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Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business

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Starting and Managing a Business
Created by the Small Business Administration (SBA), advice is given on the aspects of starting a business: such as finding a mentor or counselor; writing a business plan; establishing a business; preparing Your finances; loans, grants & funding; business law & regulations; marketing a new business; and licenses & permits.

Business Plans

Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder; Yves Pigneur
ISBN: 9780470901038
Publication Date: 2010-07-23
Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet
ISBN: 9781119365792
Publication Date: 2017-04-03

Bplans Free Sample Business Plans,
Business plans handbook : a compilation of actual business plans
At Library of Congress, Adams Building

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Subjects:Accounting & Tax, Business Articles, Companies, Data, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Real Estate

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