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What avoidable problem destroys more young startups than any other? Why is it a mistake to ask for introductions to investors? When do you play the CEO card? Should you sell out? Author and four-time founder/CEO Dan Shapiro tells the stories of dozens of startups whose companies lived and died by the advice in these pages. From inception to destruction and triumph to despair, this rollercoaster read takes aspiring entrepreneurs from the highs of billion-dollar payouts and market-smashing success to the depths of impostor syndrome and bankruptcy. Hot Seat is divided into the five phases of the startup CEO experience: Founding explains how to formulate your idea, allocate equity, and not argue yourself to death Funding provides the keys to venture capital, angels, and crowdfunding, plus clear advice on which approach to choose Leadership lays out a path to build a strategy and culture for your team that will survive good times and bad Management reveals how to manage your board, argue with your team, and play the CEO card Endgame explains how to finish a company's existence with grace, wealth, and minimal litigation
Most nonprofits approach strategic planning in ways that take too much time and effort, focus on the wrong issues, and set up the plan to be something that gathers dust on a shelf rather than being implemented. If you want a different approach, this is the book for you. This book shows nonprofit leaders and organizations how to conduct strategic planning processes that deliver both a great strategy and an organization that can drive strategic change and continually refresh its strategy. It introduces a new framework—Strategic FUEL—and shows leaders how to map their organization’s strategic situation to a planning approach that addresses the most important opportunities and challenges, ...
Teaching History in an Uncivilized World is the latest book by National Teacher of the Year Philip Bigler. It is a fascinating chronicle of his 23-year odyssey as a high school history and humanities teacher. Widely recognized for his innovative and exciting methods, Bigler explains how as a novice teacher he discovered the power of using historical simulations to motivate students and to help them become active participants in their own learning. These inspiring lessons proved highly effective in teaching important curricular content as President Bill Clinton would later acknowledge: “Through these historic simulations, his students have learned lessons about democracy and the meaning of ...
BuzzFeed資深科技記者 揭開五大巨頭鮮為人知的內幕 他們為何令人激賞、又令人憤怒? 「第一天」是領先優勢 「第二天」就是死亡 臉書、亞馬遜、蘋果、微軟、谷歌,毫無疑問是影響全球人類生活的五大科技公司。亞馬遜所推崇的「第一天」心態,標誌了他們共同的核心精神:永遠不安於現狀,從不停止創新。但他們到底是如何辦到的? 本書作者是BuzzFeed的資深科技記者,他透過130場與內部人士(從馬克‧祖克柏到計時工)的訪談,深入而全面地呈現這些企業之所以能在變動快速、任何優勢都無法成為安全傘的世界持續成功...
Biographical sketch of Lewis Ring (ca.1805-1885), who married Jane (Jennie) Hogg in Maury (later Marshall) County, Tennessee. Most of the book deals with family history and genealogy of descendants living in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas and else- where. Includes some ancestry living in North Carolina and Illinois.
Robert Seeley (1602-1667) was born in the County of Huntingdon, England, son of William Seeley and Grace Prett. He married Mary Mason and they came to America in 1630 where they lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Long Island. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Brunswick, Ontario, Australia, Utah, California, and elsewhere. Some descendants came to New Brunswick as Loyalists in 1783. Includes other Seely families from Ireland and England.
Rev. William Bruton (1765-1849), son of George Bruton (1744-1811) and Susan Wilson Bruton (1747-1808), was born in Montgomery County, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Virginia. He and his wife, Elizabeth Ozier (1771-1844), had six children, 1787-1794?. He was a plantation owner and an ordained Methodist Episcopal minister in Montgomery County, North Carolina. He died in Montgomery County. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, and elsewhere.