BARRY J. MOLTZ has founded and run businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than fifteen years. After successfully selling his last operating business, he founded an angel investor group and an angel fund, and is a former advisor to the Board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. He has been elected to the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and is currently a business consultant and an internationally acclaimed speaker. He is also the author of You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth About Starting and Growing Your Business, which is available in five languages.
To contact Barry or for the free companion workbook to Bounce!, go to www.barrymoltz.com.
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter 1 Get Ready for Adventure: You Have Never Heard a Speaker Like This Before 1
Chapter 2 Archetypes of Success: Be Careful What You Wish For 11
Chapter 3 I 've Got Your One-Hit Wonder: 867-5309 31
Chapter 4 The World from Here: Start Where You Are 39
Chapter 5 Forget the Archetypes: Messy Lines Teach Humility 51
Chapter 6 Failure is an Option: Flying Fear in Formation 83
Chapter 7 Embracing Failure When It Happens 101
Chapter 8 Failure Provides Choices 119
Chapter 9 Do It Anyway: Be a Smart Risk Taker 139
Chapter 10 A Little DAB Will Do Ya! Drive, Accept, and Build 153
Chapter 11 Goal Setting: Establishing Your Own Scorecard 165
Chapter 12 No Longer Black and White: Measure for Success in Technicolor 179
Chapter 13 Read This Book-Then Throw It Away 201
Afterword 209
Summary: The Ten Building Bands for True Business Confidence 213
Biographies of Featured Less-than-Famous Businesspeople 215
Notes 227
Index 235