A Pocket Guide to Business for Engineers and Surveyors
A Pocket Guide to Business for Engineers and Surveyors

Author: H. Edmund Bergeron

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-07-03

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0471758493

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Pulling from his 30+ years of experience running his own engineering and surveying services firm, Ed Bergeron gathers, in concise, practical, and often amusing writing, all the information an engineer or surveyor needs to know to grow their career, expand their business, manage staff and projects, understand the financial and legal aspects of their work, and conduct themselves in a professional and ethical manner when dealing with clients and colleagues. Both the fields of surveying and engineering are making strides towards advancing their stature by increasingly requiring licensure, expanding continuing education offerings, and adding elements of professional practice into all levels of education. This book presents the skills that differentiate the technician from the professional, and will serve as a tool for the advancement of the profession.

Ready, Set, Treat!
Ready, Set, Treat!

Author: Kristen Goodrich

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 9781673516159

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A fool-proof plan to launch your solo private practice with minimal financial investment or risk. We'll be in your back pocket the whole way through, cheering you on and advising you at each step. Our guide is intended for solo licensed clinicians, including (but not limited to) Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech and Language Pathologists, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Dietitians.We are a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed and Registered Occupational Therapist with almost 30 years of combined clinical experience, half of which has been spent running our solo practices. We have helped numerous clinicians start their own successful private practices, and are so excited to help you gain independence and achieve financial freedom.

How They Started
How They Started

Author: David Lester

Publisher: Crimson Publishing

Published: 2007-06-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1780590008

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Lots of us have ideas we think would make great businesses. Most of us never do anything with those ideas. But for those that do, a world of opportunity awaits them. This book is about 30 people who acted on their idea, made the first steps to start their business and subsequently went on to turn it into a global brand. From Innocent to Cobra to Dreams to Dysone, we reveal how some of the UK's biggest businesses got of the ground, and those very first steps taken by their founders.

Start Your Own Business: A Simple Pocket Guide
Start Your Own Business: A Simple Pocket Guide

Author: Edward Sternisha, J.D.

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-11-26

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0557851955

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Have You Ever Dreamed Of Owning Your Own Business? Edward Sternisha, J.D., An Entrepreneur Of Multiple Small Businesses Has Created This Simple Pocket Guide Designed To Help You Make Your Dreams A Reality!Ed, Not Only Has A Business Management Degree, But He Has A Variety Of Other Accomplishments, Including A Criminal Justice Degree, A Juris Doctorate Degree, And Several Other Licenses And Certifications. He Has Created An Assortment Of Businesses From Ground-Up And Has Managed Every Aspect Of Each Organization From The Initial Dream To The Successful Sale Of The Businesses.Ed Describes How To Start Your Own Business In A Simple To Understand Way So You Make The Right Decision When Starting Your Own Business.With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jobs Lost, Many People Are Dreaming Of Starting Their Own Business And Getting Back To Work. From What To Do, To What Not To Do, This Book Is Your Personal Guide To Creating Your Own Successful Business With Real-Life Examples From Ed's Own Experiences.

Founder’s Pocket Guide: Founder Equity Splits
Founder’s Pocket Guide: Founder Equity Splits

Author: Stephen R. Poland

Publisher: 1x1 Media

Published: 2016-03-21

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 1938162099

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“How do we split up the equity ownership of our startup?” This guide provides a framework and process to help startup founders answer this common question. Equity ownership affects the culture and sense of wellbeing of a startup. Founders typically sacrifice a great deal of other life opportunities to work on a startup effort. In exchange for that sacrifice, a founder wants to feel the ownership equation with any co-founders is fair. In detail, this Founder’s Pocket Guide walks entrepreneurs though the following elements: • Take The Founder Test to make sure everybody deserves founder status • Review the case for splitting your founder equity into equal parts • Use the Equity Split Scorecard as a fair method to allocate more equity to highly skilled cofounders • Solve common equity problems using founder vesting structures • Answer common equity split questions like IP and founder-investors Note that this guide does not go into how to use equity to attract employees or using equity to pay service providers, advisors, development companies, or other contractors. This guide focuses solely on the best practices of deciding the equity ownership split between the founders of a startup venture.

