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Starting & Operating a Business
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The Business Plan Workbook : A Practical Guide to New Venture Creation and Development
by Colin Barrow Nonfiction 658.401 B279B 2018
One of the most important steps in launching or expanding a venture is the creation of a business plan. The absence of a written business plan can lead to failure for new businesses, and inhibit growth and development. Based on methodology developed at Cranfield School of Management, The Business Plan Workbook takes a practical approach to the topic of business planning. Perfect for those growing businesses, as well as a range of academic and professional courses, this title takes the reader step-by-step through each phase of the development of a business plan, from creating a competitive business strategy to its writing and presentation. With 29 corresponding assignments that each includes case studies such as Hotmail, Cobra Beer, IKEA and Amazon, actively engaging questions and worksheets, it will enable you to validate your business idea, brand your business, research your market, and raise finance.
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Developing an Effective Business Plan: A Business Model Path to Success
by Enodare Publishing Nonfiction 658.11 D492 2016
To develop and write a successful business plan, you need to begin by creating and validating an effective business model. The business model is the core of your business plan--it is your unique recipe for making sustainable profits. Developing an Effective Business Plan: A Business Model Path to Success will show you step-by-step how to use one of the most highly regarded business modeling techniques, the Business Model Canvas, to identify, test and validate the optimal business model for your enterprise. The book will then show you how to develop and write a business plan that will most effectively implement your validated business model.
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Entrepreneur Revolution: How to Develop Your Entrepreneurial Mindset and Start a Business that Works
by Daniel Priestley Nonfiction 658.11 P933E 2013
Entrepreneur Revolution is a master class in gaining an entrepreneurial mind-set, showing you how to change the way you think, the way you network, and the way you make a living. Successful entrepreneur Daniel Priestley will show you how to embrace the Entrepreneur Revolution and thrive in the new age, and give you way to adapt your lifestyle to be more successful.
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The Harvard Business Review Entrepreneur's Handbook: Everything You Need to Launch and Grow Your New Business
by Harvard Business Review Nonfiction 658.11 H261 2018
Starting an independent new business is rife with both opportunity and risk. From the basics of writing a business plan to the challenges of financing your new venture, the HBR Entrepreneur's Handbook is your essential resource for getting your startup off the ground. Topics include: Navigating the world of venture capital funding; Turning innovations into successful realities in the marketplace; Building a business model that makes sense for your business; Developing the sales and marketing programs needed for your venture; What entrepreneurial leaders must do to build culture and set direction.
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How to Prepare a Business Plan: Your Guide to Creating an Excellent Strategy, Forecasting Your Finances and Producing a Persuasive Plan
by Edward Blackwell Nonfiction 658.4012 B568H 2017
An excellent business plan impresses financial backers, provides a clear blueprint for the future of your company and functions as a benchmark against which to measure future growth. How to Prepare a Business Plan includes essential coverage of producing cash flow forecasts, planning a business expansion, planning your borrowing and monitoring business progress. Global case studies containing real business plans provide inspiration and real-life practical insight by analyzing the plans, monitoring the business' progress and discussing their problems. Sample business plans also show you the process in action and provide useful examples for creating your own.
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How to Write a Business Plan
by Mike P McKeever Nonfiction 658.15224 M194H 2014
Explains how to create the loan package necessary to finance a business and make it work, including how to assess the potential of a business idea, estimate operating expenses, find sources of financing, present the plan to lenders and investors and more, in a book that includes access to downloadable forms.
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Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business
by Fred Steingold Nonfiction 346.730652 ST35L 2018
Includes the forms you need to start and grow your business. Each document comes with thorough, plain-English, line-by-line instructions to help you write contracts, borrow or lend money, hire employees and consultants, buy a business, lease commercial space or buy real estate, prepare corporate bylaws, and much more.
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Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business
by Fred Steingold Nonfiction 346.730652 ST35LE 2015
Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business clearly explains how to raise start-up money, pick the right business structure, get licenses and permits, negotiate a favorable lease, protect yourself with the right insurance, create binding contracts, hire, fire, and manage employees, cope with financial problems, protect your personal assets, and save on business taxes.
