Get Backed, Get Big, Get Bought: Plan your start-up with the end in mind
About this ebook
"Foxtons sale nets founder £370m." - May 2007
"L'Oréal buys Body Shop for £652m." - March 2006
For entrepreneurs and business owners alike, this is your ticket to serious money.
Fact 1: Business is all about making money.
Fact 2: Personal satisfaction is great, but it doesn't pay the bills.
If your main ambition is to make big money from your business, you're already on the right track. Over 4 million people start up businesses in the UK each y ear but only 1% become millionaires. Start with the end in mind and you could be one of them.
Colin Barrow, bestselling start-up author and business investment specialist, shows you how to shape up for a sale right from the world go:
Get Backed - secure big investment
Get Big - create real value and strong growth
Get Bought - dress the business and negotiate a killer deal
With practical advice, tools and stories from those who have done it, you'll find out how to guide your start-up business towards the payday of your dreams.
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About the author
Colin Barrow is based in Cornwall, UK. An established Dummies' author, Colin was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, and a visiting professor in a number of international Universities. He is a specialist in business investment and finance with a score of books to his name. They have been translated into eighteen languages, including Russian, Chinese and Romanian.
Other titles by Colin Barrow: Incubators: A Realists Guide to the Worlds New Business Accelerators (Capstone); Starting a Business for Dummies For Dummies UK); and The Sunday Times Business Plan Workbook (Kogan Page).
Colin is the biggest selling author of Start Your Own Business books in the UK with over 56,000 copies sold to date.
