Amazon.com description: Product Description: Across America, record numbers of employees are leaving corporate jobs to start their own companies. This wave of entrepreneurship is the result of unprecedented downsizing, mergers, and people who are just fed up with the constraints of the traditional corporate structure. Now two successful entrepreneurs with considerable experience in the corporate world offer a road map to the rewarding and exciting life being your own boss. Based on interviews with more than 300 entrepreneurs, Fired Up! is filled with frank information, motivating support, and cautionary advice about how to start out on your own successfully, while avoiding common mistakes. Readers will learn such power principles as: * how to fire up your business dreams * how worriers make winners * how to build your own brand * how to pick a partner * the difference between the quick and the dead A recent national poll indicates that 96% of Americans ages 25-44 are thinking of starting their own business. They'll never find a better ally than Fired Up!