10 Best Business Development Books
Business Development is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Business Development audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 10 Business Development audiobooks below.
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Angel
- By: Jason Calacanis
- Narrator: Jason Calacanis
- Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 18, 2017
- Language: English
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4.29(1743 ratings)
4.29(1743 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDOne of Silicon Valley’s most successful angel investors shares his rules for investing in startups. There are two ways to make money in startups: create something valuable–or invest in the people that are creating valuable things. OverOne of Silicon Valley’s most successful angel investors shares his rules for investing in startups.
There are two ways to make money in startups: create something valuable–or invest in the people that are creating valuable things.
Over the past twenty-five years, Jason Calacanis has made a fortune investing in creators, spotting and helping build and fund a number of successful technology startups–investments that have earned him tens of millions of dollars. Now, in this enlightening guide that is sure to become the bible for twenty-first century investors, Calacanis takes potential angels step-by-step through his proven method of creating massive wealth: startups.
As Calacanis makes clear, you can get rich–even if you came from humble beginnings (his dad was a bartender, his mom a nurse), didn’t go to the right schools, and weren’t a top student. The trick is learning how angel investors think. Calacanis takes you inside the minds of these successful moneymen, helping you understand how they prioritize and make the decisions that have resulted in phenomenal profits. He guides you step by step through the process, revealing how leading investors evaluate new ventures, calculating the risks and rewards, and explains how the best startups leverage relationships with angel investors for the best results.
Whether you’re an aspiring investor or a budding entrepreneur, Angel will inspire and educate you on all the ins of outs. Buckle up for a wild ride into the world of angel investing!
This audiobook edition of Angel includes exclusive bonus one-on-one interviews with Jason Calacanis and professional angel investors. Featured are Founders Fund Partner Cyan Banister, multiple start up investor Gil Penchina, Founding Partner at XG Ventures Andrea Zurek, and serial entrepreneur and start up mentor Ed Roman.
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Reboot
- By: Jodie Fox
- Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 28, 2020
- Language: English
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4.19(60 ratings)
4.19(60 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDShoes of Prey launched in 2009. It allowed people to design their dream shoes online, get them expertly manufactured, and have them shipped to anywhere in the world within two weeks. The startup broke even at two months, hit multi-million dollarShoes of Prey launched in 2009. It allowed people to design their dream shoes online, get them expertly manufactured, and have them shipped to anywhere in the world within two weeks. The startup broke even at two months, hit multi-million dollar revenues in under two years, raised tens of millions in funding from top-tier investors and shipped to more than 100 countries. All the metrics pointed to huge scalability. To a huge business. To a huge success.
But it didn’t succeed. In 2018 the business failed. And this is that story.
Reboot tells the truth of what it is like to be at the helm of a global business. From the high highs of besting Karl Lagerfeld on global awards to the low lows of closing the doors on your dream, join author Jodie Fox on a raw journey as she reveals for the first time the story behind the story of fashion darling Shoes of Prey.
This incredible ride will share lessons on raising capital, building a brand, finding suppliers, doing business in China and, most importantly, how to learn and grow from your successes and your mistakes and be ready every day to reboot for the next challenge.
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The Startup Gold Mine
- By: Neil Soni
- Narrator: Neil Soni
- Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publish date: October 16, 2018
- Language: English
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4.06(25 ratings)
4.06(25 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDAn invaluable playbook for startup founders looking to partner with big business. Corporations are desperate to overhaul their culture and the perception that they are giant, bureaucratic dinosaurs too slow to react in a rapidly changing businessAn invaluable playbook for startup founders looking to partner with big business.
Corporations are desperate to overhaul their culture and the perception that they are giant, bureaucratic dinosaurs too slow to react in a rapidly changing business landscape. Many are trying to be more innovative and agile, like a startup. One easy way to achieve this goal is through partnering with or acquiring a startup. Corporate venture capital (CVC) now makes up 25 percent ($18 billion) of all venture capital dollars in North America.
The Startup Gold Mine reveals how the world’s largest and most prestigious brands make innovation decisions, including new product launches, vendor-startup partnerships, and even billion-dollar acquisitions. The book also details the ways startups can leverage corporate strengths and weaknesses for mutual benefit. You will learn:
- Why the “innovator’s dilemma” is leading large companies to seek out partnerships with startups
- How to close a deal with a large company, from first connection to getting paid
- Strategies to troubleshoot common land mines that startups encounter when working with large companies
- Ways to navigate the convoluted corporate landscape without spending a fortune on conferences and consultants.