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The Pocket Small Business Owner's Guide to Business Plans
by Brian E. Hill Nonfiction 658.401 H55P 2012
Helps small business owners create logistical and financial plans for the future, and includes such issues as planning a business model, calculating expenses, writing an executive summary, and developing a marketing strategy.
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Six Steps to Small Business Success: How to Start, Manage, and Sell Your Business
by Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
Awarded The Book of the Year by the Professional Association of Small Business Accountants. Many entrepreneurs fail, not because they have bad ideas, but because they don't have the knowledge it takes to convert their ideas into success. In Six Steps to Small Business Success, five seasoned CPAs provide practical advice, step-by-step guidance, and proven ideas to help you dream big, think realistically, and plan and manage carefully, ultimately achieving more than you ever imagined.
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Six-week Startup: A Step-by-Step Program for Starting Your Business, Making Money, and Achieving Your Goals!
by Rhonda Abrams Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
Written for anyone who has an idea for a business, but doesn't know how to go about starting it, Six-Week Start-Up 4th Ed. takes readers from idea to "open-for-business." This unique book provides in-depth coverage on business concept clarification, goal definition, money matters, market research, sales, marketing, government requirements, hiring employees, and more. Designed to keep readers on track, the book includes week-by-week checklists, worksheets to sort through important issues and decisions, "Questions to Ask," "Red-Tape Alerts," resources, and expert advice from Rhonda Abrams, America's most read small business columnist.
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The Small Business Start-Up Kit
by Peri Pakroo Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to set up a small business in your state, quickly and efficiently clearing state and local bureaucratic hurdles along the way. It will show you how to choose between an LLC and other business structures, write an effective business plan, pick a winning business name and protect it, hire and manage staff, comply with legal and tax issues affecting home businesses, price, bid, and bill your projects, manage finances and taxes, get your website up and running, and market your business effectively, online and off.
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So You Want to Start a Business: The 7 Step Guide to Create, Start and Grow Your Own Business
by Ingrid Thompson Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
Often people leap into starting a business to pursue their passion without fully realizing what they've gotten themselves into. Although they may love what they do, the financial and administrative side of the business ends up being more than they bargained for. So You Want to Start a Business takes those who want to start a business through the seven essential elements required to create a thriving business. Full of examples, exercises, and invaluable guidance, Ingrid Thompson provides a practical guide to unleashing one's inner entrepreneur. With over twenty years' experience helping people create successful businesses, Ingrid knows exactly how to help people decide what kind of business to start and how to start it right. The book helps people set solid foundations for their chosen business startup, make an informed choice for the business they want to start, and get it right from the start.
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Start a Successful Business: Expert Advice to Take Your Startup from Idea to Empire
by Colleen DeBaise Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
From brainstorming to crowdfunding to building partnerships, the book walks new and aspiring founders through seven crucial stages: * Come up with a brilliant business idea * Select the best structure and strategy for your startup * Figure out funding * Get the word out--and get customers * Dig deep to discover their wants and needs * Become an exceptional leader * Prepare to go global Throughout, celebrated entrepreneurs share ideas that worked for them, including where Sarah Blakely got the inspiration for Spanx, how Elon Musk stays insanely productive, why Rent the Runway ditched the business plan, and how a hashtag accelerated Airbnb's success. With a fleet of trusted experts by your side, starting a business will be faster, less confusing-and a whole lot more fun.
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Start Your Business on a Ramen Noodle Budget: 12 Lessons on Becoming a Young Entrepreneur When You Are Broke
by Felecia Hatcher-Pearson Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
You don't need millions of dollars to get your business idea off the ground, but you do need to START, with what you have and where you probably are financially--on a ramen noodle budget! You can get creative with limited resources and overcome any roadblocks to starting your own business. Start Your Business on a Ramen Noodle Budget will show you how to leverage your limited resources and create your own opportunities, set unrealistic goals with 5 key strategies, dig deep, create a unique niche, and become a major disruptor.
