Book Description
Investors in Your Backyard is a one-of-a-kind book that helps you raise the money you need from the people you trust. Your business is your future, whether you're starting up or expanding your operation. But everything depends on financing, and most lending institutions won't lend money to small, unproven ventures. The solution? Do what over 50 percent of U.S. businesses do -- obtain private loans from friends, family and private "angel" investors who want to get behind a great idea. With Investors in Your Backyard, you'll get the information, forms and calculators you need to get the job done.
Find complete, step-by-step instructions on how to request and secure business capital. Then it's on to the next step -- drawing up the paperwork to formalize loans or investments.
The included CD-ROM provides financial calculators and templates of documents you'll need, including: -promissory notes -stock purchase agreements -loan request letters -and investment letters of intent.
Investors in Your Backyard has been commended as one of the best books on small business financing by Harvard Business School, Babson College, Entrepreneur.com, and SCORE.
Customer Reviews:
Strategies, insights, tools and secrets to obtaining financing without threatening personal relationships.......2006-07-24
INVESTORS IN YOUR BACKYARD: HOW TO RAISE BUSINESS CAPITAL FROM THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW goes beyond most investment or small business guides to tell how to tap into resources of those you know - with respect for all parties and the business under construction. Very few books focus on this aspect of capital and fundraising: INVESTORS IN YOUR BACKYARD offers strategies, insights, tools and secrets to obtaining financing without threatening personal relationships. From preparing a business to attract private financing to developing a loan proposal and documenting agreements and money exchanges, financial calculators and advice provides many options and insights to widen the pool of options and address common issues.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
A wealth of knowledge & easy to read.......2006-05-05
I am so thankful to have found this book. The way the author distills down information that I would have otherwise had absolutely no knowledge about is helpful beyond words. It's also nice to pick up a 450 page resource and not be afraid to dive in and use it. Having little icons and images to guide you through the book was also helpful.
It is so packed full of information you might clall it an investors bible. And if seeing all the forms first hand wasn't enough, it also comes with a cd rom with everything you need to make money work for you.
I don't get motivated to write reviews very easily, but this book is definitely, as the proverb goes, worth its weight in gold!
Invaluable Resource.......2006-04-09
This book is an invaluable resource for entrepreneurs dealing with the age old challenge of raising capital to form or grow a business enterprise. It is very clearly written and is filled with useful, practical and pertinent information and suggestions. The author does an excellent job of framing the issues and exhaustively reviewing the alternatives available to entrepreneurs. I would certainly recommend this book to those considering launching a business - it is sure to open their eyes to ideas and opportunities they had not envisioned.
Book Description
The Third Edition of this highly respected and widely cited text takes an applied, problem-solving approach that recognizes the creative potential of the individual. It serves as a handbook on a variety of small-group communication activities, including conducting meetings (using the standard agenda) and handling conflict. The current edition includes a chapter on the history of reflective thinking. Updated information on group roles and tasks, gender and intercultural issues, personality theory, group presentations, and current technology has been added. The authors provide readers with a full range of knowledge to engage in effective group discussion, thus increasing their competence as participants and leaders in all types of groups.
Customer Reviews:
"Group Discussion" Works!.......2006-04-27
I was introduced to this book in a a Group Communication class. It really provides a lot of useful information in an easy-to-read format. The chapters are short and to-the-point, and the information within is well-organized and realistic.
Some of the best information I found was:
-Common group symptoms, ailments, and their cures
-Defined member roles and their significance and relation to one another
-The Standard Agenda process as a guideline for effective meetings and completion of tasks.
I definitely recommend this book!
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- Poor research, shoddily written
- Big picture? Little picture? What's this book about?
- Journalism not quite at its worst
- Too much and too little
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Making the World Safe for Tourism
Patricia Goldstone
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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ASIN: 0300087632 |
Book Description
Over the past hundred years, tourism has evolved into the world's biggest business, and few countries today question the common wisdom that the road to economic development is paved with tourist dollars. Yet questions should be raised, Patricia Goldstone argues in this pathbreaking book on the social and political impacts of tourism. She examines for the first time the close connections between business and politics as government and industry leaders work together to reengineer political trouble spots into tourist destinations in places like Ireland, Turkey, and Cuba. She also probes the impact of tourism on diverse cultures.
