Writing a business plan is often one of the first monumental steps in starting your own business, but it can be tricky or overwhelming! Here you will find some advice and resources to get you started.
Business Writing for Innovators and Change-Makers recognizes the unique communication challenges entrepreneurs face and offers clear action steps for tackling them. As an entrepreneur with a pioneering product or service to offer the world, you can't rely on templates to get your meaning across. You need a set of writing strategies that are quick to implement and easy to adapt to a variety of communication situations, from e-mails to pitch decks.
This second edition of the best-selling, comprehensive handbook The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers will appeal to a wide range of artists, makers, designers, and photographers looking to set up and establish an arts practice or design business within the visual arts and creative industries.
Other business planner books teach traditional business planning with cumbersome templates which cause people to get confused and quit, or write ineffective business plans. Business Plan Template and Example starts with a 3-sentence business plan, which helps you narrow down your strategy and goals.
This latest edition of Entrepreneurship Skills for New Ventures continues to focus on helping students develop entrepreneurial skills, whether they seek to become entrepreneurs or employees. Focusing on the entrepreneurial start-up process, the fourth edition of Entrepreneurship Skills for New Ventures takes the reader through the steps of selecting, planning, financing, and controlling the new venture.
This book describes the management expertise, organizational skills, and vocabulary necessary to be a successful entrepreneur based on the author's academic and business career. Readers will learn how to ask the right questions to build a strong ecosystem with service providers, customers, and investors.
In Startup CEO, Matt Blumberg shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees. Startup CEO is not a memoir of Return Path's 20-year journey but a thoughtful CEO-focused book that provides first-time CEOs with advice, tools, and approaches for the situations that startup CEOs will face.
