The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business: Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur

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Geared toward the unique challenges faced by self-employed businesswomen, The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business offers solutions and advice for handling a range of issues, including how to write a business plan, how to secure funding, and how to hire (and fire) employees. Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio share practical information drawn from their own extensive experience in the public relations, marketing, and consulting industries. Their concise and engaging advice is explained through entertaining tips, lists, and quizzes that speak directly to women who are dreaming of starting, or have already started, their own businesses.

What Customers Say About The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business: Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur:

You may need to read it multiple times to get all the information soaked into your brain. This gives a pretty good overview of what it is like to start your own business, makes it understandable, and has real life stories and interviews. I felt like a learned a lot from this book.

It helped me start my event planning & design business. This book is great for those ladies looking to start their own business.

It's also a fun and easy read full of inpiring stories. "A Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business" is an excellent book for women considering the exciting but intimidating task of starting a business. It is full of practical, nitty-gritty advice and information on how to launch and maintain a business (for example: researching before you start, writing a business plan, obtaining funding if needed, branding your company, hiring and firing employees.).

The case studies are good because it let's you know other women who are successfull went through the same thing you are as you start this journey. It is a good place to start for women who are considering going into business for themselves. Plus it is very easy to read a big plus. I bought this book almost a year ago and loved it. I was considering and I am now going into business for myself and found this book useful.

It is very much based on being a start up in the USA. However the little stories the authors told about their own mistakes and battles humanised them and made me feel like I could relate to them. If you have already started your business, or bought a pre-existing business, I do not recommend this book. I enjoyed this book for the most part and found it really easy to read. As someone in Australia, a lot of the tax and small business information is not relevant which was annoying, but not unexpected.I also felt the book ended a little abruptly - I would have appreciated a final word encouraging word from the authors, even if it was brief and less than a page long. I also appreciated the why the authors were happy to point out mistakes they had made in the course of starting their business. I especially enjoyed the interviews with people already in business and the inspirational stories they told about their early years in business. The cover of the book made it look like these were the ultimate career women, power suits, cocktails and basically Sex and the City starts a business.