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Retire - And Start Your Own Business - Five Steps to Success

eBook, Published by NOLO (29 April 2008)

£15.49

Book description

The only book that helps entrepreneurial retirees figure out how to get that dream business up and running!

If you plan to retire and start your own business then this one-of-a-kind book is ideal for you.

A comprehensive, step-by-step guide, Retire -- And Start Your Own Business is packed with practical, hands-on tools (including a CD-ROM) to help entrepreneurs like you pick and run a perfect business.

This book is at the leading edge of the new retirement: more retirees need or want to keep working. It shows you how to:

define success for you

take stock of your skills and experience

work with the time and money you have

generate business ideas

perform four "reality checks" on your best idea

get ready to launch your business

understand important legal, financial and tax matters

find the best health insurance

and more

Plus: Retire--And Start Your Own Business provides dozens of exercises that can help you understand exactly what you want from your businesses and your life. The CD-ROM provides Excel spreadsheets, plus additional worksheets and lessons not included in the book.

The CD-ROM that accompanies the printed version of this book includes forms or other tools; in this eBook, you'll find all those documents in the appendix or at the back of the book. Martha Sargent is a retired Associate Professor of Business at Western Oregon University. She designed, initiated and taught in the Entrepreneurship program at the university. Martha is the primary author of the Instructor's Guide to Your Business Plan, published and distributed by the Oregon Network of Small Business Development Centers. She is a lead author of NxLevel: A Guide for Entrepreneurs, business training materials published by the Western Entrepreneurial Network, used throughout the United States. In 2004, Martha received the university's Excellence in Teaching Award. Martha is a Certified Public Accountant and former Certified Management Accountant, and received her MBA from Oregon State University. Dennis Sargent was the Director of the Small Business Development Center at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon. He has advised over a thousand small business owners and taught numerous seminars. Dennis is the author of Your Business Plan, published by the Oregon Network of Small Business Development Centers, now in its fifth edition, with nationwide sales of over 100,000 copies. He is also a lead author of NxLevel: A Guide for Entrepreneurs. Recently, Dennis was part of a team that wrote a business planning book for use by the Oregon Native American Business and Entrepreneurial Network (ONABEN). Dennis is a Certified Public Accountant and earned his Masters of Science in Business at Oregon State University.

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