Plan your start-up with the end in mind
E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book
ISBN: 978-1-906465-89-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
"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.
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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.