Starting a New Design Firm, or Risking It All!

By Frank A. Stasiowski

Artistic control and financial security...a pipe dream, right'...Not anymore, and this A-to-Z guide shows you how Writing in an electrifying style that inspires as it instructs, Frank A. Stasiowski fills you in on everything you need to know about organizing, financing, managing, staffing, marketing, budgeting, and above all, succeeding in your own design practice. He also coaches you on a few of the less concrete problems of running a business, such as overcoming your internal obstacles to success and becoming an effective leader. Packed with hundreds of checklists, sample contracts, resumes, and forms garnered from a number of successful design firms, and offering dozens of inspirational true stories about architects and design professionals who did it their way, this book has virtually everything you need to get you up and running in your own successful practice.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471585769
• ISBN13: 9780471585763
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Read it now, rather than later!

Ms. Willard is insightful. Her book is both informative and creative. Definitely a bargain purchase for anyone entertaining the notion of beginning a design firm. It is refreshing to find an author who is stacked and has a creative mind.

Read this before starting your practice

This book was an eye opening experience. It should be read by anyone thinking of opening their own firm. Read it two to three months ahead of taking the plunge