The Truth About Starting a Business
“What Does It Mean to Do What You Truly Want to Do?”
Category: Small Business
Starting a new business isn’t easy, but you can bolster your chances of success with smart planning and creativity.
In this summary you will learn
- What decisions you need to make when starting a business
- What activities you must pursue
- Why balancing your work and your personal life matters
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Why you should read The Truth About Starting a Business
Starting a business is a serious undertaking. You need an inexhaustible supply of enthusiasm, energy, resilience and good fortune – and plenty of funding doesn’t hurt either. getAbstract finds that management professor Bruce Barringer cites every salient detail – however briefly – in this comprehensive, condensed look at entrepreneurship. In his list of 53 “truths” about getting a business underway, he doesn’t try to discourage you from fulfilling your dreams, but he asks you to be deeply introspective about your motives and abilities. Owning a business can be fraught with pitfalls, and any lack of commitment will greatly diminish your chances. Despite entrepreneurship’s numerous challenges and frustrations, Barringer contends that it offers tremendous potential rewards, and he tells you how to pursue them.
About the Author
Bruce Barringer, a professor of management at the University of Central Florida, wrote Preparing Effective Business Plans, and is the co-author of Entrepreneurship and What’s Stopping You?
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