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Startup Advisor is here for one purpose: to help entrepreneurs succeed. Every book, workshop, and advisory service offered is designed to get your business off the ground quickly.

The principles established have been repeatedly scrutinized in the classroom by motivated MBA students in Naeem’s entrepreneurship class. Far more importantly, they have survived the test of real-world experience via use by dozens of startup companies advised by Naeem worldwide.

A lifetime of business knowledge essential for startup success is available right here. These nuggets of information can be invaluable to you. But knowledge is not enough.

Too often, novice entrepreneurs believe knowledge alone can solve their problems. But knowledge must be relevant to a given situation and properly applied to make the difference between success and failure.

This essential knowledge can take years of expensive trials and frustrations to learn. Or it can be acquired from someone who has already learned those lessons.

That’s exactly what this Fast-Start System does: it transfers the essential knowledge needed for business startup success from an experienced mentor who has been where you’re going. It illustrates the actual situations and decisions you will encounter on your path to success. And it gives the critical background you need to make the right decisions for your unique startup situation.

Essential Knowledge for Entrepreneurs

 “Naeem’s expert advice takes you from idea to profitability by walking you step-by-step through the challenges facing every startup business.”

There’s no shortage of “help” out there for entrepreneurs looking to mold their ideas into profitable businesses. But useful, specific, and practical advice… that’s hard to come by.

Until now.

After 20 years in the trenches starting businesses, growing them to 9-figure-income success stories, and mentoring others to do the same, Naeem Zafar knows the world of business.

Now the knowledge and experience once available only to business associates and his entrepreneurship program students at the elite Haas School of Business has been captured for the first time in a unique Fast-Start System designed to get new businesses off the ground and make them profitable in record time.

In just one hour you can leap ahead of your competition by putting the most important resource you can ever acquire to work for you: experience.

Buying a book won’t solve your business problems for you. Thousands of entrepreneurs fail every year despite bookshelves full of fact-filled, motivational books written by experienced authors.

The fact is, busy entrepreneurs don’t have time to wade through book after book with no clear direction in how to apply the information given. They’re not interested in theory. And most can’t afford to “try out” all the latest business book-of-the-month club tips.

They need proven answers to their most pressing questions. That’s why startup owners turn to Naeem’s Fast-Start System. It cuts out all the unproven theories. It eliminates both superficial fluff and information overload. And it helps them quickly make the informed decisions critical to startup success.

Naeem’s Fast-Start System separates each of the major failure points that trip up most new business owners into individual topics. Then he breaks down each topic into the easy-to-understand and immediately useful advice that takes you down the most direct path from idea to profitability.

By using an instantly deliverable electronic book format, The Essential Knowledge for Business Startup Success package gets you up and running right away in each of four critical business areas: market research, funding, finance, and legal.

Market Research on a Shoestring! Get a Reality Check on Your Big Idea for Under $100

Market research doesn’t have to be the expensive, time-consuming nightmare many entrepreneurs fear. Market Research on a Shoestring walks you through the process of gathering market intelligence from start to finish. You’ll know the right questions to ask and how to get the answers on a tight budget.

By following the simple tips, tricks, and techniques packed into this 128-page guide, you’ll uncover the answers to the most critical of startup questions before spending large sums of cash or committing to months of development effort:

• Will my product or service fill a need the market will pay for?
• Who are my future customers?
• Why will they buy from me and how can I tap into that motivation?
• How will I become profitable and how soon?

Validating your plan in advance lets you move forward with confidence, secure funding more easily, and attract top talent to your team. Market Research on a Shoestring makes it all simple by using a step-by-step method to answer the critical questions defined by four simple diagrams.

Get Funded! A Definitive Guide to Seeking the Right Funding from the Right Source at the Right Time

Whether you need to fund a new business today, are planning ahead for future growth in an established business, or simply want to know what your options are, Get Funded is your essential guide to the complete funding process. Organized in three sections, Get Funded outlines the likely sources of funding and how they operate, shows you how to attract investors, and provides the 12-step process you need to get funded.

No other entrepreneurial guidebook on the market covers all the funding topics addressed in this 122-page manual. And as a special bonus, Get Funded includes the names and contact information for several hundred angel investors and venture capital firms to get you started.

