Learn from the best: when a business angel is involved in a start-up, the probability of success increases tremendously. Hansi Hansmann is Austria's number-one start-up investor. He likes to win but is also deeply empathetic and only works with founders he connects with. Curious? This book shares the most important insights into his nature and thinking, his selection criteria and his role as a consultant and supporter. For the first time, Hansmann shares what is important to him and which principles made him so successful. In-depth interviews with Hansmann and his founders reveal his "secret sauce". This fresh and inspiring read for every investor and start-up founder who wants to learn more about Hansmann's secret to success: staying human and being successful is not a contradiction, but the key to long-term success.

Is it possible to describe in a book a universal, industry-independent step-by-step guide that anyone can practically implement in times of digitalization? In this book, you will find the answers to what the essential universal structures, processes and content for business success are and how you need to build them up, step by step in detail, in order to build up a successful company with a high probability. Beginning with the company idea to a highly automated company, you will find all the necessary information. It is an attempt to democratize business success and to provide all people interested in building a successful business with this information in as concrete and condensed a way as possible. No matter what level of business development you are at, you can start from scratch with this book, but of course you can also re-evaluate your existing business as a whole and continue to work from where you currently are with your business. This book is intended as a long-term business companion for future or existing CEOs and is suitable for start-ups, small businesses and SMEs. It serves as an industry-independent foundation for learning to fundamentally understand business success, but also as a concrete workbook for building a successful business step by step or helping an existing business to be more successful.

The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse (written or oral). This reader contains papers on a variety of topics, all related to each other through explicit discussions on the notion of ideology from an interdisciplinary approach with illustrative analyses of texts from the media, newspapers, schoolbooks, pamphlets, talkshows, speeches concerning language policy in Nazi-Germany, in Italofascism, and also policies prevalent nowadays. Among the interesting subjects studied are the jargon of the student movement of 1968, speeches of politicians, racist and sexist discourse, and the language of the green movement. Because of the enormous influence of the media nowadays, the explicit analysis of the mechanisms of “manipulation”, “suggestion”, and “persuasion” inherent in language or about language behaviour and strategies of discourse are of social relevance and of interest to all scholars of social sciences, to readers in all educational institutions, to analysts of political discourse, and to critical readers at large.

The world, in all its facets – energy crises, war, coronavirus, or climate change – concerns each and every one of us. The author of this book is no exception. He narrates how, as a young man, he was abruptly torn from a promising life with a bright career by the unexpected onset of a mental illness, which later revealed itself as bipolar disorder. His mental health struggles relentlessly pursued him until Andreas Walter realized that he could not defeat them. Since then, he has not only learned to live with his condition but also to tackle the challenges that concern us all. He provides insight into his perspective on the world in this book.

Is it possible to describe in a book a universal, industry-independent step-by-step guide that anyone can practically implement in times of digitalization? In this book, you will find the answers to what the essential universal structures, processes and content for business success are and how you need to build them up, step by step in detail, in order to build up a successful company with a high probability. Beginning with the company idea to a highly automated company, you will find all the necessary information. It is an attempt to democratize business success and to provide all people interested in building a successful business with this information in as concrete and condensed a way as possible. No matter what level of business development you are at, you can start from scratch with this book, but of course you can also re-evaluate your existing business as a whole and continue to work from where you currently are with your business. This book is intended as a long-term business companion for future or existing CEOs and is suitable for start-ups, small businesses and SMEs. It serves as an industry-independent foundation for learning to fundamentally understand business success, but also as a concrete workbook for building a successful business step by step or helping an existing business to be more successful.

Irvine Welsh's scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous collection of stories—the basis for the 1998 cult movie directed by Paul McGuigan. He is called "the Scottish Celine of the 1990s" (Guardian) and "a mad, postmodern Roald Dahl" (Weekend Scotsman). Using a range of approaches from bitter realism to demented fantasy, Irvine Welsh is able to evoke the essential humanity, well hidden as it is, of his generally depraved, lazy, manipulative, and vicious characters. He specializes particularly in cosmic reversals—God turn a hapless footballer into a fly; an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousnesses with sardonically unexpected results—always displaying a corrosive wit and a telling accuracy of language and detail. Irvine Welsh is one hilariously dangerous writer who always creates a sensation.

These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers. Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This book will teach you to do math in your head faster than you ever thought possible, dramatically improve your memory for numbers, and—maybe for the first time—make mathematics fun. Yes, even you can learn to do seemingly complex equations in your head; all you need to learn are a few tricks. You’ll be able to quickly multiply and divide triple digits, compute with fractions, and determine squares, cubes, and roots without blinking an eye. No matter what your age or current math ability, Secrets of Mental Math will allow you to perform fantastic feats of the mind effortlessly. This is the math they never taught you in school.