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Super Founders

May 25, 2023 By Jeremy Shapiro

Super Founders

What Data Reveals about Billion Dollar Startups Super Founders uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest—revealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false! Ali Tamaseb has spent thousands of hours manually amassing what may be the largest dataset ever collected on startups, comparing billion-dollar […]

Filed Under: Recommended Reading

To Sell Is Human

May 17, 2023 By Jeremy Shapiro

To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink

The Surprising Truth About Moving Others From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind, and teacher of the popular MasterClass on Sales and Persuasion, comes a surprising – and surprisingly useful – new book that explores the power of selling in our lives. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in […]

Filed Under: Recommended Reading, Sales

The Direct Mail Revolution

May 2, 2023 By Jeremy Shapiro

How to Create Profitable Direct Mail Campaigns in a Digital World In our digital world, it’s easy to overlook the power of a snail mail marketing piece. But think again because when you could earn as much as a 1,300% ROI, why would you not want to generate more leads, orders, and sales with the […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Recommended Reading

Flip The Script

April 27, 2023 By Jeremy Shapiro

Flip the Script by Oren Klaff

Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea Is there anything worse than a high-pressure salesperson pushing you to say “yes” (then sign on the dotted line) before you’re ready? If there’s one lesson Oren Klaff has learned over decades of pitching, presenting, and closing long-shot, high-stakes deals, it’s that people are sick of […]

Filed Under: Recommended Reading, Sales

The Alter Ego Effect

April 24, 2023 By Jeremy Shapiro

The Alter Ego Effect book cover

The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life What if the games you played as a child were the greatest gift to helping you achieve more today? Before stage fright, impostor syndrome, emotional baggage, and the other dubious gifts of adulthood, everyone pretended to be a superhero, a favorite athlete, an inspiring entertainer, a […]

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Pitch Anything

April 5, 2023 By Jeremy Shapiro

Pitch Anything, Oren Klaff

An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his one of a kind method to raise more than $400 million and now, for the first time, he describes his formula to help you […]

Filed Under: Business Mastery Recommended Reading, Recommended Reading

The Big Leap

March 20, 2023 By Jeremy Shapiro

The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks

Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks, the New York Times bestselling author of Five Wishes, demonstrates how to eliminate the barriers to success by overcoming false fears and beliefs. Fans of Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, and The Secret will find useful, effective […]

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Power vs. Force

January 20, 2023 By Jeremy Shapiro

Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

The Business Owner’s Guide to the Institutional Money Deal Imagine – what if you had access to a simple yes-or-no answer to any question you wished to ask? A demonstrably true answer. Any question… think about it. We think we live by forces we control, but in fact we are governed by power from unrevealed […]

Filed Under: Recommended Reading

Maximize Your Multiple

January 18, 2023 By Jeremy Shapiro

Maximize Your Multiple by Jon Taylor

The Business Owner’s Guide to the Institutional Money Deal Maximize Your Multiple helps business owners and and entrepreneurs understand how to build and sell a business for maximum value. It demystifies the world of mergers & acquisitions, private equity, and institutional deal making. Author and Bay Area Mastermind member, Jon Taylor, helps readers understand how […]

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The Art of Learning

January 18, 2023 By Jeremy Shapiro

The Art of Learning

In his riveting book, The Art of Learning, Waitzkin tells his remarkable story of personal achievement and shares the principles of learning and performance that have propelled him to the top — twice. Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first National Chess […]

Filed Under: Hustle (Anti-Hustle), Performance, Recommended Reading

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