by Apex Business Advisors | Oct 9, 2017 | Book Club
Because college degrees carry (still) such an outsized weight of social proof, some business owners have been known to acquire an MBA after they’ve built, scaled, and sold a company. Josh Kaufman persuasively argues in his 400+ page book The Personal MBA that...
by Apex Business Advisors | Sep 15, 2017 | Book Club
Derek Sivers sold his company, CD Baby, for $22M. For years he’d made tens of millions of dollars for independent musicians by giving them a platform by which they could sell to their fans. Some time after, he wrote a very short book about the experience,...
by Apex Business Advisors | Aug 9, 2017 | Book Club
Marty Neumeier’s short slide-presentation book, ZAG, at 192 pages, is one of the shortest books we’ve covered in our Book Club series. Don’t let the smaller size fool you, however. Neumeier covers a plethora of information about being the best brand possible....
by Apex Business Advisors | Jun 27, 2017 | Book Club
Disruption seems to be a constant in the “you economy” of today. Taxis and even public transport are being disrupted by Uber and Lyft. Hotels and motels are being disrupted by Airbnb. Billboards are being disrupted by the one device most people are likely to be...
by Apex Business Advisors | May 23, 2017 | Book Club
Mark Cuban is a man who needs no introduction. He’s best known today as one of the sharks in the ABC Emmy-award-winning series, Shark Tank, but most people don’t know that in 2011 he managed to pen a thin book called How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can do...
by Apex Business Advisors | Apr 26, 2017 | Book Club
We review books you should read in preparation to buy or sell a business, as well as how to build a company to sell one day. You can see other books we’ve reviewed in our archive. What’s the premise? Bo Burlingham, who is one of the editors-at-large for Inc....
