Download or read book Dragons Den written by Duncan Bannatyne and published by Harpercollins Pub Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to be a success from the business lessons of the Dragons and the financial advice of Evan Davis. Britain's best loved business brains —Duncan Bannatyne, Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones, Theo Paphitis, and Richard Farleigh along with economics expert Evan Davis—divulge the secrets of their success in this essential read. Joining them is James Caan, the new Dragon who will be part of the team in the new season of the television show. James is a multi-millionaire businessman and entrepreneur. Dragons' Den is packed with advice, whether you want to perfect your pitching skills, develop an idea or make more money. The Dragons will look at what's become of the entrepreneurs who entered the Dragons' Den. Some went away emptyhanded but have since become successful. Others won the backing of the Dragons but failed to make their dream come true. The Dragons will show you what should have been done, what should have happened next, and how you too could win their backing and become a business success. This is much more than a TV series companion. It is a solid business read with never-before-heard advice and experiences from the Dragons own business ventures. At last, we'll find out how they became millionaires and their rules for success. This is a unique, accessible ,and useful business read straight from the Dragons' Den.
Download or read book Dancing in the Dragon s Den written by Roseanne Bane and published by Nicolas-Hays, Inc.. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are tremendous personal benefits to realizing and integrating the shadow part of the personality. When we can look at the "disowned parts of ourselves," we release a great deal of energy that can be used for creative expression. Dancing in the Dragon's Den is a practical self-help book that can open up your life in ways you have not yet dreamed of. Bane talks to you directly-she is warm, friendly, and supportive as she outlines the process.
Download or read book Dragons Den written by Deborah Meaden and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics, finance, business and industry.
Download or read book The Dragons Den Guide to Investor Ready Business Plans written by John Vyge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step approach to winning over investors with a solid business plan A comprehensive business plan, based on a concept that has been feasibility tested and for which a sales and marketing strategy is in place, is where the rubber meets the road for the entrepreneur and the investor. The Dragons' Den Guide to Investor-Ready Business Plans is designed to show the entrepreneur how to create a business plan that will get an investor's attention—and money. Case studies from Canadian and US businesses and stories of entrepreneurs who appeared on the Dragons' Den illustrate the key ideas and themes. Helps entrepreneurs face the reality of what they are trying to achieve Encourages readers to focus heavily on testing their business concept first, before they invest valuable time and resources in a slow-growth or no-growth business idea The current economic environment is forcing many people to start businesses to supplement their income or replace a lost job. But don't let emotion trump method. The Dragon's Den Guide offers your step-by-step approach to preparing yourself for the harsh but rewarding world of small business ownership.
Download or read book Dragons Den The Perfect Pitch written by Peter Spalton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let the Dragons show you the secrets of successful presenting. This book shows you everything you need to know to: plan a well-structured presentation for any situation, master body language and delivery skills to engage your audience, use visual aids and samples for maximum impact, and how to deal with difficult questions.
Download or read book The Dragons Den Guide to Real World Business Models written by John Vyge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experts from the Dragons' Den show entrepreneurs how to match their product or service with the right business model It takes much more to start a successful business than just a great idea for a new product or service. As contestants on the show regularly find out the hard way, the wrong business model can sink even the best new idea. In The Dragons' Den Guide to Real-World Business Models, potential entrepreneurs and small business owners will learn how to turn their product or service idea into a profitable business in the real world. These days, you have to be creative not just in what you sell, but in how you sell it. Your business model has to take advantage of the technology and constant connectivity that pervades modern life. The Dragons' Den Guide to Real-World Business Models shows entrepreneurs how to pick the right business model, integrate it with the Internet, and launch quickly. And for those who don't yet have a business idea, the book offers great advice on coming up with one. Features practical, applicable advice for entrepreneurs who need to find a profitable, effective business model for their idea Ideal for aspiring entrepreneurs who don't want to repeat the same mistakes they see on the Dragons' Den each week Written by John Vyge, a business plan analyst who advises entrepreneurs and investors on how to create winning business concepts If you have a great idea for a new business but don't know where to start or how to get your business off the ground, The Dragons' Den Guide to Real-World Business Models is the perfect gateway to small business success.
