Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership

The economic meltdown of 2008 was a wake-up call for anyone who assumes that a career in corporate America is secure. The painful lesson learned by a significant portion of America’s workforce was this: If you work for someone else, you have little control over your employment status and are investing in
that person’s dream, not your own.

In 2010, the unemployment rate of America’s workers rose about 10 percent. We wrote this book in response to a deep need we saw for people to discover the b...