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Title:
New venture creation : entrepreneurship for the 21st century
Author:
Spinelli, Stephen, Jr.
ISBN:
9780078029103
Personal Author:
Edition:
Ninth edition.
Physical Description:
xx, 588 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
General Note:
Eight edition published: New venture creation : entrepreneurship for the 21st century / Jeffry A. Timmons and Stephen Spinelli, Jr.
Contents:
pt. I. The founder. The global entrepreneurial revolution for a flatter world -- The entrepreneurial mind: crafting a personal entrepreneurial strategy -- pt. II. The opportunity. The entrepreneurial process -- Clean commerce is an opportunity sea change -- The opportunity: creating, shaping, recognizing, seizing -- Screening venture opportunities -- Opportunities for social entrepreneurship -- The business plan -- pt. III. The founder and team. The entrepreneurial leader and the team -- Ethical decision making and the entrepreneur -- pt. IV. Financing entrepreneurial ventures. Resource requirements -- Franchising -- Entrepreneurial finance -- Obtaining venture and growth capital -- The deal: valuation, structure, and negotiation -- Obtaining debt capital -- pt. V. Start-up and beyond. Leading rapid growth, crises, and recovery -- The family as entrepreneur -- The harvest and beyond.
Abstract:
New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century is about the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. The book presents the substantial body of knowledge about the entrepreneurial process in a pragmatic way -- through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises -- to help readers compress their learning curves, reduce their ultimate risk and pain, and allow them to gain more from their subsequent entrepreneurial experiences.
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