The Small Business Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Definitive Guide to Starting a Business and Growing a Business (Financial Times Series)

The new edition of the "Small Business Handbook "charts the entire lifespan of a small business from initially assessing the idea, market evaluation, product/service, raising finance, marketing, technology right through to the tax and legal obligations facing your business. Having successfully guided the reader through the process of starting a business, the book moves on a step to show how to create and manage growth successfully. This fully updated edition looks at the growing pains of setting up a business, solutions to everyday business issues, time and stress management, and the balance between work and home life. 'The number of mainstream business starts in Q1 2000 totalled 111,200, over 10,000 lower than in the same period of 1999. The number of closures in Q1 2000 totalled 108,000, a rise of 9% on a year earlier.'

Philip and Sandra Webb worked at IBM before spending the last ten years running their own businesses primarily in the computer services market place. They are entrepreneurs who grew their startup business to over A GBP6million turnover in just 4 years.