In a keenly perceptive account of the history of tourism in the twentieth century, the book tells how and why tourism aligned itself with political power, how it became embedded within such nontourist institutions as the World Bank, and how since World War II it has become an instrument of international development policy. In detailed case studies that are also compelling travel narratives, Goldstone documents the effects of tourism on local people, including its tendency to lead governments toward greater social repression. She offers fascinating insights into the ironies of modern tourism—how, for example, it can insulate tourists from the very things they seek to encounter, and how, despite its preservational efforts, tourism can affect a culture in complex, sometimes troubling, ways.
Customer Reviews:
Poor research, shoddily written.......2007-08-03
Not sure how this book ever came into print. Scholarship is on par with high school level, and the writing less than interesting. Her grasp of the world is such that I suspect Goldstone has seen the world mostly through the lobbies of great hotels.
Big picture? Little picture? What's this book about?.......2007-01-03
This book is quirky (a word?). Despite sometimes interesting facts (or are they "facts?" I am not sure I can trust her, and she gives no sources). The author demonstrates no modesty in her presumed range of expertise applied to an immense range of topics and events.
I agree with most of what was said by the other two Amazon reviewers, and cannot recommend this book - except perhaps to conspiracy lovers who don't require thorough, well organized presentations.
Journalism not quite at its worst.......2004-01-12
This is a book that tries to be serious, but misses the mark. Why a professor at Smith College would have it on his reading list might seem to be some sort of endorsement, but surely not.
The book is full of errors, and badly edited. Everything from (obviously) a false ratio of men to women in Cuba, a reference to Central America as a country (!) to Herodotus's descriptions of Alexander the Great's incursions into Persia a hundred years before Alexander was even born. And where does she get a Cuban economy of $2.5 billion in 1999, when it was somewhere around ten times that amount.
It's written in the sort of style one might encounter in a regional newspaper's week-end edition, hardly the stuff of serious study and research. Continuity is a little slipshod as one reads from page to page
And there is no index.
A fistful of errors means that one cannot trust the book.
Not recommended.
Too much and too little.......2002-10-21
Goldstone's book has many good moments and points, and is at its best when describing what she has personally experienced while on the road. When she goes "off-road," however, problems begin: undocumented - most likely fake quotes - attributed to Fidel Castro, nonsensical statistics like a 7:1 ratio of men to women in Cuba (!) and a tendency to overcram the narrative with irrelevant diversions. The story of the Ludlow, Colorado, massacre is gripping in itself, but not necessary to tell a story of tourism in the modern world. In all, the book reads like a college undergrad term paper with miles of padding. Still it has its merits and does the basic job it set out to do, to trace the connection between international finance and tourist hot spots.
Book Description
Teach Yourself Presenting for Professionals was designed to enhance the presentation skills of business professionals. It arms readers with an arsenal of proven techniques guaranteed to help make their next presentation interesting, persuasive, and enjoyable. From planning to preparation to delivery, it covers all the bases with step-by-step guidance on everything from researching and writing a presentation, voice control, posture, and dress, visual aids and computer-aided presentation technologies, the use of humor, and more.
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Vacation Work Overseas Summer Jobs 2000 (Summer Jobs Abroad)
Manufacturer: Vacation-Work
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Binding: Paperback
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Building Wealth through Spiritual Health
Danny Freeman
Manufacturer: Darda Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0974497401 |
Book Description
Spiritual Questions You Want Answers To:
• Does God want us to be rich?
• Is tithing a principle or law?
• Can you "name and claim" anything you want in Jesus' name?
• Is poverty a blessing or a curse?
Finally! An honest discussion on what God really says about money. Building Wealth Through Spiritual Health helps you cut through the confusion, misconceptions, and false teachings that surround God's Word and money. Inside, you'll find solid information on personal finance topics that affect your every day life.
Whether you have $1 or $1 million, this book will give you the foundation you need to start managing your finances the right way. You will learn:
• The best ways to save for retirement
• New ways to save for college expenses
• Smart ways to reduce your debt
• The real deal on buying real estate
Customer Reviews:
Obey and Be Blessed.......2005-08-26
BUILDING WEALTH THROUGH SPIRITUAL HEALTH is a journey through spiritual guidance and counsel to explain the importance of placing your faith and money in God. This candid snapshot of reality is laden with bible verses, stressing the values of reading and understanding the principles associated with tithing and money management.
Backed by biblical principles, this book speaks honestly and forthright on what God really says about money and getting your financial house in order. Broken down from the beginning, everything is outlined, with specialized topics such as Spiritual Disobedience and the Results, to the prosperity you encounter when you are in line with the Word and being obedient to it. Providing insight on real life topics such as Investing, Debt Management, Retirement and Real Estate, these guidance modules are demonstrated and backed up with scripture.
