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About Business Books - Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips, Strategies, and Resources for the African American Entrepreneur by Dante Lee

Although this book was published over a decade ago the opening chapter still speaks to circumstances currently being experienced  in the US today. Dante Lee makes important points about the collective awareness of the country and how that awareness doesn’t necessarily translate into actual gains for African American  entrepreneurs. Although the author points out the challenges faced by the African American community, they also reveal that success is not impossible. In chapter one the reader is introduced to the author, offered a perspective on what has been unfold in American economics ,  details of the historical and at times violent and socially devastating challenges the African American community has had to contend with , and a viable plan for achieving entrepreneurial success in spite of it all . Book Review by Melisa Y Bell I appreciate the information provided in this chapter for a couple of reasons. The first reason being the fact that African American entrepreneurs need to
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Engaging the Subject of Business

I haven’t had a huge amount of experience as a business consultant.  If my progress could be related to a baby’s development I am a bottle-fed crawler of questionable coordination. Even at this stage though, I am running into concerning patterns that speak to, I think, some foundational problems when it comes to entrepreneurship and or business ownership. I am hearing and witnessing issues of knowledge, focus and will when it comes to the subject of business. In this article I want to explore how we ought to approach learning the subject of business. As an entrepreneur and business owner who had a certain perspective about business, learning certain terms and processes was a complex and overwhelming burden. I only wanted to know what I needed to get by because that “stuff” wasn’t as important as getting out in the world and doing things, making it happen. I ran with the easy idea that all I needed to do was get out there and do. Everything else would come. I worked and managed my busin
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About Business Books: The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki

Knowledge, a vital, fundamental and ever evolving part of life experience. Entrepreneurship, and business ownership fall within the realm of life experience so the need to continuously engage knowledge is a given, especially in the pursuit of success. A major source of business knowledge is bound in books, even in the digital age of Google search. In this article I am going to begin a conversation about a business book I’m currently reading.  The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki. This book is one among many I plan to blog about. I want these book conversations to span several articles and who knows perhaps one day in the near future the books I choose now will become topics for my podcast or YouTube channel. I was introduced to The Art of the Start early in the pursuit of my BAS degree in Sustainable Business Management. I often wonder if I found this book so interesting because the title had the word Art in it, given I decided to set my artistic goals to the side to pursue what would
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Defining Moments - An Entrepreneur's Experience

My adventure into entrepreneurship started in my early twenties as a stay at home mom completing supportive tasks for my then significant other. I don't remember having heard the term entrepreneur before that time. I knew what a business owner was, kind of. The idea of a career in business was not even remotely appealing to me while in high school. I favored my creative talent over what I saw as a boring, distorting, depressing, suit bound behavior restricting nightmare. In my mind I was set to become an epic fashion designer and everything else that went into making that happen was just going to magically appear and fall into place. Ha! not quite. My journey to where I am now, an experienced entrepreneur set on supporting and inspiring others on the same path, took a lot of time and experience. I wish I could point to one defining moment where I was like, "Ah! that's it I'm going to be an entrepreneur!" It didn't happen like that for me, what does come to my
Location: Florida, USA
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