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FEATURED BOOK:
Start Your Own Business, by Rieva Lesonsky (Entrepreneurial Press).
Who knows more about starting a business than the editors of Entrepreneur magazine -- the magazine for
entrepreneurs. Calling this book, "the only start-up book you'll ever need," Start Your Own Business is a best-selling book
and widely regarded as the quintessential business start-up book. Now in its fourth edition with more than 200,000 copies
sold, it has helped hundreds of thousands of Americans start their own businesses.
The Best
Business Plans
That Win $$$: Lessons from the MIT Enterprise Forum , by by Stanley R. Rich and David E. Gumpert (Harper Paperbacks).
Entrepreneur's
Notebook: Practical Advice for Starting a New Business Venture, by Steven K. Gold (Learning Ventures Press).
What No
One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business, by by Jan Norman (Kaplan Publishing).
The Rest
Anatomy of a Business Plan:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Business and Securing Your Company's Future, by Linda Pinson (Kaplan).
The Art
of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, by Guy Kawasaki (Portfolio).
Business Start-Up Kit,
by Steven D. Strauss (Kaplan).
The Complete
Book of Business Plans: Secrets to Writing Powerful Business Plans, by Joseph A. Covello and Brian J. Hazelgren
(Sourcebooks).
The Complete
Idiot's Guide to Business Plans, by Gwen Moran (Author), Sue Johnson (Alpha).
The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Finance for Small Business, by Ken Little (Alpha).
The Complete
Idiot's Guide to Starting your own Busines, by Edward Paulson (Alpha).
The Entrepreneur
Next Door, by Bill Wagner (Entrepreneur Press).
Entrepreneur's
Toolkit: Tools and Techniques to Launch and Grow Your New Business, by Richard Luecke (Harvard Business School Press).
Engineering
Your Start-Up: A Guide for the High-Tech Entrepreneur, by James A. Swanson and Michael L. Baird (Professional Publications).
Founders
at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days, by Jessica Livingston (Apress).
The Guerrilla Entrepreneur:
Achieving Success and Balance Now and in the Future, by Jay Conrad Levinson (Morgan James Publishing).
How to
Write a Business Plan, by Mike P. McKeever (NOLO).
If at First You
Don't Succeed...: The Eight Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs, by Brent Bowers (Currency).
Legal
Guide For Starting & Running A Small Business, by Fred S. Steingold (NOLO).
The McGraw-Hill
Guide to Writing a High-Impact Business Plan: A Proven Blueprint for First-Time Entrepreneurs, by James B. Arkebauer
(McGraw-Hill).
New
Business Ventures And The Entrepreneur, by Michael J Roberts, Howard H Stevenson, William A. Sahlman, Paul W. Marshall, and
Richard G. Hamermesh (McGraw-Hill/Irwin).
Plan for
Profitability!: How to Write a Strategic Business Plan, by Lee E., Jr. Hargrave (Four Seasons Publishers).
The
Small Business Bible: Everything You Need To Know To Succeed In Your Small Business, by Steven D. Strauss (Wiley).
The
Small Business Start-Up Kit , by Peri Pakroo and Barbara Kate Repa (NOLO).
The Startup
Company Bible For Entrepreneurs: The Complete Guide For Building Successful Companies And Raising Venture Capital,
by Michael Stathis (AVA Publishing).
Weekend
Entrepreneur: 101 Great Ways to Earn Extra Cash, by Michelle Anton and Jennifer Basye Sander (Entrepreneur Press).
Writing a
Convincing Business Plan, by Arthur R. DeThomas Ph.D., and Lin Grensing-Pophal (Barron's).
You Call
the Shots: Succeed Your Way-- And Live the Life You Want-- With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship,
by Cameron Johnson (Free Press).
Your
First Business Plan: A Simple Question And Answer Format Designed To Help You Write Your Own Plan,
by Joseph A. Covello and Brian Hazelgren (Sourcebooks).
Zero to One Million: How
to Build a Company to One Million Dollars in Sales, by Ryan P. M. Allis (Virante, Inc.).
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