Entrepreneurs: How to Guides
Educational Websites
- The Beehive offers a number of resources to help you build your business successfully. http://nigeria.thebeehive.org/content/33/388
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business Resource offers helpful resources and information to plan and create a business. http://www.prenhall.com/scarbzim/index.html
- Leadership Training and Development Guidelines offer helpful and practical information and tools for people interested in business development. http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadtrn.html
- Small Business Administration offers guidance on starting up a business. http://www.sba.gov/content/use-our-starting-assessment-tool
- Get help and receive guidance on preparing your business plan. http://asbdc.ualr.edu/business-information/1004-business-plan-outline.asp
- Business Finance offers helpful information for keeping your business profitable. http://businessfinancemag.com
- YoungPrePro Young Entrepreneur Blog provides helpful information and links from a young entrepreneur. www.youngprepro.com/
- The Small Business Resource Center by BB&T provides useful information to help you with your small business. http://www.bbt.com/bbt/business/solutions/resourcecenter/default.html
- SunTrust offers Small Business Online workshops to help owners get important advice and information. http://www.va-interactive.com/suntrust/
- Commerce Bank provides free workshops to help entrepreneurs succeed. The workshops are free and accessible at all times of the day. http://www.commercebank.com/smallbusiness/resource-center/online-workshops.asp
- Small Business Training Network provides helpful information for those wishing for their businesses to succeed. http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/counseling-training
- Develop a business plan by taking this free online course provided by US Bank. http://76.12.53.196/Home.aspx?clientid=69635760
How to Guides
- Learn how make a profit and loss statement for your business. http://www.score.org/Profit_and_Loss_Statement.html
- Gain information on keeping records by using a daily spending diary. http://www.accionusa.org/home/small-business-loans/financial-education-resources/financial-tips.aspx?d=1473
- These free online workshops will help you start your business. http://www.bbt.com/bbt/business/solutions/resourcecenter/startingbusiness.html
- Learn the skills you need to prepare a cash budget. http://www.score.org/Profit_and_Loss_Statement.html
- Learn how to manage your cash flow in this online workshop. http://www.score.org/Cash_Flow.html
- Learn how to prepare your personal financial statement. http://www.accionusa.org/Uploads/FileManager/YMY/WORKSHEET%20FINANCIAL%20STATEMENT.pdf
- Explore how to manage your business with these free online workshops. http://www.bbt.com/bbt/business/solutions/resourcecenter/managingbusiness.html
Games
- Play free business games online to help you learn more about operating your business. http://www.games.soft82.com/categories/business/
Books and Guides
- A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and the Business Solution for Ending Poverty by Philip Smith & Eric Thurman — Written by two business leaders, this book “shows why microcredit is the world’s most powerful poverty-fighting movement.”
- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus — This is Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus’s inspiring story about Grameen Bank, which he developed to provide microloans to the poorest people in Bangladesh.
- Creating a World without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus — “This book describes how Yunus — in partnership with some of the world’s most visionary business leaders — has launched the world’s first purposely designed social businesses” from nutritious yogurt to building eye-care hospitals.
- The Economics of Microfinance by Beatriz Armendáriz — This book provides information on the history of microfinance, how it works, and when it does not.
- The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs — Filled with lots of data and compelling text, this book considers critical ways to end poverty by 2025.
- How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein — This book is considered to be the definitive guide to social entrepreneurship.
- Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives by Christopher Gergen & Gregg Vanourek — Successful entrepreneurs, the authors “draw on interviews with 55 leading entrepreneurs worldwide [and others] to provide practical strategies, concrete frameworks, vivid examples, and moving vignettes” on the journey of entrepreneurship.
- Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail by Paul Polak — The author, an entrepreneur and inventor, describes “why poverty eradication programs have fallen … short … and how he and his organization [International Development Enterprises] developed an alternative approach that has already succeeded in lifting 17 million people out of poverty.”
- Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance Are Changing the World by Alex Counts — The author “presents compelling stories of women benefiting from Yunus’s microcredit in rural Bangladesh and urban Chicago.”
- Microfinance Handbook: An Institutional and Financial Perspective by Joanna Ledgerwood — A more academic read; but if you have a basic understanding of microfinance, this book will help take you to the next level.
- The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor by Marguerite Robinson — The first of three volumes, this volume “analyzes why commercial microfinance developed over the past 20 years.”
- The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World by John Elkington — “Introducing a new breed of entrepreneur, the authors show how apparently unreasonable innovators have built their enterprises.”
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