



I would strongly recommend this book for those who want to learn TCP/IP at a conceptual level in addition to Comer. However, if you want to go to the internals, this may not be the right book for you.

D.L Rao Lecturer SPAS University of the South Pacific PO Box 1168 Suva Fiji

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This book helped give me my first dream of being self-employed. It gave me my first education in how to run the "nuts and bolts" operation of a small business (especially mail-order).
Sure, it's got it's share of hype and "positive" talk, but that is what I needed at that stage in my development into a self-employed business owner. It also lacks details that you will need with your own business. But so what? If you are serious about starting your own business, you'll be wanting to read several other books, anyway, to gain the help you need. Some of it will be general information, like this book, and others will contain more specific information about your particular industry/trade.
32 years later, I'm self-employed and have been that way for the last 15 years, at least. I am grateful to Tyler Hicks for givng me a start and pointing me in the right direction.
--George Stancliffe, author, SPEED READING 4 KIDS

This book was full of incredible very easy to do ideas. I do beleive that by applying the techniques put forth in this book, anyone can make more money than they already have, and that's never a loss.
The only reason I withheld one star, was that the author used the book to advertise a bunch of other services.

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Questions like "Do I need to have a registered company name?" "If it is just me do I need to set up a bank account/accounting system or just have the client make out the checks to me ?". "What do I need to do if I set up for Individual vs a Coorporation or Partnership" "Do I need to set up a payroll system which takes out taxes and worker comp, or do I just deposit the checks in my personal account and handle taxes at end of the year ?"
Discussions of moonlighting vs full time and Indiviual vs Groups and practical step by step items in setting up finacial and accounting issues would be helpful.

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I respectfully submit, that you need to appreciate Mr. Hicks' position. He has provided a conservative approach that will work in almost every situation. The empirical approach that you advocate may well work in most situations but I'll bet there is little margin built in for contingencies. True, your solution may cost less, which is important. But will the low-margin, low cost solution still work 1 or 2 years from now or will the pipe size be too small to allow for degradation/changes? Customer repeat business must be a consideration, too.
I'm not trying to be confrontational, and I understand what you're saying. But you have to appreciate the position that Mr. Hicks must take in such a handbook, and he takes the only logical one, which is to be on the conservative side. People doing more than a couple of these calculations in a year in fact should consult more in-depth material, as you did.
Regards,
David R. Debo, P.E.