Synopses & Reviews
Would you like to escape the daily grind? Escape having to work for someone else? Would you like to be in charge of your own destiny? To start your very own business? Whether it?s just a fanciful dream or the bullet has already been bitten, you will need and want guidance on how to turn the business of your dreams into reality.
In its 7th edition The Complete Small Business Guide provides the next wave of entrepreneurs and small business owners with a one-stop resource of vital business information.
The Complete Small Business Guide contains invaluable information on how and where to start, with advice on the advantages and pitfalls, timing and creating a business plan. It deals with the legal, financial and practical aspects of raising capital, employing and training your self and your staff, youth opportunities, marketing and protecting your ideas, VAT, tax, new technology and starting up overseas.
The Complete Small Business Guide offers sources of direct help, withextensive address lists, and is a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know to start, survive and succeed in business.
Review
"…A mightily impressive undertaking which we cannot recommend highly enough…" (Mind Your Own Business, February 2003)
Synopsis
Join the thousands of others who have used The Complete Small Business Guide to fulfil their start-up dreams. It’s the complete resource to help you create your own business.
"Would-be entrepreneurs and their advisors will find fewer better investments than this publication."
—FINANCIAL TIMES
"Provides a way through the maze of information"
—FINANCIAL GUARDIAN
"An exhaustive reference book"
—MONEY MAIL
"An excellent book, a veritable survival Baedeker"
—GUARDIAN
Synopsis
This completely updated 7th edition provides the next wave of entrepreneurs and small business owners with a one-stop resource of vital business information. This highly successful book is unique in offering not just informed advice on how to start, survive and succeed in business, but also has extensive directories of all the contacts and addresses you'll ever need. It will be an invaluable aid whether you are unsure how to go about market research, preparing a business plan, raising finance of legal requirements, or if you simply need a database of names and addresses.
About the Author
Professor Colin Barrowwas until recently Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, where he founded and directed the Business Growth and Development Programme, the UK's most successful programme for entrepreneurs. He was educated at Sandhurst and took his MBA at Cranfield. He teaches on MBA and management development programmes throughout the world, acts as a strategy consultant and is on the board of four small businesses. He is the author of a number of best selling titles including Starting a Business for Dummies, Business Plans for Dummiesand Understanding Business Accounts for Dummies.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Section 1: Why Small Firms Matter … and Why there is So Much Help on Offer.
Section 2: Sources of General Help and Advice for Small Firms.
Section 3: Business Opportunities.
Section 4: Exploiting High and Not So High Technology.
Section 5: Finding Out about your Market.
Section 6: Raising the Money.
Section 7: Business and the Law.
Section 8: ‘The Knowledge’: Training for Small Business.
Section 9: Opportunities for Young Entrepreneurs.
Section 10: Starting Up Overseas.
Section 11: Preparing the Business Plan.
Section 12: Glossary of Key Business Terms.
Index.