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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150240003321

Autore

Gates Celia R. F.

Titolo

From brainwave to business : how to turn your brilliant idea into a succesful start-up / / Celia Gates ; foreword by Doug Richard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harlow, England : , : Financial Times Prentice Hall, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-283-51905-4

9786613831507

0-273-74407-0

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Financial Times

Disciplina

658.1/1

Soggetti

New products

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

How to generate new ideas -- What to do with a brilliant brainwave -- How to develop your brainwave further -- How to secure your intellectual property -- Publicly disclosing your brainwaves -- How to plan your business -- How to raise funds for your business -- How to get rich from your ideas -- How to put your brainwave into production -- How to generate unlimited profits from sales -- How to attract more of the "right" attention by marketing and promoting your business -- How to test, measure and continually optimise everything you do -- What to do if somebody has stolen your idea -- How to develop your brand and grow your assets -- How to manage and multiply your success.

Sommario/riassunto

Award-winning entrepreneur, Celia Gates, shows you how to build a profitable business from your idea, from patenting and prototyping and marketing to sales.  This book offers advice about business start-ups based on products as well as services. It takes you through prototyping and protecting your idea, in addition to covering all the areas you would usually find in a business start-up book, including raising finance, business planning, sales and marketing etc.  Based on the author’s own experience, it gives a realistic and honest understanding of the perils of setting up a business, combining practical advice with



stories from the front line.  “If you are an Artist, Designer or Ideas Person looking to understand how a good idea can become a profitable business then this book will help you get off to a great start.” Doug Richard, Dragon Investor, Founder of School for Start-ups  “Compelling insight and fantastic advice from someone who has been there and done it. I’d suggest this book as a must read for all would-be inventors.” Jamie Oliver, freelance journalist (Financial Times, Daily Telegraph)