A comprehensive, clearly written handbook for bringing a business idea or product to light.
Naggar’s debut suggests practical tactics for inventors and entrepreneurs to put their ideas to work.
In this uncertain economy and job market, people must fend for themselves. More and more, that means creating new ways to secure an income. Naggar, an aspiring entrepreneur, aims to provide a starting place for would-be business owners and to help them overcome obstacles. With his goal to inform, inspire and encourage, the author begins each chapter with motivational quotes from famous entrepreneurs—Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Walt Disney, Henry Ford—before launching into topic-appropriate, insightful information. The book comprises three sections: The Craft, The Community and Making an Impact. The author further refines his concept into the Six P’s of Innovation: Problems, People, Persistence, Process, Principles and Proposition. The Six P’s help determine one’s ability to persevere and bring a business or concept to fruition. At the end of each chapter are a summary, strategies for brainstorming and organizing thoughts on the theme, and a blank space to jot down notes and ideas. Naggar lucidly explains the need for innovation. He provides valuable resources and information to help get creative ideas to the marketplace, such as different types of funding. The author also offers good examples and helpful links to references, products and small business start-ups, including TerraCycle, which was launched by Tom Szaky, a Hungarian political refugee and Princeton University graduate. (TerraCycle turns garbage into useful consumer products, taking the burden off landfills.) Overall, Naggar’s resourceful insights, personal trials and tribulations, and fastidious research can motivate and inform American entrepreneurs.
A comprehensive, clearly written handbook for bringing a business idea or product to light.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: 978-0988745902
Page Count: 280
Publisher: Fly By Books
Review Posted Online: Sept. 7, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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