Business Empire

With magazines such as Computerworld, PCWorld, and Macworld, Patrick McGovern's company, International Data Group (IDG), quickly became a global powerhouse with information technology publications in nearly 100 countries. The story of IDG's astonishing success has been a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs all around the world. Future Forward shows you how to apply McGovern's principles to your own organization.

Based on extensive insider interviews and participation, acclaimed author Ben Mezrich's Straight Flush tells the captivating rags-to-riches tale of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local dive bar into AbsolutePoker.com, one of the largest online companies in the world. But then the U.S. Department of Justice placed a bull's-eye on Absolute Poker. Did they fold - or double down and ride their hot hand?

A Wheelbarrow and a Shovel documents the truly remarkable story of one of America’s most unlikely business success stories. Starting with only a wheelbarrow and a shovel, as well as the same American dream that led his parents to leave their native Holland for the United States, John Boll built a real estate empire in the most unlikely of ways - by developing and improving manufactured home communities around the country. It’s a rags-to-riches tale that could only happen in America - and only with the hand of God leading the way.

Sumner Murray Redstone, once feared as the “mad genius” of media who would dump his CEOs for mere wobbles in his companies’ stock price, had built one of the world’s greatest media empires through a series of audacious takeovers constructed to ensure that he always maintained control. Today he controls 80 percent of the voting shares of both Viacom and CBS, meaning that on a whim he could replace the entire boards of two public companies with a combined value of $40 billion.

How to Start a Business provides you with a week-by-week guide to establishing your business in just 60 days. You'll learn how to find a great idea for your business, how to write a business plan that will help you win over investors and financiers, and the many other things that you need to do when launching your business.

For some of the world's most powerful people, the Empire State Building is the ultimate prize. In a riveting chronicle of betrayal, revenge, family rivalry, and raw greed, Wall Street Journal columnist Pacelle tells the compelling tale of the Empire State Building ownership battle of the 1980s and '90s, bringing to life a colorful cast of characters that includes Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, and the eccentric Japanese billionaire Hideki Yokoi.

At just 13 years old, he faced a challenge that most teenagers never confront: how to help support his struggling family. Armed with only $100 and an unwavering resolve, he discovered e-commerce drop-shipping and embarked on a journey that would transform his, and his family's life forever. In this compelling memoir and practical guide, you’ll follow his extraordinary rise from middle school student to e-commerce mogul. With vivid personal stories and hard-earned wisdom, he shares how he turned initial setbacks into a thriving business, eventually generating multiple 8-figures by 25.

If you dream of launching your own business, but aren't sure what that business should be, microDomination has the answer. This new book from entrepreneur and communications guru Trevor Young shows you how to tap into your particular area of expertise and build a small business around what you know and love. No matter what particular subject you're knowledgeable about, from dog training to cooking to financial planning, microDomination shows you how to build a brand around yourself and turn that brand and expertise into profits even from the comfort of your own home.

Things are going badly for the Clan in this new SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come.

Dental practice owners and their teams often dream of growing a successful dental group or DSO. Then complexity sets in. Today, successful practitioners have to survive the world of business: marketing, messaging, HR, finance, compliance. It's a lot for any team to manage. DSO Secrets: The Ultimate Guide to Building Your Dental Empire uncovers those secrets. Whether your goal is to be a top clinician in a single practice or to build your own multi-practice portfolio, this book has the resources you're looking for.

With the increasingly unreliable nature of even the most stalwart corporate job, more and more people are looking for a reliable way to ensure they can support themselves and their families come what may. Affiliate marketing offers you a chance to start an online business with minimal capital.

Yes, you really can make a great living buying and selling on eBay! In eBay Blackbook: Complete Beginners Guide to Starting Your eBay Business Empire, Veronica Mckinnon provides a step-by-step process on how to run a successful eBay business. You'll find out about shippers, suppliers, seller tools - and how to sell items on eBay in only an hour! Listen to this life-changing book today and start making more money online!

Sarno's casinos - and his ideas about how to build casinos - created the template for Las Vegas today. Before him, Las Vegas meant dealers in string ties and bland, functional architecture. He taught the city how to dress up its hotels in fantasy, putting toga dresses on cocktail waitresses and making sure that even the stationery carried through with the theme. He saw Las Vegas as a place where ordinary people could leave their ordinary lives and have extraordinary adventures.

Are you ready to unlock the secrets of ruthless success in the cutthroat world of business? Step into the shadows and learn from the masterminds of the underworld in How to Build a Business Like the Mafia. This riveting guide takes you on a thrilling journey through the corridors of power, revealing the hidden strategies and tactics used by mobsters to build their criminal empires.

The dream of passive income is actually not a dream. It’s a goal that you can work toward. It won’t happen overnight, but with patience, perseverance, and resourcefulness, you will be able to achieve that goal. Leveraging the power of Shopify and Amazon FBA to explode your business will help get you where you want to be. This book is about using the power of these commerce tools to build a product-based business that you can automate as much as you want.

Sam Bankman-Fried—better known as SBF—was at the top of the world and lauded as a leading figure in cryptocurrency, an industry whose popularity has exploded over the past few years. He was being compared to the legendary financier J.P. Morgan and sometimes even rumored to have the potential to become the world’s first trillionaire. He built a crypto empire with trading firm Alameda Research and crypto exchange FTX, which became one of the world’s largest. He attracted leading investors and walked the corridors of power in Congress. Then, seemingly within days, everything collapsed.

Peter Voogd, author of 6 Months to 6 Figures and founder of the prestigious Game Changers Academy, talks with successful entrepreneurs on how they built their multimillion-dollar businesses from the ground up. Learn from Lori Harder, Tom Bilyeu, and more about the importance of pulling power from rock-bottom moments, staying passionate and persistent, and how to genuinely provide value to others.

Most people do not know what they are missing by not participating in online business. There are many ways to earn money through the Internet. Many of these methods require little to no capital. However, it will require hard work. The Internet is a very competitive market. If you want to be successful in this industry, you need to work hard when everybody else wants to rest and you need to learn the right strategies that the pros use. This book provides you with the strategies that you need to succeed.

Are you sick and tired of working for someone else? Want to be your own boss working from the comfort of your own home? Yes, it's actually possible! The vast majority of people I talk to think the only way to make money online is to scam, MLMs or some sort of pyramid scheme. But nope. There are nine ways in this book and if you implement even half of them you'll be very successful within six months.

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