New Book Advises Would-Be Business Owners, Encourages Entrepreneurial Drive

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007
ST. LOUIS Despite its challenges, entrepreneurship continues to thrive as an American passion. This, despite the fact that more than half of all new startups will close their doors in the first five years. But a new book on how to start and build a business is designed specifically to assist some of the 500,000 entrepreneurs starting new companies in the United States each month. In Missouri alone, there were nearly 15,000 new companies started last year.

In his new book, Business Success Secrets 10 Keys to Start, Build and Sell Your Company, St. Louisian Don Kornblet, an author and entrepreneur, explains that underestimating the difficulty of starting a new business is one of the biggest obstacles that entrepreneurs face. But he points out that planning and hard work can help turn small business dreams into reality.

To make these lessons tangible to the reader, Kornblet references his personal experiences with starting and growing his own company, Business Response Inc. (BRI). In his new book, Business Success Secrets, Don Kornblet draws on his own success to provide a valuable guide to small business owners, says Murray Weidenbaum, retired director of Washington University's Center for the Study of American Business. In clear English, he explains how to start a small business, how to build it, and finally how to sell it. Adds Barnett C. Helzberg, author of What I Learned Before I Sold To Warren Buffet, very, very well thought out and complete. An excellent addition to the literature for entrepreneurs.