A Pocket Guide to How to Start a Successful Group Home
A Pocket Guide to How to Start a Successful Group Home

Author: Yalonda S. Smith

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-01-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781539937074

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Do you have a dream of opening your own group home, but do not know where to start? Have you contacted your local licensing agency to get the information on starting your group home but instead received vague and discouraging information? Did they tell you the licensing process may take up to one year and you do not understand why? Or are you just plain frustrated in trying to figure this thing out alone? All of these barriers add months to the licensing process! If you are like I was when I went through this process and want to cut through the red tape of the licensing process, this book is for you!! My name is Yalonda Smith (You may know me as Yalonda Hooks), and I owned a successful group home for foster children of my own for 7 years. I am the CEO of Cornerstone Consulting & Coaching, LLC, formerly known as, How to Start a Successful Group Home, LLC. I started my web-based consulting business in 2009 and have been helping others to make their dreams come true ever since! You may have visited my website while doing your research over the years but have procrastinated and put your dreams of entrepreneurship on hold year after year. It is time to stop making excuses and make this season, YOUR season!!! The purpose of this book is to save people like you many months of research, writing, and creating your own policies and forms. When I was in your shoes in 2006 trying to open my own group home, I was impatient and frustrated with the complications of the licensing process. Therefore, I am offering you a step by step guide that will help make your dreams a reality in no time! Although this book is mainly for the licensing process in the United States, the basic steps can be used in any country that must be licensed through the government to open a group home or residential facility. Why delay? Let's start working on making your dreams a reality today!

The Pocket Small Business Owner's Guide to Starting Your Business on a Shoestring
The Pocket Small Business Owner's Guide to Starting Your Business on a Shoestring

Author: Carol Tice

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1621532909

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Most businesses that close their doors have one thing in common: They ran out of money. Don’t let this happen to you. This indispensable book, part of Allworth’s popular Pocket Small Business Owner’s Guide series, will help you to save money on every aspect of your business, from advertising to overhead. With invaluable cost-cutting tips for all types of businesses, from e-commerce and home-based operations to services and retail, this guide will help you create a blueprint that will allow your business to survive and thrive. You’ll save on: Advertising Marketing Purchasing Transportation and shipping Labor Financing Facilities Operations Taxes And more! In today’s economy, small business owners must seize every opportunity to keep costs down, and every penny saved goes to your bottom line. Follow this street-smart advice to lay the foundation for a business that will be profitable for years to come.

Boss Life
Boss Life

Author: Paul Downs

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0399185291

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**A Forbes Best Business Book of the Year, 2015** **Winner of the 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in Entrepreneurship** When columnist Paul Downs was approached by The New York Times to write for their “You’re the Boss” blog, he had been running his custom furniture business for twenty-four years strong. or mostly strong. Now, in his first book, Downs paints an honest portrait of a real business, with a real boss, a real set of employees, and the real challenges they face. Fresh out of college in 1986, Downs opened his first business, a small company that builds custom furniture. In 1987, he hired his first employee. That’s when things got complicated. As his enterprise began to grow, he had to learn about management, cash flow, taxes, and so much more. But despite any obstacles, Downs always remained keenly aware that every small business, no matter the product it makes or the service it provides, starts with people. He writes with tremendous insight about hiring employees, providing motivation to get the best out of them, and the difficult decisions he’s made to let some of them go. Downs also looks outward, to his dealings with vendors and to providing each client with exemplary customer service from first sales pitch to final delivery. With honesty and conviction, he tells the true story behind building and sustaining a successful company in an ever-evolving economy, often airing his own failures and shortcomings to reveal the difficulties that arise from being a boss and a businessperson. Countless employees have told the story of their experience with managers—Boss Life tells the other side of that story.

Founder’s Pocket Guide: Cap Tables
Founder’s Pocket Guide: Cap Tables

Author: Stephen R. Poland

Publisher: 1x1 Media

Published: 2015-04-12

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1938162072

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The goal of this guide is to help you understand the key moving parts of a startup cap table, review typical cap table inputs, and demystify terminology and jargon associated with cap table discussions. Along the way, this highly visual guide provides easy-to-follow examples for the most common calculations related to cap table building. Expanding on these key skills every startup founder should know, this Founder’s Pocket Guide helps you learn how to: • Build your basic cap table step by step, including founder’s shares, option pools, angel investor rounds, and VC rounds. • Decipher cap table specific lingo, such as fully-diluted shares outstanding, preferred shares vs. common shares, Series A, Series B, and so on. • Establish a stock option pool in your cap table and understand the option pool effect on founder dilution. • Understand the simple math behind cap table formulas and calculations, including calculating fully diluted shares outstanding, investor equity ownership percentages, and share price.