Summary
If you can start a business in an economic downturn and make it fly, chances are when the good times return, your little business will go gangbusters. If you've been thinking of starting a business but think now's not the time think again. Kochie's Strap on the Parachute has been designed to help guide you through the start-up process in tough times. If you know where to look, there are heaps of business opportunities in a recession. Small businesses can step in to fill the gap of failed larger businesses. They can usually also quickly change their products and services to make them more affordable to customers. This book has been developed to be your companion as you travel the road of new business ownership. It's packed with practical advice as well as tips and tricks to help make your business a success. Kochie's Strap on the Parachute - How to Start and Grow a Business in Tough and Good Times is full of step by step information, case studies, Kochie's Top Tips, useful checklists and handy links to resources that any new business owner or entrepreneur should have.
David H. Koch partnered with his brother, Charles G. Koch, in business and political ventures that grew into the nation¿s second-largest private company and a powerful libertarian movement that helped reshape American politics. David Koch (pronounced coke) became one of the world¿s richest people, with assets of $42.2 billion in 2019 and a 42 percent stake in the family enterprise, Koch Industries. He also became a nationally known philanthropist with donations to medical, educational, and cultural institutions. The largest donations was $150 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to build the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care in a 23-story structure in Manhattan. At Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the ballet venue became the David H. Koch Theater in 2008 after he pledged $100 million. Another $100 million went to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for an ambulatory center, and $20 million to the American Museum of Natural History for a dinosaur wing. Both were named for him.
A gregarious, socially prominent New Yorker, Mr. Koch loved the ballet, had been a dinosaur buff as a child and battled prostate cancer in his 50s and 60s. He was a familiar figure at society galas, a 6-foot-5 former college basketball star who long held the single-game scoring record 41 points for the M.I.T. team, the Engineers. He also survived a 1991 plane crash that killed 34 people at Los Angeles International Airport. David H. Koch passed away on 08/23/2019 at the age of 79.
(Bowker Author Biography)
