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So You Want to Start a Business
"So, You Want to Start a Business?: 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap" by Edward D. Hess, Charles D. Goetz.
There are many books on how to start your business. What distinguishes this book from the others is that it gives a concise and clear image about the path you must take on how to start your business. You can learn from the chapters of this book how to choose your customers, how to design your product, how to find and keep good employees, everything you need to start and grow your business.
Chapter 3 of this book is a very important one: "What is a good opportunity". You can't do any business without having any knowledge about what an opportunity is and how it smells.
Learn how to choose the opportunity for your first business and how to become an opportunity hunter.
Learn what is a small business, how to manage a business, cost of starting a business, how to fund a business, even, building wealth from nothing.
There are some great resources recommended by the authors in this book in the
lists provided for books on business strategy, on entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, leadership, and sales.
