The Entrepreneur's Journey offers a practical, high-leverage framework that helps entrepreneurs focus on eight fundamental factors that drive business growth.
If you spend enough time working with startups, certain recurring themes emerge. This book explores key themes by telling the stories of 17 different companies. The authors have chosen specific startups to illustrate: 1) The challenges of driving customer awareness 2) The importance of founding teams 3) The hurdles of investing in hardware products 4) The fateful role timing plays in the outcome of startups 5) The difficulties startups face getting acquired Lord, Mirabile and Mandato have been founders, senior management team members, or board members for over three dozen early stage companies. Collectively, they have decades of startup investing experience in hundreds of companies. It is rare to find so much startup experience in one concise volume, and the fascinating narrative stories of these startups and their founders make for a very enjoyable way to acquire this collective wisdom.
This book is intended to showcase some of Thailand's most vibrant start-ups. It contains a series of stories about these first-generation entrepreneurs and their commercial journeys. The book is intended to serve as both an inspiration and a source of insights for would be entrepreneurs and potential Thailand investors. Each story covers the initial start-up plan, the steps taken by the entrepreneurs and the twists and turns they faced in their journey.
While most small business books cover niche components of the start-up model, From Idea to Exit takes a more comprehensive approach, tackling the entire entrepreneurial journey from the initial seed idea through a well-planned exit strategy. Through a persuasive narrative, the author draws from his own success a practical call to action for those who dream of taking that first big step. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
This book discusses the various paths and decisions that the entrepreneur will experience on their journey, as well as insights and tools to prepare them for it. This book emphasizes research on inventing entrepreneurs, explaining the critical factors that spark and fuel successful entrepreneurial journeys. For the business professional interested in exploring the entrepreneurial journeys of successful entrepreneurs.
South-Western Publishing is pleased to present this Pre-Release edition of The Entrepreneurial Journey. Authored by Tom O'Malia, Director of the Grief Center for Entrepreneurship, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, and Margaret Whistler, Director of Operations for MedReviews, LCC. The Entrepreneurial Journey is a unique, new text in entrepreneurship that is like no other. It offers a pragmatic, how to approach and gives the rules of the road for a successful entrepreneurial venture. There are no ultimate theories or absolute rules in entrepreneurship-- just the myriad of paths that have been traveled before by successful entrepreneurs. These are presented as case studies and framed in such a way as to identify the concepts and approaches that have led to prosperity for many others.
Did you know that only 9 percent of all students who attend entrepreneurship classes intend to be an entrepreneur immediately following graduation? Some may hear that and think something is wrong, not knowing that this is simply a part of the journey. The goal of entrepreneurship education shouldn't be to push groups of students towards their first start-up business idea or garage-based tech company. It should foster a special skillset that will enable them to excel in whatever field they choose. Birgitte Wraae's The Entrepreneurial Learning Journey and Back Again: Conversations with Entrepreneurship Educators from around the World is a book by educators, for educators, students and entrepreneurs alike, focusing on what they can do to strengthen that skillset. Through data and interviews with nineteen established entrepreneurial educators based all over the world, you will find diverse points of view as well as tools and tips to help you build your students up. Whether it is incorporating reflections in the classroom, or simply learning and using every student's name, each and every step in the journey counts. If you are an entrepreneurship educator or are looking to break into the field, Birgitte Wraae's The Entrepreneurial Learning Journey and Back Again is a must-read.
Learn first-hand from a successful entrepreneur about assessing your skills and talent, envisioning your company, planning your path to success, and then tapping into available gaovernment agencies to make it a reality.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE-PATRON PHILOSOPHER OF TODAY'S DISRUPTIVE ENTREPRENEURS His favorite personality was a "free spirit" an obsessed individual with a vision of the future and the will to make it so, a rebel who creates the future with childlike enthusiasm. Now, serial entrepreneur Dave Jilk and venture capitalist Brad Feld extract from Nietzsche a modern Art of War, connecting the dots to our high-tech business environment. Each quick, digestible chapter expands on a quote from Nietzsche to stimulate your thinking about a vital aspect of entrepreneurship, and stories from entrepreneurs help make the ideas concrete. Understand why hitting bottom might be the best thing that can happen, how your firm's "artistic style" can align your organization, and the role obsession plays in your success-and your definition of it. Glean insight and inspiration from every page of this surprising, approachable gem.