About Us
Rudy Schmid is a renowned business mentor and author of multiple books focused on entrepreneurship. With over three decades of experience working in the industry, Rudy understands the challenges of the entrepreneurial journey.
His journey started in the late 1950s when he took over his father’s small accounting firm. Over the decades, the firm prospered, and through it, Rudy gained deep insights into various businesses and industries. He witnessed countless success and failure stories that shaped his understanding of what it truly takes to be an entrepreneur.
During 1980, subsequent to the conclusion of the Camp David peace accord, facilitated by President Carter, international trade among the nations surged to unprecedented levels. It was during this period that Rudy became engaged as the accountant for a project in Cairo, Egypt, involving investors from France, the Arab world, and the United States. The project under discussion was the construction of a large hotel on the banks of the Nile River. Meetings were frequent and focused on assessing progress, and it was during one such meeting that Rudy encountered a particularly challenging and surreal experience.
Rudy vividly recalls a specific meeting, seated alongside French, Arabic, and American investors around a sizable conference table, where conversations flowed rapidly in three different languages. His American client later recounted to him the essence of the discussion. During the meeting, Rudy diligently recorded figures concerning costs, projected revenues, and anticipated profits in French francs, Arabic pounds, and US dollars. He meticulously converted all figures into the respective currencies and prepared comprehensive reports in three languages. If ever there was a moment that epitomized the challenges and excitement of his role as an accountant, that meeting certainly qualified.
Such experiences led Rudy to publish several acclaimed books offering financial management strategies and business success stories to help emerging businesses. Through these young entrepreneurs guide books, Rudy aims to fuel the dreams of young founders and provide them with a guiding light on the road to entrepreneurial excellence.
Through his literature, Rudy takes readers behind the scenes of his work as a business mentor. He shares insightful anecdotes and lessons from coaching hundreds of entrepreneurs worldwide. Excerpts from his discussions provide a glimpse of strategies Rudy Schmid employed to assist clients across diverse industries.
Get your copy to learn more about Rudy’s philosophies and what inspired him to publish resources that have empowered entrepreneurs globally. Gain perspective on his approaches to nurturing entrepreneurship.
America’s Guide to Starting Your Own Company
This is an easy to read, step-by-step introduction helping you create your own licensed company, able to conduct business throughout the world! This book will guide you in every matter including registering your company name, registering for all the federal and state identification numbers, hiring employees, locating the “right” bank, determining working capital and more. The author has been there, and knows what it takes to begin from scratch and build a successful company. He will hold your hand as you pass through the jungle of accounting terms until you actually look forward to reading your own financial statement. You will gradually feel more and more empowered to “get started” in building your own company. The mystery of how to begin will be replaced with the knowledge of taking your first step, followed by each successive step until you gain the confidence to take charge, to make decisions and begin selling your products or services. Whether your goal is to own a small personal business or a future industry giant, you will be guided in the right steps to take. Knowledge is power; and America’s Guide to Building Your Own Company will help to provide the powerful motivation to take your ideas and transform them into reality. Every great industry leader began with the same first steps, and this Guide will help you to join them.
Build Your Company for Success
Build Your Company for Success is especially written for new company owners who want to begin with strong management, who want to invest their time in the most profitable ways. One of the highest goals of the author is to help avoid early errors by becoming focused on steps that will lead to success. High on that list are ways to build cash profits. Special attention is given to maximizing working capital, that is, cash with which to operate, safeguarding cash and building cash reserves.
The word Equity is explained to more clearly understand the importance of owning the right share of the company when multiple ownership is involved.
Unique to this book are five real life, amazing stories about new companies with million dollar potential that did not succeed. A few valued steps are explained that could have changed failures into major success. This book will help you to jump far ahead of most companies by applying the steps explained.
It is a gold mine for those who want a strong start as new company owners. Reading the easy-to-understand information can literally help to avoid problems and lead to the success desired.
The Entrepreneurs Guide: Navigating The Path To Successful Business Ownership
This guide has been created for everyone who wants to start their own business, whether they are men or women, young or old. It starts by defining the type of business, such as a single proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or the more modern LLC. It explains why one was chosen over another and the procedures needed to launch the business. It outlines the requirements for recruiting personnel as well as the value of finding a quality bank, accountant, lawyer, and, in some cases, a marketing and advertising professional. These are the pros that ought to be chosen because they can effectively communicate and comprehend the owner’s business.
Although not everyone likes “The Numbers”, the Guide carefully summarizes the financial topics while yet providing enough details for an overview of financial statements, accounting practices, and useful reports to monitor and control one’s firm. When the working years are over. The Author says, a chapter on retirement. I’ve been there, and I understand the learning curve, the hardest parts, and the best parts. It is well written, understanding of the challenges facing every new company owner.
Endorsement:
I am aware of Rudy Schmid’s endeavor to write, “The Entrepreneurs Guide”. I have known Rudy my entire life since he first took on my father’s company as a client, the year I was born, in 1959. Throughout the ups and downs of my life, Rudy has been there all along by my families side during my career, 25 years in law enforcement, 21 years in the military and, my decades long endeavors in real estate development and on into my position as (now retired) General Manager of an Asset Management firm in Scottsdale Arizona. His insights and exceptional grasp of finance, business, and tax law, were instrumental in my companies surviving the devastating financial and real estate collapse of 2008. It is because of Rudy Schmid’s technical expertise and literally, 90 years of wisdom, that my three companies are still standing today. So it is without any reservation that I wholeheartedly offer by enthusiastic endorsement of Rudy’s new book “The Entrepreneur’s Guide”. Congratulations Rudy!
