The Truth About

Starting a Business

Bruce R. Barringer

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First Printing December 2008

ISBN-10: 0-13-714450-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-714450-1

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Barringer, Bruce R.
  The truth about starting a business / Bruce Barringer.
      p. cm.
  ISBN 0-13-714450-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. New
business enterprises. 2. Entrepreneurship. 3. Small business. I. Title.
  HD62.5.B365 2008
  658.1’1--dc22
                 2008028521

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Dedication

For my family, Janet, John, Jennifer, and Emily.

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