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.
Get Backed, Get Big, Get Bought: Plan your start-up with the end in mind| Colin Barrow (Author) | Capstone
Table of Contents
Introduction: Be careful what you wish for.
Part One: GET BACKED.
Chapter 1. Problems over passion – the real characteristics of winning business ideas.
Chapter 2. The traits of the entrepreneur – it’s all in the mindset.
Chapter 3. Nothing new under the sun – the same old problems, some brand-new solutions.
Chapter 4. Research, research, research.
Chapter 5. Mastering the ‘master plan’ – business plans are templates, not straitjackets.
Chapter 6. The money – who has it and why you might just get your hands on some of it.
Chapter 7. Another day over and deeper in debt – leveraging the investment.
Part Two: GET BIG.
Chapter 8. You must be this high to go on the ride – why babies can’t swim.
Chapter 9. The path to growth – and riches too.
Chapter 10. Selling fivers for a tenner – why margins matter most.
Chapter 11. Taking charge – good management’s a simple yet rare commodity.
Part Three: GET BOUGHT.
Chapter 12. What’s it to you? Calculating value.
Chapter 13. Dressing to kill – preparing your business for sale and getting the timing right.
Chapter 14. Pay day – selling up.
Chapter 15. Floating Off.
Chapter 16. Getting a second life.
References.
Resource list.
About the Author.
Index.
LINK FOR THE BOOK
