YES YOU CAN! Become an Entrepreneur Today
by Inc. magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year Marc Kramer
Personal Finance
$25.95
5.5 x 8.5 ", 356 pages, hardcover
Publication date: March 2011
Now more than ever it's important that Americans develop an ability to become self-reliant. The days of the corporation taking care of their own, or even the government being there for those who fall into hard times, has ended. You either pull yourself up by your bootstraps or you lose your boots. Marc Kramer's candid and timely guide to becoming a succesful entrepreneur is just what every person needs in this economy.
Yes You Can! includes chapters such as:
- Writing a Business Plan
- How the Venture Game is Played
- Pitching to Hard Hitting Investors
- Naming of Your Company
- Developing a Board of Advisors
- Mentors are a Must Have
- 8 Qualities Your Leader Should Have
- Respect the Lines Between Employee and Friends
- 7 Ways to Drive Revenue
Take control of your financial and professional future with YES YOU CAN!
About the Author
Marc Kramer is president of Kramer Communications that provides Internet strategic marketing, sales and communications, business plan development, and content service strategy and project management. He is also a project faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business Global Consulting Practicum and a professional speaker and lectures on topics such as internet marketing, marketing, sales networking, corporate entrepreneurship and turning around distressed companies.
Marc is also the founder of ExpertSpeakers.net, which markets business professionals to trade associations and corporations to speak to their members and employees. Marc is a former partner at USWeb, the world’s largest Internet consulting firm, prior to that was president of Mixed Media Works, and an interactive company that produced such web sites for Rosenbluth International and CoreStates Bank among others.
Before joining MMW, Marc started the Eastern Technology Council, the second largest business technology council in the U.S., with over 1,000 corporate members. He also launched and ran Technology Times, the second largest business technology newspaper in the U.S.; the Pennsylvania Technology Transfer Center; the Institute of Biotechnology and Advanced Molecular Medicine; the Penn State Technology Development Center and the Pennsylvania Private Investors Group, the country’s first formally organized investor angels network.
Marc has also served as president/CEO of Business Philadelphia and Seven Arts, two large regional magazines.
Marc has received such awards as the Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, American Electronics Association Spirit of America Award and was three years in a row named one of the Top Five Business Leaders Under Age 40 in Philadelphia region by the Philadelphia Jaycees and won the Small Business Journalist of the Year by the Center City Proprietors Association of Philadelphia in 2006.
Marc has been quoted in over 40 publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Success, Fortune, Forbes, Inc. Entrepreneur and The Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1993, Marc was featured on the cover of international business magazine Profit.
Marc is columnist for TheStreet.com, the world’s top online service for money managers, company leaders and individuals that manage their own money and is a columnist for Philadelphia’s third largest daily The Bulletin.
Marc is a former trustee of Cheyney University, the oldest African American University in the U.S. and is on the board of the Entrepreneurs Forum of Philadelphia and the Technology Resource Alliance. Marc has a Master’s in Management from Penn State University and a BS in journalism from West Virginia University.