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Best Ever Start-up Books
How to be an Entrepreneur: The Six Secrets of Self-Made SuccessHow to be an Entrepreneur: The Six Secrets of Self-Made Success by Steve Parks
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £2.37
Get going with improving your entrepreneurial skills to take your business to a new level. Learn everything apart from persistane (you have got to do something yourself ;))
How to Fund Your Business: The Essential Guide to Raising Finance to Start and Grow Your BusinessHow to Fund Your Business: The Essential Guide to Raising Finance to Start and Grow Your Business by Steve Parks
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £4.90
Best starting point for raising finance, great for honing pitch and business plan.
Losing My Virginity: The AutobiographyLosing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Sir Richard Branson
Buy used from: £0.01
Can't see why anyone would want to go into business without checking out what the master of publicity stunts have got to say first.
Start Up Business in a Box: Everything You Need to Start a Business from Scratch - in One Box!Start Up Business in a Box: Everything You Need to Start a Business from Scratch - in One Box! by Steve Parks
Buy new: £37.45 / Used from: £40.00
If you are really serious about starting a business, this is the one to buy - three great books that I thoroughly recommend, sales advice on audio and lots of useful templates and discount vouchers.
Pour Your Heart into it: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a TimePour Your Heart into it: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £1.79
Starbucks are still in the top 100 of best companies to work for, and what a commercial success story too!
Anyone Can Do it: Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table - 57 Real Life Laws on EntrepreneurshipAnyone Can Do it: Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table - 57 Real Life Laws on Entrepreneurship by Sahar Hashemi
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.59
Sahar and Bobby setting up their business. Accessible and easy to read.
Small Business HandbookSmall Business Handbook by Steve Parks
Buy new: £10.86 / Used from: £4.91
Will hold your hand through early stages of business. Great for keeping a new business on track and very inspirational. Only the title is dull.
The Google StoryThe Google Story by David A. Vise
Buy used from: £0.01
If you aspire to world domination - check out what goes on behind the scenes
Business as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey - Profits with PrinciplesBusiness as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey - Profits with Principles by Anita Roddick
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £2.81
Starting a consumer store with values? This woman got it just right when she started & ran The Body Shop.
Start Your Business: Week by WeekStart Your Business: Week by Week by Steve Parks
Buy new: £8.47 / Used from: £5.00
So many have started on flyingstartups.com using this book and it would be great with new case studies. Very useful, straigt forward advice. A business in 26 weeks really seems do-able!