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Successful startups are rare. More than 80 percent of all early stage startups fail. Most startups can build a product but, sadly, the vast majority stumble when it comes time to take those products to market. Traversing the Traction Gap exposes the reasons behind that scary failure rate and provides a prescriptive how to guide for startups to succeed.Traction. Startups Need It. Learn How To Get It. Vision, groundbreaking ideas, total commitment, and boundless enthusiasm characterize most startups, but they require capital to go from promising product to scalable business. More than 80 percent of all early-stage startups fail. Most of them can build a product, but the vast majority stumble when it comes time to take those products to market due to poor “market engineering” skills. Traversing the Traction Gap exposes the reasons behind that scary failure rate and provides a prescriptive how-to guide, focused specifically on market engineering techniques, so startups can succeed. The go-to-market hurdle is insurmountable to many startups. Just when they most need to establish a foothold in the market, they run short on time and money. This is the Traction Gap, that period of time introducing a new product into the marketplace and being able to scale it during a rapidly closing window of opportunity. Traversing the Traction Gap is a practical guidebook for navigating the tumultuous early life of a startup. Based on real-life examples, the advice from Cleveland and the members of the Wildcat Venture Partners team provides a roadmap and metrics for succeeding where others have failed.

For 50 years, HUSTLER Magazine has been a cultural force—provocative, unconventional, and always pushing the conversation forward. HUSTLER®50: 50 Years of Freedom is a visually stunning coffee table book that takes readers through the magazine’s rich history, showcasing its most talked-about moments, groundbreaking photography, and unwavering commitment to free speech.Founded in 1974 by Larry Flynt, HUSTLER redefined American self-expression, challenging societal norms and expanding the boundaries of mainstream media. From its early days as a small newsletter to its status as a media powerhouse, the magazine has left an undeniable mark on American culture. This book captures its journey through five decades of political and social upheaval—from the rebellious 1970s to the culture wars of the ’80s and ’90s, the digital revolution of the 2000s, and today’s shifting landscape of gender and identity. Inside, readers will revisit some of HUSTLER’s most controversial and influential moments, including the infamous 1975 Jackie O issue and the landmark Supreme Court battle with Jerry Falwell in 1983. The book showcases unforgettable covers—like the notorious “Meat Grinder” cover of 1978—that sparked conversations and cemented the magazine’s place in pop culture. Beyond the photography, it features thought-provoking pieces by writers such as Charles Bukowski and Timothy Leary, proving that HUSTLER has always been about more than just pictures. Of course, no tribute to HUSTLER would be complete without celebrating the breathtaking women who have graced its pages. This book highlights the magazine’s most iconic photo spreads—featuring stunning photography and some of the most beautiful women of each era—capturing the evolving aesthetics of the time period and the artistry behind the images. The legacy of Larry Flynt’s Publisher Statements is also explored, revealing how his unfiltered critiques of political hypocrisy—through the Reagan years, the Clinton scandals, and beyond—made HUSTLER a unique platform for free speech and social commentary. The book also highlights how HUSTLER adapted to the digital age, embracing the Internet to reach new audiences while staying true to its roots. With an in-depth look at features like “Beaver Hunt,” which celebrated everyday women and redefined beauty standards, this book is both a tribute and a time capsule. HUSTLER®50 is a must-have for fans of the magazine, media historians, and anyone interested in how one publication challenged convention, redefined adult entertainment, and left an undeniable imprint on American culture

Dr. Friedman shares his life as a neurosurgeon, recounting the exhilarating, challenging, and life-and-death experiences along the way, the people that shaped his life, and insights for readers concerning neurological conditions, the healthcare system, and the important things in life.An illuminating account of a brilliant neurosurgical career.—Henry Marsh, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Do No HarmIn this medical memoir, Dr. Friedman recounts the humorous, tragic, and always intense relationships of neurosurgeons to their colleagues and patients. He details what it takes to become a leading neurosurgeon and deal with deadly brain diseases and their devastating complications. He weighs in on universal health care in the United States. He also answers such questions as how does the mind work, why is trigeminal neuralgia called the suicide disease, and how will we ultimately cure cancer of the brain? Through his exhilarating and challenging experiences, Dr. Friedman shares his lifelong journey, one that has truly been something awesome.

