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Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup
by Judy RobinettCrack the Funding Code demystifies the world of angel investing, venture capital, and corporate funding and lays out a strategic pathway for any entrepreneur to secure funding fast.Lack of funding is one of the biggest reasons small businesses fail. In 2016 in the United States alone, more than 31 percent of small business owners reported that they could not access adequate capital, and the lack of capital prevented them from growing the business/expanding operations, increasing inventory, or financing increased sales. This book will show you how to find the money, create pitches that attract investors, and then structure fair, ethical deals that will bring them new sources of outside capital and invaluable professional advice. Crack the Funding Code gives you the broader perspective on: how funding works,how investors think,and what they need to hear to put their money where your mouth is.Every entrepreneur who reads this book will get easy-to-follow deal checklists, a roadmap of where and how to locate the best funding resources and top business mentors for their industry or geographical location, and a step-by-step process to create pitches that make their idea or business irresistible.
Cracked: How Telephone Operators Took on Canada’s Largest Corporation ... And Won
by Joan M. Roberts2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award — Winner 2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated The story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women’s workplace rights. In the 1970s, Bell Canada was Canada’s largest corporation. It employed thousands of people, including a large number of women who worked as operators and endured very poor pay and working conditions. Joan Roberts, a former operator, tells the story of how she and a group of dedicated labour organizers helped to initiate a campaign to unionize Bell Canada’s operators. From the point of view of the workers and the organizers, Roberts tells an important story in Canada’s labour history. The unionization of Bell Canada’s operators was a huge victory for Canada’s working women. The victory at Bell established new standards for women in other so-called “pink-collar” jobs.
Cracked it!: How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants
by Bernard Garrette Corey Phelps Olivier SibonySolving complex problems and selling their solutions is critical for personal and organizational success. For most of us, however, it doesn’t come naturally and we haven’t been taught how to do it well. Research shows a host of pitfalls trips us up when we try: We’re quick to believe we understand a situation and jump to a flawed solution. We seek to confirm our hypotheses and ignore conflicting evidence. We view challenges incompletely through the frameworks we know instead of with a fresh pair of eyes. And when we communicate our recommendations, we forget our reasoning isn’t obvious to our audience. How can we do it better? In Cracked It!, seasoned strategy professors and consultants Bernard Garrette, Corey Phelps and Olivier Sibony present a rigorous and practical four-step approach to overcome these pitfalls. Building on tried-and-tested (but rarely revealed) methods of top strategy consultants, research in cognitive psychology, and the latest advances in design thinking, they provide a step-by-step process and toolkit that will help readers tackle any challenging business problem. Using compelling stories and detailed case examples, the authors guide readers through each step in the process: from how to state, structure and then solve problems to how to sell the solutions. Written in an engaging style by a trio of experts with decades of experience researching, teaching and consulting on complex business problems, this book will be an indispensable manual for anyone interested in creating value by helping their organizations crack the problems that matter most.
Cracking The Coding Interview (5th Edition)
by Gayle Laakmann McdowellThe full list of topics are as follows: The Interview Process This section offers an overview on questions are selected and how you will be evaluated. What happens when you get a question wrong? When should you start preparing, and how? What language should you use? All these questions and more are answered. Behind the Scenes Learn what happens behind the scenes during your interview, how decisions really get made, who you interview with, and what they ask you. Companies covered include Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook. Special Situations This section explains the process for experience candidates, Program Managers, Dev Managers, Testers / SDETs, and more. Learn what your interviewers are looking for and how much code you need to know. Before the Interview In order to ace the interview, you first need to get an interview. This section describes what a software engineer's resume should look like and what you should be doing well before your interview. Behavioral Preparation Although most of a software engineering interview will be technical, behavioral questions matter too. This section covers how to prepare for behavioral questions and how to give strong, structured responses. Technical Questions (+ 5 Algorithm Approaches) This section covers how to prepare for technical questions (without wasting your time) and teaches actionable ways to solve the trickiest algorithm problems. It also teaches you what exactly "good coding" is when it comes to an interview. 150 Programming Questions and Answers This section forms the bulk of the book. Each section opens with a discussion of the core knowledge and strategies to tackle this type of question, diving into exactly how you break down and solve it. Topics covered include Arrays and Strings Linked Lists Stacks and Queues Trees and Graphs Bit Manipulation Brain Teasers Mathematics and Probability Object-Oriented Design Recursion and Dynamic Programming Sorting and Searching Scalability and Memory Limits Testing C and C++ Java Databases Threads and Locks For the widest degree of readability, the solutions are almost entirely written with Java (with the exception of C / C++ questions). A link is provided with the book so that you can download, compile, and play with the solutions yourself.
Cracking Complexity: The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything Fast
by David Benjamin David KomlosForeword by: Marshall Goldsmith, #1 NY Times bestselling author, Thinkers50-#1 Executive Coach and the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the WorldComplexity has met its match! Today, organizations are grappling with ambiguity, volatility and paradox surrounding the challenges they face. This is complexity. But too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way - they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one-at-a-time over months, sometimes even years and nearly always in a linear fashion. It's like setting a pot of water on "low" and waiting for it to boil. To solve the seemingly intractable challenges that leaders bang their heads against for months - to get the metaphorical water to boil - you must generate a high amount of heat very quickly. In this book, the authors share their proven formula for dramatically shortening the process and solving an organization's toughest challenges in mere days.
Cracking Complexity: The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything Fast
by David Benjamin David KomlosFor the first time, Davis Benjamin and David Komlos of Syntegrity share their cutting-edge, highly engaging step-by-step formula for cracking incredibly knotty and important challenges in mere days, while mobilizing those who must execute. Foreword by Marshall Goldsmith, #1 NY Times bestselling author, Thinkers50 - #1 Executive Coach and the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the WorldComplexity has met its match! Today, organizations are grappling with ambiguity, volatility and paradox surrounding the challenges they face. This is complexity. But too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way - they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one at a time over months, sometimes even years, and nearly always in a linear fashion. It's like setting a pot of water on "low" and waiting for it to boil. To solve the seemingly intractable challenges that leaders bang their heads against for months - to get the metaphorical water to boil - you must generate a high amount of heat very quickly. In this book, the authors share their proven formula for dramatically shortening the process and solving an organization's toughest challenges in mere days.
Cracking Complexity: NOW - The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything, From Anywhere, Fast
by David Komlos David BenjaminComplexity has met its match! Today, organizations are grappling with ambiguity, volatility and paradox surrounding the challenges they face. This is complexity. But too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way - they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one-at-a-time over months, sometimes even years and nearly always in a linear fashion. It's like setting a pot of water on "low" and waiting for it to boil. To solve the seemingly intractable challenges that leaders bang their heads against for months - to get the metaphorical water to boil - you must generate a high amount of heat very quickly. In this book, the authors share their proven formula for dramatically shortening the process and solving an organization's toughest challenges in mere days.Fully updated to include highly successful and proven virtual methods and practices that have been used to solve real problems. This book serves up the mindset, steps and skills that you and your team will need to crack complexity, wherever you are in the world, so that you can find clarity and build momentum even in the most uncertain of times.
Cracking Complexity: The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything Fast
by David Komlos David BenjaminHow organizations can rapidly, practically, effectively and repeatedly deal with complexity. Solving complex issues in days.The revolutionary process at the heart of Cracking Complexity is backed by empirical research from the authors' work with world-leading companies whose experiences will serve as case-studies. Komlos and Benjamin's approach harnesses disparate views from inside and outside of an organization, including front-line employees, former competitors, theorists and disruptors around a big, messy problem to form a high-functioning team of people, a "mega-brain," that can see every side of a problem and identify the best solution(s) for it. Complex issues are solved in a matter of days, not months, not years, a time-frame supported by the authors' research and practice over three decades.(c)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Cracking Economics
by Tejvan PettingerAn easy-to-understand guide to the most difficult topics: Cracking Economics is a must-have for anyone looking to broaden their knowledge of the world of finance and the economy.
