If you’re thinking of starting a new business I hope you bookmark this page.
I have spent countless hours searching the web for tools and resources that every startup and entrepreneur should considering using. Whether you are a team of one, or a team of many, you will find this page useful.
Are you considering starting a business from home? Have you always had an entrepreneurial fire but never pursued your ideas? Don’t waste your time trying to find the best resources and tools — rather take advantage of what I have organized here.
As you scroll down you’ll notice that this list has been broken into stages of business development. At each stage there are 5 to 10 different tools, resources, and books that you should considering referencing. I’m not selling snake-oil (I’m not selling anything, actually) or offering bullshit advice. This is just a list, a weel formatted, organized and concise repository of resources I have used in my own businesses.
I have no affiliation with these companies and their products. I just like you, have found myself searching for these tools time and time again. I have simply taken the time to organize them all in a central location.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Getting an idea
- Forming a plan
- Finding a partner
- Building a foundation
- Getting your first user
- Collecting user feedback
- Creating business process
- Finance and accounting
- Marketing to the world
- Growing your enterprise
GETTING AN IDEA
At the core of every business is an innovative idea.
What value does your company provide? What pain point does your idea relieve? How do users benefit?
Posing these questions to yourself is a good place to start when trying to identify a business opportunity. Here are a list of resources, tools and books that can help you generate a great startup idea.
Resources
IDEAS FOR STARTUPS
If coming up with an idea for a startup equals coming up with a million dollar idea, then of course it’s going to seem hard. Too hard to bother trying. Our instincts tell us something so valuable would not be just lying around for anyone to discover.
-Paul Graham
HOW TO GET STARTUP IDEAS
Why is it so important to work on a problem you have? Among other things, it ensures the problem really exists. It sounds obvious to say you should only work on problems that exist. And yet by far the most common mistake startups make is to solve problems no one has.
-Paul Graham
YCOMBINATOR INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
15 seconds to answer a barrage of YCombinator interview questions will help any entrepreneur find holes in their startup idea.
REQUESTS FOR STARTUPS
A weekly newsletter of ideas that investors, companies, and influencers would like to fund.
MUSK LEVEL
Up-vote style website with ideas that only Elon Musk would consider exploiting.
DEVELOPER IDEAS
Sign up for this newsletter if you want a bit of inspiration on what you should build next. You can expect four ideas and one open source repo in your inbox every week.
CAMPFIRES
Gather ’round as a few of our favorite designers share tips, insights, war stories and more.
Tools
JAVELIN
Software platform to help entrepreneurs and startups identify customer needs, validate new products, and reach product market fit.
ELEVATR
A fast, beautiful, and fun way to capture, organize, and share business ideas.
MINDMEISTER
MindMeister is considered the best online mind mapping software currently on the market. With its award-winning online version and its free mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, users are able to mind map at school, at home, at the office and even on the go.
Books
MADE TO STICK: WHY SOME IDEAS SURVIVE AND OTHERS DIE
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions.
A WHOLE NEW MIND: WHY RIGHT-BRAINERS WILL RULE THE FUTURE
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic “right-brain” thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t.
Technique for Producing Ideas
This classic creative problem-solver walks you through a proven, step-by-step process to producing powerful and purposeful ideas and shows you how to: — Gather the raw materials — those of your immediate problem and the materials which come from your store of general knowledge– Work over and incubate these materials in your mind– Shape and develop an idea for practical use.
How to Get Ideas
How to Get Ideas shows you – no matter your age or skill, your job or training – how to come up with more ideas, faster and easier.
How Breakthroughs Happen
Andrew Hargadon argues that our romantic notions about innovation as invention are actually undermining our ability to pursue breakthrough innovations. Based on ten years of study into the origins of historic inventions and modern innovations from the lightbulb to the transistor to the Reebok Pump athletic shoe, How Breakthroughs Happen takes us beyond the simple recognition that revolutionary innovations do not result from flashes of brilliance by lone inventors or organizations.
