1. Who Are Entrepreneurs and Why Do You Want to Be One?
1.1 Entrepreneurs Are Business Owners and/or Problem- Solvers
1.2 Five Qualities/Attributes Every Entrepreneur Must Have
1.3 Are You Ready to Jump on the Entrepreneurship Bandwagon?
1.4 Entrepreneurship Checklist to Consider
1.5 Why Some Entrepreneurs Succeed and Others Don’t
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2. What is Your Big Business Idea?
2.1 Necessity Brings About Innovations
2.2 What are Great Business Opportunities and How to
Easily Identify Them?
2.3 What are Your Idea’s Competitive Advantages?
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3. Starting Your Own Company
3.1 Company Types and Their Corresponding Legality
3.2 Choosing the Best Company Type
3.3 Company Registration and Other Necessary Documentation
3.4 Welcome to Entrepreneurship: It’s Time to Run Your Company
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4. Your Products or Services or Both
4.1 What Products/Services Will You be Offering to the World?
4.2 Will Your Products/Services Solve Some Problems Faced
by Consumers?
4.3 Product/Service Pricing
4.4 Product/Service Quality
4.5 Product/Service Positioning in the Marketplace
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5. What It Takes to Successfully Manage a Company
5.1 Business Planning
5.2 Eliminating Self-Limiting Beliefs
5.3 Failure-Is-Not-An-Option Mentality
5.4 Understanding the Place of Luck in Entrepreneurial Success
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6. Markets and Customers
6.1 Market Segmentation
6.2 What Do Your Customers Want and How Best to Target Them?
6.3 Meeting Customers’ Expectations and Winning Their Loyalty
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7. Handling Your Competitors
7.1 Which Industry Best Fits Your Company?
7.2 Paying Serious Attention to Your Direct and Indirect Competitors
7.3 Undertaking Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
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8. Your Business Model
8.1 What Is a Business Model and How Can You Develop It?
8.2 Strategic Business Operations
8.3 Top-Notch Marketing Activities
8.4 Financial Accountability and Other Related Issues
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9. Growing Your Company With Innovations
9.1 The Merits of Corporate/Company Culture
9.2 Team Building
9.3 How Innovations Make Businesses Thrive
9.4 Change Planning and Management
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10. Your Value Proposition
10.1 The Power of Value Proposition
10.2 How Your Products/Services Can Become Household Names
10.3 Thinking Like a Consumer
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11. How Sustainable Is Your Company?
11.1 Understanding the Concept of Corporate Sustainability
11.2 Entrepreneurs Aren’t Machines
11.3 Ethics, Standards, and Regulations (Obey all the Laws of the Land)
11.4 Business Bootstrapping
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12. Exit Strategy
12.1 Passing the Business to a Successor
12.2 Ownership Transfer Through Management or Employee Buyout
12.3 Selling the Business to a Third Party
12.4 Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)
12.5 Initial Public Offering (IPO)
12.6 Liquidation and Closure
12.7 File for bankruptcy
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