Entrepreneur's Directory - Best Books and Subscriptions
This article is meant to entrepreneurs in the Middle East, and precisely in Saudi Arabia. The concepts apply to all entrepreneurs but the website links used target global and local entities and institutions required to enrich the entrepreneur's spirit with necessary background and experience for their business.
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At each entrepreneurial stage of your business life, you will require a set of resources to look at and follow so that you keep inspired and motivated in your career roadmap.
Those resources vary from books, online articles, blogs, and connections to monitor and track. Everyone of them is going to inspire you in its own way and you might need them consistently to innovate.
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If you are a new entrepreneur and shifting recently from employee to entrepreneur, you need a lot of fuel for inspiration, you need fuel for motivation, you need fuel for holding high your spirit after each failure, and finally, you need fuel for your energy.
Entrepreneur's Books
✔ First of all, the best inspiring book to read is for Simon Sinek: Start with Why. This is the ultimate reference for knowing your purpose and focusing on it. Every entrepreneur should know why he/she is doing business with a noble, valid, achievable, and specific reason stated in his vision statement.
✔ Together with Find Your Why, these two books for Simon Sinek consist of the base and the set of rules to define your own WHY, your own noble purpose that will help you with your life and career to achieve your goals with persistence, motivation, inspiration, and effectiveness.
✔ Business and Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: Opportunities for Partnering and Investing in Emerging Businesses for Edward Burton
✔ How Google Works for Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
✔ Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Peter F. Drucker. This is a bible of entrepreneurship.
✔ What it takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence for Stephen A. Schwarzman
✔ Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Michael H. Morris, Donald F. Kuratko, and Jeffrey G. Govin
✔ Innovation and Entrepreneurship for John R. Bessant and Joe Tidd
✔ Corporate Innovation: Disruptive Thinking in Organizations for Donald F. Kuratko, Michael G. Goldsby, and Jeffrey S. Hornsby
✔ Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private, and Public Sectors for Georgia Levenson Keohane
✔ Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology: A Guide to Core Models and Tools for Oswaldo Lorenzo, Peter Kawalek, and Leigh Wharton
✔ Chutzpah: Why Israel Is a Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Inbal Arieli
✔ Lean Entrepreneurship: Innovation in the Modern Enterprise for George Watt and Howard Abrams
Entrepreneur's Websites and Subscriptions
For all below resources, you can use an RSS feed to watch all those websites in one place. I can recommend few feed parsers to work with. Such feeds can save tons of your time managing subscriptions in sites that you like to receive articles and inspirations from:
- Feedly: https://feedly.com/
- Inoreader: https://www.inoreader.com/
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Subscribe to the following websites:
🔗 Saudi Vision 2030, your broad vision within the Kingdom, the limitations and the boundaries: https://vision2030.gov.sa/en
🔗 Entrepreneur: https://www.entrepreneur.com/
🔗 Forbes Entrepreneurs: https://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs
🔗 Guide to doing business in Saudi Arabia, a fruitful joint resource between KSA and UK. It contains tons of useful information: http://www.saudiarabia.doingbusinessguide.co.uk/
🔗 Convert socioeconomic trends in the Middle East into business ideas: https://www.strategyand.pwc.com/m1/en/ideation-center.html
🔗 Guide to doing business in Saudi Arabia, a fruitful joint resource between KSA and US: https://2016.export.gov/saudiarabia/doingbusinessinsaudiarabia/index.asp
🔗 WAMDA project for entrepreneurship acceleration and exposure to thought leadership ideas and investments: https://www.wamda.com/
🔗 GOV.SA Entrepreneurship Support, check this often as a guide for who and how the government can support your activities: https://www.my.gov.sa/wps/portal/snp/servicesDirectory/BusinessAndEntrepreneurship
🔗 Aramco Entrepreneurship Center: https://waed.net/en/home.html
🔗 King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals Entrepreneurship Institute: https://ei.kfupm.edu.sa/
🔗 King Abdullah University for Science and Technology Innovation and Economic Development: https://innovation.kaust.edu.sa/
🔗 Misk Academy: https://www.miskacademy.edu.sa/
🔗 Saudi Entrepreneurship: https://saudientrepreneurship.com/
🔗 Ministry of Investment, your guide to bringing foreign investors to the Kingdom and the laws, regulations, and governance of business: https://www.misa.gov.sa/en/
🔗 Endeavor network of entrepreneurs: https://endeavor.org/entrepreneurs/
🔗 STC Ventures, a private fund to support entrepreneurs in their tech initiatives: http://stcventures.com/
🔗 Industrial Development Center in Jubail to support small projects: http://idc-rc.org/index.asp
🔗 SABIC Ventures helping innovative companies to grow: http://ventures.sabic.com/en/home
🔗 JADWA Investment for local and international economic studies: http://www.jadwa.com/en
🔗 Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF) Academy: https://www.sidf.gov.sa/en/AboutSIDF/SIDF_Academy/Pages/default.aspx
🔗 Public Investment Fund (PIF): https://www.pif.gov.sa/en/Pages/default.aspx#1
🔗 Entrepreneur Resources for Small Businesses: https://www.entrepreneur-resources.net/
🔗 For Entrepreneurs, the #2 among 100 entrepreneur's resources: https://www.forentrepreneurs.com/
🔗 About.com reference for entrepreneur's resources, how-tos, and advices: https://www.thebalancesmb.com/entrepreneurship-4161620
🔗 Mixergy, successful CEOs share their stories: https://mixergy.com/
🔗 Both Sides of The Table platform for entrepreneurs: https://bothsidesofthetable.com/tagged/entrepreneurship
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