MAKE OPPORTUNITY
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TAKE THE FIRST STEP
Make Opportunity Happen: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Align Your Own Stars
ABOUT THE BOOK
In the entrepreneurial journey, how do you ensure that each step is the right one? As an entrepreneur, you need ideas, resources, and strategies for making real progress—and you need mentors to get you to the next level.
In Make Opportunity Happen, Maria Flynn provides this mentorship with a complete framework for success in entrepreneurship. Based on her experience as an entrepreneur and coach, Maria presents a guidebook with real-world strategies, templates, and methods to help you answer the questions you’ll have in your journey. From achieving the right mindset throughout every obstacle to inspiring urgency in your team, you’ll learn how to navigate the path forward. In life, you get one run-through. Make the most of it with this essential handbook, and never question your future again.
This book is a must-read for any entrepreneur serious about succeeding. Maria distills her success into methods to help you execute, adapt, persevere, and find the right people to be on your rocket ship.
Laura Kilcrease
CEO of Alberta Innovates and Managing Director and Founder of Triton Ventures
The difference between entrepreneurs who make it and those who don’t is the ability to execute, adapt, persevere, and surround themselves with talent. This book is the difference maker, packed with solid strategies and sound advice to help you ride the roller coaster startup venture. There are plenty of books that talk about starting a new venture. This one is the complete manual and will be a well-worn reference guide to help you along your journey..
Chris Shipley
Entrepreneur, Mentor, and Author, The Adaptation Advantage
If you want to make more progress before you run out of time and money, read Maria Flynn’s Make Opportunity Happen. You’ll find practical, actionable methods to help you get it done.
Starr Marcello
Deputy Dean for MBA Programs and Adjunct Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
For anyone mentoring founders, Make Opportunity Happen is a resource to pass on to those entrepreneurs looking to move their companies forward.
Ryan Morley
Serial Co-Founder, Investor, and Partner at SpringTide Ventures
MEET THE AUTHOR
MARIA FLYNN
Leveraging her experience as an entrepreneur, Maria Flynn works with select high-growth leaders and companies to make opportunities happen. She has helped dozens of companies, translating her methodology from health tech, biotech, and deep tech into sectors such as marketing, financial services, and consumer products. As CEO of Orbis Biosciences, Maria built a technology company that improved pharmaceutical manufacturing, won awards for its novel innovation, and was acquired by Adare Pharmaceuticals.
Maria was named one of Entrepreneur’s Women to Watch and has received the Pipeline Entrepreneurs’ Inspiration Award and Central Exchange’s STEMMy Enterprising Innovator Award. She now shares the methods that made her successful with you.
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