FORMING A PLAN
Once an idea is in place the next step is writing out a plan.
Booooring, I know. But absolutely necessary.
Without a plan you are doomed from the start. Take a look at these resources, tools, and books that will help you map out a timeline for your company. The first step from idea to business happens here.
Resources
WRITING A BUSINESS PLAN
We like business plans that present a lot of information in as few words as possible. The following business plan format, within 15–20 slides, is all that’s needed.
-Sequoia Capital
Autopsy
Lessons from failed startup companies.
START JUMPER
StartJumper provides future-ready business plans free of charge for anyone to be inspired by or use. With each business plan are brand assets such as business names, domains and professionally designed logos you can buy.
Startup Lawyer
Startup Lawyer is a resource for participants of the startup ecosystem. Articles are generally legal in nature but topics may include current events as they relate to the startup ecosystem.
Which LLC is best for your business?
Entrepreneur, Nick Gray explains his rationale for choosing where to register his new company. This is a great resource for anyone contemplating the same question for their business.
Tools
KNOWLIUM
Over 90% of startups fail within the first 5 years. Knowlium aims to change that with a web application that guides you through the process of business discovery, planning and management.
PRODUCTPLAN
ProductPlan is the easiest way to plan, visualize, and share your product roadmap.
STARTUP DOCUMENTS
Startup Documents knows that starting a company can be confusing. That’s why we aim to simplify the process. Whether you’re wondering when to incorporate, or what the difference is between a C Corp, S Corp and LLC, we want to help you make the best decisions for your startup.
TERMSFEED
TermsFeed allows you to create the legal agreements easily and online. No software is required.
DOCUSIGN
he future of business is digital. DocuSign helps businesses of all sizes easily and securely sign, send, and manage documents in the cloud, with unmatched availability and legal enforceability.
Books
The Lean Startup
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.
The $100 Startup
In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose – and earn a good living.
ZERO TO ONE
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.
FINDING A PARTNER
With a plan in place it is now time to start building your foundation. But wait, what do you do if you don’t know how to make what you are envisioning? Or what about the other way around, you don’t know how to fund, organize, or properly plan what you are envisioning?
Ah, now is the time to find a co-founder. Don’t fret, working with others is pertinent for success. Here are a list of resources, tools and books to help you find the perfect partner for your startup venture.
Resources
STARTUP WEEKEND
Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities.
BETAPARTNERS
We’re ready to get started. Connect with us to describe your project now. Our contractors iterate quickly, work meticulously, and communicate effectively, so your project is successful.
HOW DO I FIND A TECHNICAL CO-FOUNDER?
Unfortunately this is a classic problem. “How do I find a really hot single girl to go out with?”
-Drew Houston
Tools
COFOUNDERS LAB
Are you looking for a like-minded entrepreneur who can provide the skills, resources, or capital needed to turn your business idea into a reality? Don’t have your own idea but looking for a great one to be a part of? If so, you came to the right place.
MEETUP
Meetup is the world’s largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face.
COLLAB FINDER
Find cofounders, collaborators and other makers to help build your project.
FOUNDERS NATION
Founders Nation is a platform for entrepreneurs and founders. We built it to connect dreamers that wish to make the world a better place through innovation and technology.
Books
BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP ESSENTIALS
BUILDING A FOUNDATION
With your idea, plan, and partner in place it is now time to build a foundation. In order for your idea to grow into a successful business you will need to invest time and money upfront.
Spending those precious resources properly is tricky. Here are a list of resources, tools and books to help you decide what to do in your early days.
Resources
GOOD USER INTERFACE
A Good User Interface has high conversion rates and is easy to use. In other words, it’s nice to both the business side as well as the people using it. Here is a running idea list which we’re evolving.
GOOGLE TRENDS
What search terms, news items, and “things” are trending across the world and in your neighborhood.
Tools
Userium
Catch common usability problems before user testing.
