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Book excerpts are carefully curated from books selected by StartupNation’s editorial staff, written by leading business authors, thought leaders and entrepreneurs.

How to Succeed by Hiring and Retaining Neurodivergent Employees

The following is an excerpt from "The Neurodiversity Edge" by cognitive scientist and neurodivergent business leader Maureen Dunne. In the book, Dunne explains how we hurt ourselves as a society when we label "different" as...

byMaureen Dunne

May 7, 2024

Book jacket image of book Data-Driven Decision Making in Entrepreneurship

Beyond the Pitch Deck: Evaluating Co-Founder Fit for Startup Success

The startup journey is both exhilarating and arduous. A brilliant product idea is a must, but it’s not enough. True startup success hinges on the team behind the idea. While investors like yourself meticulously evaluate...

byNikki Blacksmith

April 30, 2024

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How to Grow Your Business By Writing a Book

Writing a book for your business can help expand your influence--these titles are just a few prime examples--because thought leaders write books. When you write a book, you establish and support your credibility. Authorship, in...

byBarbara Richter

April 26, 2024

Choosing the Right Business: What Do You Want to Do?

The following is an excerpt from "Starting a Business 101" by Michele Cagan, a CPA, author and financial mentor with more than 20 years of experience helping clients break out of debt, minimize taxes, maximize...

byMichele Cagan

April 17, 2024

International Capabilities of Buying and Selling Businesses

The following is an excerpt from "Acquisitional Wealth: The Fastest, Most Proven Way to Create Life-Changing Prosperity" by Josh Tolley. Having acquired over 100 companies in his lifetime, Tolley shares his advice on how people...

byJosh Tolley

April 16, 2024

How Brands Leverage Cultural Literacy to Drive the Conversation and Thrive

This is an edited extract from Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy by Anastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel. In the book, the cultural theorist and strategist provides a vital new framework for understanding how...

byAnastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel

March 26, 2024

‘Shining’ a Light on the Internal Struggles of the Entrepreneur

The following is an excerpt from "Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom," in which Gino Wickman and Rob Dube shine a light on the internal struggles of the entrepreneur....

byRob Dube

March 25, 2024

A 10-step Guide to Turning Your Trade into $100K a Year

This is an excerpt from "Six Figure Tradesman: 10 Steps to Making $100,000 in Your First Year as a Professional Tradesman" by Elysia and Andrew Gloudeman. The book describes life as a self-employed tradesman (or...

byElysia and Andrew Gloudeman

March 19, 2024

‘She Thinks Big’: 7 Assumptions about the Future that Create ‘Stuck Stress’

This is an excerpt from "She Thinks Big: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Guide to Moving Past the Messy Middle and into the Extraordinary," by Andrea Liebross. Liebross is a certified business and life coach who encourages...

byAndrea Liebross

February 22, 2024

Making Waves: A Woman’s Rise to the Top Using Smarts, Heart and Courage

The following is an excerpt from MAKING WAVES: A Woman’s Rise to the Top Using Smarts, Heart and Courage, by Lisa Lutoff-Perlo. The former CEO of Celebrity Cruises reveals how she navigated an extraordinary four-decade...

byLisa Lutoff-Perlo

February 19, 2024

Sound of the Future: Creating a World Where No One Is Left Behind

The following is an excerpt from The Sound of the Future: The Coming Age of Voice Technology, which discusses the ways voice technology is poised to drastically alter the way we live and how companies do...

byTobias Dengel

October 9, 2023

‘Lessons My Brothers Taught Me’: Building a Great Team

This excerpt from “Lessons My Brothers Taught Me” by Charles McCarrick highlights the importance of building a great team in business and emphasizes the responsibility of managers to create a supportive workplace environment. Building a...

byCharles McCarrick

June 13, 2023

Growing Your Business from Chaos to Calm: How to Manage and Lead with Love

The following is an excerpt from "Grow: Take Your Business from Chaos to Calm" by Michael J. McFall, an Inc. Original Imprint by Greenleaf Publishing Group. Ask anyone I work with. I am a hard-core pragmatist...

byMike McFall

June 9, 2023

Trust Signals: Brand Building in a Post-Truth World

Excerpted from “Trust Signals: Brand Building in a Post-Truth World” by Scott Baradell. Published by Lioncrest Publishing Copyright © 2022. In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, Medieval Germany is in the grips...

byScott Baradell

February 23, 2023

A ChatGPT Challenge: PROMPT Authors Ask for an Analogy

When we interviewed the authors of the new book PROMPT, we asked how creative ChatGPT could be. We used as an example the phrase they came up with to describe their book: “a cookbook for...

byColin McMahon

January 24, 2023

Steve Case on raising prospects across America, city by city

The following is the preface to “The Rise of the Rest,” in which Steve Case introduces readers to dozens of entrepreneurs whose inspirational stories of struggle and achievement match the most iconic examples of American...

bySteve Case

November 14, 2022

Harness the Power of Conflict to Grow Your Company

byGabe Karp

October 25, 2022

6 Finance Books to Help You Make Better Business Decisions

Just when you thought that successful business owners don’t have the time to curl up in bed to read a book, you’d be surprised to know that average entrepreneurs read at least one book a...

byMatthew Gillman

October 18, 2022

The 3-Hour Rule: How to Win at the Big and Little Tasks

This is an excerpt from “Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters” by Laura Vanderkam. Copyright 2022 by Portfolio and reprinted with permission. The productivity trap Turning...

byLaura Vanderkam

October 11, 2022

What Is Entrepreneurship and Can It Be Taught?

Excerpt from "The Art of Principled Entrepreneurship: How to Create Enduring Value" by Andreas Widmer (Matt Holt Publishing, 2022). It’s difficult to teach an art. Perhaps the most one can do is describe Principled...

byAndreas Widmer

October 4, 2022