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Business Planning for New Ventures
Starting a new business takes a lot of energy and organization. The failure rate is alarmingly high and the task can look herculean at the outset. This new textbook provides a simple guide to help plan a successful new business, taking entrepreneurs and students through the steps required to avoid pitfalls and get a business going. Unlike most entrepreneurship textbooks, the author avoids dwelling on theories in favour of providing effective and practical guidance on how to start and manage a profitable business, with a focus on new ventures operating in high-growth, innovative sectors. Written by an expert with experience in academia and business consulting, this concise textbook will be valuable reading for students of entrepreneurship, new ventures and small business. The practical focus of the book means that it will be useful both for students in the classroom and for entrepreneurs wanting to start a new business.
MANAGING NEW VENTURES
This book not only introduces the fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship but also presents the critical issues that an entrepreneur needs to be familiar with for launching, nurturing, managing and harvesting new ventures. The book explains sequentially the life-cycle of a venture, and discusses topics such as opportunity identification, planning, start-up issues, managing growth and harvesting. Case studies are presented featuring real-life dilemmas faced by Indian entrepreneurs in the manufacturing and the service industries, to make the readers familiar with the eco-system confronting Indian entrepreneurs. The book is ideally suited for students who wish to venture into entrepreneurship as well as for professionals with interest in policy making, investing or consulting. Key Features : A list of learning objectives for each chapter and a set of questions at the end are given to assist students. Profiles of two leading entrepreneurs are given after each chapter to examine the relevance of the concepts discussed in the book. India-centred approach of this text makes it unique and interesting.
The Life Cycle of New Ventures
The contributors to this book provide a cross-national comparison of venture emergence, newness and growth. Their chapters examine the influences of cultural, social and economic factors on venture development, compare the approaches of entrepreneurs who move from idea to emerging organization, and investigate acquisition and development of resources in growth and performance. The authors consider important issues in new ventures research such as technology commercialization, management team development, and influence of equity funding. While its particular focus is on Norway and the US, the book offers broad and intriguing contributions with regard to the emergence and growth of knowledge based firms in developed economies, and has implications for both direct and indirect government policy with regard to stimulating the formation and development of knowledge based firms. Scholars and students of entrepreneurship, international studies and economics, policymakers, international business experts and economic development specialists will find this rigorous analysis of the utmost importance.
Entrepreneurship
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Entrepreneurship: Launching New Ventures introduces readers to the process of entrepreneurial success and shows them how to be effective every step of the way.
Financing New Ventures
Many business ventures today are looking to attract external financing, with an emphasis on business angel investment. Inside this text, the author incorporates the views of business angels, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and legal advisors; and draws upon the latest academic thinking on financing new ventures, providing comparisons between business angel and venture capital investing to further inform the reader. The concepts, principles, and guidelines presented can help you and any entrepreneur, business support agency, business student, and others interested in raising external investment and in developing an “investable” business. The book is organized into seven chapters covering: • Fundamental concepts of entrepreneurial venturing and entrepreneurial finance • Market conditions from which investable businesses emerge • The investment process • Deal negotiations • The post-investment relationship between entrepreneur and investor • Recent trends affecting how entrepreneurs raise finance that include strategic exits, “super angels,” and the emergence of “crowdfunding”
Finding Fertile Ground
Provides a complete framework for targeting new businesses with the greatest growth potential like Google, Genentech or Tivo. bull; Explains why the highest rate of success for new businesses is in new technology applications and helps you identify your best market opportunity - and be the first to exploit it. bull; Offers specific solutions targeted at high growth, high-tech businesses from biotech to robotics. bull; " . . . a great, courageous effort. " - J. Engel, Centre for Entrepreneurship, U of Cal, , Berkeley
Planning in new Ventures
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,7, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: New ventures are an important driving source of wealth in societies. Small and especially young ventures have a fundamental impact on the whole economy. Activities of new ventures provide various positive effects, such as the creation of employment, contribution to technol-ogical advance, innovation and the overall competitiveness of a society’s economy (e.g. Brinckmann 2008, pp. 1). It is a big challenge for founders to assure that their new ventures survive and prosper. Many aspects have to be considered and high u...
New Venture Creation
This text covers the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. It contains tools and concepts entrepreneurs need to know prior to, and while taking the start-up plunge.
