A step-by-step roadmap
to starting a business.
No experience needed.
Learn the essentials, avoid common mistakes, and build a plan you can trust.
A step-by-step roadmap
to starting a business.
No experience needed.
Learn the essentials, avoid common mistakes, and build a plan you can trust.
A step-by-step roadmap to starting a business.
No experience needed.
Learn the essentials, avoid common mistakes, and build a plan you can trust.
- Learn what kinds of businesses you can start
- How to plan your first business
- The basic business skills you need
- How to make money and be successful long term
Turn your idea into a real business.
- Learn what kinds of businesses you can start
- How to plan your first business
- The basic business skills you need
- How to make money and be successful long term
real business.
- Learn what kinds of businesses you can start
- How to plan your first business
- The basic business skills you need
- How to make money and be successful long term
EDUCATOR GUIDE
Teaching support for introducing entrepreneurship to students.
PURPOSE
PROGRAM
COMPONENTS
- Walk students through the process of planning a single-owner entrepreneurial business.
- Provide a better understanding of small business in order to make them better employees.
- Interact in both digital and non-digital environments and encourage communication and participation.
- Encourage expressing ideas in a non-judgmental environment.
- Encourage creativity and curiosity by requiring real-world research about their own ideas.
Each student comes up with an idea for their own business. The idea does not have to be realistic from a monetary point, but should be something that might interest them, such as a hobby or sport or talent or skill. Or it could be a business selling a product or offering a service.
Students work independently and in group settings to build their individual business plans. When students choose the same product or service, they will still create individual plans. They can learn from each other’s opinions and see how very different businesses can grow out of the same initial idea.
Textbook. Short, easy-to-read chapters. It focuses on examples and asks questions of the reader.
Workbook. Each chapter is divided into four sections:
1. Definitions – Learn definitions of words commonly used in business.
2. Research – Take concepts from the textbook and apply them to your business plan.
3. Group – Intended for you to share ideas and get and give feedback from your peers.
4. Business Plan – At the end of chapters, information is compiled from research and group feedback and summarized into concise information. This section becomes part of the final business plan.
EDUCATOR GUIDE
Teaching support for introducing entrepreneurship to students.
PURPOSE
- Walk students through the process of planning a single-owner entrepreneurial business.
- Provide a better understanding of small business in order to make them better employees.
- Interact in both digital and non-digital environments and encourage communication and participation.
- Encourage expressing ideas in a non-judgmental environment.
- Encourage creativity and curiosity by requiring real-world research about their own ideas.
PROGRAM
Each student comes up with an idea for their own business. The idea does not have to be realistic from a monetary point, but should be something that might interest them, such as a hobby or sport or talent or skill. Or it could be a business selling a product or offering a service.
Students work independently and in group settings to build their individual business plans. When students choose the same product or service, they will still create individual plans. They can learn from each other’s opinions and see how very different businesses can grow out of the same initial idea.
COMPONENTS
Textbook. Short, easy-to-read chapters. It focuses on examples and asks questions of the reader.
Workbook. Each chapter is divided into four sections:
- Definitions – Learn definitions of words commonly used in business.
- Research – Take concepts from the textbook and apply them to your business plan.
- Group – Intended for you to share ideas and get and give feedback from your peers.
- Business Plan – At the end of chapters, information is compiled from research and group feedback and summarized into concise information. This section becomes part of the final business plan.
PURPOSE
- Walk students through the process of planning a single-owner entrepreneurial business.
- Provide a better understanding of small business in order to make them better employees.
- Interact in both digital and non-digital environments and encourage communication and participation.
- Encourage expressing ideas in a non-judgmental environment.
- Encourage creativity and curiosity by requiring real-world research about their own ideas.
PROGRAM
Each student comes up with an idea for their own business. The idea does not have to be realistic from a monetary point, but should be something that might interest them, such as a hobby or sport or talent or skill. Or it could be a business selling a product or offering a service.
Students work independently and in group settings to build their individual business plans. When students choose the same product or service, they will still create individual plans. They can learn from each other’s opinions and see how very different businesses can grow out of the same initial idea.
COMPONENTS
Textbook. Short, easy-to-read chapters. It focuses on examples and asks questions of the reader.
Workbook. Each chapter is divided into four sections:
- Definitions – Learn definitions of words commonly used in business.
- Research – Take concepts from the textbook and apply them to your business plan.
- Group – Intended for you to share ideas and get and give feedback from your peers.
- Business Plan – At the end of chapters, information is compiled from research and group feedback and summarized into concise information. This section becomes part of the final business plan.
MEET THE AUTHOR
LI HAYES
In high school, I learned nothing about business. In college, as a business major, I was taught to be an employee of a large corporation. I learned industrial marketing and macro economics. They explained how to create a business scorecard. In finance, I learned to how to analyze if the business made money in the past. Not one class explained how to start a business on my own and how to make money at it. Nothing prepared me to be an entrepreneur. 99% of all businesses in the US are small businesses. More than half fail. What works for multi-billion dollar corporations is senseless for a solopreneur. Schools need to teach students how to be successful in small business.
My interest in business started when I was a little kid selling freshly caught fish on a street corner on Long Beach Island. Since then I have owned four small businesses, with some failure…and some tremendous success. I work with world-renowned entrepreneurs.
I created How to Plan a Business to help those people who want to own a business, but don’t know how to get going, a place to start. How to Plan a Business simplifies the aspects of planning a business for individuals who want to start their own, small companies.
MEET THE AUTHOR
LI HAYES
In high school, I learned nothing about business. In college, as a business major, I was taught to be an employee of a large corporation. I learned industrial marketing and macro economics. They explained how to create a business scorecard. In finance, I learned to how to analyze if the business made money in the past. Not one class explained how to start a business on my own and how to make money at it. Nothing prepared me to be an entrepreneur. 99% of all businesses in the US are small businesses. More than half fail. What works for multi-billion dollar corporations is senseless for a solopreneur. Schools need to teach students how to be successful in small business.
My interest in business started when I was a little kid selling freshly caught fish on a street corner on Long Beach Island. Since then I have owned four small businesses, with some failure…and some tremendous success. I work with world-renowned entrepreneurs.
I created How to Plan a Business to help those people who want to own a business, but don’t know how to get going, a place to start. How to Plan a Business simplifies the aspects of planning a business for individuals who want to start their own, small companies.
A MESSAGE FROM ANDRE NORMAN
Business success takes committment. Anyone can start a business, but not everyone makes money at business. Everyone can do something, but you need the right teacher to be successful long term.
How to Plan a Business is a must first step for your business. If you are serious, you found the right book.
- Andre Norman, Founder of Second Chance University
A MESSAGE FROM ANDRE NORMAN
Business success takes committment. Anyone can start a business, but not everyone makes money at business. Everyone can do something, but you need the right teacher to be successful long term.
How to Plan a Business is a must first step for your business. If you are serious, you found the right book.
- Andre Norman
Founder, Second Chance University
A MESSAGE FROM ANDRE NORMAN
Business success takes committment. Anyone can start a business, but not everyone makes money at business. Everyone can do something, but you need the right teacher to be successful long term.
How to Plan a Business is a must first step for your business. If you are serious, you found the right book.
- Andre Norman
Founder, Second Chance University
It doesn’t matter where you are now. In the future,
you can be a business owner.
It doesn’t matter where
you are now.
In the future, you can be
a business owner.