Starting Up Now

Book excerpt: StartingUp Now is a practical, easy-to-understand business-planning guide for the new entrepreneur with great ideas and limited business planning knowledge, who needs steps to get started. StartingUp Now employs elements of today's texting culture to quickly communicate essential business principles. Each StartingUp Key leads the future entrepreneur through a memorable abbreviation, informative definition, useful examples, and constructive prompts in a journal-style format that ultimately provides users with the opportunity to formulate their business plans. Upon formulating your plan with the StartingUp Business Plan Template, log in to your customized profile page on the StartingUp Now Skill Center (SUSC) and enter your business plan information on the online template. For those with mobile devices, you can access your business plan and other tools and resources on the go. Welcome to StartingUp Now!