Danny Freeman does an excellent job in breaking down a lot of questions that have gone through the minds of not just Christians, but everyone wanting to understand the principle of how God wants to bless you financially. I've never encountered a book that gives these principles to you plain and simple. It definitely helps clear up some misconceptions and false teachings that we all have encountered at some point in our lives, and I encourage everyone to read it while having their personal bible at hand. I highly recommend this book to anyone; the Word does not disappoint.
Reviewed by Belinda
of The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers
Book Description
In the latest installment of her “Painted House” series, Debbie Travis shows parents how to combine fun function, and flexibility to create rooms their children will love. On her acclaimed television show and in her popular books, Travis offers thrifty, style-conscious home-decorators great ideas for achieving maximum impact at minimum cost. In her newest book, Travis’ imagination soars as she takes on the joys and challenges of designing bedrooms, playrooms, and study spaces for kids of all ages. Travis advises parents to get the creative juices flowing by listening to their kids and explains how to incorporate their suggestions in living spaces that are comfortable, safe, and appropriate for a child’s changing needs and interests. In step-by-step, fully illustrated projects that parents and children can work on together, she presents wonderful ways to use paint, fabric, paper, and other inexpensive materials to fashion everything from a little girl’s room adorned with angels and rainbows to a boy’s playroom topped with a camouflage ceiling.
Customer Reviews:
Not so inspiring.......2005-07-13
This book had some cute project ideas, but not many that truly inspired me. Many of the projects just didn't tie together into themed rooms. To me, the rooms were not that creative nor ones that I would want to use. This book really wasn't what I was looking for for children's room ideas. If you are just looking to make a few projects (i.e. decorated lamp, storage box, or bulletin board) this book may be what you are looking for. However, if you want to totally redo your child's room another book may provide more inspiration.
The BEST decorating book for kids' rooms.......2003-06-13
I've looked through several different books for decorating kids' rooms and if I could only keep one this would be it. This book shows you how to create a beautiful room for your children by just using paint...painting the walls, ceiling furniture, floor, rug, headboard, shelves, decorating accessories or whatever. I am not an artist or interior decorator but I felt like I could do every project described. Most decorating books just show you a finished room and a few comments about different unique characteristics of the room. This book gives detailed instructions for how to create the entire theme yourself. Some of the themes described are castle, safari adventure, carribbean, fairy tale, circus and many more. If you want to transform your child's room into a creative haven all on your own then you MUST have this book.
Book Description
This book provides a guide for parents and students to collaborate in preparing for academic excellence. In the 21st Century our youth need more than ever to optimize their potential, strive for excellence and lead an ethical, balanced life. The book’s theme is preparation for life and the focus is on gaining admission to highly selective colleges like MIT. Presented is a long- term strategic plan for victory in the competitive game of selective college admission. Most importantly, it is written from a parent''s perspective and written with details of steps to take from preschool through high school. Part One addresses the need for a value system, the importance of goals, and the development of good study habits. Part Two focuses on improving academic skills, and gaining competence in sports and extracurricular activities. Interwoven in the book are the author''s son experiences and how they led to his acceptance at MIT and 12 other universities. Part Three discusses key strategies for the college application process in profuse detail. The author was formally chairperson for the Board of Trustees of the American International School in Riyadh. The book is hoped to aid society in preparing our youth for the new millennium.
Customer Reviews:
This book is NOT for most people.............2007-09-11
I ordered and returned this. My son is a high school senior and looking to get into MIT or another selective school. There is nothing in this book to help him do that. So if your child is past elementary school, there is nothing in this book that is unique. If your child is very young, and you are affluent parents, then the book might be of help to you.
Tearing away the veil of selective college admission.......2001-06-24
"Your book is an insightful and relevant expose of what parents and kids should look for when weighing the possibilities of attending an Ivy League school. I have no doubt that this book will be a helpful aid for those who might not have believed such an educational opportunity existed for their child. It can also serve as an impetus in motivating parents to begin the process early in their child's educational career. You have done an apt job in tearing away the veil which has obscured admittance to many of our nation's best schools. I can only hope your book will have a wide readership among mainstream America."
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This digital document is an article from E, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 801 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Michael Braungart: designing "eco-effective" solutions.("Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things")(Interview)
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Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Page: 29(1)
Article Type: Interview
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