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- NOTE: DUE TO A LACK OF REGISTRATIONS FROM THE MANY THOUSANDS
- OF USERS OF THIS PROGRAM, THIS IS 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 quar-
- terly 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 up-
- dated tax, business, and legal information for small busi-
- nesses, 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, former-
- ly 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 prac-
- ticing 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 take-
- over 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 di-
- vision 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 in-
- formation 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 subscrip-
- tion 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)
-