misery and uncertainty that awaits. Their raw, deeply personal stories are universal strategies for choosing cofounders, greenlighting and funding ideas, building high-performing teams, creating the right culture, and pivoting businesses before it’s too late.

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Jennifer Collins

Elizabeth Clark

Unlikely to Unstoppable is a compilation of stories from thirteen everyday entrepreneurs who found their way to rewarding paths through determination and steadfast commitment. Readers describe it as a celebration of unconventional journeys told with humor, insight, and heart. Enlightening tidbits from these first-person stories have helped fledgling entrepreneurs at critical turning points believe that, like those featured in the book, success is within their reach.

Each mini-memoir profiles learning experiences that are accessible, motivating, and uplifting. Whether the tale involves failure, disappointment, triumph, or success, the men and women interviewed are relatable and inspiring. The authors eloquently analyze the themes that emerged from dozens of experiences to weave together a collection of perspectives that champion people who continue to work toward their dreams despite the inevitable rough roads along any journey. Readers find themselves feeling unstoppable!

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David Sinkinson

Chris Sinkinson

Startups are sexy. From revolutions to disruptions to pivots, running your own startup is an appealing but unfortunately overdramatized endeavor. The problem is that startup-land is full of myths and misnomers. Will early funding actually help your business in the longer term? Do you need a bunch of staff? Making the wrong call on questions like these can actually crush your dream rather than getting you closer to it.

And it’s not just business decisions. Entrepreneurs also feel constant challenges to their legitimacy—doubts from family, friends, their employees, mentors, the market. That insecurity causes many founders to follow a pop-culture approach to decision-making that doesn’t move their business forward.

Our book proves that you can create a legitimate startup without all the nonsense and mythology. It provides readers a chronological framework for building your business—everything from idea generation to selling for millions and moving on—that dispels the common "myths"

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Colin C Campbell

Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. by Colin Campbell is the go-to guide for entrepreneurs who want to build, grow, and sell businesses on their terms. Drawing from Campbell’s own experience founding and exiting multiple companies, this book skips the theory and delivers real-world, actionable advice. It breaks down how to start with clarity, scale efficiently without burning out, and plan the kind of exit that rewards your hustle. Campbell shares proven strategies, hard lessons, and smart shortcuts to help readers avoid common pitfalls and make smarter moves at every stage. Whether you’re launching your first venture or prepping for your next big sale, this book hands you the mindset and playbook to move fast, stay focused, and build something worth selling.

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Pascal Clarysse

The Slingshot Formula is the definitive behind-the-scenes analysis into the business tactics, marketing genius and wild stunts that facilitated an unknown startup company to turn the mobile game Angry Birds into a true pop culture phenomenon. The small startup from Finland have grown their workforce from 18 to 800, with offices spanning across 4 continents. How did Rovio do it? Filled with exclusive stories and insider tips, The Slingshot Formula serves as the maverick playbook of what-to-do and what-not-to-do when navigating fast lane success in the rapidity of the digital era.

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David Sinkinson

Chris Sinkinson

Startups are sexy. From revolutions to disruptions to pivots, running your own startup is an appealing but unfortunately overdramatized endeavor. The problem is that startup-land is full of myths and misnomers. Will early funding actually help your business in the longer term? Do you need a bunch of staff? Do you need to take big gambles to get ahead? Making the wrong call on questions like these can actually crush your dream rather than getting you closer to it.

And it’s not just business decisions. Entrepreneurs also feel constant challenges to their legitimacy—doubts from family, friends, their employees, mentors, the market… you name it.

Startup Different, provides you with a chronological framework for building your business—everything from idea generation to selling for millions and moving on—that dispels the common assumptions that come with starting your own business. You too can make your business legit and achieve your entrepreneurial dreams.

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Jorge Sá

Magda Pereira, Nadiia Nikitina

The book presents the PISA method illustrated by hundreds of examples of how unicorns can be created:
- Through simplicity (which is today, besides technology, the second great venue for entrepreneurship);
- By people of all backgrounds:
- Even without technical know-how; and
- Of all ages;
- With problems/opportunities which came to them (instead of having to look actively for opportunities); and
- Adapting solutions which already are in use elsewhere (rather than having to create them anew/from scratch).

That is the essence of the PISA method, which summarizes the actions of visionaries who touched lives by simplifying an increasing complex world.

And so in a certain sense this book was written by the multitude of entrepreneurs whose lives are nothing but examples of the PISA method, detailing a quiet revolution under way, which falls below the radar and therefore has, so far, been an untold story.

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James Sinclair

Starting a Startup provides a clear, actionable framework that helps first-time founders validate their ideas, truly understand their market, and build products that solve real problems. It is geared towards the first-time founder who has a great idea but is overwhelmed by the prospect of turning it into a successful business.

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