Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership

Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership will provide the information, encouragement, and insight you need to go from dream to reality. As successful businessmen who have helped thousands of individuals begin small businesses, authors Jeff Levy and David Nilssen share their expertise in the following areas:
How to identify your strengths and use them in your new venture

How to identify a business opportunity

Overcoming your limitations, fears, and trepidations

The business fundamentals every entrepreneur should know in the areas of planning, market research, legal structure, financing, support team, and other matters

Woven throughout are bits of practical advice based on the authors' years of experience, as well as stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things through small business ownership. With this book as your guide, you can "Make the Jump" and begin creating your own success story.

Jeff Levy is an entrepreneur, coach, and mentor who helps individuals clarify their goals and values so they can properly evaluate self-employment career options. Through his coaching business, which he undertook after a successful career as a corporate executive, he has helped countless individuals begin their road to self-employment and has participated in more than 100 franchise start-ups.

David Nilssen is a serial entrepreneur and leading expert on small business and franchise finance. His company made Inc Magazine's list of the fastest growing companied in America from 2008-2010 and has helped more than 5,000 people in all fifty states fund a business. In 2007, the Small Business Administration named Nilssen the National Young Entrepreneur of the Year.