Audiobooks narrated by William Elsman

The Startup Lifecycle: The Definitive Guide to Building a Startup from Idea to Exit

"A comprehensive blueprint for building and selling a successful startup from idea to exit, bypassing failure, and making the planet a better, more equitable place. Due to a range of frequent and unavoidable mistakes, only ten percent of startups make it beyond five years. In this game-changing guide, startup veteran and serial entrepreneur Gregory Shepard combines twelve startup exits, four private equity awards, and decades' worth of expert insight and industry experience—including interviews with real entrepreneurs, Navy SEALs, Air Force Fighter Pilots, and more—to present you with straightforward, actionable strategies for mapping out your startup and achieving success. The Startup Lifecycle is here to empower entrepreneurs and help you avert common mishaps by providing an easy-to-follow path through seven key phases, leading you from your initial vision to your lucrative exit—and along the way, improving the world for future generations: - Phase One: Vision & North Star, Focusing on the End Game - Phase Two: Prototype & Product - Phase Three: Go-To-Market for Startups - Phase Four: Standardizing for Growth - Phase Five: Optimization - Phase Six: Growth - Phase Seven: Exit With helpful visuals in every chapter, Shepard expertly teaches you to use industry-specific language, secure the right investments, build powerful relationships with investors, and prevent the pitfalls that cause first-time startups to fail. What's more, this field guide also includes free access to the most used startup platform for universities, putting everything you need at your fingertips including world-class, easy-to-comprehend education, investors, grants, and more. Don't just learn—build your startup with the seven-phase startup lifecycle in digital form, supplementary training courses, and wisdom from more than thousands of interviews. Sponsored by the Fulbright Program, The Startup Lifecycle imparts battle-tested business science from the mind of one of the most unique and accomplished entrepreneurs of our time, giving you the roadmap to startup success."

Gregory Shepard (Author), William Elsman (Narrator)

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Dark One: Forgotten

"From #1 New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award–winning author Brandon Sanderson, and co-author Dan Wells, comes DARK ONE: FORGOTTEN, a true-crime fantasy audio series and the first entry in Brandon Sanderson’s new DARK ONE fantasy saga. Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved. In this six-part audio series, Christina Walsh is determined to change that. After struggling with the loss of her father, she sets out on a journey to bring the justice that has eluded her to the families of other victims. And she starts with a particularly strange case. The murder of world-renowned violinist Leona McPherson, who mysteriously disappeared years ago after a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. As Christina digs deeper, the story gets stranger. Leona was a prodigy, someone too good to be forgotten, but that’s exactly what has happened. She’s been forgotten. Entirely. By everyone who knew her. From the gushing music critic in her hometown, to the detectives investigating her murder, even her own mother. So Christina embarks on a cross-country mission, with her roommate Sophie, to figure out what happened to Leona. In the process she uncovers a trail of similar victims who have suffered the same fate. But if no one can remember the victims, how can the killer possibly be caught? Christina’s only leads come from a crazed homeless man’s ramblings, a mysterious glass eye, and an otherworldly totem. Is Christina crazy or has she stumbled upon something so implausible it must be true?"

Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells (Author), Avery Waddell, Jim Meskimen, John H. Mayer, Jose Luis Bermudez, Kaleo Griffith, Keith Szarabajka, Kelli Tager, Mia Barron, Nan Mcnamara, Rachel Jacobs, Roxanne Hernandez, Sophie Oda, William Elsman (Narrator)

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A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth

"Bloomsbury presents A New History of Life by Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink, read by William Elsman. The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all—or so we think. A New History of Life offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how life on our planet evolved—the first major new synthesis for general readers in two decades. Charles Darwin’s theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life—but scientific advances of recent decades have radically altered that. Now two pioneering scientists draw on their years of experience in paleontology, biology, chemistry, and astrobiology to deliver an eye-opening narrative using a generation’s worth of insights culled from new research. Writing with zest, humor, and clarity, Ward and Kirschvink show that many of our long-held beliefs about the history of life are wrong. Three central themes emerge. First, Ward and Kirschvink argue that catastrophe shaped life’s history more than all other forces combined—from notorious events like the sudden extinction of dinosaurs to the recently discovered 'Snowball Earth' and the 'Great Oxygenation Event.' Second, life consists of carbon, but oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide determined how it evolved. Third, ever since Darwin we have thought of evolution in terms of species. Yet it is the evolution of ecosystems—from deep-ocean vents to rainforests—that has formed the living world as we know it. Ward and Kirschvink tell a story of life on Earth that is at once fabulous and familiar. And in a provocative coda, they assemble discoveries from the latest cutting-edge research to imagine how the history of life might unfold deep into the future. C 2015 Peter Ward C 2015 Joe Kirschvink P 2022 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"

Joe Kirschvink, Peter Ward (Author), William Elsman (Narrator)

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Exit Right: How to Sell Your Startup, Maximize Your Return and Build Your Legacy

"Before you sell your company, even the odds. While a successful entrepreneur may exit a handful of companies in their lifetime, large buyers close deals all the time. Without decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions, founders don’t have the tools they need to get the best results for themselves, their teams, or the new parent company. Through dozens of interviews with M&A leaders at the biggest Silicon Valley acquirers—as well as attorneys, bankers, and founders who have been through the trenches—Exit Right delivers the hard-earned lessons that lead to successful exits. From negotiation to valuation to breaking down a term sheet, managing legal costs, and handling emotional turbulence—this unparalleled guide covers every critical aspect of a technology startup sale. Learn where deals get into trouble, how to create alignment between negotiating parties, and what terms you should care about most. Above all, learn how to win in both the short and the long term, maximizing your price while positioning your company for a legacy you can be proud of."

Mark Achler, Mert Iseri (Author), William Elsman (Narrator)

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The No B.S. Small Business Book: How to Win When Most Fail

"Most business books are filled with B.S. “Hack this!” “10X that!” “Guaranteed!” But the business success you want isn’t hidden inside thousands of buzzwords. Massive success only comes when you get massively clear about the one outcome you can control in your business: YOU. In The No B.S. Small Business Book, you will learn how to get ruthlessly honest about yourself, your business, and what you really want from both—and how to get it. You’ll roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty, applying practical business strategies gleaned from decades of experience building and exiting successful companies. If you want to gain massive traction from achieving massive clarity as you take massive action at all levels of business and life as a no-B.S. business owner, then buckle up… This is the business book you’ve been waiting for."

Casey Graham (Author), William Elsman (Narrator)

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Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

"Bloomsbury presents Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter, read by William Elsman. When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don’t want and turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter—veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner—travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment. With unmatched access to and insight on the waste industry, and the explanatory gifts and an eye for detail worthy of a John McPhee or a William Langewiesche, Minter traces the export of America’s junk and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of how the way we consume and discard stuff fuels a world that recognizes value where Americans don’t. Junkyard Planet reveals that Americans might need to learn a smarter way to take out the trash. C 2013 Adam Minter P 2021 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"

Adam Minter (Author), William Elsman (Narrator)

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