PROTOTYPING ON PAPER
Take pen and paper ideas and build a working prototype.
GENERATOR
Drag & Drop any blocks to make a quick structure for your startup site.
QUICKMVP
QuickMVP is the easiest way to test your ideas, without wasting time or money.
MARVEL
Turn designs and sketches into iOS prototypes, then record and playback exactly how users interact. No coding required.
NAMIUM
Naminum is a company, startup and website name generator designed to make your namestorming sessions smoother.
BALSAMIQ
Balsamiq Mockups is a rapid wireframing tool that helps you Work Faster & Smarter. It reproduces the experience of sketching on a whiteboard, but using a computer.
Verify
Verify lets you test screenshots of your design work to gain valuable insights on your users’ expectations and reactions to your apps and websites before writing a single line of code
Compass
Compass is made for executives who seek visibility on how to improve their business’ ROI without having to rely on an analyst or a consultant. Compass automatically prepares best-practice reports and benchmarks for your weekly and monthly business meetings.
VALIDATELY
Take the pain out of user research. The easiest way to recruit testers, launch tests, and analyze results.
Books
THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy.
THE HUMAN SIDE OF ENTERPRISE
McGregor understood, anticipated, and helped point the way toward what may well emerge as a future model of work, organizations and society that is rooted in core assumptions driving participative, interdependent, authentic, inventive and productive relationships.
IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE
Based on a study of forty-three of America’s best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management — action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices — that made these organizations successful.
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS & INFLUENCE PEOPLE
For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.
GETTING YOUR FIRST USERS
With your minimum viable product built it is time to get your first user.
For many entrepreneurs this can be a difficult task. Push your, “fear of selling” aside and remember that your idea provides real value to the user. Use some of these resources, tools and books below to get those first few interested people using your product or service.
Resources
GETTING FREE PRESS FOR YOUR STARTUP
- How to make sure people remember what it is your startup actually does
- Find the reporters that can actually help you (and you can, in turn, help them)
- Get featured on the sites you want for your business
Killer Startups
KillerStartups.com is part of a family of sites including Fundable.com, Launchrock.com, and Bizplan.com. We are joined by over 600,000 startup companies and the 14 million backers, investors, and supporters who love them.
Launching Next
Home to more than 5,000 new startups, startup ideas and great business ideas. We showcase startups to our thousands of readers. If you have a startup, we want to hear about it!
/R/STARTUPS
Welcome to r/startups, a community for all backgrounds, levels of expertise, and business experience. We are a forum of entrepreneurs working towards unbiased and anonymous feedback, advice, ideas, and discussion.
Tools
BETALIST
BetaList is the place for early adopters to discover upcoming internet startups, and for startup founders to share their startup with the world and get early user feedback.
ERLIBIRD
Our campaigns empower product owners to reach a global community of real-world users.
Recruit and run a targeted real-world focus group for beta testing, user experience testing, or market research.
STARTUPTABS
Startup Discovery Engine – Join our community of individuals who love discovering and promoting startups
BETA TESTER HUB
Build a user base of dedicated early adopters for your startup
Startup List
StartupLi.st is a place to find, follow, and recommend startups.
It naturally caters to early adopters.
Books
HOOKED: HOW TO BUILD HABIT-FORMING PRODUCTS
Hooked is a guide to building products people can’t put down.
Written for product managers, designers, marketers, startup founders, and people eager to learn more about the things that control our behaviors.
CONTAGIOUS: WHY THINGS CATCH ON
Contagious combines groundbreaking research with powerful stories. Learn how a luxury steakhouse found popularity through the lowly cheese-steak, why anti-drug commercials might have actually increased drug use, and why more than 200 million consumers shared a video about one of the seemingly most boring products there is: a blender.
GROWTH HACKER MARKETING
A new generation of megabrands like Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, and Twitter haven’t spent a dime on traditional marketing. No press releases, no TV commercials, no billboards. Instead, they rely on a new strategy—growth hacking—to reach many more people despite modest marketing budgets.
