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Publishers Weekly, May 15, 2000 review of Spare Room Tycoon: Equipping the Inner Entrepreneur Riding the technological revolution and seizing the advantages of the global economy, some 8,000 new home businesses opened each week last year in the U.S. To help steer these brave souls through the economic and emotional challenges they face, James Chan shares his 17 years of experience as an independent business owner and the real-life stories of dozens more in Spare Room Tycoon--Succeeding Independently: The Seventy Lessons of Sane Self-Employment. Sections on starting up and sustaining a business provide wise and witty injunctions and observations, such as "dress to bill" and "other people's anxieties are what keep us in business." This eye-opening work addresses personal and professional relationship issues, daily anxieties and catastrophes, which are the prices one must pay to gain the overarching satisfaction of creating a personal empire, be it large or small. Agent, Liv Blumer. (Nicholas Brealey [NBN, dist.], $22 256p ISBN 1-85788-247-4; June)