Sometimes you just need some general advice on how to research your small business start up or to run your business better. Learning how others have been successful in business is the best way.

Take a look at these books to see how your small business can benefit from other's experience.

Starting a Limited Liability Company

This new edition of the successful Starting a Limited Liability Company explains how to use LLCs to execute business, estate planning, real estate acquisitions, professional practices, and venture capital operations. It describes how to convert partnerships and various corporate forms into LLCs and includes a detailed glossary, numerous checklists, sample forms, and tax returns.

Against the Odds

The story of one of Britain's most famous inventors and how he fought to bring his idea for a new type of vacuum cleaner to the market.

Business as Unusual

Anita Roddick is one of the world's most outspoken, controversial and successful businesswomen. "Business as Unusual" turns the tables on the way society looks at business and forges a move toward greater corporate responsibility and accountability. The book charts the progress of Anita Roddick and her company, The Body Shop, through the 1990s.

The Apprentice

The Apprentice with Sir Alan Sugar is a high profile TV series  The program is the UK version of the highly successful US series featuring Donald Trump. Sir Alan Sugar is the self-made multi-millionaire behind Amstrad and Viglen. The book is a practical guide to succeeding in the business world and is packed with instructional information from Sir Alan based on the lessons learned in the series. Contains lots of questionnaires, bullet points and summaries in order to make the subject matter more accessible and easily digestible than in traditional business manuals. The book will appeal to fans of the program as well as would-be entrepreneurs.

The Boardroom Entrepreneur

Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book

The ultimate business how-to book by the icon of American business, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. Winning explores the changes of recent times and the new economic realities, and identifies the central, immutable principals of doing business right and doing it well. "Winning is a book for the people in business who sweat, get their nails dirty, hire, fire, make hard decisions, and pay the price when those decisions are wrong." said Welch. This book will teach people how to win in business by distilling his experience in three critical areas: working within an organization, dealing with competitors, and handling matters of life and career.

20/20 Hindsight: From Starting Up to Successful Entrepreneur

Do you often wonder how the most innovative entrepreneurs made it to where they are today? Would you like to know how they did it - and what it cost? Rachelle Thackray gives the accounts, in their own words, of leading entrepreneurs - what drove them to create businesses and what helped them. It follows the stories of entrepreneurs as they tell what drove them to set up the businesses they did, and what helped them trust in their own ideas. It covers a variety of sectors - retail, finance, technology, design and consultancy.

Built for Growth: Expanding Your Business Around the Corner or Across the Globe

Built for Growth shows exactly how to create winning retail brands, how to create a unique, compelling brand. Arthur Rubinfeld architected Starbucks expansion from 100 stores to nearly 4,000, helping to establish Starbucks as one of the world’s most-recognised brands. Drawing on his expertise he offers breakthrough strategies and techniques for all facets of retail: choosing locations, recruiting management and associates, defining organisations and systems, designing stores, merchandising, day-to-day execution, and more. Whether you’re seeking to reignite growth or planning your first store, Built for Growth will be absolutely indispensable.

Angel Financing: How to Find and Invest in Private Equity

Capital is the single most important factor to getting your venture off the ground, but finding it can be a challenge, particularly if you're running out of funding options. Suppose your venture is too small for institutional players. What do you do once you've exhausted your personal financial resources? Where do you go after banks, the leasing companies, the venture capital firms, have turned you down?

What you need is an "angel" -- a private investor with high net worth. Angel Financing -- only book of its kind -- provides you with a road map to this valuable, little known, source of capital financing. This book explains the structure of the direct private capital market and covers everything from the valuation process to writing an investor-oriented business plan.

How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business: Unexpected Rules Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know

With only about half of small businesses still trading after the first three years, setting up and surviving as an entrepreneur can be a tough game. Bestselling author Jeffrey Fox has come up with a winning formula for small-business owners to guarantee themselves commercial success and, what is more, how to make big money in the process.

This book offers simple, practical and unique advice on every aspect of running a small business, from how to get start-up money to staying in profit. Fox also provides more creative and quirky insights into how to be successful such as why you should: not to work from home; hire an ex-paperboy instead of a Harvard graduate; pick up paperclips but overspend on your customers. Whether you're already a small-business owner or are simply contemplating becoming one, this guide is essential reading.

The Customer-Approved Small Business: Success Secrets for Developing Your Business (Approved)

This book features feedback and comments from the most important people in any business - the customers.

This easy to read step-by-step guide shares the secrets to help you master 3 key requirements for a successful small business.

EBoys: The True Story of the Six Tall Men Who Backed EBay

If you want to understand the 1990s, you have to understand venture capitalists. These are the guys who listen to business pitches by the score, the financial world equivalent of miners turning over tons of earth trying to find the precious metals that lie beneath it. They're looking for the next Amazon.com, the next Yahoo, the next eBay. Stross the author of this book, who teaches business at San Jose State University, just happened to be there when a venture firm called Benchmark Capital found the first eBay. eBoys tells the story of how a group of not-quite-middle-aged men came to make an investment that returned a Silicon Valley-record 100,000 per cent.

Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves

This book evolved as a result of years of the author observing how four powerful action elements work in concert to give a person the capacity to overcome virtually any obstacle in his path. These elements include: Nothing happens until something moves, God helps those who help themselves, The Law of Averages, Action produces genius, magic, and power, Ideas, preparation, knowledge, and wisdom are all but useless without action, because action is the starting point of all progress. One of Ringer's most important rules is that action must precede motivation. Take action first, and motivation will follow.

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