Starting a Business All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition
by Eric Tyson, Bob Nelson, The Experts at Dummies
Chapter 1
Your Business in Context
IN THIS CHAPTER
Analyzing the feasibility of your business idea
Figuring out your industry
Doing research on your industry
Determining where you fit in
Targeting a new product for the market
This chapter starts at the very beginning, looking at how to step back and see a potential start-up business in the context within which it operates. If you’ve already started your business and are committed to it, or if you know exactly what kind of business you want to run and nothing will change your mind, or if your idea is to start rather small, with a modest idea that doesn’t require finding much funding to get you going, you can skip this chapter. Good luck to you.
But it could be to your advantage to stick around anyway, because the fact is, not every business is a good idea at the time and place where it is born. You could save yourself some heartache by examining the external factors that will affect your business whether you like it or not. If you ...