So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur?: How to Decide If Starting a Business Is Really for You

By Jon Gillespie-Brown

Book Overview

Jon Gillespie Brown brings his extensive mentoring experience to bear in this new handbook for would-be entrepreneurs. So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? contains a series of mentoring sessions, each carefully thought out to make you consider and plan your life based on your passions, ambitions and ultimate visions. By actively taking part in each of the exercises, you give yourself the best chance of succeeding as an entrepreneur, or the sufficient clarity to decide what other career options are best suited to you. Explore your real goals, hidden talents, passions, assets and core skills. The simple self-discovery tools in the book will make it easy for you to analyse this information and take the next steps towards your entrepreneurial dreams with total confidence. PRAISE FOR SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR 'Read this book if you plan to be an entrepreneur, find out what it's really like before you make the leap ' Doug Richard, entrepreneur, business investor and former member of the Dragons' Den TV programme 'Before I invest in a business at an early stage I want to know the founders knew what they were getting into. I would suggest they check out if they measure up to the demands of the ups and downs required to be a successful entrepreneur by reading this book first.' Richard Farleigh, Author Taming the Lion: 100 Secret Strategies for Investing and former member of the Dragons' Den 'The key to entrepreneurial success is understanding what type of entrepreneur you are, and then doing business in a way that is true to yourself, and above all, one that brings you personal happiness and fulfilment. This book will help you decide whether a life of an entrepreneur is for you.' Rachel Elnaugh, entrepreneur, business speaker and former member of the Dragons' Den 'Very few people truly consider the hard work, disappointment, frustration and crushing lows that every Entrepreneur experiences along the journey. Jon's book is a must read for anybody ready to take the leap ' Richard Parkes Cordock, author of Millionaire Upgrade and creator of Millionaire MBA Business Mentoring Programme 'The only form of safe employment is self-employment. I recommend anyone considering the entrepreneurial path to read this book.' Geoff Burch, International Speaker and author of Go It Alone: The Streetwise Secrets of Self-Employment tobeanentrepreneur.com

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841128031
• ISBN13: 9781841128030
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Capstone
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Great help to find your meaning in life

If you have tried and failed (like me) so many times, if you cant find your place at your current job, if you want to do more than selling your time for a paycheck, if you wanted to ask somebody: what's wrong with me? then this book will provide you with invaluable hands on mentoring sessions. Whether you are just entering college or failing your 5th business or simply finding yourself jumping from one idea to another, pick up this book and pull out a pen and a sheet of paper. It is a hands on reading. It will guide you through discovering yourself, your passions your strengths, your weaknesses. It is a great eye opener, imagine you being X-Rayed to identify what you are meant to be. The book will go through what it takes to be an entrepreneur, it's not a "weekend reading", you will be hands on involved, so have your pen and paper ready. The book is about YOU. Don't just read through it, take the time to reflect on it and yourself. It will also provide a great moral support when you lose your hopes and keep asking yourself: Am I doing the wrong thing? Am I the wrong person? Do I have the wrong traits? Overall it is a must read for anybody looking at taking the plunge from the warm corp paycheck and creating simply a "lifestyle business" or the next Google.

Great help for those questioning their work future or planning on taking the leap.

This is a great book for anyone who is trying to develop a sharper focus on their work future. If you are an entrepreneur or are tempted to become one, this book is definitely as helpful, if not more than the others. Why is it possibly more helpful? Because the proceeds go to a great non-profit organization. Even if you never become an entrepreneur, you are helping to launch others. This book is also helpful for the career employee, as it helps to define you. You may discover that taking the leap is not for you, but at least you will have eliminated the doubt. Also, by applying the book, even a career worker can find an improved work scenario and hopefully be more satisfied. Basically a win-win. 5 stars.

Essential

This is essential reading for budding entrepreneurs. This doesn't just tell you about being an entrepreneur, it encourages the reader to evaluate themselves and their personality in order that they can make more informed decisions when setting up businesses. The book also makes easy reading and with determination you could probably finish in a weekend. The real value however is that it opens your mind and encourages you to think outside the box. 5 stars from me.

Find great insight in this motivating book & do some good in the world

Entrepreneurship is a very risky business - literally - and this book pulls no punches in laying out the challenges of starting your own business. But it also gives every would-be entrepreneur what they really need to mitigate that risk (beyond a sound plan or adequate investment): real insight into their motivation, skills & talents and direction on how to fill the critical gaps,delivered clearly & concisely. I came out much wiser about about what it takes to succeed. I hope many more benefit from this book & by doing so generate more donations for the Grameen Foundation(supporting the world's poorest people via microfinance)which receives the profits from sales of this book.