Starting & Running a Business All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition (UK)

About the Authors

Liz Barclay has worked as an adviser, trainer and manager with the Citizens Advice Bureau and still advises small businesses and sole traders on relationship management with staff and customers. Liz is well connected within the media; she presents You and Yours, a factual radio programme on Radio 4, and has worked on a wide range of business and finance programmes for the BBC both on TV and radio. As a writer, Liz specialises in personal finance. She has written for the News of the World, The Express, Moneywise, Family Circle, Save Money and the Mail on Sunday personal finance magazine.

Colin Barrow, MBA, FRSA, was at Cranfield School of Management for two decades, leading the team that pioneered the acclaimed national start-up course, the Graduate Enterprise Programme (GEP) and the Business Growth Programme (BGP); the UK’s longest-running and most successful programmes that help owner-managers realise the full potential of their businesses. Prominent alumni from the thousands who have attended the Cranfield programmes include the MDs of Cobra Beer, Moonpig, Hotel Chocolat and Thatcher’s Cider. Whilst at Cranfield, Colin was a visiting professor in business schools in the U.S., Europe and the Far East. He also sat on the boards of a Cambridge Science Park–based venture capital fund and a West Country investment fund for small and medium-sized businesses in Cornwall. Colin has written over twenty business books, two of which formed the core of Microsoft’s Business ...