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┌───────────────────────┐
│ ABOUT THIS PROGRAM │
└───────────────────────┘
NOTE: THIS MAY BE THE FINAL SHAREWARE RELEASE OF SMALL
BUSINESS ADVISOR. WE HAVE ENTERED INTO A LICENSING AGREEMENT
WITH A MAJOR SOFTWARE PUBLISHER UNDER WHICH THEY WILL DEVELOP
MAC AND WINDOWS VERSION OF THE PROGRAM BY 1997, AND UNDER
WHICH WE MUST CEASE SHAREWARE DISTRIBUTION. HOWEVER, WE WILL
CONTINUE TO UPDATE, MAINTAIN, AND SELL THIS DOS VERSION, BUT
AS A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT ONLY, NOT AS SHAREWARE.
BACKGROUND:
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This program, first released in 1990, has been updated
quarterly each calendar quarter since then. It was written,
and is researched and updated on a weekly basis by Michael D.
Jenkins, CPA and attorney, with a new version released each
calendar quarter. In addition to providing constantly
updated tax, business, and legal information for small
businesses, the program itself is under almost constant
revision and expansion, to make it ever-easier to use and
more useful to you, the small business owner or adviser.
Mr. Jenkins, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, formerly
was a tax attorney with a large San Francisco law firm
noted for its expertise in venture capital matters.
Mr. Jenkins is also a Certified Public Accountant, and
practiced for over 4 years as a tax CPA with two of the
"Big Six" international accounting firms, in Los Angeles
and Honolulu, as well as being a manager and later a tax
partner for several years with a large local CPA firm in
the San Francisco area. He also spent several years
practicing as an economics and business consultant in L.A.
and Washington, D.C., with the consulting firm and private
"think tank," Economics Research Associates. At present,
he authors a series of business "how-to" books and runs a
small software company, Ronin Software, which publishes this
program and another shareware program, the financial
takeover game/simulation, "Wall $treet Raider."
This program has received very favorable reviews in PC WORLD
Magazine in a 1993 cover article that selected it as one of
only 24 "instant payback" software programs, that would more
than pay for themselves almost immediately. It was again
chosen and reviewed very favorably in a 1994 PC WORLD cover
article that selected Small Business Advisor as one of "the
best of business shareware" programs. More recently, it
received rave reviews ("...superb all-in-one information
source...") in a full-page article in the March, 1995 issue
of The COMPUTER SHOPPER.
RELATED BOOK SERIES:
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Mr. Jenkins is the principal author of the book "STARTING
AND OPERATING A BUSINESS IN @STATE."
He is also author or coauthor of 50 other similarly-titled
books, one for each of the states (plus the District of
Columbia), all of which are published by Oasis Press (a
division of PSI Research, of Grants Pass, Oregon -- a
leading publisher of business books and software).
Most of these 275-to-300-page how-to manuals are partially
coauthored by local experts in the respective states (the
local offices of the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, in
some 30 states), and together have sold nearly a million
copies nationwide since the initial book in the series,
"STARTING AND OPERATING A BUSINESS IN CALIFORNIA" (now in
its 14th annual edition) first appeared in 1981.
We were honored that this book series was chosen in 1994
by INC. MAGAZINE as one of the 6 "winners," out of all the
hundreds of small business books INC. reviewed, in a cover
article entitled, "IN SEARCH OF THE SMALL BUSINESS BIBLE."
A subsequent review in the NATIONAL PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT (Sept.
1994 issue) said that the Starting & Operating a Business
series of books is: "...probably THE MOST USEFUL small
business self-help book available on the market...."
The National Small Business Journal, based in Atlanta,
noted recently that our Georgia book edition was the number
1 selling small business book in Atlanta, in a monthly
listing provided by the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain.
TOLL-FREE LINE FOR BOOK ORDERS:
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You can order any of the 51 books in the "STARTING AND
OPERATING A BUSINESS IN ...." series directly from the
publisher, PSI Research, at: (Toll-free) 1-800-228-2275
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO SMALL BUSINESS ADVISOR:
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If you need access to up-to-date business, tax and legal
information all year round, you can subscribe to our
quarterly update service, where you receive each quarterly
release of the program as soon as it becomes available.
This subscription service is available at the following
reduced prices:
. SINGLE-STATE REGISTERED VERSION -- $99 a year
(you will receive 4 quarterly update releases)
. PROFESSIONAL (50-state and D.C.) VERSION -- $149 a
year (you receive 4 quarterly update releases)
TO ORDER EITHER, send check or money order to: (**)
MICHAEL D. JENKINS
RONIN SOFTWARE
3020 ISSAQUAH-PINE LAKE ROAD #36
ISSAQUAH, WA 98029
(** Residents of Washington State -- include 8.2%
Washington sales tax)