Author Neil Soni draws on his experience as an entrepreneur and as an external innovator with premier brands like Estee Lauder, MAC, and Smashbox to reveal large companies’ inner workings, as well as how startup founders and employees can use this knowledge to close the biggest deals of their lives.
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Strategic Customer Service
- By: John Goodman
- Narrator: John Goodman
- Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publish date: February 05, 2019
- Language: English
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3.93(54 ratings)
3.93(54 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDAny organization can win more customers and increase sales if they learn to be more strategic with their customer service. When customers complain, employees respond. The typical service model is riddled with holes. What about people and businessesAny organization can win more customers and increase sales if they learn to be more strategic with their customer service.
When customers complain, employees respond. The typical service model is riddled with holes. What about people and businesses who never speak up, but never come back? Learn to actively reach out, prevent problems, and resolve issues in ways that boost loyalty.
Strategic Customer Service is a data-packed roadmap that shows you how. This invaluable resource distills decades of research on the impact of great versus mediocre service. Complete guidelines and case studies explain how to:
- Gather and analyze customer feedback
- Empower employees to fix problems
- Track your impact on revenue
- Generate sensational word of mouth
- Tap opportunities to cross-sell and up-sell
Strategic Customer Service draws on over 30 years of research from companies such as 3M, GE, and Chick-Fil-A to teach you how to transcend a good business into a profitable word-of-mouth machine that transforms the bottom line.
Why settle for passive service? Make a business case for ramping up operations–and get the tools for making it pay off. Transform customer service into a strategic function, and reap benefits far exceeding investments.
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The Unstoppable Startup
- By: Uri Adoni
- Narrator: Uri Adoni
- Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: September 08, 2020
- Language: English
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3.87(14 ratings)
3.87(14 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDDiscover the bold secrets to Israel’s incredible track record of success in this new guide that will help make any startup unstoppable. More than half of all startups fail – often during the crucial early stages of development when theyDiscover the bold secrets to Israel’s incredible track record of success in this new guide that will help make any startup unstoppable.
More than half of all startups fail – often during the crucial early stages of development when they need to prove their viability on a limited budget. However, when it comes to startup success, one country stands out: Israel.
Even though it is a relatively small country, Israel has one of the highest concentrations of startups in the world, has the highest venture capital per capita, is one of the top countries in terms of number of companies listed on NASDAQ, and is well-recognized as a global leader in research and development.
In The Unstoppable Startup, veteran venture capitalist Uri Adoni goes behind the scenes to explain the principles and practices that can make any startup, anywhere in the world, become an unstoppable one.
Packed with insider accounts from leaders who have realized bold visions, The Unstoppable Startup distills Israeli chutzpah into six operational rules that will help you to:
- Build an unstoppable team;
- Foresee the future and innovate to meet its demands;
- Manage your funding and partnerships through all phases of growth;
- Dominate the market category you are after or create a new one;
- Build and manage an early stage investment vehicle;
- Build and grow a healthy high-tech ecosystem.
Adoni implemented these practices throughout his more than 12 years as a venture capitalist for one of Israel’s most successful venture funds, and he continues to utilize these same proven startup strategies today in metropolitan areas in the US.
The Unstoppable Startup provides readers with insights and operational advice on how to run a startup, and how to overcome challenges?that almost every startup faces.
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Disciplined Dreaming
- By: Josh Linkner
- Narrator: Marc Cashman
- Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 05, 2011
- Language: English
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3.56(435 ratings)
3.56(435 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWe live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity – at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitableWe live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity – at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Linkner distills his years of experience in business and jazz – as well as hundreds of interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and artists – into a 5-step process that will make creativity easy for you and your organization. The methodology is simple, backed by proven results. Disciplined Dreaming shows even the stuffiest corporate bureaucracies how to cultivate creativity in order to become more competitive in today’s shifting marketplace.
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Persuade
- By: Scott Hogle
- Narrator: Scott Hogle
- Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.51(38 ratings)
3.51(38 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDBecoming a persuasive salesperson requires the SalesMaker to win others relationally in order to persuade them financially. To be successful, it’s not enough to sell your product–you must sell yourself. Persuade is a playbook withBecoming a persuasive salesperson requires the SalesMaker to win others relationally in order to persuade them financially. To be successful, it’s not enough to sell your product–you must sell yourself. Persuade is a playbook with essential information to help you connect quicker, communicate confidently, and close more sales.
If you do everything right during the sale but don’t close the sale, you will find this book invaluable. Persuade is a “closers” roadmap that will help you effectively move customers through the seven stages of the sale. Learn how to close deals with a natural ease which comes easy to people who use this system.
