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    The Entrepreneur's Legal Guide: Strategies for Starting, Managing, and Making Your Small Business Profitable
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    The Entrepreneur's Legal Guide: Strategies for Starting, Managing, and Making Your Small Business Profitable
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    The Entrepreneur's Legal Guide: Strategies for Starting, Managing, and Making Your Small Business Profitable

    By D M Boulay and Katherine Pohlman

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    About this ebook

    "If you are really serious about
    starting your own business...
    this book should be your bible..."
    -Larry Bakken, Professor of Law and Management, Hamline University

    It takes more than a good idea...

    The Entrepreneur's Legal Guide is designed to give you a major advantage over others who use the cookie-cutter approach to get started. It offers questions to ask about your unique situation and provides the guidance to devise your own answers.

    Inside you will find: Networking Tip boxes that identify situations when the help of others may be beneficial. Legal Alert boxes warn when compliance with regulations is necessary.

    It provides information to build a framework on which a new business can succeed. It guides you through the steps necessary to plan a new venture, get it financed, find the right location and price your goods to sell. It also takes you past start-up and prepares you for the future with instruction on hiring employees, protecting your assets and planning your time for maximum economic benefit.

    If you are starting your own business, The Entrepreneur's Legal Guide provides you with all the legal and practical information you need.

    Learn how to create a...
    - Plan of Organization
    - Marketing Plan
    - Budget

    Understand the importance of...
    - Time Management
    - Proper Record Keeping
    - Regulatory Issues

    Become better at...
    - Networking
    - Negotiating Contracts
    - Collecting Accounts

    This easy-to-use resource has the answers to all the questions you have about what equipment you will need, what tax forms you must file, where to get your financing, what regulations you need to follow...plus much, much more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateAug 1, 2003
    ISBN9781402233371
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    The Entrepreneur's Legal Guide: Strategies for Starting, Managing, and Making Your Small Business Profitable
    Author

    D M Boulay

    D-M Boulay received her undergraduate degree from Boston College, and both her Master's Degree in Nonprofit Management and her law degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. A veteran of the Vietnam War and past critical care nurse, she started her own law practice 25 years ago. Since then, she has helped many other entrepreneurs to start and manage their own businesses. Ms. Boulay is an arbitrator and mediator of business disputes. She is past president of the Minnesota Association of Mediators and the Hennepin County Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution. She is treasurer of the American Association of Nurse Attorney Foundation, a member of the Board of the National Youth Leadership Council, and a former trustee of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Minnesota. Ms. Boulay is a nurse attorney, small business owner, and coauthor of several Legal Survival Guides with Sphinx Publishing. She currently practices in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

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