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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barringer, Bruce R.
What’s stopping you? : shatter the 9 most common myths keeping you from starting your own
business / Bruce Barringer, Duane Ireland.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-13-244457-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. New business enterprises. 2. Entrepreneurship. 3.
Self-employed. 4. Small business. I. Ireland, Duane. II. Title.
HD62.5.B366 2008
658.1’1—dc22
2007049589
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