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Start Your Own Business in a Week
by Kevin Duncan Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
Sunday: Get started with realistic goals and a detailed business plan, and do your market research Monday: Learn strategies for building a network of contacts and how to handle meetings Tuesday: Learn how to get the product or service right and increase your margin Wednesday: Choose the most effective ways to communicate with customers and prepare useful marketing materials Thursday: Market yourself and your business and learn how to cut the jargon and describe what you do in 30 seconds Friday: Motivate yourself to work hard and ignore distractions and make a good impression as the face of your business Saturday: Avoid difficulties and problems through using personal planning and business planning tripwires
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Starting a Business from Home
by Colin Barrow Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
Starting a Business from Home identifies business opportunities, gives advice on preparation and set up, and how you run, control and manage its growth. This new edition includes researching the market, business ownership and title issues, raising the money and managing finances, building and operating a website, bringing a product to market and starting up overseas.
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The Startup Equation: A Visual Guidebook to Building, Launching and Scaling Your Startup
by Steven Fisher Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
You have a great idea for a new business. Now what? How do you turn that great idea into a viable business? Leveraging visual tools, The Startup Equation leads you step by step through the decisions you need to make to find your perfect startup model. You'll learn things such as identifying your unique entrepreneurial type, creating a great product, building a great team, finding funding and scaling in addition to other elements essential to crafting a roadmap that fits you and your business. Drawing from their extensive experience working with startups, entrepreneurs Steve Fisher and Ja-Nae Duane offer expert advice on dealing with the challenges and opportunities that accompany every type of new business.
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Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds from Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity
by Randy Komisar Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
Veteran venture capitalist Randy Komisar and finance executive Jantoon Reigersman share no-nonsense, counterintuitive guidelines to help anyone build a successful startup. In Straight Talk for Startups they walk budding entrepreneurs through 100 essential rules--from pitching your idea to selecting investors to managing your board to deciding how and when to achieve liquidity. Culled from their own decades of experience, as well as the experiences of their many successful colleagues and friends, the rules are organized under broad topics, from "Mastering the Fundamentals" and "Selecting the Right Investors," to "The Ideal Fundraise," "Building and Managing Effective Boards," and "Achieving Liquidity."
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Strategy Plain and Simple: 3 Steps to Building a Successful Strategy for Your Startup or Growing Business
by Vaughan Evans Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
Strategy Plain and Simple's uniquely powerful, successful and practical framework will show you how to quickly develop a strategy to get your business from where it is today to where you want it to be tomorrow. With vivid examples, practical solutions and a jargon-free approach, Vaughan Evans cuts to the very essence of what you need to know about strategy, simplifying it for anyone wanting to guide their business to success. He sets out a plain, simple, 3-step process: · Understand your market - how to forecast demand and supply. · Gain competitive advantage - how to target the strategic gap and bridge it. · Managing business risk - how to balance risk and opportunity. Read it in 60 minutes, follow the three steps and transform your business prospects.
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The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit: Step-by-Step Legal Guide
by Peri Pakroo Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit gives you the practical and legal information you need to kickstart a successful enterprise―whether you’re an arty creative type, an independent consultant, or a Fortune 500-seeker. In addition to a breakdown of the common issues and concerns facing women entrepreneurs of every stripe, you’ll find information and guidance on choosing and developing the right business, drafting an effective business plan, programs that give contracting preferences to women-owned businesses, understanding and choosing a legal structure, taking your business online, financial management and tax basics, work-life balance, and more.
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The 1-page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, and Stand Out from the Crowd
by Allan Dib Nonfiction 658.8 D544O 2018
To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn't get done. In The 1-Page Marketing Plan, serial entrepreneur and rebellious marketer Allan Dib reveals a marketing implementation breakthrough that makes creating a marketing plan simple and fast. It's literally a single page, divided up into nine squares. With it, you'll be able to map out your own sophisticated marketing plan and go from zero to marketing hero.
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Building Your Business the Right-Brain Way: Sustainable Success for the Creative Entrepreneur
by Jennifer Lee Nonfiction 658.022 L513B 2014
Entrepreneurial businesses are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. economy as people opt out of a challenging job market, seek to create a craft business "on the side," or pursue post-retirement endeavors. But many people with a terrifically innovative and commercially viable product or service defer their dream out of fear (and perhaps loathing) of number crunching, strategic planning, marketing, and the like. Jennifer Lee guides readers through the next phases of business, from finding and keeping customers, working with staff and vendors, and setting goals to brand building, expanding, and even taking time to celebrate and knowing when to walk away. Worksheets, exercises, and real-world examples help readers use their right-brain strengths to be as successful as they are creative.
