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Freesourcing How To Start A Business With No Money

March 2nd, 2010 » Comments (1)

Freesourcing by Jonathan Yates is a guide to starting a business with no money. In effect it’s a book length version of my post How To Start A Business With No Money.
Yates started his own business working from a spare room at home in April 2004. He’s since written two books, of which [...]



FREE: The Future Of A Radical Price – Chris Anderson

July 14th, 2009 » Comments (0)

FREE: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson looks at what happens to businesses and business models as more and more goods and services are offered for free. He explains how it’s possible for businesses to give away their core product and looks at the economics of FREE.
Chris Anderson is the Editor-in-Chief [...]



400 Latest & Greatest Small Business Ideas From Around The World – Terry Kyle

April 15th, 2009 » Comments (0)

400 Latest & Greatest Small Business Ideas From Around The World is a collection of over 400 small business ideas, which it claims are the latest, greatest and newest small business ideas from around the world. However 400 Latest & Greatest Small Business Ideas From Around The World doesn’t just contain business ideas.
The [...]



So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur? – Jon Gillespie-Brown

March 25th, 2009 » Comments (0)

So You Want to be an Entrepreneur?: How to Decide If Starting a Business is Really for You is intended to be a "fast and fun way to find out whether you can make it as an entrepreneur". Sadly I found it neither fast, nor fun and it’s one of the few business books [...]



Start Up! – Liz Jackson and Mick Spain

March 23rd, 2009 » Comments (0)

Start Up! How to start a successful business from absolutely nothing tells the story of how Liz Jackson went from having an ordinary job, where she was "a bit bored", to running a company turning over nearly £2M and employing 100 people throughout the UK. The book is half autobiography and half business start-up [...]



Gym Biz: Starting And Running Your Own Gym For Profit – Lou Ravelle

February 12th, 2009 » Comments (0)

Gym Biz by Lou Ravelle is a short, but comprehensive guide to starting up your own gym. It includes advice on: choosing premises; equipment selection and purchasing; sales; advertising; the opening day; business cards and newspaper advertisements. It also includes advice on how to layout a gym, complete with suggested floor plans and an [...]



Tribes – Seth Godin

February 9th, 2009 » Comments (0)

Tribes: we need you to lead us is marketing guru, Seth Godin’s latest book. In it he argues that in today’s world everyone has the opportunity to start a movement – that is to create a tribe of like minded people and do "amazing things". Godin argues that many of us ignore the opportunity [...]



Entrepreneur Journeys – Sramana Mitra

December 1st, 2008 » Comments (0)

Entrepreneur Journeys is a collection of interviews that Sramana Mitra has conducted with the entrepreneurs. The interviews are grouped together under a common theme and given a brief introduction. Some of the interviews provide an insight into business opportunities that could compete (in part) with Google, which is interesting to read as they certainly [...]



Fool’s Gold: The Truth Behind Angel Investing in America – Scott Shane

November 19th, 2008 » Comments (4)

The press release that I was sent with this books states:
The stereotype of the “angel investor” is a retired entrepreneur who see potential, asks tough questions, takes a large stake, and in a few years makes a massive return in an IPO. This outsider fills the gap between the venture capitalist and the professional investor, [...]



Find Your Lightbulb – Mike Harris

November 12th, 2008 » Comments (1)

Find You Lightbulb: How to make millions from apparently impossible ideas is billed as a book that provides help finding a business idea, getting funding or creating a brand.
Reading the first two chapters could easily put you off when you learn that Mike Harris is not an entrepreneur. As the Oxford English Dictionary defines it [...]



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