COLLECTING USER FEEDBACK
Great, your first few users have tested out your MVP. Now the fun really begins.
You need to collect their feedback and understand what aspects of your product or service they like and don’t like. You need to get in the users head and fine tune your companies founding idea. Your users generate your revenue – you ought to listen to what they have to say.
Resources
CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT FOR STARTUPS: WHAT I LEARNED TALKING TO 500 CUSTOMERS IN 4 WEEKS
I recently spent more than 100 hours talking to Groove customers. Here’s what I learned…
HOW TO INTERVIEW YOUR USERS AND GET USEFUL FEEDBACK
One of the lessons I learned after killing my first product was that I needed to pay better attention to how I was gathering feedback. That experience showed me that I had a fundamental misunderstanding on how to actually go about getting good feedback.
12 TIPS FOR EARLY CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT INTERVIEWS
A few months ago, I gave this talk to an entrepreneurship class at Columbia Business School, and once again the list and messages evolved. Below you can find my latest thinking.
Tools
USERVOICE
All-in-one product management platform makes it easy to collect feedback, prioritize features and nail product releases
ZENDESK
Zendesk makes it easy to support customers when they need your help. Zendesk also makes it easy for them to help themselves when they don’t.
LIVENINJA
LiveNinja is a simple video chat tool meant to humanize your online experience. One customer at a time.
USERSNAP
Usersnap is a visual bug tracker for everyone working on a web project. Usersnap makes collaboration with colleagues & clients easy and professional.
BUGHERD
Your clients report issues by making annotations right from the site being worked on. BugHerd turns these into full bug reports with all the info you need to fix the problem.
DOORBELL
You can send feedback to Doorbell from anywhere, just forward the emails from your “support” or “help” addresses to the one that Doorbell gives you.
TALKTOUSERS
A professional UX team at your fingertips, with one line of code. Your users leave point-and-click feedback. UX experts crunch the feedback. You get in-depth reports.
TAWK.TO
tawk.to is a free messaging app that lets you monitor and chat with visitors on your website or from a free customizable page
Books
THE ENTREPRENEUR’S GUIDE TO CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT
Customer Development is a four-step framework for helping startups discover and validate their customers, product, and go-to-market strategy, developed by Steve Blank and an integral part of Eric Ries’ Lean Startup methodology. Focused on the Customer Discovery step, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development is an easy to follow guide for finding early adopters, building a Minimum Viable Product, finding Product-Market fit, and establishing a sales and marketing roadmap.
THE FOUR STEPS TO THE EPIPHANY
The book offers the practical and proven four-step Customer Development process for search and offers insight into what makes some startups successful and leaves others selling off their furniture.
LEAN CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT
How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research—before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants.
CREATING BUSINESS PROCESS
You are in a great position right now. You have a ton of user feedback that is infinitely valuable to your startup company. Now is the time to implement that feedback and get ready to scale.
You are going to build business process, and you are going to kick some as while you do it. Here are some great resources, tools and books on how to make your business scale-able and agile from the start.
Resources
Creating Process in Business
Creating process is a milestone for a start-up company, because process implies that you have a product or service that is in demand. To increase the likelihood of successful growth and development the organization must standardize the way it produces their products.
BUILDING A BUSINESS PROCESS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
High-performing companies make business process improvement a core competency. These leading firms share a common characteristic: they continually find clever ways to improve the process of process improvement.
HOW TO BUILD SYSTEMS
Systems are rules, policies, and procedures that trained individuals can repeat as your company grows and run independent of you.
Tools
SlimWiki
Beautiful wikis for teams. Wikis don’t have to be ugly, complex and hard to manage. Welcome to the future of the Wiki.
TEAMPASSWORD
Everybody hates being locked out. With TeamPassword, your team’s shared logins are accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, keeping your projects moving.