Cracking Economics (Cracking Ser.)
by Tejvan PettingerCrack the world of money and understand the economic theory that has shaped nations and influenced the way you live now.From Keynesian models to how inflation affects interest rates, Cracking Economics will make the seemingly complex world of global finance easily understood. Subjects covered include:-Macro- and micro-economics-Inflation-Recession-Economic forecasting-How stock markets work-Globalisation-Labour markets-The credit crunch-Keynesian theory-Conceptual economics-The EuroAn accessible, comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to this fascinating field, Cracking Economics will get you conversing on currency and discussing the deficit with the best of them.
Cracking Health Costs
by Tom Emerick Al LewisCracking Health Costs reveals the best ways for companies and small businesses to fight back, right now, against rising health care costs. This book proposes multiple, practical steps that you can take to control costs and increase the effectiveness of the health benefit.The book is all about rolling back health care costs to save companies and employees money. Working hand-in-hand with their employees, businesses need to ensure that, whenever feasible, employees with the most expensive diagnoses get optimal treatment at hospitals not practicing "volume-driven" medicine for higher profits. Less than 10% of employees incur 80% of costs. About 20% of patients have been completely misdiagnosed, while many others are simply the victims of surgeons who are either practicing bad medicine or overtreating for profit.For example, some companies, such as Walmart and Lowe's, are turning to the "Centers of Excellence" approach author Tom Emerick helped to pioneer while running benefits for Walmart. By determining which hospitals are adopting the highest standards of care, benefits managers can reduce the number of unnecessary high-cost surgeries and improve employees' overall health. The solution-based approach offered by the book is unique, because it can be implemented by businesses today.
Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams, 2013 Edition
by Princeton ReviewIf you need to know it, it's in this book! This eBook edition of Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams has been optimized for e-reader viewing with cross-linked with questions, answers, and explanations. The 2013 edition includes: * 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations * An accessible, engaging review of all test topics, including economic market structures, firm production, and aggregate demand * Lists of key AP Economics Macro & Micro terms in every chapter * Winning strategies to help you crack the multiple-choice section * A guide to making free-response graphs that work * Updated strategies which reflect the AP test scoring change
Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams, 2015 Edition
by Princeton ReviewEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide--including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations. We don't have to tell you how tough it can be to master AP economics--or how deeply a stellar exam score can impact your chances of getting into your top-choice college. Written by the experts at The Princeton Review, Cracking the AP Macro & Micro Economics Exams arms you to take on either test with:Techniques That Actually Work.* Tried-and-true strategies to avoid traps and beat the test* Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically* Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harderEverything You Need to Know for a High Score.* Comprehensive content review for all test topics* Up-to-date information on the 2015 AP Macro & Micro Economics Exams* Engaging activities to help you critically assess your progressPractice Your Way to Perfection.* 2 full-length practice tests with comprehensive answer explanations* Detailed figures illustrating trends, theories, and markets* Practice drills at the end of each content chapter
Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams, 2016 Edition
by Princeton ReviewEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide--including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, access to our AP Connect online portal, and 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations.This eBook edition has been specially formatted for on-screen viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations.We don't have to tell you how tough it can be to master AP economics--or how deeply a stellar exam score can impact your chances of getting into your top-choice college. Written by the experts at The Princeton Review, Cracking the AP Macro & Micro Economics Exams arms you to take on either test with:Techniques That Actually Work.* Tried-and-true strategies to avoid traps and beat the test* Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically* Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harderEverything You Need to Know for a High Score.* Comprehensive content review for all test topics* Up-to-date information on the 2016 AP Macro & Micro Economics Exams* Engaging activities to help you critically assess your progress* Access to AP Connect, our online portal for helpful pre-college information and exam updatesPractice Your Way to Excellence.* 2 full-length practice tests (1 Macro and 1 Micro) with comprehensive answer explanations* Detailed figures illustrating trends, theories, and markets* Practice drills at the end of each content chapter
Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams, 2017 Edition: Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5
