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How to Start a Business Without Any Money Paperback – International Edition, August 1, 2012

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How to start your own business on a shoestring budget

Do you dream of starting your own business but don’t have any money? What if you could set up a venture with nothing but a good business idea and the determination to make it work? It's an appealing idea, particularly in the current economic climate where no one has cash to spare and austerity rules the day. In fact, studies show that more people start businesses during recessions than at any other time. The good news is that it can be done, provided you follow a few golden rules. Based on Rachel Bridge's popular workshops, this book will help set you on the way to success. Rachel has interviewed hundreds of successful entrepreneurs. Join her on her journey as she starts up her very own enterprise, entrepreneurthings.com, and covers all the ups and downs she encounters, while giving examples along the way of how real-life entrepreneurs have coped with the same problems that beset everyone in business at some point.

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    August 1, 2012
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  6. ISBN-10
    9780753540879
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Rachel Bridge is the former enterprise editor at the Sunday Times where she wrote about entrepreneurs and small business. She has written four previous books about entrepreneurs: How I Made It, My Big Idea, You Can Do It Too, and How to Make a Million Before Lunch.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0753540878
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Virgin Books (August 1, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780753540879
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0753540879
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
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    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 170 ratings

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I am an author, journalist and public speaker specialising in entrepreneurship, personal development and smart thinking. I have written eight books.

My latest book is called How to Work for Yourself which was published in March 2020 by Piatkus.

My other books include How to Start a Business without any Money, How to Make a Million before Lunch and Already Brilliant: Play to your strengths in work and life.

I am the the former Enterprise Editor of The Sunday Times and now speak at events and conferences around the country.

I took a one-woman show about entrepreneurs called How to Make a Million before Lunch to the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe festival and another show about successful people called Ambition to the 2016 Edinburgh Festival.

I graduated from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge with a MA (Hons) in Economics. You can find out more about me at www.rachelbridge.com and you can follow me on Twitter at @rachelbridge100.

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5.0 out of 5 stars good
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Julie Maunder
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2013
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Lots of very sensible advice and well written. Probably need to read along with her other books on starting a business.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in India on June 29, 2017
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One of the best book of my life that broke my myth that a business can't be started without money.Very practical book n I am applying its examples in my real life.
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Markus Breuer
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent - Lots of Hands-on- Advice
Reviewed in Germany on July 21, 2016
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Ms. Bridge explains, how to set up a small scale Business without any Money. She provides many examples, that You can use in the real world, as she has met thousands of entrepreneurs, writing the Business Section of a national newspaper. This is definitely not the generic advice, You will find in other books, nor does she claim to have found a 'system'. She has compiled real-world examples, and grouped them: "How to spend nothing on assets", "how to spend nothing on Advertising" etc. Really inspiring. Even better than Guillebeau "The 100 $ Start-Up".
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Flavio Montuschi
3.0 out of 5 stars a bit disappointed
Reviewed in Italy on July 17, 2015
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Much much better the Teach yourself books, this one has some interesting and useful tips but in general it is mostly addressed to UK new entrepreneurs.
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Kats
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great business book from Rachel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 31, 2012
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I've read all Rachel's other books and so was really looking forward to this one, and I wasn't disappointed. If anything, this is actually a more useful and practical book that the earlier ones, which concentrate more on how other entrepreneurs made their fortunes. This one is full of sensible advise for those wanting to start off in business but who hasn't got thousands of pounds to set it up with, such as how to set up an office, get a website up and running and how to get noticed and attract customers, sometimes without spending any money at all!

Throughout the book she is also setting up her own business to put her ideas into practice which is a great idea and means she's actually doing it herself rather than just talking about it. She's also good at saying what type of businesses you should be setting up if you haven't any money to spend, rather than what you might like to but which would be inappropriate, eg spending thousands of pounds and several years on researching and developing a totally new product, or signing an expensive lease for a shop. Instead she is all about sticking to your strengths, selling what people need rather than just want, using outsourcing in a loads of inventive ways and getting paid upfront if you can. And not shelling out vast amount of money you haven't got!

It is tightly written with lots of practical ideas rather than endless waffle and extremely relevant in this current climate. She illustrates her tips with lots of interesting case studies of other businesses too so you can see what worked for other people. Basically you don't need to save up a massive pot of cash before you go it along - do it now!
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Jake
3.0 out of 5 stars How to book...!!!
Reviewed in India on April 20, 2019
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Get an original idea...best way to make money....!!!!!
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