Starting a Small Business: (Teach Yourself Your Evening Class)

The knowledge, resources, and computing power of billions of people are self-organizing into a massive collective force. This book investigates how small businesses can achieve success by using a dynamic ecosystem of partners to co-create and peer-produce value in a networked economy.

The totally revised edition of a groundbreaking bestseller, first published in 1986, provides information and guidance in starting and maintaining a small business or franchise in the 1990s.

'A must for any small business owner' Federation of Small Businesses Starting your own business can be a daunting task. The Financial Times Guide to Business Start Up is a comprehensive and trusted guide that will cover every important aspect of your business start up. It offers essential guidance on everything from developing your business idea, to your obligations as an employer. It remains ..

Popular and current subject in the media following Dragons' Den, The Apprentice and The Big Idea.For thousands of people who have ever had an idea for good business but have never acted on it.

Written by a team of business and finance experts, this is a complete guide to various aspects of setting up and growing a successful business.

A guide to understanding the various taxes affecting the small business. It aims to lessen the sting of unnecessary accountants' fees.

This is the first book that tells you exactly what to do to start a business, step by step, week by week. Parks breaks down the process into bitesize tasks, removes the fear and the uncertainty and makes success more likely.

Containing over 140 easy-to-read articles, brand-new Viewpoints frompeople who've been there and done it (and lived to tell the tale), anextensive information directory, and a quiz for all buddingentrepreneurs, this fully-updated guide offers help on all aspects ofstarting and growing a small business.

Includes advice on tax, employment law, and accounts. From drafting your business plan to hiring a workforce, managing costs, and taking your service or product to market, this guide gives you what you need to get your business up and running - and growing.

Focuses on the issues that affect home business start-ups, from the 'kitchen table business plan' to the web server in the attic, organised by three key themes: business, lifestyle and technology. This book presents the reader with solutions, demonstrates how a home business can be started, and dispels the myths about working from home.