by Princeton ReviewEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide--including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, access to our AP Connect online portal, and 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations. This eBook edition has been optimized for on-screen viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations.We don't have to tell you how tough it can be to master AP economics--or how deeply a stellar exam score can impact your chances of getting into your top-choice college. Written by the experts at The Princeton Review, Cracking the AP Economics Macro and Micro Exams arms you to take on either test with:Techniques That Actually Work.* Tried-and-true strategies to avoid traps and beat the test* Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically* Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harderEverything You Need to Know for a High Score.* Comprehensive content review for all test topics* Up-to-date information on the 2017 AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams* Engaging activities to help you critically assess your progress* Access to AP Connect, our online portal for helpful pre-college information and exam updatesPractice That Gets You to Excellence.* 2 full-length practice tests (1 Macro and 1 Micro) with detailed answer explanations* Practice drills at the end of each content chapter* Step-by-step walk-throughs of sample questions
Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams, 2018 Edition: Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5 (College Test Preparation)
by Princeton ReviewEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams with this comprehensive study guide—including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, access to our AP Connect online portal, and 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations. This eBook edition has been optimized for on-screen reading with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations. Written by the experts at The Princeton Review, Cracking the AP Economics Macro and Micro Exams arms you to take on either test with:Techniques That Actually Work.• Tried-and-true strategies to avoid traps and beat the test• Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically• Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harderEverything You Need to Know for a High Score.• Comprehensive content review for all test topics• Tons of charts and figures to illustrate trends, theories, and markets• Engaging activities to help you critically assess your progress• Access to AP Connect, our online portal for helpful pre-college information and exam updatesPractice That Gets You to Excellence.• 2 full-length practice tests (1 Macro and 1 Micro) with detailed answer explanations• Practice drills at the end of each content chapter• Step-by-step walk-throughs of sample questions
Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams, 2019 Edition: Practice Tests & Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5 (College Test Preparation)
by Princeton ReviewEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Ace the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams with this comprehensive study guide—including 2 full-length practice tests with complete explanations, thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and online extras.Techniques That Actually Work.• Tried-and-true strategies to avoid traps and beat the test• Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically• Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harderEverything You Need to Know for a High Score.• Comprehensive content review for all test topics• Tons of charts and figures to illustrate trends, theories, and markets• Engaging activities to help you critically assess your progress• Access to online study plans, a handy list of key terms and concepts, helpful pre-college information, and morePractice That Gets You to Excellence.• 2 full-length practice tests (1 Macro & 1 Micro) with detailed answer explanations• Practice drills at the end of each content chapter• Step-by-step walk-throughs of sample questionsWritten by the experts at The Princeton Review, Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams arms you to take on the test and achieve your highest possible score.
Cracking the AP Economics Micro & Macro Exams, 2020 Edition: Practice Tests & Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5 (College Test Preparation)
by The Princeton ReviewEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Ace the AP Economics Micro & Macro Exams with this comprehensive study guide—including 2 full-length practice tests with complete explanations, thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and online extras.Techniques That Actually Work.• Tried-and-true strategies to avoid traps and beat the test• Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically• Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harderEverything You Need to Know for a High Score• Detailed content review for both Micro and Macro test topics, such as supply, elasticity, aggregated demand, and inflation• Useful charts and figures to illustrate trends, theories, and markets• Engaging pacing drills to help you manage your time on the multiple choice section of each exam• Access to online study plans, a handy list of key terms, and up-to-date info on the planned 2020 course changes via your online Student ToolsPractice That Gets You to Excellence.• 2 full-length practice tests (1 Micro & 1 Macro) with detailed answer explanations• Practice drills at the end of each content chapter• Step-by-step walk-throughs of sample questions
Cracking the Boy's Club Code: The Woman's Guide to Being Heard and Valued in the Workplace
