Did anyone else watch Inside NZ last week? It was about the ladies who won the old Spagalimis Restaurant at Northlands Mall on Trademe. They ended up opening a gourmet burger restaurant there. The burgers were HUGE and delicious, but sadly their business only lasted 6 weeks as they were unable to secure financing from a bank.
According to the start of the episode, 56000 businesses are started in NZ every year! So if you are part of the 1.4 percent of Kiwis starting their own business in 2010, give it the best chance of success by checking out our extensive collection of business books and resources. We’ve got stuff on small business management, books focussed on the NZ small business scene, a book that gives you 75 green business ideas to consider and even a book promising to help you write your business plan in one day!
The Library has lots of other services to help businesses, like research assistance, document delivery and free corporate membership. So maybe the lesson to be learnt is that buying something for $181 can cause you to go bankrupt, but using free Library resources could make you a millionaire?
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