How to Start Your Own Business" doesn't carry a single named author. It comes from DK, short for Dorling Kindersley, the publisher founded in London and known for decades for its heavily visual approach to nonfiction, the same style behind its long running Eyewitness guides and its "How It Works" series that this book belongs to. Rather than one writer's voice, DK titles are typically built by an in house editorial and design team working with subject matter contributors, which is why the book reads less like a personal narrative and more like a practical field guide, dense with diagrams, sidebars, and short sections meant to be dipped into as needed rather than read start to finish. That structure is very much the point. DK's business titles are designed for someone who wants clear, visually broken down guidance they can act on immediately, not a memoir about how someone else built their company.