"When it comes to how to succeed as an entrepreneur, we are besotted with advice. According to bestselling author Alan Weiss, success is a combination of opportunism, very disciplined work, luck, timing, and ignoring most advice. In other words, it means striking out on your own, original path...

Explains how to take a business to the next level of profitability with a focused strategy that emphasizes four stages of entrepreneurial growth, revealing how to develop new products out of old ones, and devise and integrate innovative operational procedures