How to Build and Grow a Successful Business: Based on 40 years of teaching entrepreneurs

By Michael D. Atchison

An easy-to-read book written in a conversational style, containing instructions for starting a new business or growing an existing business from a specialist who has been assisting entrepreneurs for forty years. It includes anecdotes and humorous stories of projects he has been involved in through the years that highlight the problems that entrepreneurs encounter on their journey. Divided into three sections, the book covers starting a company from scratch and overcoming barriers to growth for an existing company, then closes with the author's personal experiences and thoughts from his four decades of working with entrepreneurs. You will laugh at some of the stories, think about the skills you still need to acquire and wonder at the courage it takes to be a success in business. Most of all you will finish reading it with the knowledge that you have learned some things important to your own success. What makes it unique? Detailed planning forms for starting capital needed before you begin; Working capital forecasting; Major Project financing; Management-oriented Financial Statements; What a banker or investor wants to see; Effective Planning Government assistance (SBA, SBIC's, Exim-Bank, etc.); Managing personnel; Effective marketing; and much, much more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514629690
• ISBN13: 9781514629697
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"