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BoomerPreneurs: How Baby Boomers Can Start Their Own Business, Make Money and Enjoy Life

Description

BoomerPreneurs: How Baby Boomers Can Start Their Own Business, Make Money and Enjoy Life is both a book you will enjoy reading as well as your roadmap to a future as an entrepreneur. BoomerPreneurs guides you through the business start-up process and the challenges of starting a business at 50 or 60+ years of age rather than 25 or 35. It is a guide for Baby Boomers who are looking for life on their own terms after years in corporate America or for a way to make money and enjoy their retirement years--retirees, soon-to-be retirees, downsized workers, the unretired and those who always dreamed of owning their own business. In BoomerPreneurs you follow this 4-step process to business start-up: Step 1 What Should Baby Boomers Consider Before Starting a Business? Step 2 Recognize the Opportunity That's Right for You and the Marketplace Step 3 Refine Your Idea and Do Your Research Step 4 Determine Business Viability and Get Started. Along the way you'll receive tips from successful entrepreneurs, read the motivational stories of numerous entrepreneurs who started businesses at 50 plus years of age and work your way through checklists and action steps to develop your own success plan. BoomerPreneurs offers you the lessons you'd learn from a business start-up coach in a handy text format you can read, take notes in, and refer to repeatedly.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-29
Summary: "A solid, step-by-step how-to for starting your own business"

Folks of any age who are considering starting a business will find the tools in Izard's BoomerPreneurs entrepreneurial toolbox time-saving, energy-saving, and all-around useful.
Sprinkled through the book are vignettes telling the stories of successful entrepreneurs, both local and national. In these first-hand accounts and interviews, entrepreneurs give advice about what worked well in their start-up, and--refreshingly--what they would do different if they had it to do again.
A varied format and lots of practical resources keeps BoomerPreneurs from reading like a textbook or a business theory tome. In addition to the entrepreneur vignettes, Izard provides plenty of tips and inspirational quotes, concrete action steps, and resource listings. Tangible tools like customer surveys used for testing potential business concepts, cash-flow charts, and sample business plans will delight anyone who appreciates a methodical approach to the nuts and bolts of entrepreneurship. --435 South Magazine

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-11
Summary: "Includes a wealth of anecdotes and testimonials from individual entrepreneurs"

BoomerPreneurs: How Baby Boomers Can Start Their Own Business, Make Money and Enjoy Life is a guide to starting one's own business that specifically addresses the issues of the age 50+ baby boomers. Chapters cover how to evaluate the viability of one's business idea, how to research and write a business plan, reducing financial risks, the value of catching the wave of trends, securing one's first customers and much more. "Fledgling entrepreneurs often underestimate the difficulty of accessing firmly established, mature distributions systems. One question to ask others as you plan your business is how receptive members of your industry's distribution system are to new providers?" BoomerPreneurs includes a wealth of anecdotes and testimonials from individual entrepreneurs, and is a welcome general reference for anyone interested in starting their own business, regardless of age.