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  1. AI & Crypto Side Hustles: 12 Profitable Ways Beginners Can Start Earning in 2025
    Step-by-step income streams using ChatGPT, MidJourney, NFTs & more — no experience needed.
    Arsalan Khan

    Ready to earn online using AI and Crypto — without coding or capital?Unlock 12 beginner-friendly digital side hustles that use free tools like ChatGPT, MidJourney, and MetaMask to generate real income in 2025. Whether you’re a student, freelancer, or complete newbie — this book gives you step-by-step methods to start and scale your earnings from home.No fluff. No hype. Just real opportunities you can start today.Build your digital income. The future won’t wait.

  2. OnlyFans Business Playbook: Build, Manage, and Grow Like a Brand
    Turn fans into fortune. Build a sexy, scalable content business — with real systems, not guesswork.
    Roberto Stepic

    From flirty chat scripts to legal contracts, this is your complete guide to growing and scaling your OnlyFans business like a pro — with tools, systems, and strategy.

  3. Successful Engineering Culture
    The Manager’s Playbook for Scaling Through Culture—Without Losing Your Mind
    Stephan Schmidt

    Tired of chasing bugs, repeating yourself, and managing chaos?Engineering Culture offers a bold shift: build your engineering culture top-down as a tool—not a poster.This short, practical guide shows CTOs and engineering managers how to create a culture that does the work for them: ✅ Less micromanagement ✅ More ownership ✅ Teams that scale without constant oversightStop being the bottleneck. Start shaping the culture that frees you.

  4. Agile Development: The Complete Guide
    Mastering Agile from Principles to Practice
    Chetankumar Sanghani

    Ready to unlock the true power of Agile? This book is your complete, no-fluff guide to mastering Agile practices — from foundational principles to real-world execution. Whether you're launching your first Scrum team or scaling Agile across a complex organization, Agile Development: The Complete Guide gives you the tools, frameworks, and mindset to deliver faster, collaborate better, and build products your users will love. Written by certified Agile Product Manager Chetan Sanghani, this guide is packed with practical strategies, proven tools, and case studies from both startups and enterprises. It’s everything you need to go from Agile-aware to Agile-expert — all in one place.

  5. Growing Development Organisations
    How to Grow Engineering Teams That Thrive
    Stephan Schmidt

    You've built an MVP, found product-market fit, and now the pressure is on to hire more developers and scale faster—but here's the brutal truth: adding more people often makes everything slower, not faster, and most CTOs become bottlenecks drowning in meetings while their teams struggle with chaos. Stephan Schmidt, veteran CTO and startup coach, reveals seven battle-tested principles for scaling tech teams without losing your sanity, from structuring around ownership and promoting from within to avoiding the bottleneck trap and understanding why AI changes the scaling game entirely. Whether you're managing 5 developers or 50, this practical guide will help you build sustainable organizations that scale with purpose, not just pressure—stop throwing money at problems and start building organizations that actually work.

  6. Beginner's Guide to Starting a Profitable, Future-Ready Business from Scratch. 3
    Growth, Automation & Funding: Get Customers, Automate Systems & Secure Investment and Funding Without Credit, LLC, or Out-of-Pocket Risk
    Bolakale Aremu

    Launch Big Without the Legal Headache, Business Credit, or Going Broke—This Is the Book Investors Wish You Read First. What if you could get customers, secure real funding, and grow your business—without needing an LLC, perfect credit, or startup capital?

  7. Engineering Leadership in Regulated Environments: A CTO’s HandbookBy Chrysovalantis D. Koutsoumpos In regulated industries, engineering leaders face a unique challenge: how to build systems that move fast without breaking rules, and scale teams without losing clarity or control. This book offers practical guidance drawn from real-world experience — designed for engineering leaders who operate in environments where compliance, trust, and delivery must coexist. Covering 30 focused chapters, it explores topics like team structures, architecture, risk management, audit readiness, product delivery frameworks, and long-term strategy. Each chapter includes actionable insights, tools, and approaches that help bridge the gap between technical leadership and regulatory expectations. Whether you're leading engineering at a fintech, healthcare company, or any compliance-heavy organization, this handbook provides a thoughtful and pragmatic reference to support your growth — and your team’s.

