The Startup Kit

This book is a friendly guide covering all aspects of starting up – from developing a business idea and setting up a company to marketing your new business, getting that first sale and making the most of the latest tech developments. Full of great advice from start-up expert Emma Jones, it’s packed with case studies of people who’ve already successfully started their own businesses. Enterprise Nation helps thousands of people in the UK turn their good ideas into great businesses. There’s lots of free advice on our website and at our events, where you can get together with other start-ups and would-be entrepreneurs to learn from experience and from experts. You’ll find essential business books too. And when you join Enterprise Nation, you get 25% off everything, as well as free meet-ups and exclusive benefits. Find out more at www.enterprisenation.com

Covers all aspects of starting up - from developing a business idea and setting up a company to marketing your new business, getting that first sale and making the tech developments. This title includes case studies of people who've successfully started their own businesses.

The Start Up Starter Kit is a fast-moving, jargon-free guide to launching and building a company you're proud of. It will teach you the essential skills you never realized you needed, blended with the right level of fear necessary to keep you from believing your own press releases. This is not an academic guide - these are real world successes and disasters to help you create a successful enterprise. Whether you hope to build a scalable company you can sell for an impressive multiple, or you just want to convert your side hustle into a way to make a living without having to work for someone else, you'll find valuable insights and guidance in this book provided by people who learned these lessons the hard way. Meet: Glen - who recovered after his investors stole his company. Mike - whose company improved many lives despite lawsuits. Laura - from giddy heights to calamity and back. Trevor - ditto. Jen - nine failures and then a bingo. Dive into Bob Jones' The Startup Starter Kit and discover what they all wish they'd known when they started their companies. "DO NOT TAKE EVEN ONE STEP ON AN ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY WITHOUT READING THIS BOOK! I have worked with literally thousands of would-be entrepreneurs over the years and seen all matters of success and failure. Bob Jones has the absolutely unique ability to distill the craziness out there and present it in a clear, common-sense manner to help you avoid mistakes that will likely lead to failure. He forces you to ask yourself the tough questions and answer them and provides you with practical actionable advice that will enhance your probability of success." Joe Hadzima, Founder MIT $100K Business Plan Competition, Global Chairman - MIT Enterprise Forum. "Over the years I've watched Bob teach some of the best, brightest, and most successful entrepreneurs how to better scale their businesses and find success. If there is anyone who should write a book for entrepreneurs on how to successfully build a company, it's Bob Jones. This book is a must read for any entrepreneur who is even thinking about starting a company." Melissa Vincent Executive Director, Pipeline Entrepreneurs "Put this one in your pocket. This is your hitchhikers guide to the life and the path to actualize your entrepreneurial vision. With an artful and experienced focus on the reality of understanding the Why (purpose), the How (preparation), and the What (outcomes). And, critically, the Who -this is no solo pursuit (support systems)." Matt Haggerty, Founder and Managing Partner of ProGen, Inc.,

Here's A List Of The Chapters:IntroductionRegister Your Business With a Legal Business NameGet A Second Address For Your BusinessOpen a Separate Business Bank AccountOpen A Merchant AccountSet Up A New Google AccountCreate A Free JVZoo AccountSet Up Your Business WebsiteStart Adding Products To Your WebsiteStart Adding Products To Your WebsiteStart Sending Traffic To Your SiteMoney ManagementConclusion

As you are reading this, you might be wondering why you should read this book. I wish if I had read this book a decade ago, I would have saved many sleepless nights and lots of money. Unlike any other theoretical book, this one does not contain typical theory. The information provided here are hands-on in nature and made simpler to cater the need of any entrepreneur or a small group of 3/4 entrepreneurs running a business. Tools, techniques, and necessary information to bootstrap a start-up are articulated. It will definitely help next generation of entrepreneurs. This also covers various functions like Marketing, Strategy, HR, Operations, Sales, Finance, IT needed to run smoothly any small organization. The information provided here are available in open forums, and credit goes to all the corporates, tool and platform providers for making life of an entrepreneur easy. Nonetheless, the information is unknown to many senior level professionals. This is an attempt to make the life of first-time entrepreneurs' life easy and reduce the burn rate of a start-up so that it does make an exit with a reason of high burn rate. In the larger context, the purpose of this book is twofold. First break the myth a lot of money is required to launch any business. Businesses are built with passion, hard work, dedication, using hard earned skills. To scale any business, we need larger amount of funding. But it is not true just to launch a business model, to validate our ideas, to test and hypothesize our idea we need lots of money. What we need to start a business is a firm mindset, ability to learn from failures and then rectify our own shortcomings. The other intension is to help entrepreneurs who cannot afford huge sum of money but highly energetic, can wear many hats needed to make a business successful and want to validate ideas and then use the recurring income from their small business for business growth and later look for external funding (probably a larger amount).

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Every day Entrepreneurs take the leap of faith to start, grow, and sustain their businesses. Many of us have no clue of how to do this and end up failing. This workbook is designed to facilitate a process to help your business become profitable and successful. This workbook is meant to guide you from an idea to actually running a well planned and highly efficient business. Do miss the opportunity to utilize this workbook in the efforts of starting, growing, and sustaining your business.