SLACK
Team communication for the 21st century. With Slack, you don’t need to wait around for the next email or that elusive meeting invite.
ASSISTANT.TO
Book meetings with one email. No back & forth. No double bookings. And it’s free!
DO
With Do, you can easily and delightfully see what you have going on. Meetings, participants, and the important info all at your fingertips.
Books
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT
The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management is the definitive book that explains the industry frameworks and best practice methodologies Theodore has used to help many organizations implement BPM across their organization.
FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
When your startup was a weekend side project you could get by with fledgling accounting practices. Now that your startup is a full-on business you need to get your books in order.
Here are a list of great resources, tools and books to manage your finances, send and receive invoices, and keep your money in order.
Resources
HOW CROWD-FUNDING IS CHANGING EVERYTHING AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR YOUR STARTUP
“This isn’t always appropriate, and it depends on your business,” Mittal says, but crowd-funding tends to make sense in this context for hardware plays.
HOW TO FUND A STARTUP
Let’s start by talking about the five sources of startup funding. Then we’ll trace the life of a hypothetical (very fortunate) startup as it shifts gears through successive rounds.
-Paul Graham
VENTUREHACKS
We’ve founded companies like AngelList and Epinions, invested in companies like Twitter and helped start companies backed by Sequoia, Benchmark, and Kleiner.
CDIXON BLOG
Personal investor in technology startups, including Kickstarter, Warby Parker, Stripe, Pinterest, Foursquare, Flatiron Health, Bloomreach, Stack Exchange, Optimizely, Skype, Sift Science, Oyster, Behance (acq by Adobe), TrialPay (acq by Visa), Smart Things (acq by Samsung), OMGPOP (acq by Zynga), Truaxis (acq by Mastercard), DocVerse (acq by Google), ScanScout (IPO), Invite Media (acq by Google).
Tools
BAREMETRICS
One click and you get hundreds of metrics & insights from your Stripe account.
CHARGEDESK
Managing our payments right in Zendesk, and not worrying about invoices or refund notifications lets us to help customers faster. ChargeDesk enables us to save time and money, while improving customer satisfaction.
Alex Flint
GUSTO
Run payroll in 1 minute on your phone. Pay taxes automatically. Make payday a celebration for everyone on your team.
EXPENSIFY
Streamline the way your employees report expenses, the way expenses are approved,
and the way you export that information to your accounting package.
INDINERO
inDinero is your entire backoffice. We take care of your accounting, file your corporate tax returns, and manage your payroll. Focus on what matters most, and leave the rest to inDinero.
BALLPARK
Our beautiful, web-based invoices and estimates make it easier than ever to get paid and discuss projects with your clients and colleagues.
FRESHBOOKS
FreshBooks customers spend less time on paperwork, freeing up 2 days per month to focus on the work they love. What would you do with that extra time?
SUSH.IO
Reconcile Stripe transfers with Quickbooks, Xero and more in just a few clicks. Save time and get accurate data in real-time.
BENCH
Bench is the online bookkeeping service that provides you tax-ready financial statements from professional bookkeepers.
XERO
Accounting software with all the time-saving tools you need to grow your business. Xero is always secure and reliable and our experts are here to support you 24/7.
Books
TERM SHEETS & VALUATIONS
Term Sheets & Valuations book includes an actual term sheet from a leading law firm with line by line descriptions of each clause, what can/should be negotiated, and the important points to pay attention to. A must have book for any executive, entrepreneur, or financial professional.
START UP FINANCING
MARKETING TO THE WORLD
Are you ready for explosive hyper-growth? You better be, at this point you are ready to let the world know about your startup company.
Your process is in place and your books are in order – all you need now are thousands of paying customers. Here is a list of the best resources, tools and books you can use to help your marketing efforts.
