Features an entrepreneur's inside track on his life in business. This book lets you discover why Virgin tried to take on one of the world's biggest superbrands, and how Virgin Mobile USA holds the record as one of the fastest company in history to generate revenues of over one billion dollars.

British entrepreneurs are optimistic despite the current downturn, new research reveals. A nationwide survey commissioned by Nectar Business shows that 38% of under 34s and 23% of all adults have ambitions to set up on their own.' Startups.co.uk 3rd March 2009 Starting your own business can be a daunting task especially during a recession. However, media coverage suggests that the credit crunch

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.

From an ice cream van to Dragons' Den - the autobiography of self-made multi-millionaire Duncan Bannatyne

How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? This book confronts these questions by showing leaders how they can stave off decline and if they find themselves falling, reverse their course.

Thousands of young people would like to set up their own business but there are often many factors holding them back. Packed full of inspiration and practical advice, this book offers stacks of business ideas and helps the reader work out what sort of business would be most suitable for them.

This book draws on a teaching experiment at Nanyang Technological University to show how we can teach innovation and entrepreneurship.

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.

Focuses on deals and events that have forever changed the world of mergers and acquisitions.

More than 300,000 people start a business every year. That number will rise over the next year or two if the current economic downturn leads to widespread job losses. It is a fact that many people choose to turn the threat of redundancy into the opportunity of self employment. It is also a fact that when economic growth is low, business failure rates are higher. There has never been a greater ..

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Offers practical legal information on the ins and outs of the fund raising law. This book explains how constitutional law, governance, and IRS audit practices pertain to charitable fundraising.

Encourages and develops students' entrepreneurial skills.

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.

Focuses on intellectual property development, funding, and marketing/selling. This book provides a treatment of valuation, deal structuring, and equity preservation issues. It discusses technology management and continuous innovation as a competitive advantage. It addresses the issue of leading, managing, and compensating technical workers.

The interplay between firms' internal organization and market behaviour is a long standing issue in industrial economics. This book examines firms' objectives in the comparatively new perspective shaped by globalization. The positive and normative aspects of theoretical analysis are developed and richly complemented by empirical studies.

A best selling, simple guide to understanding the various taxes affecting the small business. Clear, concise and written by one of the UK's leading tax writers, this book will take the terror out of tax and lessen the sting of unnecessary accountants' fees.

Get your business up and running and off to a successful start with these fundamental resources. The FT Guide to Business Start Up is the essential start up guide.It is bang up-to-date and covers everything you need to know from finance, tax and the law, to marketing, sales, pricing and budgeting. This book will help you make your business succeed, even in a recession. A good business plan is ...

This new third edition continues to highlight the strong link between the theory and analysis of industrial economics using engaging case studies. It has extended its journey through the historical development of industrial organization to the present day with new case studies on industries relevant to the 21st Century. For example, IT and telecommunications (Microsoft, eBay, 3G mobile phones ...

Advising Families with Small Businesses.