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Index
Introduction
Why You Need This Book
How to Use This Book
How This Book Is Organised
Part I: Getting Started
Part II: Making and Funding Your Plan
Part III: Staying in Business
Part IV: Making the Business Grow
Part V: The Part of Tens
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go From Here
Chapter 1: Preparing for Business
Understanding the Enduring Rules of Business Strategy
Focus, focus, focus
Appreciating the forces at work in your sector
Recognising the first-to-market fallacy
Getting in Shape to Start Up
Assessing your abilities
Discovering a real need
Checking the fit of the business
Confirming Viability
Researching the market
Doing the numbers
Raising the money
Writing up the business plan
Going for Growth
Gaining economies of scale
Securing a competitive advantage
Retaining key staff
Gaining critical business mass
Chapter 2: Doing the Groundwork
Understanding the Small Business Environment
Defining Small Business
Looking at the Types of People Who Start Businesses
Making your age an asset
Considering location
Winning with women
Being educated about education
Coming Up with a Winning Idea
Ranking popular start-up ideas
Going with fast growth
Spotting a gap in the market
Revamping an old idea
Using the Internet
Solving customer problems
Creating inventions and innovations
Marketing other people’s ideas
Being better or different
Banning Bad Reasons to Start a Business
Steering clear of bad assumptions
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