This guide will show you the secrets to avoid and how to overcome the obstacles to building your own business, and lead you down the road to success. Covers everything you need to know to start, and can save you immeasurable amounts of wasted time, effort--and money. Softcover.
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The small business is the backbone of the American economy. In a sense, it always has been. From the first shopkeepers of the thirteen colonies to the local restauranteurs of today, small business has been the one constant economic force in America. Today, fully one half of all workers in the private sector are employed by the nation's twenty-two million small businesses.
Corporations, partnerships and sole proprietors of every size and importance generate half of our country's Gross Domestic Product. Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) businesses are ever increasing parts of this business mix. The importance of small business is not lost on you because you have made the first crucial decision: to start one.
Right now is possibly the best time ever to start a small business. The availability of good business quality personal computers and software has never been better or cheaper. The fax, modem, Pentium-based PC, Windows programs and the Internet all give small businesses a much more level playing field with the larger companies than ever before. Today, even the smallest business can generate a big business look and appearance with technology, software programs and the Internet. Couple the information and technology booms with the excellent economy, low interest rates, current and future federal small business reform, and relative political/social stability and you get the perfect climate in which to start a small business.
Because of all the changes in technology, the economy, communications and government, this might be the best time ever to start a small business. We do not mean to deny the fact that every business faces immutable problems and challenges that remain constant over time, and with more people starting small businesses, especially home-based businesses, competition is fierce. But now is an excellent time to start a business.
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The small business is the backbone of the American economy. In a sense, it always has been. From the first shopkeepers of the thirteen colonies to the local restauranteurs of today, small business has been the one constant economic force in America. Today, fully one half of all workers in the private sector are employed by the nation's twenty-two million small businesses.
Corporations, partnerships and sole proprietors of every size and importance generate half of our country's Gross Domestic Product. Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) businesses are ever increasing parts of this business mix. The importance of small business is not lost on you because you have made the first crucial decision: to start one.
Right now is possibly the best time ever to start a small business. The availability of good business quality personal computers and software has never been better or cheaper. The fax, modem, Pentium-based PC, Windows programs and the Internet all give small businesses a much more level playing field with the larger companies than ever before. Today, even the smallest business can generate a big business look and appearance with technology, software programs and the Internet. Couple the information and technology booms with the excellent economy, low interest rates, current and future federal small business reform, and relative political/social stability and you get the perfect climate in which to start a small business.
Because of all the changes in technology, the economy, communications and government, this might be the best time ever to start a small business. We do not mean to deny the fact that every business faces immutable problems and challenges that remain constant over time, and with more people starting small businesses, especially home-based businesses, competition is fierce. But now is an excellent time to start a business.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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This review is from: The Small Business Start-Up Guide: A Surefire Blueprint to Successfully Launch Your Own Business (Paperback)
This was an excellent book to get a high-level overview of what it takes to start a business. This book wasn't written to be a one source guide. It was written to give you all of the important details and procedures of starting a businees, without all of the fluff. If you want to start a business, but have no knowledge of how to do it, then I recommend this as your first book on the subject.
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This book is useless and a big waste of my $... that I paid for it. While the book is some two hundred pages, the last hundred consist of appendix which could be summarized in less than twenty. The first hundred pages is so completely elementary in nature that I cannot conceive of anyone actually benefiting from its content.
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A good guide for business start-ups.,
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This review is from: The Small Business Start-Up Guide (Small Business Sourcebooks) (Paperback)
This is a good place to start if you are planninga new business. The book helps to answer the question as to whether or not you can compete, product definition, the market and optimal locational considerations. The presentation describes how to do business research, formulate a business plan, decide on a form of organization (individual, partnership, corporation, Subchapter S etc. ), the prospect of getting government assistance and SEED money . Technical sources are the SBA library and SCORE- a partnerhip of professionals. The book describes how to make local traffic counts, as well as relations with economic development agencies and the local Chamber of Commerce. The Franchise form of organization is set forth. The form of organization consists of the following: o location analysis o store design o operating procedures o purchasing procedures and central purchasing o financial assistance and venture capitalists The acquisition is priced reasonably. Purchase this volume if you intend to start a new business.
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By purchasing this book, you have decided to join the swelling ranks of small business owners and entrepreneurs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
state website, state revenue office, limited liability partnership, first business plan, general partnership, reserved name, county recorder, limited liability company, withholding tax, limited liability companies, limited partnership, liability protection, sole proprietor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Local Small Business Development Center, Foreign Entities, Business Registration Requirements Incorporation, The Business Information Center, Field Office, Name Reservation, Dept of Revenue, Tax Registration Requirements Sales Tax, Small Business Administration, Statement of Partnership Authority, Chamber of Commerce, Yellow Pages, New York, Alaska Business License Application, Internal Revenue Service, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Are You Really Ready, Federal Employer Identification Number, Fort Wayne, Los Angeles, Reservation of Entity Name, San Diego, San Francisco, Small Business Startup Kit New!
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- The Small Business Start-Up Guide: A Surefire Blueprint to Successfully Launch Your Own Business by Hal Root in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Small Business: Production/Operations Management (Small Business Series) by Terry Hill on page 129, and page 184
- Small Business for Dummies, Second Edition by Eric Tyson on page 121
- Your First Business Plan (Small Business Sourcebooks) on page 121
- Risk Management by Dearborn Financial Services in Back Matter
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- Small Business Answer Book: 101 Solutions to Survive and Thrive! by Courtney Price in Back Matter
- The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money by Seth Godin in Back Matter
- If You're Clueless about Starting Your Own Business by Seth Godin on page 184
- The Small Business Survival Guide, 3rd Ed. (The Small Business Sourcebooks) by Fleury in Back Matter
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