Start It Up

Start It Up

Catalogue Number: 4G9-Z9FQ

  • Author: Luke Johnson
  • Format: Paperback
  • Published: 01 September 2011
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780670919413

Synopsis

Luke Johnson is the man behind the growth of PizzaExpress and as a host of other leading brands; one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs with an estimated personal fortune of GBP120 million. In Start It Up he compresses two decades of success to reveal the realities of running your own business and bust some key myths along the way. Learn how to find the right idea or buy someone else's; source capital from all sorts of places you never expected; get the best from everyone you meet on the way - chiefly yourself; and, stay sane while you do it. Start It Up is that all-too-rare thing: a how-to book by someone who actually has.

Product Details

  • Total Pages: 256
  • Genre: Autobiography: business & industry
  • Secondary Genre: Business & management
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Author's Biography

Luke Johnson is one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs with an estimated personal fortune of GBP120 million. He is Chairman of Risk Capital Partners and The Royal Society of Arts, and a former Chairman of Channel 4 Television. He writes columns for the Financial Times and Management Today. In the 1990s he was Chairman of PizzaExpress, which he grew from 12 restaurants to over 250; he also founded the Strada pizzeria chain and owns Giraffe and Patisserie Valerie. He lives in London and is married with three children.

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