a book about Parenting Journey’s story and the organization's hopes for the future. It tells the story of how the core program, Parenting Journey I, developed, and it also tells the stories of brave and challenged families from low-income neighborhoods who have encountered the toxic intergenerational stressors of their surroundings, family histories, systemic inequalities, and internal pain, and who have struggled to get beyond them.Including a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Opening Up is a chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of families suffering the internalized stresses from poverty, domestic abuse, racism, and neighborhood violence, among other challenges. Through Parenting Journey these families resolve harmful habits and identify their strengths to raise their children in a healthier environment. Anne Peretz tells the story of this bold organization and flagship therapeutic group program that takes a different approach to helping families in need. Told through the perspectives of the families who have participated over the decades, Opening Up challenges readers to think differently about family. These stories view symptoms of stress, fear, and hopelessness that extend throughout generations as remediable and how even the severely traumatized can regain stability. This book is a testament that with mutual respect, compassion, and openness, together we can address the personal and systemic injustices that are at the roots of many of these patterns and together we can rebuild these communities.

For fans of survival memoirs comes a compelling memoir of surviving the unthinkable and emerging with a powerful story in resilience.Lessons about embracing the miracles of life, based on a story of how Brody Young survived being shot nine times and severely wounded by a man while on patrol as a park ranger in a remote canyon in Utah one night. After many months, he recovered from his wounds and returned to work, forever changed by his near-death experience. How Young reacted in the face of life-threatening danger takes on heightened meaning when we learn how he decided to respond to the miracles that followed. This book is Brody’s answer to the unavoidable question, How will you handle it when your life is on the line? It is a story of courage, healing, and hope, but it’s really about giving others the courage and hope they need to live a full, rewarding, meaningful life.

Practicing the meditations and exercises described in this book will certainly give your Qi a boost, and you will finish feeling revitalized and refreshed.Chris Shelton offers this book as a guide for understanding and incorporating the theories and practices of specific exercises focused on balancing your body’s energy. Although the practices in this book originated in ancient China, these exercises are meant to benefit all people. The system as a whole is known as “Qigong.” “Qi” refers to the life force energy that emanates within all things, material and non-material, and “gong” means work, or skill. Practicing the meditations and exercises described in this book will certainly give your Qi a boost, and you will finish feeling revitalized and refreshed, rather than worked-out and exhausted. Each day of practice will bring greater and greater benefits, gradually refining your health and vitality—your fundamental nature—as one would refine ore into gold. As the founder of Morning Crane Healing Arts Center in San Jose and Los Angeles, California, Chris believes in self-empowerment, teaching that no matter your life circumstances, you can take control of your health in order to enjoy life, free from pain.

For readers interested in board leadership and corporate finance, this book seamlessly blends real-world case studies with expert insights on corporate governance, leadership, and boardroom strategy, creating an essential business leadership book for CEOs, executives, board members, and corporate decision-makers.On Board: The Modern Playbook for Corporate Governance is the ultimate guide for corporate directors, executives, governance professionals, and students navigating today’s fast-evolving business landscape. Written by a seasoned corporate director, investment banker, and expert witness in corporate litigation, this essential resource delivers a historical perpective, data-driven insights and stories from inside boardrooms on board leadership, fiduciary duties, CEO issues, regulatory compliance, and governance best practices. This playbook addresses key corporate governance challenges, including: - CEO-board dynamics, executive oversight, and leadership effectiveness- Mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings effectiveness- Institutional investors' influence, proxy battles, and governance trends- The growing impact of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) initiatives- Crisis management, corporate risk mitigation, and regulatory adherenceFeaturing exclusive interviews with top executives, corporate attorneys, investment bankers, and industry leaders, this book provides real-world case studies, strategic frameworks, and actionable guidance to enhance board effectiveness, shareholder value, and corporate success. A must-read for board members, business leaders, governance professionals, and students, On Board is the definitive resource for mastering corporate governance, leadership, and boardroom strategy in today’s complex business environment.

