Essential Reading for the Entrepreneur who wants to make it.
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For most of my career, "Crossing the Chasm" has been the most insightful tool starting up a new enterprise.  It helps to explain the ups and downs of new product adoption cycle that is always part of the journey.  In this vital new book, Love add a very important new set of observations that can dramatically increase the likelihood that you and your new enterprise can cross the chasm to mass adoption and sustained success.  Face it, much of your business plan is not going to unfold as you are planning.  If you can overcome the hubris and open your team's minds to the necessity to learn and adjust early on, then you can actually beat the odds.  HIGHELY RECOMMENDED!!!
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Mr. McEneny's "Unlocking Your Entrepreneurial Potential", is a must read for any entrepreneur or wannabe entrepreneur who is bootstrapping or thinking about starting a business.  The book covers experiences from start-up to exit.  It is an easy read and well organized. The entire book is filled with important tips that could have applicability to any type of business. Mr. McEneny shares insights and advice that is practical in nature.  I especially enjoyed his anecdotes and would recommend this book for anyone running their own business--well worth the read.
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Highly recommended for those about to embark on the dangerous journey to business ownership. This is an eye-opening, warning-filled book that gives examples of how to use the information given in each chapter. The takeaways summarize and highlight important lessons that entrepreneurs need to learn. The stories he tells to show the need for each part of the book give us a glimpse of what hes gone through to create a book like this from his wealth of experiences. Fascinating.
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, including all of the specifically detailed instructions, and I think it might work if that's what you want to do.  I think I'll just institute these methods into my current business so I have time to run it better, be more efficent, and accomplish more!  Buy this book if you're at all entrepreneurial!
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A recommended read for those who need structure in conjuring up the creative forces of their intellect. The book is punctuated with tons of relevant examples to illustrate each method. A great resource for existing and would be entrepreneurs.
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I recently came across an exciting new guidebook that should help entrepreneurs build their companies.  The Second Edition of The Entrepreneur's Survival Guide [Cedar Mill Publishing] is authoritatively written by author Mark Paul who himself is an entrepreneur.  This book provides a welcomed practical perspective to business growth, survival and management.
This book starts by describing the characteristics that sets entrepreneurs apart as leaders.  Next are relevant steps of how to raise money in tight times and build not just your game plan, but also your team story and credibility - really relevant stuff for entrepreneurs who already understand theory but desire practical tips.
This book should benefit start-ups as well as entrepreneurs trying to take their company to the next level.  A welcomed treat is a chapter on strategic selling skills which also speaks to how the CEO is a company's  "ultimate" sales person.
Although this book is under 200 pages, once read you feel as if you've taken a crash course on how to take your business to the next level.
- Genevia Gee Fulbright, CPA is co-author of Make the Leap: Shift from Corporate Worker to Entrepreneur [Infinity Publishing].  Besides being an author Gee Fulbright is a practicing CPA concentrating in the income enhancement, business coaching and tax preparation/advisory arenas.  The majority of her clients are creative, technical or licensed professionals,  entrepreneurs and professors.
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This book is a must for anyone who aspires to opening their own business. Lynne Strang has a very upbeat and readable writing voice presented in a style that has a tone of encouragement coupled against the descriptive realities presented in the content.

The tight organization of the work ensures that the flow of the narrative never wanders too far afield and so it easily holds the attention. The juxtaposition of expository biographical information, which are the profiles of the entrepreneurs highlighted in the book, against the instructive how-to sections which offer practical information and provocative questions is a particularly effective device for holding the structure of the book in such a linguistically economical format. Strang seems to anticipate the next questions the reader may have in the worklists at the end of some chapters and the references at the end of the book.
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The Startup Hats provides a powerful blueprint for every entrepreneur (whether budding or seasoned) to build and sustain a successful business.  David Gardner beautifully illustrates his concepts by organizing them under headings of the many hats an entrepreneur wears...sometimes at the same time.  Startup Hats is practical, well written and offers important advice on everything from financing to recruiting to selling...  I teach a class on entrepreneurship and will use The Start Up Hats as the textbook.
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This book delivers on the tools need to become a successful entrepreneur.
Very well laid our easy to read, and filled with healp information and iedeas, a must have for the serious entrepreneur. Charles Lightwalker Author of Operating a Holistic Practice, Medical Intuition Handbook and others.
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The Entrepreneur Mind is a perfect resource for any entrepreneur, whether you're just starting out or you've been in business for years. What sets this book apart is that there's real meat on these pages! The author skips the clichs, instead focusing on real life examples from his own experiences as well as Fortune 500 brands. From working with a mentor, to hiring a team, to expanding your network, to pitching VC's, you'll get a frank and honest view of the blood, sweat and tears it takes to build an empire. He spills the secrets of success that nobody actually talks about! I found myself nodding in agreement, taking notes, revisiting my own business plan, and laughing while reading this book. The Entrepreneur Mind is part reference guide, part motivation, part inspiration, and you'll refer to it time and time again as you go through the highs and lows of being an entrepreneur.
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Investing In Entrepreneurs is a significant and important departure in the way entrepreneurship has been viewed to date.  The authors clearly demonstrate the obstacles and impediments that investors face in evaluating, developing and growing businesses headed by entrepreneurs, and explain why these firms frequently fail despite all the dedicated efforts by trained professionals.  Additionally, the book provides a structured conceptual framework, called the "Pipeline", which can provide a road map for targeting entrepreneurial investments and allow for a much higher rate of success.

