The Complete Small Business Guide: A sourcebook for new and small businesses (Capstone Reference) - Softcover

Barrow, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841120790 ISBN 13: 9781841120799

Publisher: Capstone, 2003

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 this title

About the Author

PROFESSOR COLIN BARROW is Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management and Director of the Business Growth and Development Programme, the UK?s most successful programme for entrepreneurs. He is a founder member of Cranfield Creates, the school?s own e-business incubator. He was educated at Sandhurst and took his MBA at Cranfield. He has taught on management development programmes throughout the world and also works as a strategy consultant.

From the Back Cover

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

From the Inside Flap

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, with extensive address lists, and is a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know to start, survive and succeed in business.

Edition details

• Publisher: Capstone
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841120790
• ISBN 13: 9781841120799
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 480