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Description of Anyone Can Do it

"Anyone Can Do It" chronicles the start and evolution of a successful business dream. Beginning with the Hashemi siblings first conversations (when the seed of the idea was planted) it follows the progress of Coffee Republic from business plan to the present day. Coffee Republic is now worth around 50m with 90 outlets around the UK.

This is a start up business book for real people. Sahar and Bobby take the reader step by step through every aspect of starting and growing a business from asking why?; and writing the plan to hiring staff and letting go.

The book is illustrated throughout with inspirational anecdotes from their own experience. It is a very personal story of dreaming, acting and succeeding offering a myriad of lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs and blowing apart the myth that only special people start successful businesses.

Title Information

ISBN:

9781841125794

Pages:

218 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

17593

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Published:

19/12/2003

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

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About Sahar Hashemi

Sahar and Bobby Hashemi are the sister and brother team who built Coffee Republic, the UK's original high street coffee chain. Giving up highly paid professional jobs, she a lawyer in London and he an investment banker in New York, they staked everything on a dream to create the best coffee chain in Britain. Eight years later they are two of the most successful and high profile entrepreneurs.

Contents of Anyone Can Do it

1. Can anyone be an entrepreneur?

2. To be or not to be an entrepreneur

3. The idea chapter - do you have a light bulb, or do you need to find one?

4. Market research

5. Writing the business plan

6. Raising money for your idea

7. Implementation

8. Being in business - if you build it, will they come?

9. Growing - from birth to maturity

10. Roladex

Index