Making the Jump Into Small Business Ownership

Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership provides 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:

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 start creating your own success story.

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 companies in America from 2008 to 2010 and has helped more than five thousand people in all fifty states fund a business. In 2007 the Small Business Administration named Nilssen the National Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

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 one hundred franchise start-ups.