
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Business startup advice from the former president of the Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation and cofounder of Global Entrepreneurship Week and StartUp America, this "thoughtful study of 'how businesses really start, grow, and prosper'...dispels quite a few business myths along the way" ( Publishers Weekly ). Carl Schramm, the man described by The Economist as "The Evangelist of Entrepreneurship, " has written a myth-busting guide packed with tools and techniques to help you get your big idea off the ground. Schramm believes that entrepreneurship has been misrepresented by the media, business books, university programs, and MBA courses. For example, despite the emphasis on the business plan in most business schools, some of the most successful companies in historyāApple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and hundreds of othersāachieved success before they ever had a business plan. Burn the Business Plan punctures the myth of the cool, tech-savvy twenty-something entrepreneur with nothing to lose and venture capital to burn. In fact most people who start businesses are juggling careers and mortgages just like you. The average entrepreneur is actually thirty-nine years old, and the success rate of entrepreneurs over forty is five times higher than that of those under age thirty. Entrepreneurs who come out of the corporate world often have discovered a need for a product or service and have valuable contacts to help them get started.Filled with stories of successful entrepreneurs who drew on real-life experience rather than academic coursework, Burn the Business Plan is the guide to starting and running a business that will actually work for the rest of us.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Burn the Business Plan
- Chapter 2: Twelve Things Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Know
- Chapter 3: Why Start a Company?
- Chapter 4: What Motivates Entrepreneurs?
- Chapter 5: Can You Survive the Entrepreneurās Curse?
- Chapter 6: Big Companies Can Be Schools for Startups
- Chapter 7: Copycat Entrepreneurs
- Chapter 8: Preventing Failure Before It Happens
- Chapter 9: Donāt Waste Time Doing Things That Donāt Work
- Chapter 10: Planning for Success
- Chapter 11: Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright