The Technology Entrepreneur’s Guidebook Review

The content in first ten pages of The Technology Entrepreneur's Guidebook describes Entrepreneur's aspects succinctly. In three pages 2 to 4, the book defines what is Entrepreneur's life, how its path looks like, what difference between Entrepreneur with Opportunist, how things work in Entrepreneur, and what things are important to become an Entrepreneur. After I read all of these, there's an uneasy feeling inside me. It's like I'm facing the ocean, which is so vast that I can drown in it. Furthermore, the feeling is also interested in Entrepreneur field after seeing how freedom it is, how big we can grow if we survive through all the risks. It doesn't really surprise me about five facts prove Entrepreneur is not an easy way to walk on. There's no easy way to reach and get huge reward at the end. To obtain, you have to give up something of equal value, and when you can't find the door, make your own this is how I see Entrepreneur after I read just 10 of 89 pages of the book.

In second part "A Sensible Approach to Writing a Good Business Plan", it explains more about the business plan template, since there are sections from the template I read before: Execute Summary, Company Description, Market Size, Technology Description, Competition, Sales/ Revenue generation, Finances, and Management. I'm grateful that I can read this before I do my business plan, since it explains what I need to include in each part and also what I need to avoid to make my business plan being better. The last thing is Entrepreneur is "Believe in yourself as you write your plan. Only then, will others follow."

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