Resources
INBOUND.ORG
Welcome to the internet’s smartest marketing community. Inbound.org is an online hub where good Marketers come to get better. You have an idea? Share it. You need to find or post a job? Do it. You want to connect, interact, comment, & learn? Well my friend, you’re in the right place…
HUBSPOT
HubSpot was founded in 2006 as a result of a simple observation: people have transformed how they live, work, shop, and buy, but businesses have not adapted. This mismatch led Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah to create the vision for the inbound experience and to develop HubSpot’s platform to support it.
PETITHACKS
Small hacks, fast growth.
MOZ.COM
Inbound marketing is complicated. Moz’s software makes it easy.
Tools
MARKETO
The #1 marketing automation solution for organizations of any size.
GLEAM
Marketing apps designed to help you grow your business.
CUSTOMER
Your messages will feel more personal when they’re perfectly timed and triggered with an advanced rules-engine.
Mailchimp
Join more than 9 million people who use MailChimp to design and send 600 million emails every day.
HOOTSUITE
Manage social networks, schedule messages, engage your audiences,
and measure ROI right from the dashboard.
BUFFER
Buffer is the best way to drive traffic, increase fan engagement and save time on social media.
Books
VIRAL LOOP
Many of the most successful Web 2.0 companies, including MySpace, YouTube, eBay, and rising stars like Twitter and Flickr, are prime examples of what journalist Adam L. Penenberg calls a “viral loop”–to use it, you have to spread it. After all, what’s the sense of being on Facebook if none of your friends are The result: Never before has there been the potential to create wealth this fast, on this scale, and starting with so little.
TRACTION
This book introduces startup founders and employees to the “Bullseye Framework,” a five-step process successful companies use to get traction. This framework helps founders find the marketing channel that will be key to unlocking the next stage of growth.
THE REFERRAL ENGINE
The power of glitzy advertising and elaborate marketing campaigns is on the wane; word- of-mouth referrals are what drive business today. People trust the recommendation of a friend, family member, colleague, or even stranger with similar tastes over anything thrust at them by a faceless company.
PERMISSION MARKETING
The man Business Week calls “the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age” explains “Permission Marketing”—the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it.
GROWING YOUR ENTERPRISE
Sweet! Everything is going well. Users are happy, your team is working well and the company is growing.
Now it is time for you to put on a different one of your many CEO hats. Your job now is to grow your enterprise. Here are the best resources, tools and books to make sure you scale effectively.
Resources
UPDATE MY VC
Use our Email Template to send your VCs a monthly update about new products, metrics, recruiting priorities, and important questions.
F6S
F6S is the network for Founders with the highest-ranked Startup programs globally, 5,700+ Startup orgs, 110k Startups and 1k+ deals. Thousands of F6S’ers a day apply to accelerators, pitch investment funds, post or apply for jobs, get free deals and grow.
DEALROOM
Direct and secure access to the world’s most sophisticated investors at your fingertips
ANGELLIST
Raise money online, with investments as small as $1k. You pay nothing—investors pay a carry.
INVESTOR RELATIONS FIRMS
Nick Gray has another great resource on investor relations firms that’s worth checking out.
Tools
GROW
Powerfully simple business intelligence (BI) dashboards for small and medium businesses. Track the right metrics. Lead with confidence. Crush your goals.
JAZZ
Over 4,000 companies have made 100,000 hires with Jazz
HOMERUN
With Homerun you create job openings that reflect the unique strengths of your company. Stories people want to share.
HOCKEYSTICK
The investor relations tool for private companies. Companies share metrics and updates with investors. Investors track portfolios and get insight into fund performance.
CHARLIE
Charlie combs through 100s of sources and automatically sends you a one‐pager on everyone you’re going to meet with, before you see them
LESSON.LY
From new employee onboarding, to customer support training, to sales enablement training, Lesson.ly is everything you need to get your teams up-to-speed and keep them there.
Books
GOOD TO GREAT
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.
WHO
In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent.
HERE COMES EVERYBODY
With accelerating velocity, our age’s new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and old and new groups alike doing the old things better and more easily.