Entrepreneurship / Start-ups

Efficient planning and superior execution against clear objectives is the way companies operate best.

The purpose of this book is to trace the history of globalization and its impact on supply chain management and to look at the problems and some of the solutions facing global supply chains in the current era.

This book is designed to meet important needs of each segment; (1) the business plan serves as a means for college students to learn about the major functions of business and how they are interrelated, (2) entrepreneurs need a business plan to provide direction in the organization and launch of a new business and secure initial capital from funding sources, (3) consultants need a user-friendly business plan format to assist clients that have limited or no business experience, and (4) instructors and trainers need a turn-key text with supplements that require no lecture and little prep-time to teach student how to write a business plan.

Strategy is about creating a plan to differentiate your business from the competition and to gain a competitive advantage.

This book will focus on the fundamental steps of business planning within a managerial accounting framework, those being: (a) the business model, (b) volume and process flow, (c) product and service costing, (d) revenue and pricing, and (e) investment value.

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This book outlines and illustrates strategies that you must employ to protect your intellectual property.

If you are an entrepreneur starting a new venture, this book provides the information you need to choose your initial team of cofounders and employees.

What are my start-up costs?

Do you enjoy cooking for others?

This is the First Edition of this publication.

This is the First Edition of this publication.

Providing feedback to others about their performance is a key developmental experience.

This publication features the insights of a group of experienced professionals on both sides of the issue.

Effective feedback, whether it's meant for your boss, your peers, or your direct reports, is built around three ideas.

Effective feedback, whether it's meant for your boss, your peers, or your direct reports, is built around three ideas.

Effective feedback, whether it's meant for your boss, your peers, or your direct reports, is built around three ideas.

Effective feedback, whether it's meant for your boss, your peers, or your direct reports, is built around three ideas.

This is the First Edition of this publication.

This is the First Edition of this publication.

Providing feedback to others about their performance is a key developmental experience.

Along with the growing use of 360-degree feedback in organizations today, there is much disagreement over how it should be employed: strictly to help the manager develop or also to help those who work with the manager decide such issues as pay and promotion?

Because executives tend to be problem solvers, they typically focus on weaknesses when they want to improve their performance.

Providing feedback to others about their performance is a key developmental experience.

Providing feedback to others about their performance is a key developmental experience.

Millions of Americans every year have troubles with their finances.

The painting, faux painting, and mural business is one of the most lucrative small business opportunities around, with more than $100 billion spent annually according to the International Franchise Association.

With a massive upside and potential for growth, the private investigation industry has been booming for years.

Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, the number of small farms operating in the United States dropped by more than 75 percent according to the US Department of Agriculture.

Herb businesses operating on the Internet alone have increased by more than 1000 percent since 2002 according to PEW Internet Research.

With the current economic downturn, it is becoming increasingly difficult to land the career of your dreams while maintaining a stable personal life.

If you have always yearned for a career that makes a difference in someone's life and are thinking of opening a staffing service business, then we have a book that can assist you in taking those first steps and can answer all of your questions along the way.

Notaries can make an average of $10 to $200 per signing, depending on the document type.

Do you want to own a business that does not confine you to a desk, where you are able to make your own hours and as much money as you want to work?

Are you a whiz with numbers?

Are you looking to open a business that offers an endless stream of repeat customers, has a flexible work schedule, and allows you to make as much money as you are willing to put into it?

Anyone, anywhere can open a successful photography business thanks to the digital camera revolution.

The import export business is not just for large corporations.

Interior design has become a booming industry in recent years with interior designers who own their own firms pulling a median income of $75,000.

If you enjoy working with people and working outdoors, operating a small nursery, landscaping, or lawn service may be the perfect business for you.

Many people dream of starting and running a business of their own but often do not know HOW to start.

If you want to learn about starting a Web business, how to transform your brick and mortar business to a Web business, or even if you're simply interested in making money online, this is the book for you.

You are creative, you are an artist or a photographer, you have a hobby or craft, something you absolutely love to do, and you are good at it.

The Pricing & Ethical Guidelines Handbook published by the Graphic Arts Guild reports that the average cost of designing a Web site for a small corporation can range from $7,750 to $15,000.

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In this completely updated and totally revised second edition, you will learn the essentials to becoming your own contractor, includinghow to choose a sitedraw up construction time line and flow chartsapply for construction loansobtain essential insurance information, buy plansfind and negotiate with subcontractorshow to comply with building code, inspection, and permit requirements.

There are nearly 12 million children under the age of five in child care each week in the U.

Most students have a tough time economically.

According to a study by the U.