Business Capital

When it was founded in 1993, Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive hedge fund in history. But after four years in which the firm dazzled Wall Street as a $100 billion moneymaking juggernaut, it suddenly suffered catastrophic losses that jeopardized not only the biggest banks on Wall Street but the stability of the financial system itself. The dramatic story of Long-Term's fall is now a chilling harbinger of the crisis that would strike all of Wall Street, from Lehman Brothers to AIG, a decade later.

The untold fact is that relying on traditional VC/angel groups for startup funding doesn't work, but now, there's a better way. The Evergreen Startup presents a radical new approach that dramatically diversifies the sources of capital and types of investments available to an early-stage startup. It has been used in the real world by hundreds of founders to raise many millions of dollars.

Sin duda hay una pugna continua entre ricos y pobres (o pobres y ricos segun se prefiera), que no tiene nada que ver con el patrimonio que tenga cada clase social. Hay algunos rasgos y hábitos que muchas personas ricas tienen que podemos aprender, imitar, censurar o descartar; tomados de manera individual, pueden parecer sin trascendecia alguna, sin significancia, pero cuando piensas en estas ideas como una mentalidad que hace cambios importantes y de cierta magnitud, su impacto en nuestras vidas y tal vez en nuestra properidad todo se vuelve mucho mas claro.

Is your firm utilizing its human capital advantage? From determining your hiring needs, to crafting an effective job description, identifying and vetting top talent, to making the right compensation offer, Successful Hiring for Financial Planners is a straightforward guide that provides practical wisdom and real-world experience for how to effectively execute the hiring process for your first (or next) financial planning hire in your growing advisory firm.

Is poverty inevitable? No, says author Paul Godfrey. More than Money shows how organizations can win the fight against poverty and create prosperity for people at the base of the pyramid in the developing and developed world.

This is the second edition of B: A Capital Tale which is a parable for spiritual thinkers and a wonderful story about personal identity: how it is created in perfection, how it can be deformed by negative influences, and how it can be redeemed. From beginning to end, the story is told with generous helpings of alliteration and rhyme that give it a playful quality, even when the Beast is at its worst.

Wouldn't it be great if we all could achieve the success of the ultra-wealthy? We all could, but we need to learn the basics of not budgeting but cash flow. The wealthy treat their lives like a business. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you. The wealthy use things like profit and loss statements and balance sheets. Therefore, this book is dedicated to cash flow and creating a simple yet easy formula for you to set up your budget.

Dealing with a hectic ADHD brain? Want to know more about venture capital? Want to know all things venture capital but don't have the time or brain space to listen to hours of words of a book? Let The ADHD "How-to Guide" give you knowledge in a straightforward and bite-sized way. This guide works you through what is venture capital, the venture capital lifecycle, becoming a venture capitalist, and jargon buster. Check out all the other ADHD '"How-to Guide" books in this series to learn more.

Work sucks. It’s not the job, it’s the people. There’s the guy who hates everything. The woman that derails every meeting. The jackass that built an evil empire around the accounting system. If they’d just go away, life at work would be a lot better. So fire them as nature intended. The law of the jungle has striking parallels in the office jungles of work. I’ll guide you through the wilderness of the organizational predator to show you how to hunt vile coworkers, even bosses, all the way to the pink slip.

The inspiring true story of Zen Ventures, a venture impact studio for diverse founders and artists, and its uncompromising founder, Champion Muthle.

Viva the Entrepreneur shares the lessons Brian learned while building his company. He shows how to manage your own psychology and your operations, be it working with cofounders, building a culture, or managing a board of directors. Brian also reveals the secrets of scaling a business and best practices for raising venture capital in Latin America. You will develop an understanding of the most critical parts of an investor term sheet and gain perspective into the inner workings of the venture capital game.