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Start-up

A Practical Guide to Starting and Running a New Business

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  • Contains a step-by-step process for not only writing a business plan but actually designing your business
  • Provides practical advise based on real start-up experiences and strategic insight
  • Offers an easy to read style with abundant use of examples, exercises, diagrams and checklists

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)

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About this book

Many people dream of starting their own business one day, but are not sure how to make it a reality, or whether they will succeed. In this book the author presents a comprehensive user guide for aspiring entrepreneurs, and provides expert advice and guidance on every major aspect of launching a new business. Step-by-step, this inspiring and highly readable book explains how would-be entrepreneurs can evaluate the strength of their business idea, protect their inventions, understand the legal steps and responsibilities involved in forming a company, position their products in the market, create a business plan and acquire financing.

Featuring case studies, practical exercises and tips, the book helps to demystify the process of starting a new business, giving readers the confidence to start up, and greatly increasing the chances of their entrepreneurial dream becoming a reality. It also offers a valuable learning resource for entrepreneurship and start-up clubs atuniversities and business schools. 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Hi Consulting, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, UK

    Tom Harris

About the author

Before setting up his own management consultancy business, Hi Consulting, in 2002, Tom Harris was a lecturer and led an academic research group in a top ranked university department, then spun-out a medical device company which went on to win awards for product innovation. Tom’s current business supports and monitors funded R&D collaborations and assists start-up and developing businesses develop, grow and export.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Start-up

  • Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide to Starting and Running a New Business

  • Authors: Tom Harris

  • Series Title: Management for Professionals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94547-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94546-0Published: 22 August 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06871-4Published: 28 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94547-7Published: 07 August 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8096

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: VII, 146

  • Additional Information: Originally published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

  • Topics: Start-Ups/Venture Capital, Innovation/Technology Management, Business Strategy/Leadership

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