Business Empire

For more than 70 years, Gifford's Ice Cream and Candy Company was associated with nothing but pleasure for native Washingtonians and visitors to the nation's capital. But behind the iconic business's happy facade lay elaborate schemes, a crushing bankruptcy, two million dollars of missing cash, and a tragic suicide. As the last Gifford heir unfolds his story with remarkable immediacy and candor, he reveals the byzantine betrayals and intrigue rooted in the company from its modest beginnings - dark influences that would ultimately destroy the legendary Gifford business.

Há quase uma década, Brad Stone registrou a ascensão da Amazon, o empreendimento pioneiro que transformou de forma silenciosa nosso modo de fazer compras pela internet. Desde então, a empresa tem passado por um crescimento exponencial, inventando produtos — como a assistente pessoal baseada em inteligência artificial Alexa e o serviço de armazenamento em nuvem Amazon Web Services — e desestruturando diversos mercados.

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.

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.

Secrets & Dreams es la historia de Alejandro Zozaya, el mexicano que construyó un imperio hotelero y salvó el turismo nacional en más de una ocasión, escrita a partir de las entrevistas que tuvo con el reconocido periodista especializado en negocios y turismo, Carlos Velázquez Mayoral.

Do you to make an extra 5k to 10k a month? Do you want complete control of your business? Do you want to grow on your own platform? Do you want to make money online? When you listen to Shopify: How to Create Your Online Empire, your skill set of making money online will improve steadily each day! You will discover everything you need to know about Shopify. This comprehensive guide will teach you how make your own store on Shopify and make money online.

If you are looking for a way to take your fiverr.com sales to all new levels, the staff at FiverrPowerTips is here to help! We've put together the best money making collection of the most effective Fiverr gigs used by the elite few who really know how to make money on the Internet!

Are you tired of the rat race? Would you like to be able to live a life with more time to do the things that you love? Would you like to have more time for friends and family? Do you feel like your life is passing you by and you have nothing to show for the time you've invested but a pile of pay stubs? Inside this one-of-a-kind, fully comprehensive five-hour program, author Brad Reis shows you how to set up your very first online business that will create an endless stream of passive income and allow you to start living the life you've dreamed of.

The definitive biography of the billionaire behind Clearwater by the award-winning author of The Sea Was in Their Blood.

In 1906, Britain's grip on the world was unassailable. Its navy ruled the seas, and its trade empire spanned the globe. But in the small port town of Tuticorin, a lawyer named V.O. Chidambaram Pillai—known to the world as VOC—had a revolutionary idea that would challenge the might of the empire itself. VOC's plan was audacious: to launch the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, a venture that would compete head-on with the British India Steam Navigation Company, the shipping giant that controlled the region.

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.

One Yellow Brick reveals effective strategies, with a healthy dose of humor, to overcome the obstacles and challenges that may be holding you back in your career. Swader shares the secret ingredients on how to get you in the spotlight and become an industry thought leader while building the confidence you need to own the room…one yellow brick at a time.

This program presents a seven-week course dedicated to helping you remove the barriers in your life that hold you back from achieving the best that you can be. Author Nicholas Stephenson presents Become Unstoppable: A 7 Week Course That Will Transform Your Self Esteem and Change Your Life! In this audiobook you'll discover a comprehensive toolbox of methods and ideas for boosting self-esteem and overcoming any problem or challenge that currently faces you.

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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.

Navigating through critical subjects such as the real estate market, negotiation strategies, managing relationships, and overcoming legal and financial hurdles, this book is an indispensable resource for both beginners and experienced real estate investors and professionals. Whether you're dealing with a small lease or a hundred-million-dollar acquisition, the wisdom contained in Empire of Profit empowers you to negotiate effectively, maximize returns, and build your very own empire of profit.

Back in the late 90s, at the beginning of the dot com bubble, a man named Pierre Omidyar founded an online platform called AuctionWeb. Back then it was kind of an online fair for collectors who bought and sold various items online via bidding and auction. But within a decade, ActionWeb transformed itself, rebranded as eBay and become the giant multi-billion dollar e-commerce site where literally anyone, from 20-year-old college kid to 40-year-old moms can sell any kinds of goods online.

FUBU cofounder and entrepreneur J. Alexander Martin shares his compelling story about how he helped build a neighborhood business into a billion-dollar international brand. Teaming with behavioral finance expert and author Ted McLyman, they present an easy to understand and useful road map for success and financial security. J uses his inspirational story as the backdrop to explain why financial success is about discovering your Money Values and Money Temperament.

‘Highly absorbing account of the corruption of an individual during a particularly sordid era of British imperial history,’ The Sunday Times ‘James Leasor switches to the China Sea more than a century ago, and with pace and ingenuity tells, in novel form, how the China coast was forced to open up its riches to Englishmen, in face of the Emperor's justified hostility’ Evening Standard ‘In the nasty story of opium - European and American traders made fortunes taking the forbidden dope into nineteenth century China, and this novel tells the story of their deadly arrangements and of ...

Every business, organization and group is defined through the vision of its leader. Effective leadership can make or break any endeavor. It can make the difference between overcoming seemingly insurmountable challenges or falling to adversity. History celebrates such great leaders; names such as Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Genghis Khan, Hannibal, Gandhi and names such as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates in the modern business world are held with the highest reverence.