GOT A BUSINESS IDEA??

Being a Successful Business Manager-Entrepreneur - It Ain't Easy!

A Guide for Preliminary Decision Making for People Considering Starting a New Business or Making a Major Change in an Existing Business

When a community embarks on an economic development program through business Creation, Attraction, Retention, and Expansion (CARE), the community's citizens must evaluate their community and plan, initiate and carry out needed community changes to help the program succeed. Success can be further facilitated if assistance can be made available to manager-entrepreneurs who are considering starting a new businesses in the community (creation), moving their business operations from another community or opening a local operation to complement operations elsewhere (attraction), or strengthening and expanding existing businesses (retention and expansion). Such manager-entrepreneurs may need help evaluating the feasibilities of their ideas. It is important to both communities and entrepreneur-managers that feasibility analyses be as realistic as possible. Failed businesses do not benefit communities, and they certainly do not benefit their owners and employees. The objective of this guidebook is to help interested individuals evaluate whether it is worth it to them to embark on the never ending course toward development of the skills and capabilities needed by successful manager-entrepreneurs, and utilization of these skills and capabilities in a business or businesses. As indicated in the title to this guidebook, "It ain't easy!" In addition, it's not for everybody. If, after you have worked through this guidebook, you feel the need and desire (passion?) to focus substantial effort toward developing your skills and capabilities as a manager-entrepreneur, you will be directed to other resources, of which there are many.