Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success: Powerful Strategies for Building a High-Profit Business (Kindle Edition)

by Robert W. Price (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A good checklist of checklists and advice for entrepreneurs." -- Alfred Berkeley, Former President of NASDAQ

"One of the absolutely best business plan outlines I have seen to date" I give this book 5 stars. -- Paul Tulenko, syndicated columnist

"Provides smart, practical and forward looking ideas for addressing the challenges faced by entrepreneurs." -- Robert Hormats, Goldman Sachs & Company

"This essential business resource debunks dated concepts and offers a step-by-step program." -- Los Angeles Venture Association.org

"This guide can teach you ways to maximize profitability in your business." -- National Federation of Independent Business

"This is an entrepreneurial MBA between two covers." -- Warren Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

"This is one business guide that won't gather dust on your bookself!" -- Ken Deemer, Tech Coast Angels

The author blends it all into a worthy discussion of how-to's for entrepreneurs just starting out."Written in an amiable style" -- Harvard Business School April 4,2005

Product Description

As the pace of business competition accelerates, seat-of-the-pants management becomes ever more dangerous. In order to survive, entrepreneurs operating their ventures in uncertain environments need a focused "path to profitability." Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success provides the necessary tools for both the new and experienced entrepreneur to stay on course and succeed. This essential business resource debunks dated concepts and offers a step-by-step program for:

* identifying value drivers in your business, and communicating those drivers to your venture team and potential investors * understanding the business planning and business modeling process * leveraging the six competitive advantages and five market entry strategies that successful entrepreneurs use most often * gaining immediate "sales traction" in a fast-changing marketplace * growing around the "growth wall" that stops many companies cold * getting on the radar of potential acquirers if you choose to sell your business

Filled with key steps and strategies, it's a start-to-finish guide to maximizing growth.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• Print Length: 304 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM (February 29, 2004)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000SMXWXW
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This book will drive you crazy, September 5, 2004

By	Sam Larabie - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success: Powerful Strategies for Building a High-Profit Business (Hardcover)

When the author finally gets down to actual entrepreneurship, he touches upon some interesting ideas. But within a paragraph it's all over and he's moved on to something completely new.

This book could have been so much better if he had thrown out the half of the book which has nothing to do with entrepreneurship and gone deep in the remaining half.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very dissapointing, January 2, 2005

By	Rob McReady (San Jose, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success: Powerful Strategies for Building a High-Profit Business (Hardcover)

If you are looking to buy an introductory business book for someone withgout any business knowledge, such as a high school student, this book is not a bad choice. However, for anyone with more than one month's experience out in the business world, this book will dissapoint.

The author lacks experience as an entrepreneur and business person and it really shows in his writing.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Misleading Title and Promo, August 17, 2004

By	Ralph Carter (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success: Powerful Strategies for Building a High-Profit Business (Hardcover)

I am forced to give the book a low rating because it's not what the public is led to believe it is. It's not really a book on entrepreneurial success so much as it is a fast overview of a multitude of topics stretching from economic history to the evolution of the venture capital industry to human resources management, and finally, to actual startup advice.

I might add that all of these topics are delivered in short snack-sized pieces of, at best, a couple of paragraphs. Which means that just as you start to find the topic interesting and relevant, it's over and the author moves on to something completely different. This leaves the reader frustrated from wanting more depth.

If you are looking for startup advice (the promised "roadmap to success"), you will not find it here.

One final point on the author's outline for a business plan. While it looks pretty comprehensive at first blush, following it would result in a document close to 100 pages in length. If the author had any real world experience in entrepreneurship, he would understand that busy investors are extremely reluctant to read anything over 20 or at most 30 pages in length and view longer plans as a sign of poor writing and editing skills.

If you need a good practical startup manual, this is not it, instead check out Rob Adam's A Good Swift Kick in the A**.