Alan Stransman

Do you have an idea for a business?

A really good idea?

Do you think that if you could just get that really good idea for a business off the ground that you could be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg?

Well, before you rush out there and find investors for your really good business idea, you might want to read Alan Stransman's "Don't Let Your Dream Business Turn Into a Nightmare: A Cautionary Tale for Would-Be Entrepreneurs".

Why?

Because he has been there, and he has the arrows still sticking out of his back to prove it.

It was the summer of 2004, and Alan Stransman had a really good idea for a business. As the creator, writer, producer and director of the television series, Spectacular Spas, he had visited more than 50 of the top resort and destination spas in the world, had filmed more than 200 spa treatments and services and interviewed the "movers and shakers" in the international spa industry.

And now he was set to take all of the knowledge and expertise that he had acquired and roll it into not only one of the first day spas for men in the world, but the leading men's personal care brand in the world, with a chain of day spas and its own exclusive line of men's skincare products.

He was all set to do it - except for the fact that he didn't have the money - and so he built his dream business with someone else's money.

And how did that work out?

Find out in his memoir, "Don't Let Your Dream Business Turn Into a Nightmare: A Cautionary Tale for Would-Be Entrepreneurs".

If you have ever had the idea of starting a business with someone else's money, this book is a must read.