The concepts and techniques which are clearly elucidated and developed here are a necessary and groundbreaking approach for anyone involved in the business of entrepreneurial investment and lending, from venture capital, investment banking and public sector professionals, to bankers who need to evaluate the financial and managerial capacities of entrepreneurs for ongoing capital requirements.

I view this as a "must read", especially in today's challenging economic environment, which more than ever before demands a more targeted and effective process for successfully growing and nurturing both entrepreneurs and the firms they operate.
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This is a great book on how to create a successful business.  Anybody can start a business, if you want to be successful, you need to get this book.  You don't need an original idea, as a matter of fact Mike encourages you to create a tried and true business, and to keep it simple.  He literally tells you where to get the information and instruction you need  to start your own business, most of it is free.  From the business plan, finding the money to starting your business and finding mentors to help you along the way.  You get insights from someone who has already put a millions in the bank instead someone still hoping to make their first million.  The best part is the list of resources in the back of the book.  Mike says right in the book its hard work, but your probably working hard already for someone else, get the book and start working hard for yourself.
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Helpful and gives direct insight into both the entrepreneur and investor perspectives
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Startup Stories: Lessons Learned From a Startup's Launch, Grind and Growth by Jordan Raynor is an interesting look at what it takes to be an entrepreneur and launch your own business from the ground up. What makes this book so interesting, and what sets it apart, is that is written by someone who has done just that - he has started his own businesses and grown them into multi - million dollar corporation. In fact, he uses one of his own startup companies as a case study throughout the book, so you can see his strategies in action.
Raynor begins by discussing launching your own business, emphasising how to deal with problems stay focused and choose a partner and be flexible. He the moves onto part two: the Grind. This is where he walks you through the nitty gritty of what the reality is like once you've got that business up and running. Finally he discusses the growth phase of your, now not so new business, explaining how to move to the next level.
This is a great read for anyone who is considering starting up their own company and who wants to hear about the experience of someone who has been there, done that.
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Any person beginning a new start-up should pick this up before they get much further than an idea. Though geared towards the major legal issues involved in starting a company, this book covers many of the essentials of  beginning and structuring a business far better than most of the other  books on financing or building start-ups. I've at least looked through a  dozen books on the subject and none has had better, more explicit guidance  on dividing founder's equity, options, funding relationship and so much  more. I cannot recommend this book highly enough; you'll be at a  disadvantage without it. You can view other reviews of entrepreneur books  via my reviewer profile.
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This book isn't just about how to perform well on the Dragons' Den, it's got great insights and tips from successful entrepreneurs about the challenges and rewards of starting your own business. Many of the Dragon's stories are inspirational in their own right. Essential reading for any aspiring entrepreneurs and recommended for the more experienced as well.
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After receiving this book as a gift and the recommendation from a fellow entrepreneur within days of each other I had to read it.  Kevin did a great job of pulling together the best advice from all aspects of being an entrepreneur.  He not only addressed the usual suspects-idea creation, market research, finance and networking, but he took it a step further, addressing the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur and why less than 1% of us choose to be mavericks.

The book was very easy to read, with real-life examples and a conversational tone that drew me from page to page.  I found myself laughing, cheering and shaking my head in agreement throughout the book while other sections challenged my way of thinking about finding competition, substitutes, solving problems and why a market may be barren.  If you are a brand-new entrepreneur, I believe following the guidelines herein will save you a lot of time, stress and money.  If you have been in the game for a while and not seeing the results you'd like, Kevin introduces and highlights some concepts that may have been holding you back.