You Can Do It Too: The 20 Essential Things Every Budding Entrepreneur Should Know

Starting up your own business is one of the most exciting and fulfilling things you can do - and it can make you extremely rich. But how do you get it right?

You Can Do It Too which brings together the collective wisdom of successful entrepreneurs in the form of 20 essential things you must do when starting up a business such as: choose the right name, get a mentor, protect your idea and build a great team. Each lesson in this valuable blueprint is illustrated by a real entrepreneurial story which looks at why it is important and how you can incorporate it into your own business venture.

You Can Do It Too is your first step to starting your own successful business. It is an inspirational masterclass for all budding entrepreneurs.

Rachel Bridge is the Enterprise Editor of The Sunday Times. She writes the How I Made It column each week for the paper as well as regular features about entrepreneurs and small and growing businesses.

An experienced journalist, she formerly worked for The Times and the Evening Standard. She is also a regular conference speaker on the subject of entrepreneurs. Rachel graduated from Cambridge University with an honours degree in Economics.