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Architect’s Essentials of Starting, Assessing, and Transitioning a Design Firm

Architect’s Essentials of Starting, Assessing, and Transitioning a Design FirmAs part of The Architect’s Essentials of Professional Practice series, this practical, applied, concise, and user-friendly volume offers a step-by-step guide to understanding and evaluating the goals, risks, and rewards of starting a firm. It covers the basics of firm organization, personnel requirements, legal considerations, fee setting, marketing issues, and the essentials of strategic and business plans. It also addresses how to get started: how to create your first business plan, evaluate initial needs and costs, create a budget, and a produce a list of action items to get started.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.