  8. A pathway to a new philosophy of work, management & leadership, and a call to action for anyone faced with Intractable Problems & Elusive Opportunities. For current, aspiring, formal, and informal leaders. This book presents new principles, attitudes and behaviours along with examples from organisations and concrete practices. Perfectly suited for this digital, hyperconnected world and the ongoing Artificial Intelligence revolution.

  9. The Unicorn Blueprint
    Building the DNA of Billion-Dollar Startups
    Luis Gonçalves

    Transform your startup from struggling to unicorn status with the Scaleup Methodology covering seven essential pillars—from digital sales to engineering excellence. Built on real-world experience across hundreds of scaling companies, The Unicorn Blueprint delivers actionable systems, not theory, that will revolutionize how you scale.

  10. Don’t let hidden pitfalls sabotage your success! 7 Costly Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Online Business exposes the silent killers lurking in every entrepreneur’s journey—from ignoring customer feedback to neglecting cash flow. Packed with hard-won lessons and actionable fixes, this guide transforms failure into fuel, equipping you to dodge disasters, protect profits, and build an unshakable business that thrives long-term. Stop guessing and start bulletproofing your empire today!

  11. De fouten die ons vormen (Nederlandse Editie)
    Het cultiveren van een cultuur van leren en inovatie
    Mark Graban and TranslateAI

    Hoe je beter kunt worden in het leren van fouten — het opbouwen van een cultuur waarin geleerd wordt van fouten binnen je team of organisatie.

  12. Os Erros Que Nos Constroem (Edição em Português do Brasil)
    Cultivando uma Cultura de Aprendizado e Inovação
    Mark Graban and TranslateAI

    Como melhorar na arte de aprender com os erros — construindo uma cultura de aprendizado a partir dos erros em sua equipe ou organização.

  13. Engineering Role Descriptions
    Create them and make them work
    Stephan Schmidt

    The booklet contains everything to you need to make role descriptions work for you. Getting role descriptions right and using them as a tool will reduce your management effort, free your time, reduce conflicts and increases performance and motivation. The insights and practices in this booklet are based on my experience as an engineering manager and CTO, and my work as a CTO coach. Role descriptions are one of the areas I work with most of my clients on.

  14. Unleash Your Inner Entrepreneur! What does it take to turn ordinary ideas into extraordinary success in the digital age? How can you navigate challenges, embrace innovation, and create a lasting impact in today’s fast-paced world? "Entrepreneur in Digital Era" is your ultimate guide to mastering the art of entrepreneurship in the modern world. Packed with insights from iconic companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon, and lessons from inspiring figures like Simon Sinek, J.K. Rowling, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, this book will show you how to think big, act boldly, and stay ahead of the game. Discover how to:✅ Build a resilient mindset✅ Harness the power of digital tools✅ Lead with purpose and vision✅ Balance profit and social responsibility✅ Turn challenges into opportunitiesGet ready to redefine success and become the entrepreneur you've always dreamed of being. Are you ready to make your mark? 

  15. Gewerbesteuer leicht gemacht
    Strategien und Tipps für erfolgreiche Unternehmer
    Miriam Becker

    Was erwartet Sie in diesem Buch?Grundlagen der Gewerbesteuer, wie ihre Berechnung funktioniert und wer sie zahlen muss.Praxisnahe Tipps zur Steuererklärung, zur Optimierung Ihrer Steuerlast und zur Nutzung von Freibeträgen.Strategien, wie Sie durch die Wahl des Standorts oder den Wechsel der Rechtsform langfristig Steuern sparen können.Fallbeispiele, die Ihnen konkrete Einblicke in die Auswirkungen der Gewerbesteuer geben.Warum ist dieses Thema so wichtig? Die Gewerbesteuer hat nicht nur Einfluss auf Ihre finanzielle Planung, sondern auch auf Ihre strategischen Entscheidungen. Sie kann bestimmen, wo Sie sich niederlassen, wie Sie Ihre Gewinne verteilen und welche Investitionen Sie tätigen. Eine professionelle Steuerstrategie ist daher ein entscheidender Faktor für den Erfolg Ihres Unternehmens.