What is E-myth?

Information about E-myth

E-Myth in the business vernacular refers to the Entrepreneurial Myth, and refers to the fact that most businesses fail because the founders are technicians that were inspired to start a business without knowledge of how successful businesses run.

The mythic and often disastrous assumption is that people who are experts regarding technical details of a product or service will also be expert at running that sort of business. Many small business owners eventually realize that just as they had to learn their technical skills, they have to learn business growth and management skills.

E-Myth is also used as a verb, i.e., to 'E-Myth your business' means to build internal systems that control processes as they do in a franchise operation, so that results are predictable. A result of systematizing workflow is that owners are freed from most daily operations to spend more time on strategic issues. The methodology was first articulated in the 1985 book The E-Myth by Michael E. Gerber who has since founded an organization called E-Myth Worldwide that promotes subsequent E-Myth publications as well as speaking events for Gerber.

E-Myth methods are taught in courses at Stanford , BYU [1] and Stetson University and recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine[2], Forbes Magazine[3] and Inc. (magazine)[4] among others. In 2003 E-Myth entered the Fast Company (magazine) blogosphere [5].

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An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon) is a person who operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks.
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Michael E. Gerber (b. 1936) is an American author of several books and founder of E-Myth Worldwide, an organization based in Santa Monica, California aimed at the small business and entrepreneurial community. He is most notable for his E-Myth series.
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Brigham Young University (BYU), located in Provo, Utah, is the flagship university of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church).

About 98% of the students at BYU are Mormon and two-thirds of the students come from outside the state of Utah.
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Entrepreneur Magazine is a publication that carries news stories about entrepreneurialism, small business management, and business opportunities.

This magazine is published monthly, with a total of 12 issues annually. (No special extra issues are published.
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Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published bi-weekly, and BusinessWeek.
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Inc. is a monthly magazine for entrepreneurs and small businesses based in New York City. It also publishes an annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., the "Inc. 500.
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