Starting a Business for Dummies: Uk Edition

by Colin Barrow

A best-selling guide from British business start-up expert Colin Barrow covering everything budding entrepreneurs need to know to get their business up and running.Whether you are just starting out, planning a new venture, setting up at home or extending a current business online, this book is all you need to succeed.In addition to straightforward advice on all the business basics, this new and improved third edition will include fresh content covering the fundamental changes in the UK economy, up-to-date tax and VAT advice, guidance on finance and funding in the new era of British banking and setting up online to help readers make the move from employee to successful entrepreneur.Starting a Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition features new and updated content funding and business support in challenging times Trimming costs, increasing margins and budgeting for beginners Setting-up a home based busines

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Entrepreneurship, Reference

416 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2000

About the author

Colin Barrow is the author of more than 25 books in the fields of entrepreneurship, business management and international property development. His books have been published by the BBC, The Economist, The Sunday Times, Kogan Page, he has authored or co-authored ten books in the Dummies series and been translated into a score of languages including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Georgian, Romanian, Polish and Bahasa Indonesia.
Following a career in business where he held senior staff and line positions, including that of managing director of a substantial manufacturing enterprise with multi -plant and multi-country operations he was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, a leading European Business School, for ten years. He has been a visiting professor in universities in the US, Europe and the Far East. For five years he was a non-executive director of a high tech venture capital fund, has sat on Government task forces and is now strategic advisor to a number of business owners.
As well as his own books he currently writes freelance, ghost writing and 'Anglicising' books for American authors and lectures extensively on business topics. You can hear Colin's podcast on team building at http://www.morethanbusiness.com/Knowl...

Reviews

[Marcus · Rating 4 out of 5]

very comprehensive, step by step book with no BS. hard to find nowadays with so many self-help books masquerading themselves as business books in order to make a quick buck

[Ádám Büte · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid intro to stuff you need to know about

[Angel Serrano · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excelente libro sobre cómo montar un negocio en el Reino Unido con multitud de referencias y consejos prácticos. Estructurado en cinco partes: Empezando; Preparando y Financiando tu plan; Manteniéndose en los Negocios; Haciendo crecer el Negocio; Los capítulos de los diez (Mandamientos).

[Danny Crossley]

Read it a while ago.