Employee to Entrepreneur: How To Ditch The Day Job & Start Your Own Business, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (December 7, 2012) © 2013

  • Chris Garden
  • Catherine Blackburn
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Title overview

Stop dreaming and start your own business 

 

Employee to Entrepreneur shows you how to seamlessly move from employed to self-employed, how to effectively harness, utilise and exploit the skills and expertise you’ve already gained in your corporate emploment and use them all to help you start your own business and make the exciting move from employee to entrepreneur.

 

You can turn a career brick wall into an exciting opportunity and start your own business. This book dispels all the myths, dissolves all the obstacles and takes you on a business startup journey that will help you to assess all your options, appraise your ideas, write a great business plan and establish a sensible, functioning and profitable new business using the wealth of knowledge, expertise and insight your employment will have taught you.

Table of contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

ABOUT US

PART 1:   THE REASONS FOR GOING IT ALONE

CHAPTER 1:   Why do it?

  CHAPTER 2:  When should you do it?

  CHAPTER 3:    Looking for inspiration

  CHAPTER 4:    Leaving Employment

PART 2:   BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS PLAN

  CHAPTER 5:    The Idea

  CHAPTER 6:    Number Crunching

  CHAPTER 7:    Getting Advice

  CHAPTER 8:    The Right Business Structure

  CHAPTER 9:    Branding Your Business

  CHAPTER 10:    Minimising Risk

  CHAPTER 11;    The Final Plan and How To Use It

PART 3:   THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF RUNNING YOUR BUSINESS

  CHAPTER 12:    Working Smartly

  CHAPTER 13:  The Right Environment

  CHAPTER 14:    Staying on Track

  CHAPTER 15:    Managing Relationships

  CHAPTER 16:    Managing Growth

  CHAPTER 17:    Embracing Change

PART 4:   UNCONVENTIONAL LESSONS

  CHAPTER 18:    Beware of Experts

  CHAPTER 19:    Luck or Judgement

  CHAPTER 20:    The Do Nothing Strategy

  CHAPTER 21:    Business Bullies

  CHAPTER 22:    How To Sleep At Night

CONCLUSIONS

 

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