A timely family saga of carving one’s path in ancestral and present culture.Gaby, a woman in her mid-thirties, must balance the different cultures of her childhood and adult life, juggle loyalties to her family, accept her family’s past, and discover her own identity to chart her way forward in this family saga. As Gaby prepares to marry her partner Russ, she shuttles between her current home in Boston and her childhood home in The Bronx and is confronted by her mother’s accustomed and unwelcome expectations. While in The Bronx, childhood memories resurface as Gaby navigates her present relationship with her mother as well as with her grandmother, aunt, and cousin. In a short period of time, Gaby reexamines her past and that of her mother and grandmother, and uncovers surprising family secrets that forces her to endure and rise above a life-changing tragedy. Gaby’s journey in The Sicilian Daughter will appeal to audiences looking for their next great multigenerational book club read!

Regain Control Over Your Data, Devices, and FreedomHow do you value your private data? What about your job? The truth is someone is selling your data, and your job may be among the countless others being lost to AI at record rates. Because of this abuse of technology among many others, most people have lost all agency over their technology, devices, and information. But technologist William Welser IV has a plan to help us regain control. Enter The Story Economy, a guide that provides fresh purchasing power in a world where opportunity feels harder and harder to grasp. Within, Welser outlines the need for an alternative economy where stories can become solutions to overwhelming new problems. His entirely new marketplace allows us to use our stories as currency, putting the data we’ve voluntarily given to good use—allowing us to purchase goods and services and giving us the power to see exactly where our data is going and to whom. In this exciting and sometimes scary world of AI, Big Tech is using all of its tools against us to create a society in which we’re lonely, broke, and lost. We must take back our power and make the technology work for us to close the healthcare, education, and wealth divide—and in the process, foster self-awareness to help us become astute decision-makers and stay ahead of technology. With The Story Economy, Welser provides the innovative blueprint to get started.

The Groundbreaker is an inspirational and riveting account of Kanwal Rekhi, who defined a generation of Indian entrepreneurs that changed the world. In many ways, Rekhi’s fascinating and singular journey mirrors the rise of modern India, offering a deeply personal account of US-India relations, both past and present. Dubbed the “Godfather of the Silicon Valley’s Indian Mafia,” by Fortune Magazine, Rekhi rubbed shoulders with luminaries named Gates, Jobs, and Ellison on his meteoric ascent through the tech industry. He went on to advise presidents and prime ministers on culture-shifting policies and is perhaps best known for his work inspiring and launching the careers of thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs, many of whom have become millionaires and even billionaires. Underscoring his own stories as an entrepreneur, investor, and mentor, Rekhi embraces American values, proving that immigrants not only contribute to the economy but often employ thousands of Americans in the process. In The Groundbreaker, Rekhi shares his firsthand account on what it meant to be an American at the dawn of the digital age, what it means to be an American now amidst massive change and uncertainty, and why democracy is crucial to the role entrepreneurs play in moving the world toward a better tomorrow. Drawing on his roles as an advisory board member at Stanford’s Institute of Economic Policy Research and Rand Corporation’s Center for Asian Pacific Policy, Rekhi explores the precarious but interdependent relationships between the US, India, China, and Russia; and how competition and alliances might evolve in the future, especially between America and India; and why the cooperation of the world’s oldest democracy and the world’s largest democracy is crucial to the continued balance of global power. More than just a business memoir, this book is a call to action—for dreamers, doers, and those brave enough to bet on themselves. With lessons on resilience, leadership, innovation, and purpose, it’s at once a deeply personal story of overcoming adversity and an urgent rallying cry for the next generation of changemakers.

The Remarkable True Story of Dan TanaSerbian immigrant, soccer star, legendary Hollywood restaurateur, Dan Tana called himself the luckiest man alive, and lived as if it were true. Born in wartime Yugoslavia, Dan survived bombings, displacement, and the long shadows of World War II before fleeing as a teenage soccer prodigy in search of a future. What followed reads like a modern American myth: a refugee who became a European football star, an actor, a film producer, an unlikely companion of Frank Sinatra, James Dean, and other Hollywood immortals, and the founder of one of Hollywood’s most beloved institutions. When Dan Tana’s opened in 1964, it became more than a restaurant. It became a second home. Lew Wasserman, Fred Astaire, and John Wayne were regulars. Jack Nicholson, Linda Ronstadt, and Barbra Streisand passed through its red booths. Bobby Fischer was snuck in, Wilt Chamberlain towered over the room, Harry Dean Stanton basically lived at the bar, and generations of artists, athletes, and legends gathered not for spectacle—but for belonging. George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joni Mitchell, Magic Johnson—the names span eras, but the feeling never changed. Told in Dan’s warm, unassuming voice, Everybody Came to Tana’s is as much about people as it is about fame. It’s a story of friendship, loyalty, resilience, and gratitude. Of a man who crossed continents, survived history, and built a life that welcomed the world. At once an immigrant’s journey, a love letter to Hollywood, a devotion to sport, and a portrait of a singular “lucky” life, Everybody Came to Tana’s captures a spirit that cannot be replicated—only remembered and enjoyed.

The Hilarious and Completely True Inside Story of College Golf’s Powerhouse ProgramFrom 1968 to 1973, Jim McLean played for the University of Houston, where Coach Dave Williams had created the greatest golf dynasty in NCAA history. Dozens of highly competitive young golfers thought they’d be a starter, but with forty players on the team, they battled for only five spots, and few ever qualified. As part of Houston’s number-one college golf program, PGA Hall of Fame member Jim McLean digs into its past highlights to share what it was like to live in an athletic dorm, what it really took to create lasting greatness, and why it was so difficult. Step into college life and the intense NCAA rivalries, and meet the team’s stars and their biggest rivals—many of whom went on to win professional championships. And at the center was legendary Coach Dave Williams, building Houston into a powerhouse while driving the team to each tournament in his signature green station wagon. Similar to Dan Jenkins or Rick Reilly, McLean’s stories are witty and unforgettable, and he has so many that The Houston Dynasty selected the very best of them.

The remarkable life and career of Edmond J. Safra: the most successful banker of the second half of the 20th century; protector of the global Sephardic Jewish community; philanthropist; and collector. From the age of fifteen to a career spanning Europe, and North and South America, across six languages, Safra built a global financial empire while staying true to his family legacy.Who was Edmond J. Safra? The greatest banker of his generation, in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. The leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora. In A Banker's Journey, financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Safra, traces his heritage to Aleppo, Syria, reconstructs the public life of an intensely private man. With exclusive access to Safra's personal archives, Gross tracks the banker's remarkable journey from Beirut to Milan, São Paulo, Geneva, and New York—to the pinnacle of global finance.Edmond Safra was fifteen in 1947, when his father sent him to establish a presence in Milan, Italy. Fluent in six languages, and with an eye for value, managing risk, and personal potential, Safra was in perpetual motion until his tragic death in 1999. The modern, global financial empire he built was based on timeless principles: a banker must protect his depositors and avoid excessive leverage and risk. In an age of busts and bailouts, Safra posted remarkable returns while rarely suffering a credit loss.From a young age, Safra assumed the mantle of leadership in the Syrian-Lebanese Jewish community, providing personal aid, supporting the communities that formed in exile, and championing Sephardic religious and educational efforts in Israel and around the world. Edmond J. Safra's life of achievement in the twentieth century offers enduring lessons for those seeking to make their way in the twenty-first century. He inspired generations to make the world a better place.