Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership

Considering starting your own small business or franchise?

Jeff Levy is an entrepreneur, coach, and mentor who helps individuals clarify their goals and values so they can properly evaluate self-employment career options. Through his coaching business, which he undertook after a successful career as a corporate executive, he has helped countless individuals begin their road to self-employment and has participated in more than 100 franchise start-ups. David Nilssen is a serial entrepreneur and leading expert on small business and franchise finance. His company made Inc Magazine's list of the fastest-growing companies in America from 2008-2010 and has helped more than 5,000 people in all fifty states fund a business. In 2007, the Small Business Administration named Nilssen the National Young Entrepreneur of the Year.