The Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Make starting and owning your new business a fantastic experience!
Entrepreneurs start businesses to obtain more freedom, gain control over their lives, achieve greater enjoyment and, of course, earn more money! Yet many end up slaves to their businesses, working longer hours, risking every penny and scraping by.
This website's free resources and flagship product, The Balanced Entrepreneur book, is dedicated to helping you BEFORE you open your doors. You'll learn to find or perfect a new business idea that generates more money, less risk and a great lifestyle. Plus, you'll learn effective tricks to obtain financing.
The balanced entrepreneur method makes it easier to:
- discover new business ideas
- refine your existing business idea so it leads to your ideal lifestyle
- write a better plan for a startup
- spend less time writing a business plan
- increase your business idea's financial success
- obtain financing
Why can I, Mark Simon, Ph.D., help you achieve a better lifestyle as an entrepreneur?
- I am a successful entrepreneur. Over the last 30 years, my immediate family and I have founded ten very lucrative start-ups. This experience generates powerful real world insights and strategies!
- I am a university Professor of Entrepreneurship with a Ph.D. I use my research skills to make sure that the effectiveness of all my strategies are tested and confirmed by unbiased world renowned business scholars.
- I am an entrepreneurship coach and teacher. I have taught over a thousand entrepreneurs and students. I can explain ideas in ways that are understandable and lead to action.
Not just another website on writing business plans.
Most business planning websites and books primarily explain how to describe your business so investors can decide whether or not to give you money. They don't tell you how to design a venture to increase its financial success, require fewer hours, enhance your enjoyment, and decrease your risk. Given that most entrepreneurs never plan for their ventures to achieve these goals, it's no surprise they don't achieve them!
My mission is to help you plan a VERY PROFITABLE BUSINESS and ENJOY A GREAT LIFESTYLE! This website and the supporting book focus on strategies that will increase your wealth, make it easier to get funding, and help you build a business that you can enjoy, one where you can truly be the boss.