“Tales of Power meets the Peaceful Warrior... in Silicon Valley! It's entertaining, humble, insightful and valuable - not just to entrepreneurs, but to anyone looking to manifest their dreams and make a difference in the world.” —Foster Gamble, Creator and Host, Thrive: What on Earth Will It Take “You will come away with insight about yourself, guidance … and knowledge that you may not be able to acquire anywhere else save the mountaintops of the Himalayas.” —Bookreview.com Read Zen Entrepreneurship, the book that has inspired entrepreneurs and spiritual seekers worldwide! Based on a true story, this book is about succeeding in life while walking a spiritual path. Follow the travels of a young entrepreneur as he starts and grows a multi-million dollar business, only to discover that real success is tied to the hidden worlds and learn the secrets of being a Career Warrior. This book is not just for entrepreneurs, but for anyone who wants to find their work and place in life, who want to bring more integrity into their work and be more successful personally and financially. “Riz Virk brings the wisdom of ancient Eastern traditions into a purely Western setting. The result is an often hilarious but always insightful book that will change how you view career success and help you discover and walk your own unique path.” —Marc Allen, author of Visionary Business, CEO and co-founder of New World Library Zen Entrepreneurship will teach you the 14 hidden keys for success, including: how to use your work for spiritual growth how to achieve success using the Four Keys to Manifestation how to discover and transcend your Energetic Pattern, rather than letting it run you how to bring the magic and mystery of a treasure hunt into your career. how to find the 7 Clues that are pointing you to the person you were meant to be! How to utilize your dreams and synchronicity to serve as your guide How to find and utilize Places of Power, and Times of Power to be more successful How to manifest appropriately to propel you to financial and business success How to find and walk your own Warrior’s Path, the unique combination of lesson and contributions you are here for “Zen Entrepreneurship changed my life, it confirmed for me that 'clues' exist in the world around us and are powerful. I shared this book with every one of my clients from that point forward. Powerful. A must read... it reinforces that there is a bigger guide within us if we choose to listen” —Lorin Beller, author of From Entrepreneur to Big Fish: 7 Principles of Wild Success

Combining the principles of Eastern and Western business practices for powerful success As an entrepreneur, manager, and problem-solver, Tomio Taki has shared advice with businesspeople ranging from managers of mom-and-pops to high-powered executives from across the globe. The Innovation Instinct showcases the author's breadth of life experience and illustrates how the principles of Eastern and Western business practices can be meshed together as a powerful source for success. Lessons range from the benefits of asking the simple questions to the importance of establishing oneself and knowing when to go against the grain. Tomio Taki has consulted for, financed, or directly managed both private and public companies on nearly every continent. He has been involved in ventures ranging from being the man behind Donna Karen New York to owning and operating private golf clubs around the world. In short, Taki's business and related successes are striking, having helped companies rise from the ashes of potential bankruptcy to streamlining and growing corporate giants. The wisdom he shares in The Innovation Instinct includes: Language is less of an obstacle across borders; instead, cultural differences are what propel and vitiate communication among businesspersons Certain fundamental aspects of business and life cross latitudinal and longitudinal lines When businesspeople seek to understand the cultures of their counterparts, they will discover lasting success with their global business relationships.

"Tales of Power meets the Peaceful Warrior... in Silicon Valley! It's entertaining, humble, insightful and valuable - not just to entrepreneurs, but to anyone looking to manifest their dreams and make a difference in the world." -Foster Gamble, Creator and Host, Thrive: What on Earth Will It Take "You will come away with insight about yourself, guidance ... and knowledge that you may not be able to acquire anywhere else save the mountaintops of the Himalayas." -Bookreview.com Read Zen Entrepreneurship, the book that has inspired entrepreneurs and spiritual seekers worldwide! Based on a true story, this book is about succeeding in life while walking a spiritual path. Follow the travels of a young entrepreneur as he starts and grows a multi-million dollar business, only to discover that real success is tied to the hidden worlds and learn the secrets of being a Career Warrior. This book is not just for entrepreneurs, but for anyone who wants to find their work and place in life, who want to bring more integrity into their work and be more successful personally and financially. "Riz Virk brings the wisdom of ancient Eastern traditions into a purely Western setting. The result is an often hilarious but always insightful book that will change how you view career success and help you discover and walk your own unique path." -Marc Allen, author of Visionary Business, CEO and co-founder of New World Library Zen Entrepreneurship will teach you the 14 hidden keys for success, including: how to use your work for spiritual growth how to achieve success using the Four Keys to Manifestation how to discover and transcend your Energetic Pattern, rather than letting it run you how to bring the magic and mystery of a treasure hunt into your career. how to find the 7 Clues that are pointing you to the person you were meant to be! How to utilize your dreams and synchronicity to serve as your guide How to find and utilize Places of Power, and Times of Power to be more successful How to manifest appropriately to propel you to financial and business success How to find and walk your own Warrior's Path, the unique combination of lesson and contributions you are here for "Zen Entrepreneurship changed my life, it confirmed for me that 'clues' exist in the world around us and are powerful. I shared this book with every one of my clients from that point forward. Powerful. A must read... it reinforces that there is a bigger guide within us if we choose to listen" -Lorin Beller, author of From Entrepreneur to Big Fish: 7 Principles of Wild Success