Finance Essentials for Entrepreneurs: A Simple Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Statements for Your Business

You don’t have to become an accountant to start and run a business. But every entrepreneur needs a basic understanding of finance to answer key questions like:

• Does my business idea make financial sense?
• How long will it take to break even?What will my run rate be once my business breaks even?
• How much money will I burn before turning a profit?

Serious investors will require answers to these questions before writing a check. And you’ll want the ability to project revenue and expenses over the next few years even if you bootstrap your own finances entirely.

Fortunately, Finance Essentials for Entrepreneurs was written by a seasoned entrepreneur, not an accountant. This means you get easy-to-understand, practical financial guidance with clearly understandable spreadsheet examples instead of a lot of confusing technical jargon. This book will become your indispensible guide to basic finance as you grow your business.

The Entrepreneur’s Legal Guide to Starting Up: 35 Little-known Facts, Secrets, Techniques, and Tricks to Making Sure You Get Every Penny’s Worth of Value

If you’ve ever needed an attorney, you know how quickly legal expenses can rack up. Sometimes you can save money by taking the “do-it-yourself” route, but other times that tactic can cost you big. The Entrepreneur’s Legal Guide to Starting Up is packed with dozens of money- and headache-saving tips, including:

• When to use a corporate lawyer—and when to use a specialist
• How a lawyer can protect your ideas—even before quitting your day job
• When getting an opinion in writing is actually a bad idea
• How to tailor your legal consultations to save hundreds or thousands of dollars
• What kind of business entity you should use for your startup
• How to fire your lawyer

As with all of the books in the Fast-Start System, The Entrepreneur’s Legal Guide to Starting Up taps into Naeem’s vast experience to navigate through the most common legal issues plaguing new entrepreneurs. Perhaps the most valuable addition to this book is the quick guide to common legal issues with methods for overcoming them. And saving just one hour of legal fees will more than cover the cost of this entire Fast-Start System.

How much will you save?

Serious entrepreneurs understand the value of knowledge. That’s why so many spend thousands hiring consultants and specialists like accountants and lawyers. They’ll chase down industry experts at events across the country for months just to capture every possible golden nugget of information that might help them become a success.

Every dollar and hour invested could be well spent. Or it could be wasted time and money. The Fast-Start System can save you a small fortune in fees by answering your most important questions up front and helping you get maximum value out of every expert you hire for specialized advice.

More importantly, the months you save getting established can help you keep your competitive advantage by getting to market more quickly. That alone can mean the difference between success and failure for your venture.

If you were to add up your out-of-pocket expenses incurred in getting just the basic information found in the Fast-Start System on your own, Naeem’s experience in helping thousands of previously struggling entrepreneurs shows that you would likely spend over $10,000. And that’s a conservative estimate.

An investment of a thousand dollars to leap easily over the initial hurdles facing every new business owner would be an extreme bargain in itself. But by taking advantage of this offer, you can get his entire Essential Knowledge for Business Startup Success Fast-Start System for only $129.

That includes all four books: Market Research on a Shoestring!, Get Funded!, Finance Essentials for Entrepreneurs, and The Entrepreneur’s Legal Guide to Starting Up. But that’s not all. If you order today you’ll also get:

• A free 3-month subscription to Naeem’s exclusive online knowledge base, where many topics found in the Fast-Start System are expanded upon in more depth and new topics are explored
• Access to a video library, where Naeem uses his unique mentoring experience to provide in-depth answers to dozens of reader-submitted questions
• Exclusive discounts on future books and enhanced personal support options, including workshops, boot camps, and professional advisory services

You can get started right now. As soon as you order you’ll receive immediate online access to all four books, the online forum, and Naeem’s personal video library. In just a few minutes you could have the answers to your most pressing business questions in your hands.

And if you still have questions when you’re done? Email them directly to Naeem at the address provided in your package, and yours might be the next to garner a personalized video answer.

You could drop $129 on a small order of customized stationery, take one client out to a fancy dinner, or get some of the best advice available from one of the Silicon Valley experts in business and entrepreneurship.

Which investment will mean the most for your business success?