This fun and accessible guide offers super advice for business success. Top venture capitalist and self- proclaimed ?comic book geek? Sean Wise reveals how to create a winning business persona through valuable strategies from great comic book icons. In this engaging and insightful guide, Wise takes readers on a guided tour through the world of superheroes and their lessons, directly relating them to essential business tactics people need to master in order to succeed in today?s workplace. Featuring modern-day examples of business icons who best illustrate superhero strategies?as well as cautionary lessons from infamous supervillains?this is the book for anyone who dreams of donning a cape instead of a suit, taking an oath instead of swearing at the copier, and seeing the big picture instead of getting mired in the daily grind.

How to Be a Business Superhero: Prepare for Everything, Train with the Best, Make your Own Destiny at Work

Business & Money

Sean Wise

Business Culture

Penguin Publishing Group

Entrepreneurship, Canadian Edition combines the concepts and theories of entrepreneurship with practical instruction and a range of real-life examples and cases. The concepts cover what aspiring entrepreneurs need to know to start and grow their businesses while the examples and cases tell the stories of real entrepreneurs. The text covers all stages of the entrepreneurial process from searching for an opportunity to shaping it into a commercially attractive product or service, launching the new venture, and building it into a viable business. Canadian author and successful entrepreneur, Dr. Sean Wise of Ryerson University, is highly regarded in the industry and believes that students can learn from top entrepreneurs in Canada, as well as the U.S. and globally. Dr. Wise is the host of The Naked Entrepreneur Show, a web based series devoted to the topic that features interviews with entrepreneurs and those involved in entrepreneurship. Clips from the show are mapped to concepts in the text, making the text more engaging, relevant, and current.

Entrepreneurship

Andrew Zacharakis

William D. Bygrave

Management & Leadership

John Wiley & Sons, Canada

Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job

Brad Feld

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

GREAT IDEAS CHANGE THE WORLD, but how do you know if your idea is truly great? That is the problem Professor Sean Wise addresses in his third and best book to date. Sean Wise, former online host and business advisor to the hit reality show, Dragons' Den, has heard tens of thousands of entrepreneurs' idea pitches. Some were good, most were bad, and in this book he shows you how to tell the difference. Based on more than 20,000 hours of pitches, Wise takes us inside the minds of investors and other opportunity spotters to learn how they separate the best from the rest. In doing so, Wise provides readers with an objective framework for gauging the potential of Startup business ideas. This book provides: • an entrepreneurial field guide for innovators • tools to help you recognize great entrepreneurial opportunities • an interactive framework to help Startup entrepreneurs address key issues • a multidimensional objective scorecard to assist in the decision process • lists of key considerations to address before you invest your time, energy and money So before you drop out, invest in, or quit your day job to pursue an opportunity, first discover if your idea is HOT or NOT and learn how to get investors to back your pitch.

HOT or NOT:: How to know if your Business Idea will Fly or Fail

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This year more than five million entrepreneurs will launch a new venture. Many of them believe they have the Next Big Thing. But very few startups live to see five years, and even fewer make it to ten. Even fewer still go on to become a global success story. This book is a practical guide to evaluating your business idea and a must-read for all aspiring entrepreneurs. You'll learn: -that if your new venture doesn't follow the 10x Rule, you should not quit your day job and why -how early customer development can transform a good idea into a great opportunity; -which opportunities are worth selling everything for Brad Feld and Dr. Sean Wise have been assessing startup opportunities for more than two decades. They have witnessed more than 30,000 pitches and participated in more than 500 startup launches. Now two of North America s leading minds in venture capital share how they determine which startups will succeed and which will fail. This book is indispensable for anybody who has ever thought about starting a business or fumbled their way through giving advice about starting a business.

FG Press

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