The Harvard Entrepreneurs Club Guide to Starting Your Own Business


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Are you a college student or recent graduate with a great idea fora business? You're not alone. All across the country, more and more studentsare seeking advice on starting their own businesses. Theentrepreneurial spirit is thriving at Harvard, where many students,past and present, have become successful business owners--evenfounders of Fortune 500 companies. Now, some of the bright minds ofthe Harvard Entrepreneurs Club, a recognized student organizationof Harvard College, have compiled their business knowledge andexperience into one comprehensive manual to aid students in makingtheir entrepreneurial dreams come true. This professional andpractical guide will take you step by step through the process ofstarting and maintaining a business. Poonam Sharma and fellowmembers of the Club have tailored this useful resource to theunique issues and obstacles that students will face. You'll receiveinvaluable advice on formulating a business plan, advertising,legal protection, business ethics, and much more. Even if you have no professional experience, little marketingknow-how, or even a small bank account, this book can teach you howto join the ever-growing ranks of students who know firsthand thepleasure--and the profit--that come from being your own boss andbringing your business idea to life.







The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being a Successful Entrepreneur


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The founder of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company offers insider tips on raising captital, marketing, making deals, hiring employees, and creating quality products




Starting a Craft Business


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Starting A Craft Business is a fresh and innovative inspirational business guidebook for individuals who love to make handcrafted or art items and want to make money while enjoying their talent. Whether the craft artisan is a retired school teacher, vacation bible school craft teacher, disabled professional, or simply a lover of any form of art or craft, this book will help to make their dreams and aspirations of business ownership become a reality.




The Design of Sites


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Creating a Web site is easy. Creating a well-crafted Web site that provides a winning experience for your audience and enhances your profitability is another matter. It takes research, skill, experience, and careful thought to build a site that maximizes retention and repeat visits.




Imbibe Entrepreneurship


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"Others have searched, it is your job to 'research', that is why you are a 'Researcher' . . ." These are the words of my Business Ethics and Law MBA Lecturer. He will further say "Research is like building a brick wall but you cannot build it all alone. Your job as a researcher is to put a piece of brick (your work) on the wall (knowledge), while others will continue to place theirs. With this in perspective, I cannot cover everything in this book, though I wish I could. I will not claim that the content of this book is totally something new. However, I will call it an 'innovation' from my several years of studying already existing literatures, lessons from the lives of successful entrepreneurs, lectures during bachelors of business classes, MBA classes, personal studies, interactions with entrepreneurs and my personal experience. Entrepreneurship is the solution to the economic and political instability in Africa. I have not seen a successful nation where the government succeeded in providing everything for its people. But great economies of the world ride on the back of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs control the world and its government. Their ways are always adhered to because they are job creators; but it is very important to mention that above job creation, they are problem solvers as well as solution providers. Some successful entrepreneurs were mentioned or quoted in this book - men and women who made things happen in spite of difficult situations. And if they can do it out of worst case scenarios, what is your excuse? What I planned to achieve with this book is not to make it an authority or personification of knowledge in entrepreneurship. Rather this book was written with the understanding that reading it is not equivalent to offering professional services to you. With the knowledge got from the book you might as well seek professional services in the areas of your concern. Success is impacting your world with the investment of your personality. That is what I hope to achieve by writing this book, to impact my world with what I believe and have invested myself in, on and with for years. Note: Although there are many mentions of Africa and Nigeria in this book, the knowledge can be applied in any part of the world and it will yield the same result.




Build the Damn Thing


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The Wall Street Journal Bestseller featured in Bloomberg, Fast Company, Masters of Scale, the Motley Fool, Marketplace and more. An indispensable guide to building a startup and breaking down the barriers for diverse entrepreneurs from the visionary venture capitalist and pioneering entrepreneur Kathryn Finney. Build the Damn Thing is a hard-won, battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur who the establishment has left out. Finney, an investor and startup champion, explains how to build a business from the ground up, from developing a business plan to finding investors, growing a team, and refining a product. Finney empowers entrepreneurs to take advantage of their unique networks and resources; arms readers with responses to investors who say, “great pitch but I just don’t do Black women”; and inspires them to overcome naysayers while remaining “100% That B*tch.” Don’t wait for the system to let you in—break down the door and build your damn thing. For all the Builders striving to build their businesses in a world that has overlooked and underestimated them: this is the essential guide to knowing, breaking, remaking and building your own rules of entrepreneurship in a startup and investing world designed for and by the “Entitleds.”




Starting a Child Care Center


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Starting a Child Care Center is a practical, comprehensive, and motivational entrepreneurial guide. Starting a Child Care Center utilizes a uniquely designed step-by-step, hands-on approach to business formulation. Worksheets are included for the purpose of providing assistance in preparing a business plan. Crucial business development and management information is provided in an easy-to-understand format. Upon completion of the book, the entrepreneur will have a detailed business plan for starting a child care center and will be inspired to take the entrepreneurial challenge.




The Happy Empty Nest


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The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Running a Business


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It doesn't matter how old you are or where you're from; you can start a profitable business. The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Running a Business will show you how. Through stories of young entrepreneurs who have started businesses, this book illustrates how to turn hobbies, skills, and interests into profit-making ventures. Mariotti describes the characteristics of the successful entrepreneur and covers the nuts and bolts of getting a business up, running and successful.