by Michael Johnson&“Frustrated working with male co-workers? Wish you had a key to understanding the male business mind? Look no further&” (Claire Shipman, Senior National Correspondent for Good Morning America). Wouldn&’t it be nice to have a decoder ring to understand how men think? Cracking the Boy&’s Club Code gives you creative strategies for winning respect from male co-workers and getting the outcomes you want. In a unique, engaging style respectful of both sexes, Michael Johnson outlines gender communication styles and how to work within them to enable more harmonious interoffice interactions. Learn communication strategies that help you get heard, appreciated and rewarded. Discover hidden rules that govern men&’s behavior at work. Learn the top ten ways women sabotage themselves. Find out how to offer ideas with authority—and get credit for them. Identify your unconscious habits that undermine credibility. With practical suggestions geared toward the business world, Johnson shows us how men&’s conversational rituals and verbal power games can cause your best efforts to go unnoticed and unappreciated in the workplace. A must read for women who work with men, this book offers a peek into to the male business mind. Once you&’ve cracked the boy&’s club code, you&’ll be heard, valued, and appreciated—without compromising your authenticity. &“There&’s no need to break the glass ceiling . . . just remove it! Johnson gives women a unique peek into the unspoken rules men use in business, then shows us how to use those same rules to our advantage. This book is destined to be a classic for all women in business. Read it and ROCK!&” —Christine Comaford, CEO, Mighty Ventures and author of Rules for Renegades
Cracking the Bro Code (Labor and Technology)
by Coleen CarriganWhy dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves democracy and social justice.Cracking the Bro Code is a bold ethnographic study of sexism and racism in contemporary computing cultures theorized through the analytical frame of the &“Bro Code.&” Drawing from feminist anthropology and STS, Coleen Carrigan shares in this book the direct experiences of women, nonbinary individuals, and people of color, including her own experiences in tech, to show that computing has a serious cultural problem. From senior leaders in the field to undergraduates in their first year of college, participants consistently report how sexism and harassment manifest themselves in computing via values, norms, behaviors, evaluations, and policies. While other STEM fields are making strides in recruiting, retaining, and respecting women workers, computing fails year after year to do so.Carrigan connects altruism, computing, race, and gender to advance the theory that social purpose is an important factor to consider in working toward gender equity in computing. Further, she argues that transforming computing culture from hostile to welcoming has the potential to change not only who produces computing technology but also the core values of its production, with possible impacts on social applications. Cracking the Bro Code explains how digital bosses have come to operate imperiously in our society, dodging taxes and oversight, and how some programmers who look like them are enchanted with a sense of divine right. In the context of computing&’s powerful influence on the world, Carrigan speculates on how the cultural mechanisms sustaining sexism, harassment, and technocracy in computing workspaces impact both those harmed by such violence as well as society at large.
Cracking the Code
by Jim Mellon Al ChalabiEverything you need to know about the most important trend in the history of the worldWithin most people's lifetimes, the developments in the biotechnology sector will allow us to live increasingly long and healthy lives, as well as provide us with technological innovations that will transform the way we live. But these innovations offer more than just hope for a better life, but hope for better returns too. Financial returns of incredible magnitude await savvy investors and businesspeople who can see the massive changes on the horizon. This book details these fast-moving trends and innovations and offers extensive advice on how to profit from them in business and investing.
Cracking the Code of the Income Statement: Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs
by Joe Knight Karen BermanThis chapter will help you understand the intricacies of the income statement. It outlines simple procedures and shows you how the income statement can help you understand what is going on in your company and how to use that information to lead. This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs."
Cracking the Code of the Income Statement
by Joe Knight Karen Berman John CaseUnfortunately, an income statement can often seem like a code that needs to be deciphered. This chapter outlines some simple procedures for deciphering your company's income statement.
Cracking the Code to a Successful Interview: 15 Insider Secrets from a Top-Level Recruiter
by Evan PellettCracking the Code to a Successful Interview is a groundbreaking new scientific, proactive, cutting-edge, hands-on, proven approach to job interviews by an award-winning, highly decorated recruiter. This REAPRICH eight-step interview method will give you a proactive way to take control of your interview. You will learn the secret, never-before-published "questions behind the questions." These are the questions that every manager unconsciously needs answered in order to hire you.
Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA
by Kevin DaviesWriting for a popular audience, Davies recounts the race to unravel the human genome sequence. The narrative is equally concerned with the institutional politics of the public and private projects as it is with the scientific advances and achievements of the researchers. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)