You have an idea for a business. Now what? Most businesses fail because the founder has no clear plan to follow. The Startup Assembly Manual can help you transform your great idea into a great business. Unlike most books about becoming an entrepreneur, this book helps ordinary people build a working road map for the ground-up process of starting a business. Based on the ACE Methodology, it shows you how to Assess yourself, your customer, and your product to develop assumptions that you will test in the Confirmation stage to make sure your business idea is based on a product that can actually find a market. When that happens, you’re ready to Execute your business plan. It isn't academic or unrealistic; it comes from 40 years of business success and failure, hard-learned, real-world lessons that can help guide you from idea to fulfillment with clarity and direction. This book is for aspiring start-up founders with a great idea and not much of a clue about what to do next. The principles will help to build a product business, technology-based business, brick and mortal retail business, service-based business, and everything in between.
Mr. Freriks is a career entrepreneur and inventor. He is the author of fourteen fast-paced and intrigue-packed novels in the crime and political thriller genres as well as future dystopia and historical fiction. Then there's World Number 2, which belongs in a genre all it's own. Intrigue? Existential Exploration? God? Nature? Onmiversal Truth? (let me know if you figure it out!)