The Entrepreneur Experience: Good Choices and Common Mistakes

This book contains in-depth insights into the entrepreneur life... In it you will find real-life experiences and valuable guidance from the inception of an idea or concept to its completion. You will learn what and who to avoid, how to get things done, and what to do with success or failure. Successes, failures, and unique individuals, provide valuable insights for entrepreneurs, inventors, and start-up businesses. They say experience is the best teacher. Even better is to learn from someone else's experience. Read tales of real life encounters that can make or break a new business. With fifty-plus years of experience as an entrepreneur in a variety of industries, Lawrence Drake shares lessons learned from dealings with dreamers, schemers, and scalawags of all kinds. From encounters with television shows like Shark Tank and Bering Sea Gold, to developing products through incubator organizations and boot-strapping, the reader will be surprised and entertained. Drake shares insights into idea and product development, startups, partnerships, angel investors, smooth talking schemers, and more. His varied experiences and advice will help you avoid pitfalls and take advantage of opportunities. His comfortable writing style makes understanding the complexities of growing a business easy to understand and enjoyable to read.