If you've noticed your favourite librarian(s) looking frazzled and muttering about spreadsheets and deadlines lately, that's probably because we've been careening toward our fiscal year end... that wonderful time of year when we squeeze the last few cents out of our budgets to buy ebooks and books that we know will make your life easier. 

Think of it as sort of like shopping on Christmas Eve, but everyone gets books!

Those new titles are already starting to arrive, so I thought I'd highlight unwrap a few of them for you... Today's focus will be on titles that are useful for those who are starting new businesses: 

Online, plus... 

all content can be downloaded, read offline, and retained:

• Leveraging constraints for innovation : new product development essentials from the PDMA

• Alternative Marketing Approaches for Entrepreneurs

• The Strategic Digital Media Entrepreneur

• Start-up: A Practical Guide to Starting and Running a New Business (2nd ed. - 2019)

• Pricing Analytics: Models and Advanced Quantitative Techniques for Product Pricing

• A Guide for Implementing a Patent Strategy: How Inventors, Engineers, Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Independent Innovators Can Protect Their Intellectual Property

Online, but...

each title has a limited number of simultaneous readers, and has limits on downloading/printing:

• The start-up push guide : a guide for developers, directors, and residents : incubators, accelerators, and science parks

• Scaling global change : a social entrepreneur's guide to surviving the start-up phase and driving impact

• Being A Biomedical Entrepreneur - Growth Of The Biomedical Industry

• Guide to Canadian venture capital and private equity firms

• Peer-To-Peer Lending and Equity Crowdfunding.

• Entrepreneur : building your business from start to success

Print books, which...

can be requested/transferred to the closest SFU Library branch for you to pick up:

• In the business of change : how social entrepreneurs are disrupting business as usual  (Published in BC)
  Currently on order. Can be requested via catalogue record... will then be fast-processed and placed on hold for you when it arrives.

• Brains vs capital : entrepreneurship for everyone lean, smart, simple 
  Currently being catalogued. Can be requested via catalogue record... will then be fast-processed and placed on hold for you when it arrives.

• Start before you're ready : the young entrepreneur's guide to extraordinary success in work and life 
  Currently on order. Can be requested via catalogue record... will then be fast-processed and placed on hold for you when it arrives.

Finally...

for those who prefer to judge books by their covers, a few samples:  

And if you'd like to keep an eye on all of the new books presents being added to our business/economics collection, try the following links: 

• New Business Books  
• New Economics Books

Bonus

• Have you seen the BDC's Entrepreneur Learning Centre and their Entrepreneur's Toolkit?

Happy reading!

-- MarkB
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Mark Bodnar
Business & Economics Librarian
mbodnar@sfu.ca