Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible
by Richard Hooker, Steve Monas
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Author: Richard Hooker, Steve MonasEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-18
ISBN: 0595506518
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: iUniverse
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Book Review: A Must-Have Book for the Startup Entrepreneur
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally! A book by real people who give you the "How-to" and "How-not-to" of starting and operating a successful business from the comfort of your home, on a small budget. Steve Monas and Richard Hooker give you all the details, starting with how to outsource the heavy work and delegating authority, in this educational and inspiring book. ShoestringVenture: The Startup Bible walks you through Steve's personal experiences (successes and failures) and provides you with some real help. No cheerleading here, just good, old-fashioned, hard work and business acumen to guide you through the startup process. (Don't skip the introduction, or you'll miss out on some great advice.)
Steve and Richard get right to the heart of the matter and don't skimp on the resources. They tell you who to go to, for what purpose, and who offers the best of each kind of service for small businesses. With wit and whimsy they cover topics like goal setting, money management, and outsourcing, giving warnings about some of the most common mistakes. The book is about how to succeed, but they tell you exactly what you should do, if you intend to fail, as well.
You'll get more unbiased, honest information about building a business, in the first chapter, than you'll get by paying a consultant hundreds of dollars for a couple of hours of their time. The best thing is, they know their online stuff. This book rolls startup consulting, small business operations, and the Internet as a marketing/sales/revenue tool all up into one and doesn't spare the details.
From business finance and banking to business technologies, and marketing, Steve Monas and Richard Hooker walk you through the details that you couldn't get, all in one place, from the most recent MBA graduates with the most up-to-date knowledge or the most experienced consultant. Combining all of their hands-on and need-generated knowledge, and the wisdom of how to apply it to most any business, this book will carry you from concept through success, if you follow the flow and don't skip from beginning to end, leaving out the middle.
Can't handle all of the administrative stuff yourself and getting bogged down? Learn how to set up a virtual front and back offices.
Do you know how to market test your product? Once you know it's going to work, do you know how to get it to market? Do you know how to distribute? If not, ShoestringVenture, should definitely be part of your library. The best thing is, once you have the book, you also have access to a one-stop website that has all of the links to all of the websites they refer you to in the book. So, if you don't feel like typing in all of those URLs, just type in the one they give you in the book and start reading, learning, applying, planning, setting goals, and following through, follow up on your day's activities.
ShoestringVenture: The Startup Bible is a must read, must own book that every entrepreneur should buy and keep for future reference. Once you start reading, you won't want to stop!
Summary of Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible
A Consultant in a BookFor the millions who start a new business every year on the barest of resources, Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible is like hiring a high-level consultant to deal with the bewildering maze of issues from finance to marketing to technology that all entrepreneurs face.
Every business is nothing but a series of decisions which can make or break the business. You could say that, if there's a science of business, it's the science of making good decisions. And every bootstrap entrepreneur faces the daunting task of making ALL the business decisions, any one of which could either doom the enterprise or catapult it to stratospheric success. That meas that every entrepreneur has to quickly get up to speed on every issue their business faces.
Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible is the most exhaustive set of practical resources collected to empower entrepreneurs to make the right decisions on a limited budget, from business concept to product development to Web marketing. We call a "consultant in a book," there to give considered and experienced answers to the infinite questions that come up.
Shoestring Venture-The Start-up Bible
All entrepreneurs - even the smallest operating on the tightest of budgets - have the opportunity to build powerful start-up organizations without ever really having to walk out the front door. Using global communications and data networks, even bootstrap entrepreneurs can staff an entire organization with every human resource and skill they need at rock-bottom prices.
It's the magic of outsourcing. For, you see, globalization ain't just for the big kids. We often hear about how globalization exports jobs overseas, but we rarely hear about the opportunities globalization creates for even the smallest of businesses, opportunities that allow even tiny businesses to compete with the majors on a global scale. In short, anyone can run a virtual organization using only a desktop or laptop computer.
Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible gives bootstrap entrepreneurs all the resources they need to build truly effective startups using the magic of outsourcing and off-shoring.
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