The Wall Street Journal. Complete Small Business Guidebook

Gurbaksh Chahal

The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions

One of America's most successful young internet entrepreneurs tells his unique and inspiring story, and reveals the risks and rewards behind the sky's-the-limit possibilities of internet entrepreneurship.Gurbaksh Chahal started the Internet advertising company ClickAgents from his bedroom at the age of 16, having emigrated to the United States with his Sikh family from the small town of Tarn Taran, India. He dropped out of high school to pursue the venture full-time, and two years later sold ClickAgents for $40 million, making him one of the youngest self-made millionaires in history and allowing him and his entire family to realize their dreams. Chahal went on to become the youngest executive of a multi-billion dollar NASDAQ-listed company, and then sold his second company, BlueLithium, to Yahoo for $300 million, turning many of his employees into multi-millionaires as well. In The Dream, Chahal's refreshing advice for entrepreneurs encourages them to embrace risk and to carve out new niches in the marketplace. He emphasizes the value of good business timing: how to execute an idea and get it to the marketplace, how to create and maintain solid business relationships, how to stay ...

Lynn E. Miner, Jeremy T. Miner

Proposal Planning & Writing

Gives grantseekers practical advice and numerous examples to assist them in planning and writing proposals, with special attention to the availability of information on the Internet.

Steven Rogers

Entrepreneurial Finance: Finance and Business Strategies for the Serious Entrepreneur

@lt;p@gt;@lt;b@gt;Proven methods for starting a business today . . . and turning profits well into the future@lt;/b@gt;@lt;/p@gt;@lt;p@gt;Like all entrepreneurs, you love the rush of launching a new business and the challenge of growing it bigger and bigger. But, to be successful at it, you must diligently mind the down-and-dirty finance and business details that threaten to derail your plans.@lt;/p@gt;@lt;p@gt;@lt;i@gt;Entrepreneurial Finance@lt;/i@gt; is a complete, one-stop resource for the latest strategies and techniques for minding the books of any type of business. Written by Steven Rogers, the successful founder of numerous businesses and one of the country's leading professors of entrepreneurship, this definitive guidebook shows you how to financially set up and manage a business. You'll learn everything from writing a growth business plan and compiling and understanding financial statements to making a company profitable, valuing a company, and raising additional venture capital.@lt;/p@gt;@lt;p@gt;Logically formatted for easy reference, @lt;i@gt;Entrepreneurial Finance@lt;/i@gt; covers: @lt;ul@gt;@lt;li@gt;Business plans--What they are, what they can do, how to prepare ...