Synopses & Reviews
Are you ready to start or grow your business? Then you must be concerned with how to finance the company.
Finance Your Own Business clearly identifies the many ways to obtain funding for your business success. From the common strategies of personal loans and friends and family solicitations to the very accessible steps involving seller financing, SBA loans and equipment leasing, this easy to understand book is your complete guide. Included are tactics for building business credit (separate and apart from your personal credit), how to sell equity through the new world of crowdfunding and more.
Finance Your Own Business, co-authored by two best-selling authors, corporate attorney Garrett Sutton and credit expert Gerri Detweiler, is a timely and valuable resource for every new or existing business owner.
About the Author
Garrett Sutton: Garrett Sutton is an attorney, best selling author and one of Robert Kiyosakis Rich Dad Advisors. A clear and engaging writer, Garrett demystifies legal topics and presents them in a very understandable and accessible manner.
Garrett has over thirty years experience in assisting individuals and businesses to limit their liability, protect their assets, implement advantageous corporate structures and advance their financial goals.
Garrett is the author of "Loopholes of Real Estate." Start Your Own Corporation,” "Run Your Own Corporation," Writing Winning Business Plans,” Buying and Selling a Business” and The ABCs of Getting Out of Debt” among other titles.
Garrett is the owner and operator of CorporateDirect.com, which since 1988, has provided affordable asset protection and corporate formation services, as well as resources for entrepreneurs and real estate investors. Robert Kiyosaki, the best selling author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad calls Garrett and Corporate Direct the premiere source for asset protection strategies.”
Garrett attended Colorado College and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a B.S. in Business Administration in 1975. He graduated with a J.D. in 1978 from Hastings Law, the University of Californias law school in San Francisco. He has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. Garrett enjoys speaking on asset protection strategies and is a frequent lecturer for business groups and the Rich Dads Advisors educational series.
Garrett serves on the boards of the American Baseball Foundation, located in Birmingham, Alabama, and the Reno-Nevada based Sierra Kids Foundation.
For more information on Garrett Sutton, please visit his Web sites at www.sutlaw.com, www.corporatedirect.com, and www.successdna.com.
Gerri Detweiler: Helping consumers find reliable answers to their credit questions has been the theme of Gerri Detweilers work for the past twenty years.
As an expert on consumer credit issues, she has been interviewed for more than 3000 news interviews including The Today Show, Dateline NBC, The New York Times, USA Today and Reader's Digest. She has also testified before Congress.
As a speaker, she has addressed both consumer and industry audiences nationwide. She was a featured speaker in an 18-city speaking tour and has been a repeat guest at several events for financial planners.
As an educator, she is the author or co-author of five other books:
Reduce Debt, Reduce Stress (Good Advice Press 2009)
Debt Collection Answers: How to Use Debt Collection Laws to Protect Your Rights (2009)
The Ultimate Credit Handbook (Plume, 1993, revised 2003), which was featured in Money magazine as one of the five best new personal finance books of the year when released.
Invest In Yourself: Six Secrets to a Rich Life (Wiley, October 1998)
Slash Your Debt: Save Money and Secure Your Future (Financial Literacy Center, 1999).
Gerri is Director of Consumer Education for Credit.com, one of the web's leading personal finance websites. Many of her articles also appear on partner websites, including MSN Money and ABCNews.com.
She is the host of a live weekly radio program Talk Credit Radio. Podcasts of many of the episodes are available online.
Gerri reaches thousands of consumers each month through these websites, as well as numerous others for which she contributes content. She also hosted a weekly financial radio show and several hundred of her interviews are still available at that site for consumers to listen to online.
Gerri holds a B.A. in International Business/Political Affairs from Taylor University, and an M.A. in Adult Education/ Psychology from Vermont College.