Following on from his best selling Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained, an eye-opening account of some of the successful deals and spectacular failures in the career of one of Australia's best known private equity investors.Bill Ferris has led the field in Australian venture capital and private equity for over forty years. He has seen his share of successful floats, fly-by-night wonders and companies gone wrong. In his bestselling Nothing Ventured, Nothing...

Whether you already own a small or medium business, or you are thinking of buying or starting one, The Penguin Small Business Guide is your first step to success. This new edition will keep you up-to-date with the changing face of Australian small business.In this practical, easy-to-understand guide, Nicholas Humphrey gives advice on:preparing a business plan effective marketing and public relations strategies how to comply with the new workplace relations legislatio...

In Seven Steps to Accelerated Wealth John Fitzgerald shares his seven key principles of accelerated wealth building through property. This practical guide shows readers how to make $1 million by following the author\'s simple and proven system of developing a low-maintenance, low-risk portfolio of investment property as an asset base.Author John Fitzgerald is a property investor and developer. A self-made success story, he made his first million at age 23, having developed a succes...

The past decade has seen a period of unparalleled growth in executive remuneration. But while CEO pay exploded, shareholders looked on helplessly as some of Australia's best-known companies self-destructed. When the fall eventually came, executives were well protected. Shareholders and creditors were not so lucky.From Telstra's enriching of Sol Trujillo to the toppling of Eddy Groves's ABC Learning Centres and the untold accounts of the billions lost by the collapsed Babcock & Brow...

Enterprise and Venture Capital is the bestselling guide for people looking to build new businesses around bright ideas, and investors awake to the opportunities offered by new business building. This is the revised and updated fifth edition of the book that is widely regarded as the handbook of the Australian venture capital industry.Enterprise and Venture Capital sets out in a straightforward and practical way how to put venture capital to work. It discusses the ...

Everything you need to know about how to set up a successful investment club of your own, for friendship and for profit.In 1998 members of a book club decided they wanted to find out more about the stockmarket, and to make some money from it. They knew little about investing but were determined to learn, and the sheba investment network was born.Now, over fifteen years later, its members are so savvy at investing that they have a brilliant 30% to 35% return...

"Bebo sale to AOL nets founders a £290m fortune in 3 years." - March 2008"Foxtons sale nets founder £370m." - May 2007"L'Oréal buys Body Shop for £652m." - March 2006For entrepreneurs and business owners alike, this is your ticket to serious money.Fact 1: Business is all about making money.Fact 2: Personal satisfaction is great, but it doesn't pay the bills.If your main ambition is to make big money from your business, you're already on the r...

'One of the best books written on entrepreneurship in recent years' FINANCIAL TIMESIn business, everyone can see the first bounce of the ball. It is the second bounce that is uncertain. Ronald Cohen, one of the world's leading private-equity investors, argues that the entrepreneur's aim is to take advantage of that uncertainty: for it is only in situations of uncertainty that significant gains can be made. Putting it another way, successful entrepreneurs k...

Bestselling business author and star of BBC TV's Dragons' Den, Duncan Bannatyne is back with a brand new book. 37 Questions covers all the essential queries business managers and entrepreneurs should be able to ask themselves and answer honestly, but so often fail to do so, such as:What's my most profitable line?What do my customers want next?Who's my greatest business rival?What might stand in my way?

Before Dragons’ Den, Richard Farleigh built a career in global finance running trading desks and developing the strategies that underpin this book.Taming the Lion has been widely praised by leading financial publications including the Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle.Described by The Telegraph as “a tour de force in common sense investing,” it focuses on profiting from big...

Anthony Bolton is Britain’s best-known and longest-serving fund manager. He is a Fidelity Investment award winner, feted newspaper columnist and instantly recognisable financial name.Over twenty five years he delivered an exceptional annual return of 20% on his Special Situations Fund, compared with 7.7 % for the FTSE All-Share index. His strategy, which blends analysis of a company’s books with quizzing the management and studying performance graphs, has an enviable track record.

Google became a verb, countries waged war games in the new digital universe and WikiLeaks sent shockwaves through a superpower. We got to this point from a place that was called the dot.com bubble.Few booms in Australia have been faster or more furious than this bubble. The brightest and best investors dived in, technology geeks grew into overnight millionaires and miners stopped digging dirt and started surfing the net. The market surged and crashed, as the dot.com bubble became t...