The Venture: A Business Novel About Starting Your Own Company

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Summary: Novel of the Nineties
Review: I was very disappointed in this book, especially in light of the fact that this is the same person who coauthored Goal. The characters didn't even rise to the level of caricatures, every woman in this book was potrayed as gold-digging nymphomaniac and the men weren't that much better. The whole point about how a new business is created got lost in the morass of subplots and soft-porn vignettes.

Just a truly disappointing waste of time and recycled paper.

Rating:
Summary: Of no redeeming value whatsoever
Review: I was very disappointed in this book, especially in light of the fact that this is the same person who coauthored Goal. The characters didn't even rise to the level of caricatures, every woman in this book was potrayed as gold-digging nymphomaniac and the men weren't that much better. The whole point about how a new business is created got lost in the morass of subplots and soft-porn vignettes.

Just a truly disappointing waste of time and recycled paper.

Rating:
Summary: Novel of the Nineties
Review: Not a how-to on being an entrepreneur, but a novel about life and business in the 1990's. If you lived through corporate downsizing, you'll identify with the characters in this book. This is a story about financial and emotional survival. Try Cox's other books (Selling the Wheel, Zapp, The Goal, Heroz, etc.) if you want to learn and still have a good time reading. The VEnture is about starting a business, but on a very personal level.

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Summary: An honest piece of fiction, not just a "business novel"
Review: The protagonist looses his job because he rejects to downsize his department! In return, he starts his own business, obviously together with those who he did not fire, and is successful - obviously.

As we force ourselves through a stereotype rich business world, Jeff Cox attempts to explain how small businesses can be made work - at least in "The Venture-Land".

Another attempt to capitalize from the fiction of the decade called "The Downsizing of America"?
Reduce your bookcount by this one and improve your intellectual bottom line!

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Summary: Interesting, but remember its just a novel
Review: This is a novel about a man who starts his own business after having his department downsized. If you bought this book to use it as a guide to starting your own business you probably made a mistake. It is not bad for a novel and the start-up of the new business is interesting. This is an easy read and has a human side to the story. I would recommended it as a fun easy read and it is an interesting book almost from a comical sense on starting a business as told in a story.