Start It Up by Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson is the man behind the growth of PizzaExpress and as a host of other leading brands; one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs with an estimated personal fortune of £120 million. In Start It Up he compresses two decades of success to reveal the realities of running your own business and bust some key myths along the way. Learn how to find the right idea or buy someone else's; source capital from all sorts of places you never expected; get the best from everyone you meet on the way - chiefly yourself; and stay sane while you do it. Start It Up is that all-too-rare thing: a how-to book by someone who actually has.
Just buy this bookA must-read for inspiring entrepreneurs, probably the best book available on the subject -- John McLaren * Management Today *
Brilliant. It's all here: the triumphs and disasters, the iron law of the business cycle and the timeless wisdom of those who've gone before him * Brent Hoberman, founder of lastminute.com *
Nine out of ten How-To books are a bore. This is the one out of ten. It's easy to read, with original ideas and useful advice for wannabe tycoons * Jeff Randall, Sky News presenter and Daily Telegraph columnist *
Independent, unorthodox, even bloody-minded - Johnson can be all of these and it's what makes him worth reading * Peter Bazalgette, Chairman, Endemol UK *
Luke Johnson knows a lot about an amazing range of business subjects and has thoughtful views about the controversial ones * Investors Chronicle *
Brilliant. It's all here: the triumphs and disasters, the iron law of the business cycle and the timeless wisdom of those who've gone before him * Brent Hoberman, founder of lastminute.com *
Nine out of ten How-To books are a bore. This is the one out of ten. It's easy to read, with original ideas and useful advice for wannabe tycoons * Jeff Randall, Sky News presenter and Daily Telegraph columnist *
Independent, unorthodox, even bloody-minded - Johnson can be all of these and it's what makes him worth reading * Peter Bazalgette, Chairman, Endemol UK *
Luke Johnson knows a lot about an amazing range of business subjects and has thoughtful views about the controversial ones * Investors Chronicle *
Luke Johnson is one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs with an estimated personal fortune of £120 million. He is Chairman of Risk Capital Partners and The Royal Society of Arts, and a former Chairman of Channel 4 Television. He writes columns for the Financial Times and Management Today. In the 1990s he was Chairman of PizzaExpress, which he grew from 12 restaurants to over 250; he also founded the Strada pizzeria chain and owns Giraffe and Patisserie Valerie. He lives in London and is married with three children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670919413 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670919411 |
| Title | Start It Up |
| Author | Luke Johnson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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