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ISBN 10: 185458684X ISBN 13: 9781854586841

Casa editrice: Crimson Publishing, 2012

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Startups.co.uk brings you the latest expert guide in their popular series for new and small businesses; Business Plans for Small Businesses. Taking you step-by-step through every aspect of planning, preparing and perfecting a successful business plan, from carrying out essential market research and business financing to profit projections and the executive summary. Whether you have just started up or you are thinking about starting your own business, Business Plans for Small Businesses is packed with all the essential advice, insight and up-to-date information for writing and confidently pitching a successful business plan. Written in a jargon-free style and set out in an easy to master step-by-step approach, meaning you can tackle every stage of planning, perfecting and pitching both quickly and easily. With real-life tips and advice from entrepreneurs who have written successful business plans, you can learn from the experts and apply their valuable knowledge today. Plus, all the latest information and advice on planning methods and strategies, how to carry out market research, business finance as well as business plan examples to help you get started. Business Plans for Small Businesses is your complete toolkit for business plan success, including... Preparing your plan and setting your business goals Researching the market and positioning your business Working out budgets - identifying change, trends and opportunities Writing your plan, presentation and style Pitching your plan - perfect and pitch your plan to potential investors Startups.co.uk is the most popular independent website for anyone starting a business in the UK. Launched in 2000 by a successful entrepreneur, it offers unrivalled advice and inspiration from leading entrepreneurs to over 150,000 people every month.

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Educated at Sandhurst, Colin Barrow is the author of more than 30 books in the fields of entrepreneurship, business management and international property development. Following a career in business where he held senior staff and line positions, he was taught at Cranfield School of Management.

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Introduction
How often do you succumb to an envious glance at a successful entrepreneur, assigning their success more to luck than judgement? Bill Gates was lucky to come in at the start of the boom in demand for personal computers; Steve Jobs just hitched a ride on Sony's Walkman trajectory as it burnt out; Google's founders came in at a fortuitous moment after Tim Berners-Lee had done all the hard brainwork getting the internet off the ground; Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg arrived on the scene as social networks were becoming the rage.
Difficult as it may be to believe, people actually make their own luck. "The harder I practice the luckier I get." This quote, attributed to former world champion golfer Gary Player, is perhaps a more realistic view of how great performers get to be great. Player is the only golfer in the 20th century to have won the British Open in three different decades - so he knows something about being in it for the long haul.
Practice, as they say, makes perfect.
Preparing a business plan is in effect a practice run at shaping up your strategy to start, grow or redirect a business venture. Indeed, it is a chance to make your mistakes n paper before you go to the market.
In today's unforgiving environment we need all the luck we can get. With the margin for error shrinking and financial institutions getting even more picky over who they will support, the key differentiator for anyone looking in on a business from the outside is the business plan.
Yes, it will take time to prepare and write it, but this is important, and ultimately rewarding, work. This book will show you how.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Crimson Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 185458684X
• ISBN 13: 9781854586841
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288