James Caan, author of Get the Job You Really Want and Britain's most
dynamic entrepreneur, teaches you how to work for yourself in just one
week in Start Your Business in 7 Days. 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. 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.