The Essential How-To Guide for Social Media Marketing by Leading Expert Shama Hyder, Named "Social media’s zen master of marketing" by Entrepreneur magazine and One of LinkedIn's "Top Voices" in Marketing & Social in 2015 In 2001, at the dawn of the millennium—and the digital marketing age—the first edition of The Zen of Social Media Marketing became a global hit. In the ensuing years, updated editions helped even more marketers, entrepreneurs, students, and professionals of all types navigate the sometimes-stressful world of social media. Now, this new, fully updated edition offers timely insight to the ways social media marketing has changed and specific steps to show you exactly how to thrive and profit with ease and efficiency. Whether you’re a novice, struggler, or mastery-seeker, you already know that engaging in social media is no longer optional. People are talking about your company online and you need to be part of those conversations. However, social media marketing isn’t like traditional marketing—and treating it that way only leads to frustration and failure. In The Zen of Social Media Marketing, Shama Hyder, social media expert and president of The Marketing Zen Group, teaches you the “Zen” of using social media tools to find your own marketing nirvana. The newest edition of The Zen of Social Media Marketing gives you: - A comprehensive overview of why social media works and how to use it to drive traffic to your website and fan page - A proven process to attract followers and fans and convert them into customers and clients - The latest social media trends and step-by-step guidelines for sites and apps such as Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and more - Innovative tips for mobile design - Essential advice on content marketing, email marketing, video, and targeted tactics to enhance your SEO - All-new information on why, when, and how to use online advertising - Why self-expression is the true driver of social media use and how to leverage it for your business - Insights from dozens of leading online marketers and entrepreneurs, with strategies for success

When Pierre Omidyar launched a clunky website from a spare bedroom over Labor Day weekend of 1995, he wanted to see if he could use the Internet to create a perfect market. He never guessed his old-computer parts and Beanie Baby exchange would revolutionize the world of commerce. Now, Adam Cohen, the only journalist ever to get full access to the company, tells the remarkable story of eBay's rise. He describes how eBay built the most passionate community ever to form in cyberspace and forged a business that triumphed over larger, better-funded rivals. And he explores the ever-widening array of enlistees in the eBay revolution, from a stay-at-home mom who had to rent a warehouse for her thriving business selling bubble-wrap on eBay to the young MBA who started eBay Motors (which within months of its launch was on track to sell $1 billion in cars a year), to collectors nervously bidding thousands of dollars on antique clothing-irons. Adam Cohen's fascinating look inside eBay is essential reading for anyone trying to figure out what's next. If you want to truly understand the Internet economy, The Perfect Store is indispensable.

Zen Ventures is a moving portrait of what it takes to be a Diverse Founder in modern times. It's a story of resilience, innovation, and transformation both for the author, Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur Champion Muthle, and the industry itself. After losing out to corrupt VCs and corporate pirates, Mr. Muthle, is cast into a virtual vortex from which only the most resourceful and enlightened founders and startups have emerged. The outcome is Zen Ventures, an impact venture studio for diverse founders, now valued at over $30 billion. From the dusty township streets of South Africa to the beaches of Hawaii, Zen Ventures reads like a treasure map of ideas, hardships, and innovations for budding entrepreneurs and seasoned Venture Capitalists alike. In gripping detail, Zen Ventures sets a course from economic devastation to the future of Venture Capital and Impact Investing. It is a must read full of inspiring and entertaining quotes by the likes of Jack Welch, Bruce Lee, Zen Buddhism, and the author himself.

