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Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this path-breaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how shareholder value thinking endangers not only investors but the rest of us as well.

The $20 SaaS Company: From Zero to Seven Figures Without Venture Capital describes the story of a young entrepreneur who built a $20 investment into a multi-million dollar software company. With no investors, role models, high-tech equipment, or marketing team, the audiobook tells you how to beat venture capital based companies at their game. This audiobook contains the secret strategies to running a profitable SaaS company, describing the tactics to get the word out about your product for free.

Investigative reporter Gary Rivlin gives an armchair tour of the world of venture capitalism, while providing vivid case studies illustrating how to get started in the field. He shows how once-small companies such as Facebook, Instagram, and Amazon used venture capitalism to transform into the icons they are today, and the VCs that made a fortune in the process. Listeners will learn what series funding is, the difference between an angel and super angel investor, and how to go about identifying ideas worthy of funding.

In Cash is King, working capital and cash strategist Peter W. Kingma delivers an insightful and practical discussion of why your company's cash position should be on an equal footing with sales, cost, and service, and how to make that happen. You'll learn why cash is the fuel in your corporate engine and discover the attributes of an organizational cash culture and how to adopt them within your own firm.

Conquer the FMVA Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst is a comprehensive study guide designed to help aspiring financial professionals excel in the Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) exam. This guide covers essential topics in financial modeling and valuation, offering detailed explanations, practical examples, and expert insights to ensure a thorough understanding of key concepts. The book is structured to progressively build your knowledge, starting with foundational principles of financial analysis, and advancing to complex valuation ...

Take control and transform your business. In "How to Get Your Business Flywheel Spinning", financial expert Eric Rigby reveals the repeatable process that has helped countless entrepreneurs achieve their ultimate vision, whether scaling or selling their business. Rigby's unique "flywheel" system will revolutionize how you run your company, empowering you to delegate responsibility to your team, boost profits, minimize taxes, and gain the freedom to focus on a big-picture strategy.

Navigate the intricate world of private equity and venture capital with "The Insider's Guide to Securities Law: Navigating the Intricacies of Public and Private Offerings." This comprehensive guidebook illuminates the complexities of the industry, serving as an essential resource for legal practitioners, investment professionals, and entrepreneurs alike. Venture into the fascinating domain of fund formation, understand the roles of limited and general partners, and uncover the strategic aspects of tax structuring. Get acquainted with the key regulatory authorities overseeing the industry, ...

Just as the steam engine and the railroads were the cog of the Industrial Revolution, blockchain is the cog in the next Internet revolution and that time is now! Be part of the next advancement of technology that's not mainstream yet. The blockchain revolution is here! Learn everything you need to know about blockchain and how you can get involve in the next digital ecosystem.

The legendary investor and bestselling author shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. This template allowed his firm, Bridgewater Associates, to antic­ipate 2008’s events and navigate them well while others struggled badly. As he explained in his international best­seller Principles, Ray Dalio believes that almost everything happens over and over again through time, so that by studying patterns one can understand the cause-effect relationships behind events and develop principles for dealing with them well.

Renowned risk and finance expert Håkan Jankensgård delivers an extraordinary and startling discussion of how firms should navigate a world of uncertainty and unexpected events. It examines three fundamental, high-level strategies for creating resilience in the face of "black swan" risks, highly unlikely but devastating events: insurance, buffering, and flexibility.

Here's How to Turn Your Business Idea into a Successful Reality; Plus, You Get 9 Free Valuable Gifts (Updated 2022 Edition) Wouldn’t you like an easy and proven way to develop a high quality business plan? This guide features a complete business plan template with step by step instructions on how to plan and start your new business. This fill-in-the-blanks template includes every section of your business plan. This is must-know must-do information; ignore it and you stand a good chance to fail (a similar template is sold elsewhere for $69.95). The Business Plan Template will help you ...

This meticulously crafted study guide covers six critical areas essential for the CMA Part 2 exam: Financial Statement Analysis: Gain a deep understanding of financial statement analysis, including techniques for interpreting and analyzing balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. Learn how to assess a company's financial health and make informed decisions based on financial data. Corporate Finance: Explore the fundamentals of corporate finance, including capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, and dividend policy. Understand how to manage a company's ...

In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it.

Are you an entrepreneur looking for funds in the digital economy? Raise and Rise offers a goldmine of in-depth knowledge about capital sources and tools for a modern startup featuring venture capital, crowdfunding (including blockchain-based), royalty financing, family offices and angel investors. Knitting together a vivid conversation with solid data, anecdotes, links, fun analyses and curious cases (Uber, Elio Motors, Spotify, and more), Dr. Victoria Silchenko goes beyond conventional narratives and unapologetically reveals the facts that might change your perspective on the best sources ...

Initial public offerings (IPOs), or new listings of companies on stock exchanges, are among the most important form of finance and generate considerable attention and excitement. They are used to raise capital or to monetize investments by the early generation of venture capital and other private investors. They are increasingly international in scope and reach. This audio handbook provides a comprehensive overview of why companies list on stock exchanges, how IPOs are regulated, initially valued, and their performance in the short and long run.

Once an obscure niche of the investment world, private equity has grown into a juggernaut, with consequences for a wide range of industries as well as the financial markets. The Myth of Private Equity is a hard-hitting and meticulous exposé from an insider's viewpoint. Jeffrey C. Hooke examines the negative effects of private equity and the ways in which it has avoided scrutiny. He unravels the exaggerations the industry has spun to its customers and the business media, showing the stark realities that are concealed by the funds' self-mythologizing and penchant for secrecy.

Companies backed by venture capital drive the U.S. economy, accounting for hundreds of billions of dollars in sales and profits. The problem is that most of the wealth created winds up enriching elites while the businesses funded by venture capitalists widen economic inequality. Committed to doing things differently, tech venture capitalists Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor launched Kapor Capital to prove that investing in gap-closing startups—companies whose services or products close opportunity gaps for both communities of color and low-income communities—is good business.

Author William Lin spent over a decade in venture capital, starting in an entry-level position, helping to start a leading VC firm from scratch, and eventually becoming managing partner. In The VC Field Guide, Lin shares his unique framework, the Venture Capital Investment Framework, to help any venture capitalist, entrepreneur, or investor make better startup investment decisions, quicker. Lin delivers an incisive and practical handbook for the world of venture capital.

An innovative trend combining technology with economics is unraveling behemoth industries - including corporations, banks, farms, media conglomerates, energy systems, governments, and schools - that have long dominated business and society. Size and scale have become a liability. A new generation of upstarts is using artificial intelligence to automate tasks that once required expensive investment, and "renting" technology platforms to build businesses for hyper-focused markets, enabling them to grow big without the bloat of giant organizations.

While there are high-quality manuals for conducting digital examinations on a device or network that has been hacked, the Cybercrime Investigators Handbook is the first guide on how to commence an investigation from the location the offence occurred and collect the evidence necessary to locate and prosecute the offender. This valuable contribution to the field teaches listeners to locate, lawfully seize, preserve, examine, interpret, and manage the technical evidence that is vital for effective cybercrime investigation.