First Business Start-Up: How to Know If Your Own Business Is a Career Option, Know Your Business Idea Makes Sense, Build a Winning Support Team, and Get Started Right!

First Business Start-Up introduces the reader to the common body of knowledge that should be considered by all before making a final decision to go into business. It debunks failure myths that may be keeping qualified people from self-employment, offers easy-to-follow tests, evaluations and thought-provoking analysis to help the reader determine if business owner management is a career choice. It helps the reader determine if his or her business idea makes sense, guides him or her through start-up capital and cash flow needs and shows the reader how to pick those who will best support his or her business effort. It shows how to minimize any possibility of business failure and helps the reader determine if he or she should grow a first business, buy a business or purchase a franchise. This book is "pre-business plan", a area of entrepreneurship education that is extremely important but generally neglected because most small business start up books are written by those with education but no real-life small business experience.