Bounce!

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 ixAcknowledgments xiChapter 1 Get Ready for Adventure: You Have Never Heard a Speaker Like This Before 1Chapter 2 Archetypes of Success: Be Careful What You Wish For 11Chapter 3 I ’ve Got Your One-Hit Wonder: 867-5309 31Chapter 4 The World from Here: Start Where You Are 39Chapter 5 Forget the Archetypes: Messy Lines Teach Humility 51Chapter 6 Failure is an Option: Flying Fear in Formation 83Chapter 7 Embracing Failure When It Happens 101Chapter 8 Failure Provides Choices 119Chapter 9 Do It Anyway: Be a Smart Risk Taker 139Chapter 10 A Little DAB Will Do Ya! Drive, Accept, and Build 153Chapter 11 Goal Setting: Establishing Your Own Scorecard 165Chapter 12 No Longer Black and White: Measure for Success in Technicolor 179Chapter 13 Read This Book—Then Throw It Away 201Afterword 209Summary: The Ten Building Bands for True Business Confidence 213Biographies of Featured Less-than-Famous Businesspeople 215Notes 227Index 235