I led the cows to pasture, but then started across the field with nothing but my frayed overalls and my dinner. I said goodbye to the freshly turned dirt, squelching under my bare feet and oozing between my toes. I said goodbye to the brown fields full of stubble and plants just beginning to grow, to the dew on blades of grass, the wide sky of promise and everything I had ever known. I didn't know how I'd fare, but all the same I was going to the Forbidden Forest, never to be seen by anyone in my village again.

I led the cows to pasture, but then started across the field with nothing but my frayed overalls and my dinner. I said goodbye to the freshly turned dirt, squelching under my bare feet and oozing between my toes. I said goodbye to the brown fields full of stubble and plants just beginning to grow, to the dew on blades of grass, the wide sky of promise and everything I had ever known. I didn't know how I'd fare, but all the same I was going to the Forbidden Forest, never to be seen by anyone in my village again.

Making a Microbusiness is written in an engaging, no-nonsense, down to earth manner about Angela's most important lessons in entrepreneurship learned the hard way. At times it is witty and humorous (if only the subject wasn't so serious). The book steers everyone intending to start a business away from commonly-made mistakes, and rings warning bells for every current small business owner who's already making their way through entrepreneurship. A microbusiness is defined as a small business of 1 to 19 employees usually started with less than $35,000. Contrary to the common narrative of...