Entrepreneur's Notebook: Practical Advice for Starting a New Business Venture
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Nice Guide for Beginners
  • A Must-Have for Entrepreneurs
  • Exellent Book
  • Brief and to the point
  • Invaluable advice for the budding entrepreneur
Entrepreneur's Notebook: Practical Advice for Starting a New Business Venture
Steven K. Gold
Manufacturer: Learning Ventures Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0976279045

Book Description

Entrepreneur's Notebook propels you on a whirlwind tour of the start-up process. It is an invaluable reference for new and experienced entrepreneurs that includes chapters on a wide range of topics, from entrepreneurial team building to business plans to financing. This excellent book provides an incredible amount of practical information that will help you make smarter decisions and avoid costly mistakes. The author, Steven K. Gold, is an accomplished entrepreneur who has co-founded and led five early-stage ventures. As an investor and mentor, he also advises many entrepreneurs and young companies. He earned his B.S.E. in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.D. from Brown University Medical School.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Nice Guide for Beginners.......2007-06-16

The author writes a nice overview of the entrepreneurial process. It's basically for novices but it does a good job for this audience. The only problem I have with this book is that it is too basic and is therefore non-unique because it is so low-level. Regardless, I must say that for the right audience, it does a fine job over giving the big picture.

If you are advanced or aspire to become advanced, I would recommend "The Startup Company Bible for Entrepreneurs" but only for high-tech entrepreneurs. Even this author has recommended it.

5 out of 5 stars A Must-Have for Entrepreneurs.......2007-05-14

Steven gives great illustrations to drive home his insightful advice for entrepreneurs. As he's "been there, done that," we can take his advice to heart in the hopes of becoming a success like him!

5 out of 5 stars Exellent Book.......2007-05-11

Great book for getting ready to open a new business. Would refer to anyone thinking about opening a business.

5 out of 5 stars Brief and to the point.......2007-04-27

This is a delightful little book that contains a wealth of useful and helpful information and ideas on starting a small business and ensuring that it is viable and succesful. The book is well written and easy to follow and interesting to read.

This is a must read for entrepreneurs, particularly budding ones as the information the book provides is very practical and can help you avoid making costly errors. The book covers a wide range of topics including the start-up process, marketing the business on a small budget, cash-flow forecasting, among other things.

The book is an excellent companion for the entrepreneur that is well worth having.

5 out of 5 stars Invaluable advice for the budding entrepreneur.......2007-03-04

This book does a terrific job of presenting some of the most important issues entrepreneurs face when embarking on new ventures, touching on topics such as the business plan, funding, team building, and cash flows. Using simple, yet stunningly accurate models of the entrepreneurial process, Steven Gold distills complex subjects into simple, practical, take-away messages. The classification of entrepreneurial personalities (professionals, pragmatists, and inventors) is something I think we can all relate to. I find the metaphor which compares building a new company to making "stone soup" equally compelling. There are countless books out there for budding entrepreneurs, but this one is no fluff. It gets right down to the nuts and bolts so you can concentrate on your business.
The Practical Guide to Joint Ventures and Corporate Alliances: How to Form, How to Organize, How to Operate
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  • The Practical Guide to Joint Ventures and Corporate Alliance
The Practical Guide to Joint Ventures and Corporate Alliances: How to Form, How to Organize, How to Operate
Robert Porter Lynch
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 047162456X

Book Description

How to set up a joint venture--where to start, how to find partners, analyze finances, negotiate deals, put the legal elements together, and manage operations, while avoiding common mistakes. This ``how-to'' guide is filled with sound management advice, backed up with real examples, the rules-of-thumb of seasoned pros, handy check lists, and documents. The information presented here is applicable to large or small ventures. Explains how to develop and market new technologies, obtain capital and technical resources, take advantage of the globalization of the marketplace, and avoid problems commonly encountered in mergers and acquisitions.

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4 out of 5 stars The Practical Guide to Joint Ventures and Corporate Alliance.......2000-04-26

An excellent "cookbook" approach to Joint Ventures and Alliances. Without drilling down to excessive detail the author addresses the basics of the strategic, financial, legal, and operational challenges of such business partnerships. He utilizes a series of phases to describe the life-cycle of such arrangements. Of note is the use of numerous examples of both successful and unsuccessful JV's and alliances. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in utilizing these complex business arrangements.
Intelligent Commodity Investing: New Strategies and Practical Insights for Informed Decision Making
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    Intelligent Commodity Investing: New Strategies and Practical Insights for Informed Decision Making

    Manufacturer: Risk Books
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 1904339638
    Release Date: 2007-03-22

    Product Description

    As commodities move into the realm of respectable investments and with research continually demonstrating their attractiveness in an overall portfolio, this book provides institutional investors with a framework for intelligent commodity investing.

    With the booming interest in commodity investment as investors seek alternatives to more traditional investments there is a growing demand for up-to-date investment information. This book provides timely and intelligent insights from a broad range of institutional investors, consultants, hedge funds, commodity index providers, risk managers as well as research from academia.

    This is the only multi-contributor book on commodity investment offering a breadth of opinions for sophisticated investors. It looks at commodity investment from the following perspectives: