Product Description
by Kathy Heasley (Author), Jim H. Houtz (Author)
Seize The American Dream: 10 Entrepreneurial Success Strategies is a book for entrepreneurs and people who yearn to build or grow a business, improve lives, and achieve financial freedom. Whether you are a company of one or one thousand, the strategies in this book take you from dream to reality using actionable methods that have proven successful in businesses national wide. The contents are the result of a 30-year entrepreneurial experiment called CyCare. Houtz started this company in 1967 with $1500 and ten shares of IBM stock and sold it in 1998 for $270million. His experience with CyCare was a proving ground for what did and did not work. Companies using the successful strategies Houtz developed are achieving similar results today. The American Dream is no longer the life blood of just America. The American Dream has inspired a worldwide movement. The American Dream has become the Entrepreneurial Dream. And no matter where you start your business, the strategies in this book hold true. Follow them and you can build a solid and effective organization, realize financial freedom in the process and make your mark on the world.
Author Biography
Jim Houtz, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, former CEO and Washington watcher believes that the problems our nation and the world face today can be solved, not by government programs, but by entrepreneurs. From our reliance on foreign oil to our out-of-control healthcare costs to our challenged education system to our faltering economy, Houtz sees American ingenuity through entrepreneurship as the answer. Houtz believes entrepreneurs will be the ones who develop the products, the services and the innovations that will save our world, unless of course, big government gets in the way. Houtz' mission is to stop our government from stacking the deck in favor of special interests, and instead promote free-market competition. He sees his role as one of enlightening a new breed of entrepreneurs to the Washington shenanigans that can crush their businesses. He considers it his job to inspire these men and women to stand up for their futures.
