Starting a Business Overseas: a free ebook by Jo Parfitt

I read again the ebook by Jo Parfitt Starting a Business Overseas today. It is quite interesting either for expats, who want for example to stay in their new country and become self-employed, or for expat spouses, who want to become self-employed and to create a home-business. In fact, you can find there all the substance of Jo parfitt's book The Expat Entrepreneur, but without all the examples of entrepreneurs (which are not always ideally chosen) and lists of resources.

I like in particular the checklists that can help you reflect about your potentiel as an entrepreneur (do you have what it takes?) and develop original business ideas. But, as I mentioned on this blog in my book review of The Expat Entrepreneur, I think the "entrepreneur" title is not quite appropriate, as it focusses solely on self-employed activities that are done from home and paid by the hour, quite often on a part-time basis.

Despite these restrictions, those expats or "trailing spouses" who want to develop a self-employment idea and haven't had any business experience yet will find the book quite useful. You can download it by clicking on the title of this article.