Adams Streetwise Small Business Start-Up: Your Comprehensive Guide to Starting and Managing a Business (Adams Streetwise Series)

Year 1996
Pages 407

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Summary

Adams Streetwise Small Business Start-Up offers a comprehensive, hands-on guide to starting and managing a small business, covering planning, operations, financing, and growth strategies in a single volume.

Why this book now

Business founders and small-business managers will find enduring, actionable basics from Bob Adams useful for grounding newer tools and trends in proven fundamentals.

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A practical, no-nonsense manual from Bob Adams for launching and running a small business, packed with step-by-step guidance.

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  • You want a single, practical reference covering planning through operations.
  • You prefer step-by-step business how-to and checklists.

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  • You need the latest digital marketing or technology-specific tactics.
  • You want a short primer or quick-read summary.
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Reading commitment

Balanced Moderate time

At 407 pages, expect a detailed, workbook-style read that requires time to work through planning exercises and implement recommendations.

What stands out here

This Adams Media Corp edition compiles Bob Adams’s extensive small-business guidance into one thorough reference within the Adams Streetwise Series.

Best way to approach it

Read chapter-by-chapter and pause to complete the book’s planning exercises and checklists; use it as a reference during real-world business setup and management.

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