The Complete Startup Guide for the Black Entrepreneur

This book review and me is mentioned in Untapped Wealth Discovered -Best Home Business Coach Untapped WealthI would recommend this book to anyone wanted to learn more about starting and or growing a home based business - small business. Technology provides small, one-person operations with many of the capabilities of Fortune 500 companies.He shares when it comes to selling your products and services, the only color that should truly matter is green. This book is designed to hold your hand and lead you step by step through the process of gathering the information, and understanding needed to organize and manage a successful home-based business. No two businesses are the same. This book is a guide. He shares focus on your strengths. Don't try to be all things to all people.Word of caution: A venture capitalist, is an opportunist. Be careful releasing your business plans to just anyone, regardless of his or her supposed integrity. He's seen good ideas stolen from naive, cash-starved entrepreneurs by those possessing a lack and the wherewithal to capitalize upon them.As technology has grown, some businesses such as Internet Wholesalers, have the potential to become international businesses without ever investing a nickel in a brick-and-mortar storefront.The author's advice is to get informed, get organized, and, as Martin Lawrence would say, "Gits to steppin'!" (or going back a little further, back in the day, as Arsenio Hall used to say, "Let's get busy!") He does share that there are pros and cons of operating a Business at Home - it requires a greater degree of sacrifice.Bill Boudreaux, has worked with small minority businesses for more than twenty years. He was one of the youngest African-American CPA's in the United States at the time of his certification. At twenty-five, he became the treasurer of an international marine transportation firm with offices in the United States, Germany and Brazil. He has a B.S. in accounting and a Masters of Business Administration and is a Certified Public Accoutant in the State of Louisiana. He and his wife work with juvenile offenders and other at-risk students. dr seuss cat in hat book