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The 8 Biggest Challenges for New Entrepreneurs

By Larry Alton — 2016

For new and young entrepreneurs, there are some unique challenges that are especially difficult to overcome. If you’re just getting into the game, or you’re thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, be prepared for these eight significant hurdles.

Read on www.entrepreneur.com

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Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity, and Achieve Financial Success

Entrepreneurship has always skewed male―from availability of funding to how-to books that assume a primarily male audience. And yet, 36% of all small business or franchise owners are women, and there are 13 million female-owned businesses contributing to more than $1.8 trillion in revenue.

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Charlene Walters
2021
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The Creative Thinking Handbook: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Problem Solving in Business

The Creative Thinking Handbook argues that we need to identify and remove the 'box' around our thinking, so we canunlock unlimited streams of creativity for professional and business success.

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Chris Griffiths
2025
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Your Next Big Idea: Improve Your Creativity and Problem-Solving

Featured by Yahoo!, Booklist Magazine, Publishers Weekly, ABC's Good Morning Washington, Advertising Week, Thrive Global, multiple affiliates of CBS, Fox and NBC and awarded BlueInk Review Notable Book Seal and IndieReader Approved Designation, this non-fiction business and self-help creativity...

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Samuel Sanders
2021
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Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: "design thinking," or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth.

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Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie
2025
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Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can affect business results. However, most managers lack a sense of how to use this new approach for issues other than product development and sales growth.

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Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, Kevin Bennett
2025
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#28 Michael Mauboussin: A Decision Making Jedi

Michael Mauboussin returns for a fascinating encore interview on the Knowledge Project. We geek out on decision making, luck vs. skill, work life balance, and so much more.

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The Knowledge Project Podcast
2018
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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by short-term emotions.

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Chip Heath, Dan Heath
2013
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