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I Do Believe Shark Tank : Just Start Your Business

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At a first glance at this book, my immediate thought was how boring it was going to be. It seemed like any other textbook and I was not interested because in college, I don’t plan on majoring in business. But as soon as I started reading the introduction, the book caught my attention. The imagery the author provided by narrating a story to imagine got me interested in what the book had to say. I learned many things from this book, as well as recapped prior knowledge, about entrepreneurship. Therefore, I do believe Shark Tank: Just Start Your Business is a great teaching and learning tool to better understand entrepreneurship. Every couple of chapters, a page or two is dedicated to each of the Sharks. A background story is given on each, their “claim to fame”, and some entrepreneurship advice. For example, Lori Greiner talks about how passion and drive is the key to being a successful entrepreneur. Passion for what you do will keep you going and your drive will allow you do have the self-discipline and self-motivation to get things done. She pointed out how she has had to work thirty-six hours straight many times before.
Robert Herjavec was a technology mogul who sold his first tech companies for over $350 million. Robert shares his story of how he became an entrepreneur. How he was fired from his job, sued by his boss, and had only been married for one day. Despite the hardships, he endured them and keep moving forward, working on his business during the day, and teaching

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