Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something n…
When the Hits Just Keep On Comin? There are small hits: The car won?t start. You lose something valuable. It?s raining on your five-hundred-person outdoor event. And there are big hits: She?s diagnosed with cancer. You?re being laid off. They?re getting divorced. Regardless of m…
IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselli ng The Art of Innovation , have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too oft…
"The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone ca…
-- The Secret Life of Secrets Filled with fresh insight into one of the most universal--yet least understood--aspects of human behavior, -- The Secret Life of Secrets reveals the surprising ways that secrets pervade our lives, and offers science-based strategies that make them e…
Did America win its independence because British generals were too busy canoodling with their mistresses? Should America have annexed Mexico?all of it?and Cuba too? Did 1776 justify Southern secession in the nineteenth century? Should Patton have been promoted over Eisenhower? D…
First, he was a beloved college football champion, Heisman trophy winner, media sensation, and best-selling author drafted in the first round of the 2010 Draft. Then he had a miracle playoff run with the Denver Broncos before being traded to the New York Jets. After one season h…
"The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond. It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Air Bnb was the best-kept secret known of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pintrest was …
