TY - BOOK AU - Bridge, Rachel TI - My Big Idea: 30 successful entrepreneurs reveal how they found inspiration U1 - 338.040 922 41 CY - London : Kogan Page, 2007 KW - Businesspeople -- Great Britain -- Biography. Executives -- Great Britain -- Biography. Directors of corporations -- Biography. N1 - 1 Martyn Dawes, founder of Coffee Nation; 2 Judy Craymer, creator of Mamma Mia; 3 Stephen Waring, founder of Green Thumb; 4 Will King, founder of King of Shaves; 5 Deirdre Bounds, founder of i to i; 6 David Sanger, founder of Rollover Hot Dogs; 7 Anthony Ward Thomas, founder of Ward Thomas Removals; 8 Lara Morgan, founder of Pacific Direct; 9 Paul Stanyer, founder of HolidayTaxis.com; 10 Robert Hughes, founder of Wesco; 11 Hilary Andrews, founder of Mankind; 12 David Salisbury, founder of David Salisbury Conservatories N2 - In this book, 30 successful entrepreneurs explain how they turned their dreams into reality. They tell how they decided what to do, how they got started, how they found the money they needed, and how they went about it. But they also reveal how they had doubts, made mistakes, and encountered frustrations along the way. Importantly, they also explain how they overcame these difficulties and turned a dream into a commercially viable reality ER -