Beyond the Business Plan: 13 Essentials You Won’t Learn in Business School

Entrepreneurs offer a “bootstrappers” guide to creating a successful business. Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey started Barefoot Cellars in the laundry room of a rented Sonoma County farmhouse. When they started their company in 1986, they knew almost nothing about winemaking or the wine business. But through innovative ideas and hard work, they built Barefoot Cellars into a highly successful nationwide brand and sold it to E&J Gallo in 2005. read more