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    Everything You Need to Know to be an Entrepreneur
    Everything You Need to Know to be an Entrepreneur
    Everything You Need to Know to be an Entrepreneur
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    Everything You Need to Know to be an Entrepreneur

    By ROBERT FETNER

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    A short informative book that guides you along the path of being an entrepreneur.Covers all aspects of opening your own business from preliminary research to negotiating your lease. Discusses various types of businesses the positives and the negative to better prepare you in your decision to be your own boss.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherROBERT FETNER
    Release dateAug 16, 2015
    ISBN9781516306190
    Everything You Need to Know to be an Entrepreneur
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    ROBERT FETNER

    Robert Fetner is a former Investigator with the City of Miami Police Department.He holds a black belt in Taekwondo and was a self defense instructor for the police department. He is also a certified acupuncturist. He has written several books. His books include An American Gaucho, John Shane Wolf Bounty Hunter, John Shane Wolf Buck's Revenge

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      Everything You Need to Know to be an Entrepreneur - ROBERT FETNER

      BY  ROBERT FETNER

      CHAPTER 1

      Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.  If you're lazy and don't have a lick of common sense, then it is definitely not for you. If you’re ambitious, hard working, creative, self-motivated and have good common sense, then you may have what it takes to be your own boss.

      I have always had a vivid imagination, always thinking. Once I discovered that having money was nice, I was constantly thinking of ways to make it. I always wanted to have my own business. Working for someone else just never attracted me, mainly because I don't like taking orders or being bossed around. My first business began when I was 14 or 15. We were living in the Republic of Panama and had just come  back from vacation in New York . I was Karate crazy so my Dad took me to Madison Square Gardens to see Aaron Bank's big martial arts demonstration (Oriental World of Self-Defense). While there, I bought a package of Bruce Lee photos. Bruce Lee movies were all the rage at the time.

      When I got back to Panama, the Bruce Lee craze was just starting. Well, I got the idea to copy my pictures and sell them in front of the theater while the Bruce Lee movies were playing. Slightly illegal (copy right infringements) but hey, I was a kid who didn't know any better, plus nobody cared in Panama anyway. Well, I sold all the copies in a matter of hours and made a nice little profit. Welcome to the world of entrepreneurship!

      My second business began when I was 19 and just out of high school. I was walking around a small shopping center close to where I lived. There was a small bike shop, so I went in to check it out. It was pretty sad, maybe twenty bikes or so. No carpet, no decorations, just a plain cement floor and some bikes and a repair room in the back. The location was good. I got to talking to the owner, an older gentleman, about bikes. I rode a lot and fixed my own bikes; I was a recreational cyclist. The old man said he was having a lot of health problems and wanted to sell the business. If I was interested, he'd give me a good deal—$3000—for the whole thing. Hell yeah!  I was interested, but I didn't have $3000 much less $500, but I

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