Employee to entrepreneur : how to ditch the day job and start your own business / Chris Garden and Catherine Blackburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garden, Chris, author.

Blackburn, Catherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New business enterprises--Management.

New business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Harlow, England : Pearson Education Limited, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Stop dreaming and start your own business

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

About us

Part 1: The reasons for going it alone

Chapter 1: Why do it?

Chapter 2: When should you do it?

Chapter 3: Looking for inspiration

Chapter 4: Leaving employment

Part 2: Building your business plan

Chapter 5: Developing the idea

Chapter 6: Number crunching

Chapter 7: Getting advice

Chapter 8: The right business structure

Chapter 9: Branding your business

Chapter 10: Minimising risk

Chapter 11: The final plan and how to use it

Part 3: The nuts and bolts of running your business

Chapter 12: Working smartly

Chapter 13: The right environment

Chapter 14: Staying on track

Chapter 15: Managing relationships

Chapter 16: Managing growth

Chapter 17: Embracing change

Part 4: Unconventional lessons

Chapter 18: Beware of experts

Chapter 19: Luck or judgement

Chapter 20: The do nothing strategy

Chapter 21: Business bullies

Chapter 22: How to sleep at night

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780273779094

0273779095

9780273779087

0273779087

OCLC:

848884050