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Author: Daniel J. Weinfurter
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-22
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1137337141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond Stage Entrepreneurship shows the aspiring entrepreneur how to create significant growth as their company scales its way to the top through the development of organizational structure; from setting up an effective company culture; to structuring an effective sales team; to helping create stand out customer interactions.
Author: Tom Eisenmann
Publisher: Currency
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0593137027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charlie Gilkey
Publisher: Jetlaunch
Published: 2014-06-19
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781941142295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmall businesses have their own unique growth patterns. Each of the five stages of the small business life cycle has its own strengths, challenges, inconvenient truths, ways forward, and catalytic moments.
Author: Ash Maurya
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1101980524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Scaling Lean offers an invaluable blueprint for modeling startup success. You'll learn the essential metrics that measure the output of a working business model, give you the pulse of your company, communicate its health to investors, and enable you to make precise interventions when things go wrong, "--Amazon.com.
Author: Karen S. Widmar
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 155
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducation and training for nascent entrepreneurs is available from colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. However, research suggests that the long-term effectiveness of entrepreneurship training programs is questionable. With the high rate of business failure, it is plausible to suggest that the training needs of practicing entrepreneurs are different than those of nascent entrepreneurs. The purpose of this study was to identify gaps in training as it pertains to practicing entrepreneurs who want to grow their businesses. As such, the research set out describe: 1) the mindsets of growth-minded entrepreneurs in Northeast Wisconsin; 2) the activities growth-minded entrepreneurs in Northeast Wisconsin deployed to cross the threshold from a first-stage to a second-stage level business; and 3) the pivotal relationships that propelled the Northeast Wisconsin growth-minded entrepreneur's movement from first-stage to second-stage. This three-article dissertation begins with a literature review followed by a qualitative phenomenological study of 11 entrepreneurs in Northeast Wisconsin who crossed, or where in the process of crossing, the threshold from first-stage to second-stage. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using multiple coding approaches including In Vivo. The third article is a descriptive study comparing current entrepreneurship education and training programs to the phenomenological study's findings. Research findings suggest that a gap exists between what is being taught and the actual training needs of practicing entrepreneurs. In order for entrepreneurs to grow and sustain their business, the gap needs to close. It can be closed by the entrepreneur hiring individuals with those skills, or by the entrepreneur personally acquiring the skills. The implications for the research are the practical advice and training for entrepreneurs, educators, trainers, and economic development organizations. The seven training topics that specifically address the necessary skills a practicing entrepreneur needs include: financials; strategic planning; system and processes development; human capital development, communication; leadership; and, strategic relationship development.
Author: Rob Walling
Publisher: The Numa Group LLC
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0615373968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStart Small, Stay Small is a step-by-step guide to launching a self-funded startup. If you're a desktop, mobile or web developer, this book is your blueprint to getting your startup off the ground with no outside investment.This book intentionally avoids topics restricted to venture-backed startups such as: honing your investment pitch, securing funding, and figuring out how to use the piles of cash investors keep placing in your lap.This book assumes: You don't have $6M of investor funds sitting in your bank account You're not going to relocate to the handful of startup hubs in the world You're not going to work 70 hour weeks for low pay with the hope of someday making millions from stock options There's nothing wrong with pursuing venture funding and attempting to grow fast like Amazon, Google, Twitter, and Facebook. It just so happened that most people are not in a place to do this.Start Small, Stay Small also focuses on the single most important element of a startup that most developers avoid: marketing. There are many great resources for learning how to write code, organize source control, or connect to a database. This book does not cover the technical aspects developers already know or can learn elsewhere. It focuses on finding your idea, testing it before you build, and getting it into the hands of your customers.
Author: Noam Wasserman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-04
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 0691158304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.
Author: Arnis Sauka
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-06-28
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 331957342X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as well as Georgia and Ukraine. Based on new empirical evidence, it highlights major trends in, characteristics and forms of entrepreneurship common to countries in transition. The contributions cover topics such as levels of opportunity-based entrepreneurship, incentives for innovation, dominance of large-scale international corporations, the role of family businesses, and opportunities for grass-roots entrepreneurship. The first part of the book focuses on theoretical considerations regarding the establishment of sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems and private business. In turn, the second part offers cross-border studies of entrepreneurial environments and activities, while the third and fourth present case studies on the current state and unique characteristics of entrepreneurship in various countries of the CEE and CIS as well as Georgia and Ukraine. Finally, the last parts discuss the role of institutions and policy recommendations.
Author: Randy H. Nelson
Publisher: Advantage Media Group
Published: 2015-02-10
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1599325454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you the right person to lead your company? You’re in the driver’s seat of a growing company that an entrepreneur—possibly you— made the First Decision to start. Now, imagine your Board of Directors asking you question after question about your business knowledge and decision-making process. Pass—you leave the meeting knowing you have the skills to lead your organization for the next three years. Fail—you are put on an improvement plan or need to fi nd a replacement. Author Randy H. Nelson knows that business doesn’t work this way—the majority of Entrepreneurial CEOs are not required to be Qualifi ed to lead their organizations. In The Second Decision, Randy has combined his 6 years of Naval service, 25 years of business experience, and thousands of hours with business leaders to develop, The Entrepreneur Qual Card™. Chapter by chapter, you will discover whether you are a Leader that will put the company on your shoulders, a Role-Player that takes another position in the company, or a Creator that moves on to the next big idea. Determine your role and make the hard leadership decisions to help your company beat the odds and keep growing for years to come. Whichever role suits you best, The Second Decision will give you the self-awareness and the step-by-step guide to be—or to train—the Qualifi ed leader that your company needs.
