Start to Exit
How to Maximize the Value in Your Start-Up
Published on 1. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-1-9998329-0-2 (ISBN)
Description
Learn how to build the value in your start-up day by day, step by step, so you are ready to take a lead in talking to investors about raising funds or selling your business. This practical guide is written from the perspective of a tech entrepreneur who made his own exit for millions after 21/2 years - and is now building his next set of ventures. You will learn how to put in place the policies, systems, strategies, processes and tools that investors expect to see. Then you will gain a series of insights into how to negotiate the best price for you and your business.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9998329-0-2 (9781999832902)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Dr Adrian Burden is a scientist turned entrepreneur who built and sold a high-tech venture in Singapore. He is now a leading champion of innovation, running a high-profile festival and working with numerous ventures to realise the value in their ideas. In 2015, he was listed in The Sunday Times by the Centre for Entrepreneurs as a Maserati 100 Entrepreneur.
Content
(1) Entrepreneurs get set, go (2) Lifestyle business or life-defining? (3) Mission, vision and all that jazz (4) Business identity: what's in a name? (5) Best-laid business plans (6) Company shares and shares alike (7) In the beginning, there is incorporation (8) Organizational departments and compartments (9) Virtual is the new reality (10) Business agreements and disagreements (11) Accounting the beans (12) Corporate branding and the style police (13) Publicity, smoke and mirrors (14) Social media, daily tedia? (15) Staff management: herding cats, avoiding scratches (16) Bureaucratic nightmares (17) Deferring to the board (18) Cyber danger (19) Sales close to the wind (20) Buttons, knobs and the dashboard (21) Intellectual property rights and wrongs (22) Scale-up (23) Venture or vulture capitalists? (24) A sharp exit