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The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship

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I bought this book to help me get started on my own service business. It is helpful in many ways, and not so helpful in other ways. THE GOOD: 1) There is a load of information about entrepreneurship. This book takes you from getting started, to finding the capital you need, to tax and legal issues, to franchising your business. 2) It gives good definitions and explains words that you may be unfamiliar with. Ex... What is a sub chapter S corporation? You'll find the answer to that and many other questions in this book! 3) A great reference. It tells you where you can go to find the information that you will need. It lists journals, books, and government sites that will help you. THE BAD: 1) It reads like a text book. There is a lot of information crammed into this book, page after page after page... 2) Is this guy really an entrepreneur or just a teacher? There are a lot of theories and charts in this book... it makes you wonder. 3) It is a reference book. There was no way that I could read this book straight through, so it sits on my shelf and every once in a while I pull it down to look up words, find references to more information or read one chapter that is applicable to my life right now. OVERALL: If you are looking for an encyclopedia-like reference book for everything you wanted to know about entrepreneurship then this book is for you. If you want motivation, real world examples or unconventional techniques to help you in your business then I would suggest Harry Beckwith or Ries & Trout.

I recently completed my MBA. Although no single book will sufficiently cover the material learned through an entire Masters program, I did find this book to be a good start on understanding many of the important issues involved in a new venture. I highly recommend this book!

I Found this book to be invaluable. I have ordered the entire series because of information involved. This book opens the readers eyes to realistic business information and strategies that work. I used this book to write my business plan and plan my business as well as getting financing for the business. The verbage and language helps you negotiate any business contract. Actually, there is too many benefits to list! Just buy the book if you are considering becoming an entreprenuer.

I had hoped to find a series of studies detailing how small business's developed over a period of years including what success they enjoyed and what problems they incurred along the way. Instead this book seems to be based on kids who want to open restaurants or travel agents or internet services without any real background in the industry and naively go out looking for venture capital, or worse ask their parents for 100,000 dollars. Not nearly enough detail was provided about how the busineses developed or whether they succeeded. I'd have gotten the same information reading a lot of MBA thesis. (or is that what this publication actually is!)

I think it's good material for students, but if you already have entrepreneurial thoughts and have begun solving the initial problems, try talking to someone more experienced, the book wont be a great help.

Excellent book! Covers many aspects of entrepreneurship quite thoroughly. Also consider buying the case studies of this series.

I think this is book is used in many Universities of developed countries. I would like to know more about new editions also.