Top salespeople become the best because they learn from the best. The author includes insightful intelligence from sellers and executives at Facebook, Google, iHeart Radio, Amazon, New York Life, Hawaiian Airlines, Dell EMC, Microsoft Xbox, Clear Channel Airports, and Zillow, who share stories and case studies on how they deploy the powers of persuasion.
If your success is determined by your ability to move people to decision, you will grow in your confidence to communicate, connect, and persuade.
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The Valley of the Gods
- By: Alexandra Wolfe
- Narrator: Arden Hammersmith
- Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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2.91(399 ratings)
2.91(399 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDReporter Alexandra Wolfe’s biting but admiring story of Silicon Valley, and the men and women whose hubris and ambition are changing the world.Each year, young people from around the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start aReporter Alexandra Wolfe’s biting but admiring story of Silicon Valley, and the men and women whose hubris and ambition are changing the world.
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Each year, young people from around the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become powerful and famous. In “a jauntily paced anthropological look at Northern California’s techtopia” (Bloomberg Businessweek), reporter and columnist for The Wall Street Journal Alexandra Wolfe follows three of these upstarts who have “stopped out” of college and real life in the hopes of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk.
Meet the billionaires who go to training clubs for thirty-minute “body slams” designed to fit in with the start-up schedule; attend parties where people devour peanut butter-and-jelly sushi rolls; and date and seduce in a romantic culture in which thick glasses, baggy jeans, and a t-shirt is the costume of any sex symbol (and where a jacket and tie symbolize mediocrity). Through Wolfe’s eyes, we discover how they date and marry, how they dress and live, how they plot and dream, and how they have created a business world and an economic order that has made us all devotees of them.
In her blistering and hysterical examination of this new ruling class, Wolfe “offers a revealing peek inside the privilege, power, and profligacy of Silicon Valley” (Town & Country). Valley of the Gods “captures the absurdity of this brave new world, pierces the hype, but also conveys the dreams and the passions that can shape a world’s economy” (USA TODAY). -
Leading Change!
- By: Made for Success
- Narrator: Sheila Murray Bethel
- Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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2.5(2 ratings)
2.5(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDLeading a team through periods of rapid change can be a leader’s toughest problem. Discover the secrets that leaders like Steve Jobs had to learn: that change managed correctly can result in massive quarterly growth in revenues and earningsLeading a team through periods of rapid change can be a leader’s toughest problem. Discover the secrets that leaders like Steve Jobs had to learn: that change managed correctly can result in massive quarterly growth in revenues and earnings while maintaining high morale and fiercely loyal employees. Explore the barriers to change and where they come from, and gather the tools to overcome the natural human resistance to change. How you lead your team will shape the direction of your company in the global economy of the twenty-first century. Every good leader knows that you can learn from others–discover the top twelve reasons why organizational change fails asNew York Timesbestselling authors guide you through them. Clearly understand the seven phases of change that people experience and you will be equipped to lead your people to success.
Contents include:
Embracing Change! by Dr. Larry IversonThe Science of Change Management by Dr. Larry IversonLeadership Strategies for the Four Stages of Change by Laura StackThe Foundation for Successful Change by Zig ZiglarLeading Beyond Your Own Style by Jennifer SedlockHow to Understand the Generation Differences by Brad WorthleyThe Courage of Change by Dr. SheilaHow to Stay Positive and Focused in Uncertain Times by Sarita MaybinThe 12 Reasons Organizational Change Fails by Mark Sanborn
Bonus PDF: Leading Change and Change Management Workbook
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Inclusion Revolution
- By: Daisy Auger-Dominguez
- Narrator: Daisy Auger-Dominguez
- Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 15, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA leading diversity executive offers step-by-step guidance for confronting racial bias in the workplace We are in the midst of a global reckoning on race, and corporations are on high alert. But conventional approaches have fallen short, leavingA leading diversity executive offers step-by-step guidance for confronting racial bias in the workplace
We are in the midst of a global reckoning on race, and corporations are on high alert. But conventional approaches have fallen short, leaving nagging questions about next steps. Why do diversity trainings fail? What’s so wrong with a company’s “colorblind” workplace culture?
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In Inclusion Revolution, Daisy Auger-Dominguez provides frank answers to why popular efforts fail. She then presents the definitive roadmap for revolution, through her dynamic step-by-step process: Reflect, Visualize, Act, and Persist. She offers proven, research-based strategies for racially inclusive management.
Racial inequality in the workplace is a problem we can solve. Inclusion Revolution offers the necessary tools for managers to address issues of race, power, and exclusion, to build change that lasts. Because through the best teams, companies can finally create a stronger future.
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