ENTREPRENEURSHIP
BYOB - Be Your Own Boss!

An annotated listing of Library and Web resources.

Audio | Books | Periodicals | Video | Websites

Audio

The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business
by Martha Stewart [COMPACT DISC 658.1 St]
Martha Stewart shares her business knowledge and advice in this handbook for success.

Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth
by Robert G. Allen [COMPACT DISC 332.04 Al]
Allen places heavy emphasis on how to become an Internet entrepreneur.

Books

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki [658.1 Ka]
The Art of the Start will give you the essential steps to launch great products, services, and companies.

Billionaire in Training
by Bradley J. Sugars [658.4 Su]
This book provides strategies on successful entrepreneurship.

The Business Start-Up Kit
by Steven D. Strauss [658.1 St]
This guide for aspiring entrepreneurs explains the necessary steps for starting a business. Useful strategies, worksheets, and success secrets are provided as well as necessary forms. Learn about corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships, SBA loans, franchises and many other essential business topics.

E-myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company
by Michael E. Gerber [658.4 Ge]
Seven essential disciplines - client fulfillment, finance, lead conversion, lead generation, leadership, marketing, and money management - can make any small business profitable.

Entrepreneurial Megabucks: The 100 Greatest Entrepreneurs of the Last 25 Years
by A. David Silver [330.92 Si]
This book provides case histories, practical suggestions, and challenging ideas from famous entrepreneurs.

The Entrepreneur's Desk Reference: Authoritative Information, Ideas, and Solutions for Your Small Business
by Jane Applegate [658.02 Ap]
An alphabetical compilation of solutions, advice, and ideas from small business experts. Topics include accounting, audits, brand building, employee benefits, firing and hiring, mission statements, and more. Entries feature definitions, checklists, strategies, and other helpful resources.

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law
by Constance E. Bagley [658.1 Ba]
A resource for entrepreneurs that discusses potential legal concerns from the initial stages of growth up to an initial public offering. This updated edition also covers e-commerce and international issues.

Financing Your New or Growing Business: How to Find and Raise Capital for Your Venture
by Ralph Alterowitz [658.15 Al]
A guide to raising venture capital for your business. Ideas such as borrowing from friends and family, selling stock, using credit cards creatively, factoring accounts receivable, and using federal and state loans, grants, and tax incentives are discussed as well as the basics of negotiating deals and avoiding scams.

The First Venture Capitalists: Georges Doriot on Leadership, Capital, and Business Organization
by Georges F. Doriot [332 Do]
General Doriot created the first institutional venture capital fund in 1946 and set a standard for venture capital forever. Here is his story and advice.

Go It Alone!: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own
by Bruce Judson [658.1 Ju]
This book, illustrated by case studies of successful businesses, insists that entrepreneurs should outsource almost every aspect of their business and concentrate on leveraging the "unique skills."

How to Run Your Business Like a Girl
by Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin [658 Ba]
How to Run Your Business Like a Girl takes you behind the scenes of woman-owned companies in a variety of industries, from retail and manufacturing to PR and consulting.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practices and Principles
by Peter Ferdinand Drucker [658.4 Dr]
Drucker, one of the business world's gurus, discusses entrepreneurial management, claiming three keys to building a successful new organization are assembling a top management team, financial foresight, and having a market focus.

International Handbook of Women and Small Business Entrepreneurship
[REFERENCE 658.02 In]
This book explores practical initiatives and strategies related to the experiences of women entering small business entrepreneurship.

Lucky or Smart?: Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life
by Bo Peabody [658.4 Lu]
According to Peabody, there are no magical formulas for success - just the drive, energy and focus, along with luck, that breeds entrepreneurial achievement.

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Periodicals

Black Enterprise
Business to Business (Flint Area Chamber of Commerce)
Business Week
Michigan Business Report
Fortune
Money
Harvard Business Review
Inc.
Working Mother

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Video

Acorn Entrepreneurs Vision of Young Enterprises (1998)
[VHS 658.9 Ac]
Interviews with eight entrepreneurs, who share their experiences of starting and operating their own business, covering such subjects as managing money, social responsibility, overcoming obstacles, making mistakes, and more.

The Entrepreneurs (1991)
[VHS 332.92]
This video introduces youngsters to three African-Americans who have achieved success in a range of fields and had the desire to build their own successful businesses.

How to Start and Operate Your Own Business (1992)
[VHS 658.9 Ho]
Provides the practical, step-by-step information needed to start your own business, including developing a clear and defined business concept, choosing the form of business organization, determining capital needs and sources, how to perform and evaluate market research, and how to create a business plan.

Marketing Where Your Competition Is Not! (1995)
[VHS 658.8 Ma]
Learn the secrets to success in competition-based niche marketing. Put your company on the road to where the competition is not.

Secrets of Successful Home-Based Businesses (2000)
[VHS 658.9 Se]
This video shows you how to generate leads for your successful home-based business.

Women Who Dare: Exploring the Entrepreneurial Adventure (1998)
[VHS 330.92 Wa]
Co-hosted by two young women, this 17-minute VHS presentation offes the basics of starting a business. Their stories of three unique role models open the doors to possibilities.

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Websites

Bplans.com
http://www.bplans.com/
A collection of free sample business plans. Helpful tools and advice on planning and managing your small business are also provided.

Kauffman eVenturing
http://www.eventuring.org/
Presented by the Kauffman Foundation, this resource offers information on starting and growing a business as well as links to organizations that support entrepreneurship.

Kauffman Foundation
http://kauffman.org
The Kauffman Foundation is working to further understand the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, to advance entrepreneurship education and training efforts, to promote entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and to better facilitate the commercialization of new technologies by entrepreneurs and others which have great promise for improving the economic welfare of our nation.

Michigan Economic Development Corporation
http://medc.michigan.org/
Offers information about doing business in Michigan. Information about starting and financing a new business venture as well as tips on licensing and taxation are also provided.

SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives)
http://www.score.org
The SCORE Association, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneurial education and the formation, growth and success of small businesses nationwide.

Small Business Administration
http://www.sba.gov
The Small Business Administration provides tools of the trade such as marketing research, entrepreneurial development, etc.

Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
http://sbecouncil.org
The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) influences legislation and public policy to enhance the environment for business start-up and growth.

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