The Nine Dots is a handbook for entrepreneurs and young professionals. We spend our working lives learning new skills and behaviors. We go from being talented to competent. As employees we discover and absorb. Entrepreneurship is quite different. It is the journey within. It is about self discovery. Work is a quest of the complex simple. Life is a quest of the simple complex. Every day, we go to work to solve "complex" problems but deep down we know that they are trivial when compared to life's challenges. Sometimes work is our life and life is our work. The fabric of our lives is made from these two intertwining threads. As an entrepreneur you will combine work and life. Your discovery of the simple complex and the complex simple will make you a fuller person if not a better one even if you fail. This book will help you even if in very small measure - with advice and tips - in your journey as an entrepreneur or young, upcoming professional. So you ask, what is the deal with the Nine Dots? Nine is an odd number that does strange things when it multiplies itself with other numbers. It retains its character in the answer. Like life's little challenges that multiply with others yet stay on with a kind of permanence and uniqueness. Like your stamp as an entrepreneur - whatever you do, the outcome will capture your essence.