Lessons Learned in how to
Actually Run & Sell a Small or Medium Sized Business in the UK
An Owner-Founder’s Handbook
This is the ‘warts and all’ story of how to run and sell a small or medium sized business in the UK. It is based on a series of actual lessons learned from a seasoned Entrepreneur and brings to life, in a light-hearted manner, the often-grim reality of running and selling a small or medium sized business.
It’s a rollercoaster of a story that aims to help people thinking about starting, or are currently running, a small or medium sized business in the UK now. It provides invaluable advice for budding and current Entrepreneurs on the need to understand who your competitors are, and more importantly, who your enemies are in business, and that it may well be the Government itself, in all its guises of councils, taxes and civil servants generally that are your main enemy, that seem hellbent on standing in the way of try-hard Entrepreneurs. This book is about understanding the wider environment in which your business operates, within a backdrop of a society that always has been full of liars, cheaters, and stealers and that sometimes, you may also need to cut corners too. This book helps you understand what to do, when to do it, and how to do it, to enable your business to survive, with a series of ‘white lies’ that you may need to employ from time to time. It aims to be insightful, helpful, humorous, and honest, as well as describing quite a thrilling, and harrowing journey along the way.
