Barrow Get Backed, Get Big, Get Bought

Plan your start-up with the end in mind
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-906465-60-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

"Bebo sale to AOL nets founders a £290m fortune in 3years." - March 2008
"Foxtons sale nets founder £370m." - May 2007
"L'Oréal buys Body Shop for £652m." - March2006
For entrepreneurs and business owners alike, this is your ticketto serious money.
Fact 1: Business is all about making money.
Fact 2: Personal satisfaction is great, but it doesn't pay thebills.
If your main ambition is to make big money from your business,you're already on the right track. Over 4 million people start upbusinesses in the UK each y ear but only 1% become millionaires.Start with the end in mind and you could be one of them.
Colin Barrow, bestselling start-up author and businessinvestment specialist, shows you how to shape up for a sale rightfrom the world go:
Get Backed - secure big investment
Get Big - create real value and strong growth
Get Bought - dress the business and negotiate a killerdeal
With practical advice, tools and stories from those who havedone it, you'll find out how to guide your start-up businesstowards the payday of your dreams.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barrow, Colin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Be careful what you wish for.
Part One: GET BACKED.
1 Problems over passion - the real characteristics ofwinning business ideas.
2 The traits of the entrepreneur - it's all in themindset.
3 Nothing new under the sun - the same old problems, somebrand new solutions.
4 Research, research, research.
5 Mastering the 'master plan' - business plansare templates, not straitjackets.
6 The money - who has it and why you might just get yourhands on some of it.
7 Another day over and deeper in debt - leveraging theinvestment.
Part Two: GET BIG.
8 You must be this high to go on the ride - why babiescan't swim.
9 The path to growth - and riches too.
10 Selling fivers for a tenner - why margins mattermost.
11 Taking charge - good management's a simple yetrare commodity.
Part Three: GET BOUGHT.
12 What's it to you? Calculating value.
13 Dressing to kill - preparing your business for sale andgetting the timing right.
14 Pay day - selling up.
15 Floating Off.
16 Getting a second life.
References.
Resource list.
About the Author.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Colin Barrow is based in Cornwall, UK. An established Dummies' author, Colin was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, and a visiting professor in a number of international Universities. He is a specialist in business investment and finance with a score of books to his name. They have been translated into eighteen languages, including Russian, Chinese and Romanian.
Other titles by Colin Barrow: Incubators: A Realists Guide to the Worlds New Business Accelerators (Capstone); Starting a Business for Dummies For Dummies UK); and The Sunday Times Business Plan Workbook (Kogan Page).
Colin is the biggest selling author of Start Your Own Business books in the UK with over 56,000 copies sold to date.