Confessions of an Entrepreneur: How to Survive The Highs and Lows of Starting Up - Softcover

Robson, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273721488 ISBN 13: 9780273721482

Publisher: Ft Pr, 2010

Synopsis

No-one ever tells you what it really feels like to be an entrepreneur. What you actually have to go through when you chase ambitions and fortunes.

However, in his new book, Confessions of an Entrepreneur , Chris Robson does.

It’s not a book about business plans and choosing the right business ideas. Those books already exist. This doesn’t.

This is a book about the emotional issues that other business books ignore – the sacrifices you make, the struggle to choose and work with the right partner(s), the strain of uncertainty and potential failure, the dizzying and addictive highs of success, the challenge of building and motivating a team – everything that you will experience when you start a new business. It’s about the journey every single entrepreneur has to take – and it’s this journey, not just the destination, that you have to learn to love if you’re going to be a great entrepreneur.

And you don’t just hear from the author alone, you are invited to read the raw, honest stories from some of the most talented entrepreneurs on this planet, including Bill Gross of Idealab, Roland Rudd of Finsbury Communications, Jo Fairley of Green & Black’s, Nick Wheeler of Charles Twyritt, William Reeve of LoveFilm and many others. For the first time, they’ll tell you what they really had to go through to follow their dreams right through to the end – bitter, sweet or both!

Praise for the book

“Hard hitting, no holds barred, crash course into the world of the entrepreneur.”
Lord Bilimoria CBE, DL – Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer 

“More like an outright thriller than a business book. It brings to life the raw excitement and sheer terror of being an entrepreneur.”
Guy Browning, Writer, Broadcaster, Creativity Guru

“Chris manages to map the DNA of successful entrepreneurs in an entertaining and hugely readable way. A must read for anyone who wants a window into  the mind of the entrepreneur.”
Roland Rudd, Founder of Finsbury, International Communications Group

 

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From the Back Cover

What is it like to risk everything? Could you take it?

Do you ever wonder what it really feels like to be an entrepreneur? What you actually have to go through when you chase dreams and fortunes?

Meet Chris Robson, battle-hardened entrepreneur, expert in the twenty-four hour madness. He’s about to start another business and he wants you to come along for the ride.

Together you’ll move through the emotional trials every entrepreneur has to face.  How do you cope with never standing still; making unexpected sacrifices; climbing out of the ditch if things go wrong?

Along the way, he’ll introduce you to some of the most talented entrepreneurs on this planet. You’ll hear their raw, honest stories, some exhilarating, some terrifying, all for you to learn from.

This is your test-run, a real taste of the entrepreneur’s emotional rollercoaster; dare you take it; dare you succeed?

 

‘A hard hitting, no holds barred, crash course into the world of the entrepreneur’

Lord Bilimoria CBE DL, founder and chairman of Cobra Beer

‘More like an outright thriller than a business book'

Guy Browning, writer, broadcaster, creativity guru

‘Hugely readable and entertaining’

Roland Rudd, founder of Finsbury Communications

 

 

 

 

About the Author

Chris Robson is a CEO and a serial entrepreneur. He has a track record of creating significant growth and profit across a range of marketing services, digital and media businesses. In the 80’s Robson cut his teeth with Hanson before becoming the youngest Director of advertising agency DMB&B. After completing an MBA at London Business School, he built up and floated the Internet services company, Syzygy, on the German Stock Exchange in 2000, raising 55m€ and with a market valuation of 240m€. He is a Founding Director of Ink publishing, the world’s largest producer of in-flight media and was CEO of Edengene the leading growth and innovation consultancy where he advised companies like Coca-Cola, Unilever, GSK, PepsiCo, RBS, Santander, O2 & J&J. More recently he co-founded the You Wish Group, providing innovative Internet services to large companies and raising investment for a new service launching in autumn 2010.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ft Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0273721488
• ISBN 13: 9780273721482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 201