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For the millions who start a new business every year on the barest of resources, Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible is like hiring a high-level consultant to deal with the bewildering maze of issues from finance to marketing to technology that all entrepreneurs face.
Every business is nothing but a series of decisions which can make or break the business. You could say that, if there's a science of business, it's the science of making good decisions. And every bootstrap entrepreneur faces the daunting task of making ALL the business decisions, any one of which could either doom the enterprise or catapult it to stratospheric success. That meas that every entrepreneur has to quickly get up to speed on every issue their business faces.
Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible is the most exhaustive set of practical resources collected to empower entrepreneurs to make the right decisions on a limited budget, from business concept to product development to Web marketing. We call a "consultant in a book," there to give considered and experienced answers to the infinite questions that come up.
Shoestring Venture-The Start-up Bible
All entrepreneurs - even the smallest operating on the tightest of budgets - have the opportunity to build powerful start-up organizations without ever really having to walk out the front door. Using global communications and data networks, even bootstrap entrepreneurs can staff an entire organization with every human resource and skill they need at rock-bottom prices.
It's the magic of outsourcing. For, you see, globalization ain't just for the big kids. We often hear about how globalization exports jobs overseas, but we rarely hear about the opportunities globalization creates for even the smallest of businesses, opportunities that allow even tiny businesses to compete with the majors on a global scale. In short, anyone can run a virtual organization using only a desktop or laptop computer.
Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible gives bootstrap entrepreneurs all the resources they need to build truly effective startups using the magic of outsourcing and offshoring.
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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Everything you need to know to start a business May 09, 2010
By Steven Chambers
Well, maybe not everything, but the Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible puts a lot of information you want and need right at your fingertips. If you've never started or run a business before the whole process can seem daunting, even overwhelming. I've known people who have always wanted to start a business but they never do, the whole process seems so complicated. What they want is someone who can show them the ropes and guide them through the business building process well, now they have this book.
My copy of the book is dogeared, or would be if I didn't have an electronic copy, because I have used it extensively to rethink and remodel how I run my existing business. I want my business to have a small footprint, be profitable and efficient, these are the goals of the book as well. The author advocates focusing on your core competency - what you do best, and outsourcing those things best done by others. He also shows you how to do it and tells you where to look and gives an idea of how much it will cost.
The book covers everything involved in starting a business, soup-to-nuts and provides you with the resources to find whatever it is you need. Best of all, because the books focus in on small, home-based businesses with little start-up capital, this is a book everyone can use.
At first I thought this would be a boring read. I mean, show really likes reading about accounting, legal structures and business plans (okay, some people do), but it's not. The author's writing style made even subjects like accounting fun to read and easy to understand.
The author points out that this is the century for small business and I agree with him. The old model of working for a large corporate entity that takes care of our economic security and needs is broken and is not coming back. Everyone needs to start their own business, even if only on a part time basis, because taking control and responsibility for our own financial security gives us both freedom and security. Here are the resources to do just that.
Highly recommended for anyone looking to start a business or who is in business already and who wants to be more productive and profitable.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 KINDLE version needs some help Apr 08, 2011
By Andrew Boehm
Let me just say, that first and formost, this book is great book. It has tons of information and shares lots of great resources.
However, the Kindle version just isn't cutting it. In the introduction, it suggests that you use the book as a reference, going to any chapter as you need it in your business creation. The problem is that there is no functional Table of Contents or Index, making it very difficult to find the information at a moments notice. If those were added, I would be much happier with this book.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 A Must-Have Resource Dec 22, 2008
By Darlene Jan Alice Oakley
"DOakley"
The Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible is well developed, well thought out, well organized. It provides a wealth of information for those looking start their own small, medium, or large business venture.
Hooker and Monas provide websites appropriate for learning about incorporation, choosing a domain name, marketing strategies, finances, taxes and anything else anyone ever wanted to know about starting their own business.
This is an invaluable resource that has opened my eyes to all the resources available. Hooker and Monas have also established a website where all the links they mention in the book are listed and accessible by a click of the mouse, without having to retype all the links in a browser to find the information wanted. What a great idea!
This is certainly one resource I am glad to have on my bookshelf.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
A Must Have for any Internet Business Owner Dec 09, 2008
By Elizabeth Pepper
"Beth Pepper"
This is a must have book for those who want to create an internet business. There is a steep learning curve and this book provides the steps to climb that curve. It is highly recommended for novices and experts alike as a handy reference book for doing business on the internet.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
All in one Dec 17, 2008
By Ranojoy Ghosal
If I got a chance to choose a name for this book, I would have called it "The Cheat Sheet of business". It has everything a person needs to start a small business, or needs a handy reference to do things the right way in his business.
It is very well structured and you can readily jump chapters, to get the information that you are specifically looking for.
This is not a "Who wants to be a millionaire" or a "Get Rich Quick" kind of a propaganda type of book, which we so often come across, but is actual a handy book for all those entrepreneurs looking for all the resources and technicalities of a successful business.
This book deals with serious topics in a lucid fashion. It has everything from naming a business to outsourcing and data mining and HR policy. As I read the book, I was amazed at the amount of research which went behind this book, it has the links of all the resources that you will ever need, and all the urls are consolidated under one easy clickable link.
I do freelancing myself, and being computer savvy I did not have to spend much time of the chapters dealing with hardware/software or even the back office stuff, but if the latest computer terms bother you, you should definitely read this book, and get in sync with the rest of the world in what's going on. It might be a steep learning curve for a non internet or non computer savvy business man to digest the chapters, but you will be thankful that you did, and help your business by using the resources mentioned.
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