
Entrepreneurship
The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman
9 min read 6 key ideasPremium
You don't need an expensive MBA to understand business — you need to understand five interconnected concepts that every successful business, in any industry, is built on.
A distillation of the core, universal concepts underlying every business — value creation, marketing, sales, value delivery, and finance — arguing that a formal MBA isn't necessary to understand how business actually works.
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