DREAM Model to Start a Small Business

DREAM Model to Start a Small Business

Author: Emmanuel Jean Francois

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781462020393

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COMMON SENSE SMALL BUSINESS GUIDE..... I had wanted to say how useful the book will be for our students who run child care centers and who want to start their own non profits. - Dr. Margaret Watts, Associate Professor, Springfield College The DREAM model is a common sense approach. Your text is my dear companion for my entrepreneurship seminars.......,br> - Dr. Kathleen Boyle, President and CEO, Rainbow Consulting Inc. DREAM Model to Start a Small Business is a conceptual model that can help you start a small business in five steps: • Dreaming • Researching • Expressing • Acting • Managing Most people get in business and get out in about a year, simply because they did not have the appropriate and comprehensive tools to succeed. The DREAM model aims to fill that gap by providing the keys an entrepreneur needs to build the foundations for a successful business. This book includes a step-by-step process, easy-to-understand and ready-to-use templates as well as practical advices that an entrepreneur can use to materialize from start to finish the dream to own a successful business.


16 Weeks to Your Dream Business: A Weekly Planner for Entrepreneurial Women

16 Weeks to Your Dream Business: A Weekly Planner for Entrepreneurial Women

Author: Nada Jones

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0071641726

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There are no other books on the market that guide the female entrepreneur through the process of organizing, planning, and executing a business start-up in a weekly planner format Appeals to a wide demographic-from the busy fulltime worker looking to become an entrepreneur to moms looking for a creative, lucrative outlet Includes forms, worksheets, and folders for ultimate organization and overall planning


Why Startups Fail

Why Startups Fail

Author: Tom Eisenmann

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0593137027

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If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.


Launch Your Dream

Launch Your Dream

Author: Dale Partridge

Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0718093429

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Though his highly acclaimed Startup Camp program, bestselling author and serial entrepreneur Dale Partridge has helped thousands of people find unimaginable freedom and financial success by assisting them in launching new startup businesses. And now, in Launch Your Dream, he has distilled the essence of that course into a hyper-practical, 30-day journey for readers looking to join these other entrepreneurs in following their dreams and achieving unimaginable freedom and financial security. This invaluable and comprehensive resource will teach readers how to:• Hone their ideas• Build an audience• Construct an online presence• Master social media• Craft a beautiful brand• Create experiences that keep customers from even considering competitors• And does this in 30 days!Whether you are an experienced CEO, a budding entrepreneur, a stay-at-home mom, or a freelancer just looking to make some money on the side, Launch Your Dream provides the easy-to-follow steps necessary to finding the freedom you’ve been looking for.


Building a Dream

Building a Dream

Author: Walter S. Good

Publisher:

Published: 2008-01

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780070963245

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Good is recognized as a market leading text that offers a practical, "how to" approach to guiding students and potential small business entrepreneurs through the conceptual stages involved in setting up a business of their own. It is all about builiding the essential business plan, with many templates, forms, checklists, sample pland and real-life Canadian examples making it the most hands-on text available Good offers a strong supplement package, including an Instructor's Resource CD with an IM and PPT slides, Canadian videos offering additional practical examples/cases, and a robust OLC that will be expanded to include self-assessment exercises currently within the text in an interactive format.


50 Real Estate Investing Calculations

50 Real Estate Investing Calculations

Author: Michael Lantrip

Publisher: Michael Lantrip

Published: 2018-01-13

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1945627034

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When Real Estate Investors say, "I wish I'd known that," this is what they are talking about. Real Estate Investing Calculations are the Rules of Real Estate Investing, and you must know the rules. Real Estate Investing offers you four huge benefits that other forms of investing do not. *Cash Flow. *Asset Appreciation. *Financial Leverage. *Special Tax Treatment. But your success will depend on how well you estimate these items before you purchase a property, and how well you manage them after you purchase. A basic rule of Business Management is "In order to manage, you must first measure." And that's the purpose of 50 Real Estate Investing Calculations. This book teaches you how to generate these numbers yourself, and explains their meanings. These Calculations are the tools of your trade.


The Business Startup Checklist and Planning Guide

The Business Startup Checklist and Planning Guide

Author: Stephanie Chandler

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781593303006

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If you are one of the 40% of American workers who have considered starting a business, but have been held back by fear, funding concerns or the lack of a business plan or idea, this book is for you.


Founders at Work

Founders at Work

Author: Jessica Livingston

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2008-11-01

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 143021077X

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Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover? Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done. But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businesses do—create value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.