Download or read book The Dragon Den written by William Murray and published by Ladybird Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy reader, which is part of a series intended to cover the three main methods of teaching reading. Its publication coincides with the launch of the new phonic scheme Say the Sounds and has a simplified message to parents.
Download or read book The Wealthy Barber written by David Barr Chilton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dragons Den Guide to Assessing Your Business Concept written by John Vyge and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to assess your business concept's potential to win customers The Dragons' Den Guide to Assessing Your Business Concept is designed to help entrepreneurs assess whether they actually have a market for their business concept. Before anyone invests valuable time and resources to a slow-growth or no-growth business idea, this step-by-step approach will allow entrepreneurs to test an idea in an unflinching, reality-based way. Case studies sourced from Canada and the US and stories from entrepreneurs who appeared on the Dragons' Den TV show, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to millionaires willing to invest their cash, will illustrate the key ideas and themes. Helps entrepreneurs face reality before they let their dreams lead them into a losing battle for market share Encourages readers to focus heavily on assessing their market first, before they invest valuable time and resources in a slow-growth or no-growth business idea Prepare yourself to do battle in a difficult marketplace. Assess your potential customers and measure your concept against reality. The Dragon's Den Guide shows you the way.
Download or read book The Dragons Den and Other Stories written by J. Bregazzi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DRAGONS DEN and OTHER STORIES, is a small collection of quite diversifi ed tales. The verity and subject matter come from a quality of experience, some from real life with authentic backgrounds and others generated in the mind of the myth. There are several adventure stories and yet others were pushed by an unseen infl uence of transformations and miracles, with a moral behind them. Here is something for everybody in twelve very different stories, a touch of romance and many with a twist in the tail, also a scattering of poems thrown in for good measure _________________________________________________________
Download or read book Start Your Business in 7 Days written by James Caan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work for yourself in just one week with Britain's most dynamic entrepreneur 'Everybody wants to be an entrepreneur. Every single day of my life I am bombarded by people with pitches. But 90% of new businesses fail, because their founders failed to ask themselves the simplest of questions. I can save you years of wasted time and thousands of pounds of wasted money by giving you the ammunition to ask the right questions, and helping you make the decision that is right for you. I will show you how to spend a maximum of seven days deciding if your idea is workable and bankable. How to say 'I'm in', but equally importantly, to have the courage to say 'I'm out'. How to become your own Dragon. Each piece of advice in this book is based on my thirty years of starting businesses. You will find all the fundamental ingredients for any new company, whatever sector you want to be in, whatever size of business you have in mind, along with the tools to make it work. Answer all the tough questions I am going to get you to ask yourself and you will have a business that genuinely has a chance of success. You can be one of the 10% of businesses that do make it.' - James Caan. James Caan is one of the UK's most successful and dynamic entrepreneurs, having built and sold businesses since 1985. After dropping out of school at sixteen and starting his first business in a Pall Mall broom cupboard - armed with little more than charm and his father's advice - Caan went on to make his fortune in the recruitment industry, founding the Alexander Mann Group, a company with a turnover of £130m. A 2003 graduate of Harvard Business School, Caan's most recent endeavour has been to set up private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw. Caan hit our screens when he joined the panel of the BBC's Dragons' Den in 2007. He is a regular in the national and business press, advises on various Government programmes, and initiates numerous philanthropic projects via the James Caan Foundation.
