Build a world class business with a clear blueprint to success Entrepreneur: Building Your Business From Start to Success is your guidebook to achieving entrepreneurial success. Whether you re an existing business owner seeking to increase your reach, or a budding entrepreneur ready to take the next step, this book provides invaluable guidance from experts who have made it happen time and time again. A simple step-by-step process will help you translate your ideas into effective business plans, raise the capital needed to start and grow your business, build a winning team and leave the competition behind. Drawing upon their experience founding more than 30 companies, the authors share their entrepreneurial wisdom and reveal the real-world techniques that lead to success. With a pragmatic and personal approach, the authors explore the personal characteristics that are vital to achievement; managing stress, withstanding heavy workloads and coping with potential health concerns are subjects often overlooked in the pursuit of business achievement. Addressing the link between business concerns and personal welfare, the authors offer suggestions on how to most effectively reconcile entrepreneurial drive with personal well-being. Build or revitalise a business with proven methods from two globally-recognized experts in the field Develop an effective business plan to maximise your probability of success Understand funding markets and raise capital necessary to start or grow your business Grow your business by beating the competition and dominating your market Providing invaluable insight into real-world entrepreneurial methods that work, this book arms current and future business leaders with the skills, knowledge and motivation to create the organization of their dreams.

Build a world class business with a clear blueprint to successEntrepreneur: Building Your Business From Start to Success is your guidebook to achieving entrepreneurial success. Whether you're an existing business owner seeking to increase your reach, or a budding entrepreneur ready to take the next step, this book provides invaluable guidance from experts who have made it happen time and time again. A simple step-by-step process will help you translate your ideas into effective business plans, raise the capital needed to start and grow your business, build a winning team and leave the competition behind. Drawing upon their experience founding more than 30 companies, the authors share their entrepreneurial wisdom and reveal the real-world techniques that lead to success.With a pragmatic and personal approach, the authors explore the personal characteristics that are vital to achievement; managing stress, withstanding heavy workloads and coping with potential health concerns are subjects often overlooked in the pursuit of business achievement. Addressing the link between business concerns and personal welfare, the authors offer suggestions on how to most effectively reconcile entrepreneurial drive with personal well-being.* Build or revitalise a business with proven methods from two globally-recognized experts in the field* Develop an effective business plan to maximise your probability of success* Understand funding markets and raise capital necessary to start or grow your business* Grow your business by beating the competition and dominating your marketProviding invaluable insight into real-world entrepreneurial methods that work, this book arms current and future business leaders with the skills, knowledge and motivation to create the organization of their dreams.

Introduction by Peter Warnoe xiPart 1. About me as an entrepreneur 21. My entrepreneurial role 42. My personal effectiveness 343. My public impact 564. My face-to-face impact 86Part 2. About my company's ideas and funding 1105. My company's basic ideas 1126. My strategies for network effects 1307. Founding and starting my company 1388. My sources of funding 1569. My funding processes 194Part 3. About my team and my corporate culture 24010. My core team 24211. My outsourcing and my staff 270Part 4. About my company's growth,strategies and challenges 30212. My growth phases 30413. My marketing mix 33014. My five biggest commercial threats 348Part 5. About my exit and what comes after 35815. My alternative exit routes 36016. My exit processes 37017. My next project 382AppendicesAppendix A: 116 business strategies for entrepreneurs 390Appendix B: 46 typical criteria for success in start-up companies 404Appendix C: List of useful websites, apps and web-extensions for entrepreneurs 410Glossary 426Endnotes 438About the authors 446Index 447