Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur's Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own

by Robert Tuchman

As a recent college graduate, there is no better time to take risks—especially when it comes to making career choices. Too often, young employees find themselves in unfulfilling jobs with little chance of advancement. But with the right advice, they can strike out on their own and chase their dreams. Author Robert Tuchman knows what it takes to break free of a frustrating job and build a career on your own terms. In Young Guns, he shows readers how to start out on a business venture, how to gain a client base, how to keep those clients, and what they need to sacrifice along the way in order to succeed. Young entrepreneurs will learn how • formulate their great idea • identify their strengths • develop a realistic business plan • get out and meet the right people • capitalize a venture • make a business stand out in a crowded marketplace • find and get along with a business partner Filled with real-life examples of entrepreneurs under 35 who have made it to the top, this is the book that will show readers how to go for the gold and lead a passionate, daring, and successful life.

Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship

216 pages, Hardcover

First published April 15, 2009

About the author

• Expert source with regular in-studio appearances on all major broadcast and radio networks (FOX, NBC, CNN, ESPN, CBS)

• For my most recent appearance footage please go here to view:


Biography:

• Founder of sports marketing firm TSE Sports & Entertainment (Sold business to Private Equity Firm Pfingsten Partners/Premiere Global Sports)

• Currently running Premiere Global Sports.

• Oversees a business with $75 million in annual revenue

• Clients include: Coca Cola, IBM, Microsoft, Anheuser Busch, JP Morgan, Cisco, Hershey, AT&T and Kraft

Author:

• Author of 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live, BenBella Books

Click here for Tuchman’s Sports Blog


• Author of Young Guns, the Fearless Entrepreneurs Guide to Chasing Your Dreams, American Management Association

Click here for Tuchman business Blog

• Writer for ESPN.com (Sports Travel/Business)

• Columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine
Young Fearless and Fed Up (monthly column)

Reviews

[Santosh Durgavajjala · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great entrepreneurship guide for someone who wants to start a new business or expand their business operations effectively. I liked the pointers mentioned in this book for a newbie - how should one position themselves first 1 year in any business.

[Cheryl Malandrinos · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Why Not Me?" This is the question Robert Tuchman says you should ask yourself. The author reminds his readers that successful entrepreneurs build a sense of mission into their lives.

Tuchman shares why he made the Big Decision not to continue working for someone else, a dream many of us probably have, but one that we continue to deny because of our fears. Young Guns isn't a how-to book on starting your own business. This is a book that will empower the entrepreneur in you and move you toward what you've always dreamed of.

In this book you'll learn how to:

- formulate your great idea
- identify your strengths
- make your business stand out in a crowded marketplace...

and so much more!

I especially enjoyed Chapter 5, The Partner Principle, which discusses the importance of choosing the right partner: what you should look for, what roles a partner should perform, and how costly choosing the wrong partner can be.

The one thing I must say about Young Guns is that the author's passion is visible and overflowing right from the beginning. I dare anyone to read this book and not start working toward making his own Big Decision right away. While this book is targeted more toward college graduates, anyone who has dreamed of owning his/her own business will learn much from it.

There are books out there about entrepreneurship, and then there is Young Guns, a highly motivating, passionate and inspiring book that will energize you from the very first page.

Buy it today!

[Tim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Robert Tuchman believes you should fulfill your professional dreams. He should know. After graduating college, Tuchman, who had always wanted to be a sports writer, became a stockbroker trainee. When that quickly became an unfulfilling life pursuit, Tuchman broke out and reconfigured his plan to put himself back on track. Now, as a successful businessman in the world of sports and corporate events, Tuchman shares his insights as to how a young person (the ones who have ‘nothing to lose’) can make their way creating their own business dream.

‘Young Guns’ is a well-balanced primer for newbies in the business world who want to learn things like how to identify big ideas, find valuable partners, nurturing important vendor relationships, the all-important first year and how to get started whether you’re ready or not. Along the way, Tuchman cites examples of entrepreneurs who utilize the techniques outlined in the book and how those methods have benefitted their
companies.

‘Young Guns’ is neither complex nor hard to follow and in that respect it is perhaps most useful to those who are truly just starting out on their personal business journey – even for those who may already have a job, but are yet to begin the journey to their dream career.

[Blog on Books · Rating 3 out of 5]

Robert Tuchman believes you should fulfill your professional dreams. He should know. After graduating college, Tuchman, who had always wanted to be a sports writer, became a stockbroker trainee. When that quickly became an unfulfilling life pursuit, Tuchman broke out and reconfigured his plan to put himself back on track. Now, as a successful businessman in the world of sports and corporate events, Tuchman shares his insights as to how a young person (the ones who have ‘nothing to lose’) can make their way creating their own business dream.

‘Young Guns’ is a well-balanced primer for newbies in the business world who want to learn things like how to identify big ideas, find valuable partners, nurturing important vendor relationships, the all-important first year and how to get started whether you’re ready or not. Along the way, Tuchman cites examples of entrepreneurs who utilize the techniques outlined in the book and how those methods have benefitted their companies.

‘Young Guns’ is neither complex nor hard to follow and in that respect it is perhaps most useful to those who are truly just starting out on their personal business journey – even for those who may already have a job, but are yet to begin the journey to their dream career.

[Jefferson · Rating 3 out of 5]

True concepts taken too far. There is a lot of great points but they are too often taken to the extreme.