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The Lifestyle Business Owner: How to Buy a Business, Grow Your Profits, and Make It Run Without You
by Aaron Muller Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
The Lifestyle Business Owner reveals how ordinary people can buy a small business in their community, earn a six-figure income, and make the business run without them. Aaron Muller, founder of Lifestyle Business Owner Academy, reveals the 3-step formula he utilized to go from a kid who didn't attend college to the owner of eight companies that run without him. Now it's your turn to discover the secrets to owning a business that gives you the financial freedom, lifestyle, and contribution you desire.
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Marketing Your Startup: The Inc. Guide to Getting Customers, Gaining Traction, and Growing Your Business
by Simona Covel Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
To put a business on the map, nothing beats great marketing. No matter how original your idea or ambitious your dreams, the company will stall without a plan to spread the word, build momentum, and drive sales. For years, Inc. has covered the innovative marketing used by thousands of tiny startups that turned into household names. Now, Marketing Your Startup shares these compelling stories and spotlights strategies for igniting growth. Through firsthand insights from founders and helpful how-to guidelines, you'll learn to define your brand, market position, and customers, then unleash the right mix of tactics through the right channels: social media, email and direct mail, content marketing, SEO, media ads, events, guerilla marketing, influencers, cause marketing, and more.
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Teach Yourself Small Business Marketing in a Week
by John Sealey Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
The ability to market your business is crucial to anyone who wants to grow their start up and build a brand. In this short, accessible book, John Sealey shares a lifetime of hard-earned wisdom and practical advice, giving you, in straightforward language, all the insight you need to nail your small business marketing. The 'in a week' structure explains the essentials of small business marketing over just 7 days.
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What's Your Digital Business Model?: Six Questions to Help You Build the Next-Generation Enterprise
by Peter Weill Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
What is your digital business model? While many leaders of companies recognize the threat from digital--and the potential opportunity--they lack a common language or a compelling framework to help them assess it and, more importantly, to direct them. They don't know how to think about their digital business model. In this probing and practical book, Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner provide much-needed tools, self-assessments, motivating examples, and key financial analyses of where the profits will likely be made. Based on five years of study at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research, the book provides a powerful yet simple framework that has been field-tested globally with more than a dozen senior management teams.
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The Crowdfunding Handbook: Raise Money for Your Small Business or Start-Up with Equity Funding Portals
by Clifford R Ennico Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
In April 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups--or JOBS--Act into law. This groundbreaking legislation empowers privately-owned companies to raise capital from investors without going through the rigorous IPO and private placement processes. Cliff Ennico explains the JOBS Act and translates the regulations into a clear set of do's and don'ts for entrepreneurs and small-business owners looking to get in early--and do things right. Need help pricing your securities? Pitching a project to the public? Choosing between funding platforms? Figuring out disclosure documents and reporting requirements? This book delivers targeted answers--whether crowdfunding is your best bet, picking the right legal entity, selecting types of securities to offer, reaching the most promising investors, keeping crowds under control, and more.
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Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track
by Garrett Sutton Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
Learn how to get funding for a business and build strong business credit ratings — the right way. The authors explain how to obtain business credit cards and small business loans, how to easily build business credit, how to find unique financing strategies for your business. They explain how to understand the opportunities and pitfalls of crowd funding. They also alert you about financing scams to avoid.
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Deduct it!: Lower Your Small Business Taxes
by Stephen Fishman Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
Provides information on maximizing business tax deductions for operating expenses, medical expenses under the Affordable Care Act, home offices, travel, inventory, and other areas.
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Small Business Taxes Made Easy
by Eva Rosenberg Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
This all-in-one primer is packed with tips and guidelines not only for paying out less in tax but also for gaining the greatest possible advantage out of each IRS rule and regulation. You'll learn how to choose the right accounting style for your need, navigate the complex tax maze, set up a business plan that helps minimize payout, use record-keeping techniques that increase deductible expenses, spot errors in 1099s and handle them properly, and more.
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Tax Savvy for Small Business
by Frederick W. Daily Nonfiction 343.7305268 D143T 2018
Provides small business owners with what they need to know about federal taxes, and explains how to make the best tax decisions, maximize deductions and profits, appeal audit decisions, and stay out of trouble with the IRS.
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