Start-Up Smart: How to start and build a business for £5000

by Robin Bennett

This book will not make you a million inside of three months - nor does it make any other wildly optimistic claims such as saving the world, fundamentally changing the way we think about business or improving your chances of pulling. This book is a detailed description of how to start a small business from scratch with relatively little money, and how the business can give you a comfortable standard of living with little or no risk in the long term.

Genres: Business

133 pages, Paperback

First published August 6, 2010

About the author

Robin Bennett is an author and entrepreneur who has written over twenty-five books for children. He has also written books on the swashbuckling world of business: How to Make a Good Living Running Your Own Business, Kicking the Property Ladder and Start up Smart, all published by Harriman House.

In 2024 Cracking was shortlisted for a Week Junior Book Award and Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year for Children. His YA novel 'XII' was shortlised for a British Book Award in 2023 and his very popular Monster Max Series is a Book Trust pick and won Coventry Inspiration Book Awards in 2022. Picus the Thief, won the Writer's News Indie Published Book of the Year Award in 2012.

When Robin grew up he thought he wanted to be a cavalry officer until everyone else realised that putting him in charge of a tank was a very bad idea. He then became an assistant gravedigger in London. After that he had a career frantically starting businesses (everything from dog-sitting to cigars, tuition to translation)... until finally settling down to write improbable stories to keep his children from killing each other on long car journeys.