Product Description
This is the book about entrepreneurship. Author Shirley G. Schmitz selected a group of 30 possible candidates representing a wide range of business types, ideas, creativity and generations. Through their willingness and her choice, the group was winnowed down to the final series of nine stories told in this book. This is not a typical conceptual how-to book. This is a content rich how to do it book that will give you concrete examples of entrepreneurship. You will read great stories of determined people performing superbly. You will be taken inside the sensitive, humanistic world of practical business building and be privy to conversations between interviewer and fascinating entrepreneurs through words and pictures. The stories are warm, emotional, sometimes funny and robust. A slice of the people side of many industries and a series of short, intimate looks at adventurers often overlooked because they are business people. In the world of the enterprise builder there are no norms or formulas. These stories tell you how they accomplished what they did in business. There are intriguing problems to be solved. There are ideas, human drive, competitiveness, tenacity, bravado, courage, and an ever present desire for the quest. As the stories will illustrate, some entrepreneurs transition into builders who capture and dominate the market they establish. Some are serial entrepreneurs who create and then sell to bigger organizations that move the process ahead, while the entrepreneur goes on to create yet another business. The stories contained in this book run the spectrum. The successes, failures, achievements and ongoing challenges will entertain you, teach you and inspire you.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)

Loved it!

Guts Imagination Vision: Conversations with Innovators Changemakers is as interesting as it is attractive! The stories contained in the book have everything from romance to adventure, tragedy to triumph and misfortune to fabulous fortune! While reading this book I began to see these amazing entrepreneurs as people just like me. I learned from the lessons that they learned and I am inspired to follow in their very big footsteps. I feel like the subjects of this book became my mentors and friends, ready willing and absolutely able to show me the way in the world of free enterprise.
September 26, 2008

Stories from American Business Owners

This book contains open conversations from people who have started their own businesses and grown them into successful enterprises. The narrative format allows the reader to come to know each of the entrepreneurs as individuals--an honest account of small business owners.
September 23, 2008

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