How to Really Start Your Own Business

by David E. Gumpert and David E. Gumpert

Book Overview

- Previous editions sold 60,000 copies This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880394243
• ISBN13: 9781880394243
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Inc Publishing
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Essential to Entrepreneurs

This book breaks it all down in small chapters and sections. What helps is that they have succesfull entrepreneurs give you advice as well. The chapters and sections are short and easy to understand.This book basically tells you everything you need to know about starting your own business.

a youngster's response

I'm relatively young I suppose but I've always had grand dreams of entrepreneurship. I really like this book. It's got a lot of facts of what to do. It's also a very good reality check. This is good reading for any type of business idea. Certainly worth the money.

COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER!

I teach business management and have also co-authored a training manual which is currently being used under exclusive rights, so when someone gave me this book to read, it was of particular interest to me. You will run across endless numbers of publications on this topic from the very in-depth to the down-right ridiculous ones which portray the illusion "anyone still breathing can become a millionaire in one easy lesson." Obviously, some books in the marketplace can be extremely misleading. What they are doing is GRABBING your money, not MAKING you money! There are also some EXCELLENT books on starting your own business and this is one of them. No book is ever going to teach you everything you need to know about owning and operating your own business - that is a life-long learning process; however, this book is an excellent place to start. Laws, agencies, etc. differ between the US and Canada, but many have a similar counterpart, and the very basic principles of operating your own business are the same. From planning, finding the money, hiring the right people, testing and protecting your idea, to market analysis, cash flow projections and the business plan - all this, and much more, is discussed in this top-notch book. In addition to the book, there is also an equally informative video available,titled, "How To Really Start Your Own Business," written by David Gumpert and George Gendron. I obtained the video through Inc. Magazine and found it to be an excellent learning tool.

Excellent advice!

This guy has it down. I've never read a bus. startup manual that was more concise and easy-to-use! (And I should know. I just got funded!) He gives you the low-down, blow-by-blow, with no BS. He writes in plain, easy to understand English. He doesn't waste your time.