If you've been thinking about starting your own startup but are having a hard time coming up with a great startup idea and don't know where to start, this book is for you! Coming up with the right startup idea has to be the very first step you take. What you need to know about startup ideas... Startup ideas are misunderstood and overrated. There is the common misconception that "if only I had a killer startup idea, I could make a fortune..." As the saying goes, ideas are a dime a dozen. Everyone has startup ideas. Ideas in themselves don't count for much. What may seem like a brilliant, compelling, "million dollar" idea to one may not have the same effect on the next person. Execution matters a whole lot more than the startup idea itself. It takes a lot to pull off a startup idea and not everyone has it in them to pull off a Facebook, a Dropbox or a SnapChat even if the idea fell on their laps. Startup ideas are not the be all and end all for startups. ...that will give you an edge That said, picking the perfect startup idea for you to work on will definitely give you a significant advantage and a much better chance of success for your startup. So how do you come up with the best idea for you? Where do you look for ideas? How do you know if a startup idea is right for you? Do you have what it takes to pull off your startup idea? What else do you need to know about picking your startup idea that can tilt the odds of success in your favor? This book will give you the answers to all of these questions and much more. What's in this book for you? Ideas may be a dime a dozen and execution may be everything, whether it is your first startup or your third, picking the best startup idea for you to work on is crucial. Why? Because there is a huge opportunity cost involved--it takes an enormous amount of time and money, blood and sweat, energy, focus and commitment to create and build a startup from scratch. So it's not just your startup that's on the line, your time, energy and money (your life in short) are at stake too. You really want to be sure that you pick the best idea for you to make it worth your while. This book will give you the clarity to know confidently whether a startup idea is right for you or not. Having a big picture perspective and some astute insights on startup ideation before you start to scope and scout for ideas will also help speed up your learning curve and save you a lot of time and heartache learning the hard way. That's exactly what this book will do for you. This book also gives you a detailed account of eight robust sources for startup ideas, some of which are bound to yield some good startup ideas for you. You may not hit upon the right startup idea overnight, but it's important that you understand how to tune in and start tuning in right away! This book will help you learn how to tune in to receiving inspiration for startup ideas too. Take a look inside this book. Better still, download it and read it! It's a short and punchy read and it will give you a valuable perspective about startup ideas that will get off you off on a good start with your startup. You can't afford not to know!

The Simulation Hypothesis, by best-selling author, renowned MIT computer scientist and Silicon Valley video game designer Rizwan Virk, is the first serious book to explain one of the most daring and consequential theories of our time. Riz is the Executive Director of Play Labs @ MIT, a video game startup incubator at the MIT Game Lab. Drawing from research and concepts from computer science, artificial intelligence, video games, quantum physics, and referencing both speculative fiction and ancient eastern spiritual texts, Virk shows how all of these traditions come together to point to the idea that we may be inside a simulated reality like the Matrix. The Simulation Hypothesis is the idea that our physical reality, far from being a solid physical universe, is part of an increasingly sophisticated video game-like simulation, where we all have multiple lives, consisting of pixels with its own internal clock run by some giant Artificial Intelligence. Simulation theory explains some of the biggest mysteries of quantum and relativistic physics, such as quantum indeterminacy, parallel universes, and the integral nature of the speed of light. Recently, the idea that we may be living in a giant video game has received a lot of attention: “There’s a one in a billion chance we are not living in a simulation” -Elon Musk “I find it hard to argue we are not in a simulation.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson “We are living in computer generated reality.” -Philip K. Dick Video game technology has developed from basic arcade and text adventures to MMORPGs. Video game designer Riz Virk shows how these games may continue to evolve in the future, including virtual reality, augmented reality, Artificial Intelligence, and quantum computing. This book shows how this evolution could lead us to the point of being able to develop all encompassing virtual worlds like the Oasis in Ready Player One, or the simulated reality in the Matrix. While the idea sounds like science fiction, many scientists, engineers, and professors have given the Simulation Hypothesis serious consideration. Futurist Ray Kurzweil has popularized the idea of downloading our consciousness into a silicon based device, which would mean we are just digital information after all. Some, like Oxford lecturer Nick Bostrom, goes further and thinks we may in fact be artificially intelligent consciousness inside such a simulation already! But the Simulation Hypothesis is not just a modern idea. Philosophers like Plato have been telling us that we live in a “cave” and can only see shadows of the real world. Mystics of all traditions have long contended that we are living in some kind of “illusion “and that there are other realities which we can access with our minds. While even Judeo-Christian traditions have this idea, Eastern traditions like Buddhism and Hinduism make this idea part of their core tradition — that we are inside a dream world (“Maya” or illusion, or Vishnu’s Dream), and we have “multiple lives” playing different characters when one dies, continuing to gain experience and “level up” after completing certain challenges. Sounds a lot like a video game! Whether you are a computer scientist, a fan of science fiction like the Matrix movies, a video game enthusiast, or a spiritual seeker, The Simulation Hypothesis touches on all these areas, and you will never look at the world the same way again!

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions. This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the journey. Instead of startup myths—legends spun from a fantasy version of Silicon Valley—Rizwan Virk provides startup models—frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. In snappy prose with savvy pop-culture and real-world examples, Virk recasts entrepreneurship as a grand adventure. He points out the pitfalls that appear along the way and offers insights into how to avoid them, sharing the secrets of founding a startup, raising money, hiring and firing, when to enter a market and when to exit, and how to value a company. Virk combines lessons learned the hard way during his twenty-five years of founding, investing in, and advising startups with reflections from well-known venture capitalists and experts. His candid advice makes Startup Myths and Models an ideal guide for those readers just embarking on the startup life and those looking for their next adventure.

FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.