Friday, September 22, 2006

Title: The Girl's Guide to Starting your Own Business
Pages: 64-125 (Total: 125)

There are many steps into getting the right business for you. Before, you can actually jump to any business of your own; there is "the scary stuff": legalities, licenses, permits, financials, fundings, and contemplation of name and product to think about.

Even though I enjoy the competition that comes with business, reading about all the risks and investment-taking is starting to scare me. First of all, I do not have an official genuine product of my own to sell nor the money to start off with, or have decided on what type of legal structure I am for. I know I sound like I am panicking, but this is why I am reading this book, to help me see ahead of what I will be getting into before I actually dive in. One of the things I learned from reading this book is that risk taking is something that you have to get used to since business is like a gamble everyday, not knowing whether your customers want more or less of your product in which case, risking money. There are many steps you have to take to reach where you want to be, and nothing comes easy.
Title: The Girl's Guide to Starting your own Business
Pages: 1-63 (Total: 63)

This "how to" book, in the first 63 pages, warms the reader up to confirm if you are really interested in business with information on what business is right for you. Questions about personal work style is interrogated in order to determine if you are compatible as an entrepreneur.

I do some day would like to open a business of my own. I have always been a "seller" in my heart. I was never an official girl scout who sold cookies and sorts, but when I signed up for my first real fundraising bag of goods, this competitve side of me came out. I would feel this urge to become the best, the one who sold the most of her products, the one to succeed and become number one. I saw this business as a power giver. The money, the emulation, the satisfaction of victory is all everything you could want in a task. As, years passed on, feelings of wanting to become a business person grew in my mind and have led me to further my education on business through earning a business degreee.