The Startup Company Bible For Entrepreneurs: The Complete Guide For Building Successful Companies And Raising ...14 reviews AVA Publishing, 2005 A solid book for those seeking angel or VC financing + A "real-world" startup book, for a change. Super! + Previous reviewers are spot on + A Solid Reference Book for Entrepreneurs             The Small Business Start-Up Kit: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide4 reviews Peri Pakroo NOLO, 2006 Need this book!!! + Simply the Best Resource Available + This book is awesome. EVERYTHING you need to know to start a business. Tons of questions are answered. + The Small Business Start-Up Kit by Nolo             Make It Big With Yuvi: : How to Buy or Start a Small Business, the Best Investment4 reviews Yuvi Shmul, Ron Peltier AuthorHouse, 2005 very informative + Great reading for opening your own business + Own Your Small Business + Informative book             Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer12 reviews Michael Fleishman Allworth Press, 2001 Best Book On Freelancing I've Ever Read + A Good Reference, specific chapters applicable + More for graphic artists than illustrators, but good inspiration + essential + Great reference book!             The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting your own Business, 4th Edition (The Complete Idiot's Guide)9 reviews Edward Paulson Alpha, 2003 Introducing Business to New Entrepreneurs + Small Business Classic + How To Get Started in 24 Easy Chapters + Useful and easy to understand             Entrepreneur's Notebook: Practical Advice for Starting a New Business Venture18 reviews Steven K. Gold Learning Ventures Press, 2006 Very good book for a beginer + A must read for any budding entrepreneur! + Great, fun, easy read, but... + Very good, but needs more depth             The Creative Business Guide to Running a Graphic Design Business9 reviews Cameron S. Foote W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 Another great guide for the wanta-be entrepreneur who seeks to have her own small consulting practice! + Great Guide! + Perfect Match This book is divided into four sections: organization, personnel, marketing, and operations. It also has four appendices. I really liked this book very much. I'm a volunteer SCORE counselor who regularly counsels SCORE clients on starting their own small businesses. I highly recommend the instant ...             The Business Side of Creativity: The Complete Guide for Running a Graphic Design or Communications Business20 reviews Cameron S. Foote W. W. Norton & Company, 2002 Foote's books address different business models + A Creative's Must Have! + Very helpful for a new freelancer + YOUR BUSINESS BIBLE             Seven Step Business Plan1 review Sheila Holm Pelican Publishing Company, 2007 A short and simple book that will tell you what you need to do before your write your business plan! I liked this book. It's short and simple, but it covers much of what someone needs to hear when thinking in terms of starting their own small business. My favorite part was how the author explained how to create a vision statement, then a mission statement, and then elevator blurb. The book ...             Managing a Public Relations Firm for Growth And Profit1 review Alvin Croft Routledge, 2006 A wonderful guide for anyone starting or bettering a public relations firm (or any professional services firm)! I cannot praise this book enough. It does a wonderful job explaining how to find, attract, and bring in clients at a public relations firm. But it doesn't stop at rainmaking. Instead it also fully explains how to run and manage a public relations firm. This book is very well written, and the author ...             Start Your Own Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up)30 reviews Rieva Lesonsky Entrepreneur Press, 2004 excellent book. Great shipping by the seller. + very good resource!!! + Very Helpful + A primer road map             How to Open a Financially Successful Bed & Breakfast or Small Hotel (How to Open & Operate a ...)8 reviews Lora Arduser, Douglas R. Brown Atlantic Publishing Company (FL), 2004 A Truly Professional Approach + Great Book and I am an Owner + Helpful + A Great Introduction             Black Enterprise Guide to Starting Your Own Business (Black Enterprise Series)2 reviews Wendy Beech Wiley, 1999 BE is at it again + Watch your dreams soar and your passion materialize to profit. The leader in providing information on black business has took it to the next level with the black enterprise guide to starting your own business. The book outlines the steps needed to reasearch opportunities and make descions. This guide takes your step through step to starting, maintaining, ...             The Entrepreneurial Itch: Don't Scratch Until You Read This Book2 reviews David Trahair Self-Counsel Press, 2007 A straightforward guide to self-employment and running one's own business. + A book that covers the issues I discuss at typical first meetings I have with my SCORE clients during counseling sessions. Written by David Trahair, CA, who is the successful sole proprietor of his own financial consulting firm, The Entrepreneurial Itch: Don't Scratch Until You Read This Book is a straightforward guide to self-employment and running one's own business. Chapters address specific issues such as how to ...             The Unofficial Guide to Starting a Small Business3 reviews Marcia Layton Turner Wiley, 1999 Great resource guide, filled with useful information. + Excellent reference for all small business owners + What a great book! I just got the book and cannot put it down. Ms. Turner makes a potentially dry subject come to life. I particularly like the sidebar information, good examples to support the overall message.             Getting Started in Consulting, Second Edition53 reviews Alan Weiss Wiley, 2003 Solid Advice from an Experienced Consultant + Glad I read this before really starting my business + Good Introduction to Consulting + My All Time Greatest Book On Consulting             Start Your own E-Business (Start Your Own . . .)9 reviews Robert McGarvey, Melissa Campanelli, ... Entrepreneur Press, 2005 Great book to read when you want to add a Web site to your business' marketing mix + Excellent Information for E-Commerce + Start Your own E-Business eBusiness supposedly refers to all business processes that take place across electronic networks. I'm not sure this book is really about starting your own ebusiness. It clearly is not a step-by-step guide to success. Instead, it is a wonderful book on just about all aspects a business should ...             You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business44 reviews Barry Moltz Kaplan Business, 2003 It's Not Crazy to Love This Book + Emotional roller-coaster + You have to be crazy to enjoy this book + Do you want real-world insight into what you will experience as an entrepreneur? + Good-humored guide to business start-ups             Streetwise Small Business Book Of Lists: Hundreds of Lists to Help You Reduce Costs, Increase Revenues, and ...5 reviews Gene Marks Adams Media, 2006 Small Business Book Of Lists + I Wish I Had This 30 Years Ago + I didn't think I needed it, and then . . . + Best reference a small business could have! + This book of lists is more than just a series of lists! What a goldmine of info.             Getting Started in Computer Consulting9 reviews Peter Meyer Wiley, 1999 Good Book for Independent Consultants + Its good, but I bought it too soon. + Good for an expereinced IT person, but not for me. + A good broad introduction