Download or read book Enter the Dragon written by Theo Paphitis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic rags-to-riches story by entrepreneur and Dragons' Den star Theo Paphitis Theo Paphitis is the outspoken and charismatic star of Dragons' Den who has turned round a string of household names, from Ryman to La Senza, in a high-profile business career that has brought him millions. Now, in his revealing and controversial memoir, he not only takes the reader behind the scenes on Dragons' Den, he explains how he made his fortune. He also provides a masterclass in business methods that will enable anyone who reads this book to learn so much about how they too can improve their business. In the book, Theo recalls how his family moved to England from Cyprus and how as a poor immigrant, he took whatever jobs he could, starting as a tea boy for Lloyd's. There he began to take the first steps on a career that would net him a fortune. He reveals the methods that took him to the top, and also provides some fascinating insight into the national game from his spell as chairman of Millwall FC. But, above all, this is a book that will provide all readers with the opportunity to learn from one of the nation's most successful businessmen and put his ideas into practice.
Download or read book How To Be Smart With Your Time written by Duncan Bannatyne and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using our time more effectively is the single best way to seize an advantage and change our lives for good. Time - unlike money, opportunity or good looks - is the one resource that is allocated equally to all of us. No matter what our financial or family situation, we each get 24 hours a day. In the practical and straightforward style to which his DRAGONS' DEN contestants are accustomed, Duncan Bannatyne explains how we can make the most of our time to get the most from our lives, not just our working day. What do you really want to do with your life? This book will help you identify the goals and aspirations that really matter to you so that you can make them happen. It will give you the confidence to make your ambitions a reality, and teach you how to focus on the things that count. In a series of short chapters, illustrated with examples from his extraordinary career in business, Duncan will show you how to make quicker, better decisions and how to make things happen - fast. Duncan knows more than most about what can be achieved in a day, a year and a lifetime, and in this book he shares how you can achieve your ideal work/life balance
Download or read book Reinvention written by Arlene Dickinson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want or need to change your life, but aren’t sure where to start—or whether you have what it takes? At fifty-seven, Arlene Dickinson’s life was turned upside down. Her company was on the brink of disaster. Her sense of herself as a strong, confident leader was in tatters. She was overwhelmed by feelings of loss, fear, and shame. Five years later, her business is booming, she’s never been happier or more excited about the future, and she’s raised tens of millions of dollars and built a whole ecosystem to help other entrepreneurs. How did she turn things around? By following the process she’s always used to transform underperforming companies—only this time, she used it to transform her own life. Applying business principles to her personal life helped her figure out very quickly where she wanted to go and how to get there. Having a clear set of practical steps to follow kept her on track when emotions threatened to derail her progress. In Reinvention, Dickinson shares this blueprint for locating your sense of purpose, realistically evaluating your strengths, assessing opportunities outside your comfort zone, and charting a bold new path. Whether you have a big career dream to achieve, or you need to rebuild after a personal setback, this step-by-step plan for reinvention will help you change your own life—for the better.
Download or read book The Dragons Den Guide to Assessing Your Business Concept written by John Vyge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to assess your business concept's potential to win customers The Dragons' Den Guide to Assessing Your Business Concept is designed to help entrepreneurs assess whether they actually have a market for their business concept. Before anyone invests valuable time and resources to a slow-growth or no-growth business idea, this step-by-step approach will allow entrepreneurs to test an idea in an unflinching, reality-based way. Case studies sourced from Canada and the US and stories from entrepreneurs who appeared on the Dragons' Den TV show, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to millionaires willing to invest their cash, will illustrate the key ideas and themes. Helps entrepreneurs face reality before they let their dreams lead them into a losing battle for market share Encourages readers to focus heavily on assessing their market first, before they invest valuable time and resources in a slow-growth or no-growth business idea Prepare yourself to do battle in a difficult marketplace. Assess your potential customers and measure your concept against reality. The Dragon's Den Guide shows you the way.
Download or read book Dragons Den written by Rus Slater and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let the Dragons show you how to turn your pipe dream into an income stream. This book shows you everything you need to know to: create new ideas and find market niches, develop a business plan to suit your lifestyle, find funding from banks and investors, and how to deal with the practicalities of company registration.
Download or read book Dragon s Den Grow Your Business written by Michael Heath and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let the Dragons show you the secrets of building a business empire. This book shows you everything you need to know to: evaluate your business and identify growth opportunities, find funding for expansion, develop new products and enter new markets, and master the management skills you need to handle a team.
