Martin Webb "Make Your First Million: Ditch the 9-5 and Start the Business of Your Dreams "
Capstone | 2007-08-15 | ISBN:1841127612 | PDF | 192 pages | 1,1 Mb
Thinking of starting your own business? You've come to the right place. Thousands of people take the plunge every year for thousands of different reasons; the lifestyle, the opportunity to start over again, the chance to make serious money. No one ever got rich lining their boss's pockets. So you really want to go it alone? Here's how. Make Your First Million shows you how to set up your business the right way. It covers business plans, raising finance, financial planning, the opening days, working capital, growing your business, premises, staff, branching out, preparing for exit, and much, much more.
As presenter of Channel 4’s Risking it All, serial entrepreneur Martin Webb has guided many fledgling businesses through the start-up process. His advice, tips and insider secrets will help you transform your dream into reality. Why spend your life working for the man when you could be out there making your first million?
Between the years 1993 and 2001, Simon Kirby and I started a business that ran mainly, but not wholly, pubs and clubs. We built up a series of 30 pubs – some of them branded – and sold them in 2001for a sum of money that we could only have dreamt about in 1992.
This book is about how we did it – including the bits we got right and the bits we got wrong. By reading our story you can learn from our lack of business nous and avoid some of the pain and heartache that we experienced on the road to entrepreneurial success. The fact that
we survived the many ups and downs is a testament to our achievement and gives you the opportunity to learn from the fruits of our labour – from our triumphs and our setbacks.
It all started with a fairly spectacular failure, a massive blow to our self-esteem as well as our wallets. But we sat down and worked out what we had done so catastrophically badly and this prologue passes on some of what we learned. It also passes on the change in attitude
that the failure brought about – it’s not an exaggeration to say that it scarred us for life and strengthened our resolve never to make the same mistakes again. In 1990 I was twenty-six. I l
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