Make Your First Million: Ditch the 9-5 and Start the Business of Your Dreams

Martin Webb9781841127613, 1841127612

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?

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Table of contents :
Make Your First Million……Page 2
Prologue: The false start……Page 7
1 Introduction……Page 16
2 Starting again……Page 40
3 Putting the idea into practice……Page 56
4 The opening days……Page 74
5 Building on success……Page 92
6 Branching out and preparing to exit……Page 114
7 And in conclusion……Page 136
Appendix: The Entrepreneur’s Toolkit……Page 142
Item 1 The general business model and working capital……Page 145
Item 2 Risk assessment……Page 147
Item 3 Getting the start-up money……Page 152
Item 4 Drawing up the first rough financial plan……Page 159
Item 5 The decision to lease premises or buy them……Page 166
Item 6 Drawing up a detailed business plan……Page 171
Item 7 The formal documentation of staff appraisal……Page 187
Index……Page 189