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The Small Business Start-Up Guide (Small Business Sourcebooks)

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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.

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.

This is a good place to start if you are planning
a 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.