Unleash Your Inner Company: Use Passion and Perseverance to Build Your Ideal Business

Discover Your Unique Advantages--Shape and Grow Them into a Successful Business
Unleash Your Inner Company provides an innovative, proven, step-by-step process for anyone who aspires to start and grow their own business. Author John Chisholm--president of the worldwide MIT Alumni Association--brings an insider's view that distills three decades of successful, serial entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. His book combines practical principles, entertaining anecdotes, deep insights, challenging exercises, and illuminating graphics to guide the reader in conceiving, designing, building, testing, and scaling up the ideal business for them.

Many books address passion in startups; only this book shows how to turn passion and perseverance into a loop of increasingly positive results. Aspiring entrepreneurs have more resources than they realize; Unleash Your Inner Company helps them discover those advantages. Readers learn how to accelerate their learning and how different is better than better. The book also advises the reader on what to look for in a cofounder, how to avoid competitors, when best to raise money, and what they can learn from Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber, and Pinterest.

Unleash Your Inner Company is the only book the reader will need, regardless of their background, industry, or continent, to start the business that best fits their skills, passions, goals, and opportunities--in short, the right business to start now.

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• Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
• From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places
• The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
• Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector (Columbia Business School Publishing)
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
• Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup
• Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup
• Peer Coaching at Work: Principles and Practices