Ignite Your Dream: The Quintessential Checklist for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

This is by far the most thorough book about starting and maintaining a business that I have ever seen! Patrick Perrine covers every aspect of creating a business plan. He introduces the early needs for starting a business, and honestly, one of the hardest parts of entrepreneurship is just getting started with a plan. Perrine covers every detail in the first section of the book that someone might need get started. That alone provides a great checklist for a reader who is just starting out.

Perrine also understands that building a business is going to get difficult, so he teaches you how to build up your business to keep it going by reminding business owners of the details that are often overlooked which could cause your business to lose productivity. I mean, the goal of a business is to keep it going, right? Perrine ensures that you can see around every corner.

Perrine lays out strategies that can help you master your business and keep the good times going. There are going to be difficult times, but if you follow this masterful plan, you can find the success that you have been dreaming of! This was an awesome purchase!

If you’ve ever started a business from scratch, you know how overwhelming it can be. From naming the company to setting up an email system to building a database of customers. It’s…a lot. Patrick Perrinne knows this because he’s done it, and he created this book to help others through the exhilarating, maddening, frustrating, and triumphant moments of entrepreneurship. This book has a checklist of 100 things (literally!) that you ought to consider when starting a business. Many of them you will have thought of before, but there are many here that you’ve either never thought about or never thought deeply enough about. There are actionable steps to take with each chapter, so you can rest assured that taking time away from your business to read this book will only make your business better. I also particularly liked the suggestions for apps or programs that will make your life easier as an entrepreneur. You will not be able to put everything into place at once, but revisit this book once a year and you’ll find new tools that fit your business as it grows.

IGNITE YOUR DREAM is a comprehensive resource for entrepreneurship full of tips to help readers fortify their business ventures. The book is helpfully organized into three sections (the foundational top 10, the important 15, and the final 75) containing 100 tips total. As Perrine makes clear, the tips within are not prescriptive but instead are completely adaptable depending on personal goals and the particulars of each unique venture. There is a wide variety of actionable strategies, from visualization tips to practical technological hacks. Throughout, Perrine reinforces his advice with case studies and examples that provide effective contextualization. I like that the concluding tip, #100, emphasizes resilience and remaining hopeful even when you might face setbacks. It is an important piece of advice to stress as entrepreneurship is not always smooth sailing. As Perrine writes, “Resilience is more than a virtue; it is the backbone of entrepreneurial success.” Perrine even provides a list of further resources about entrepreneurship and many self-care avenues to maintain one’s resilience. IGNITE YOUR DREAM is an excellent, well-researched, and highly detailed guide for entrepreneurs of all kinds.

This book was just what I was looking for to put a spark in my quest for my dream life and create my own business. This book encompasses a comprehensive step-by-step detailed list of what needs to be done to start and keep my dream. These are real questions that need to be answered before I can open the door. This is not a flimsy skim-the-top reference. This book has the in-depth process that needs to be done to create a real, profitable, successful, and gratifying business. Different business information can be found on many public websites, periodicals, and government websites, but this book provides all the processes in one place. This book explains the first step and continues building to the last step of enhancing the business. These are serious questions to answer before moving on and looking ahead. Further learning is provided with links to online learning platforms. These are specific industry-tested and awarded websites that millions of companies use to enhance and grow their businesses. This book provides the real process that I can use to become an enlightened, happy, and successful entrepreneur. This is a state-of-the-art reference material.

This is a no-nonsense and accessibly written guide to achieving the dream of becoming an entrepreneur. The author’s detailed roadmap to building a business includes a cornucopia of practical checklists and online resource lists that cover every aspect, from coming up with a new, marketable business idea to making sure you have every legal and ethical base covered. Marketing, advertising, dealing with customers, and motivating employees all must be kept in mind when launching a business, and chapters are devoted to the details of each. The concise real-world case studies of entrepreneurial startups included (such as Warby Parker and Etsy) are inspirational while including some practical tips. The book’s emphasis is on online startups – for which the author has wide experience – but many of the steps could apply to any sort of potential business. The task of creating a successful enterprise that stands out from competitors can seem overwhelming, but this book makes it manageable. I’ve always found that breaking a complex job into manageable chunks, compiled into a step-by-step list that can be checked off in order, makes the seemingly impossible achievable. If that’s your preferred method for transforming a dream into reality, this is the book for you.