Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots

Gareth Branwyn

Que Publishing, Sep 19, 2003 - Computers - 384 pages

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A real-world business book for the explosion of eBay entrepreneurs! Absolute Beginner's Guide to Launching an eBay Business guides you step-by-step through the process of setting up an eBay business, and offers real-world advice on how to run that business on a day-to-day basis and maximize financial success. This book covers determining what kind of business to run, writing an action-oriented business plan, establishing an effective accounting system, setting up a home office, obtaining starting inventory, arranging initial funding, establishing an eBay presence, and arranging for automated post-auction management.

About the author

Gareth Branwyn is a well-known technology journalist and self-proclaimed "reluctant geek." He is writer and editor for Wired, ID and Esquire magazines, and has written many books on technology topics, including, Mosaic Quick Tour (the first World Wide Web book ever published), Jargon Watch: A Pocket Dictionary for the Jitterati, Jamming the Media: A Citizen's Guide, and The Happy Mutant Handbook. He also has contributed material to many technology books, including Que's Catalog of Tomorrow and The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. He is Editor-in-chief, co-owner, and site designer of Street Tech (www.streettech.com). Gareth also contributed lyrics to Billy Idol's 1993 album Cyberpunk.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots; Absolute Beginner's Guide
• Author: Gareth Branwyn
• Publisher: Que Publishing, 2003
• ISBN: 0789745488, 9780789745484
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Hardware / General; Science / Mechanics / Thermodynamics