Crossing the Road to Entrepreneurship

In Crossing The Road To Entrepreneurship, Bert L. Wolstein, master entrepreneur, draws from decades of experience in the commercial real estate development industry to offer readers valuable lessons on how to start, grow, and maintain successful businesses. He shows how the combination of business sense and common sense helped him cross over to the proverbial ‘right side of the tracks’ via a host of different business ventures spanning 50 years.

The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship

Now with more than a half-dozen titles, Wiley's well-received Portable MBA series continues to expand. Excellently edited and handy to use, these guides offer helpful overviews of current trends and thinking on a wide range of business topics. Bygrave, with both academic (Babson College) and business (a Boston high-tech corridor entrepreneur) backgrounds, has put together a roster of leaders in the field of entrepreneurial studies. More rigorous than the ubiquitous how-to-start-a-small-business books, this manual combines scholarly analyses of the entrepreneurial process and of the traits and characteristics of successful entrepreneurs with practical guidance on business plans, raising capital, legal and tax matters, intellectual property, etc. Recommended for all libraries. David Rouse

Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

This fourth edition of the popular book introduces you to the processes of new venture creation and the critical knowledge needed to manage your business once it is formed. With the help of this book, readers can follow their dreams of becoming successful entrepreneurs. Topics include: the challenges of entrepreneurship, building a business plan, marketing considerations, e-commerce and the entrepreneur, advertising and pricing for profit, financial considerations and managing cash flow, building a competitive edge, and debt/equity and site and location considerations. For any person interested in owning, operating, and managing a small business. Also a handy reference for entrepreneurs and managers of small businesses.

Entrepreneurship : Theory, Process, and Practice

Entrepreneurship, 6th Edition combines a practical, step-by-step approach with a theoretical foundation to form a basic framework for understanding the process of entrepreneurship. The aim of the text is to both present the most current thinking in entrepreneurship but also provide learners the opportunity to apply ideas and develop useful analytical skills. The revision of this text has been updated to include current developments and issues in this explosive field.

Entrepreneurship for Dummies

Today's business marketplace is filled with news of small business and entrepreneurs making it big. Entrepreneurship For Dummies brings everything the reader needs to get started in business into one package. From developing an opportunity and coming up with a concept to actually creating the company, this book guides readers step-by-step. Included are all the procedures necessary to create a successful business. Learn how to know your customer, test and protect your product, test distribution, and create a business plan. Discover how to find the best legal structure, business model, organization plan, marketing plan, and financial plan.

Patterns of Entrepreneurship

This is a comprehensive book that is a must for learning the ropes of entrepreneurship. As a graduate of the MBA program at Columbia, I had a special entrepreneurial interest and focus. I am excited to see that Jack Kaplan has added another outstanding book to complement his other books on the subject. Jack is a true entrepreneur who knows what it really takes to succeed.

The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

This is an excellent book to describe all thinkable crosssections of Silicon Valley through interviews in the social science methods and through writing by prominent figures in Silicon Valley. The only drawback I found is that the book has too rich contents for a reader to read through casually. I strongly recommend this book to those serious readers who are engaged in Silicon Valley, associated with venture businesses, interested in mechanisms and histories of Silicon Valley, or interested in business models. The book has a big reference table to illustrate how different Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are from small business owners and traditional entrepreneurs, and describes four distinct types of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The book also enumerates ten reasons why Silicon Valley has been prosperous. This is really a good book for a reader to learn what Silicon Valley is like.

Social Entrepreneurship

Until very recently, popular belief held that business skills were not needed at charitable organizations. No longer. Far from interfering with an organizations ability to provide needed services, techniques such as marketing, cash flow analysis, property management, and good use of technology all contribute to a charitable organizations mission capability. Unlike a not-for-profit that thinks of itself as a charity, the successful not-for-profit is really a mission-based business. In an era of rapid change, increasing competition, and the need for more accountability to governments, foundations, insurers, and donors, knowing how to innovate, compete, and take reasonable risks on behalf of the mission is critical. It is, in short, the era of the social entrepreneur.

Beyond Entrepreneurship

Collins and Lazier wrote this book for those who seek answers to questions such as these: 1. What kind of leadership must you provide to your organization so that it will achieve the performance, impact, reputation, and longevity it needs...not only to succeed but to sustain that success? 2. How can you formulate an appropriate vision for your organization and then galvanize the commitment and efforts of others to achieve that vision? 3. What are the tough decisions to be made when selecting those strategies which are needed? 4. Meanwhile, what must be done to create and then sustain a culture within which innovative thinking is not only encouraged but nourished? 5. What is "tactical excellence"? What must be done to create an environment within which it is achieved and then (once again, a key word) sustained? If you need answers to these questions, Collins and Lazier provide them.

Entrepreneurship : Successfully Launching New Ventures

This lively book, containing many real-life examples, makes a thoughtful, practical guide to the process of launching new ventures. It begins by introducing a model of the entrepreneurial process, and follows the model throughout the book. Emphasis is placed on the beginnings of the entrepreneurial process — particularly opportunity recognition and feasibility analysis. A four part organization makes the journey toward understanding the entrepreneur process both enjoyable and productive. The four parts, which collectively contain 15 chapters, are: The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur, Developing Successful Business Ideas, Moving From an Idea to an Entrepreneurial Firm, and Managing and Growing an Entrepreneurial Firm. For venture capitalists, investor groups, or business incubators (for-profit and not-for-profit) to distribute to their client companies; and of particular help to technology companies.

Corporate Entrepreneurship : Top Managers and New Business Creation

Corporate Entrepreneurship could not have been published at a better moment. With economic growth rates back down to low digits, and with new economies conquering their positions at increasing speeds, our companies are focusing on growth and innovation to drive their value creation. This book, written with academic rigor and based on a detailed analysis of a set of valuable case studies, provides recommendations that will benefit top management and the champions of corporate entrepreneurship, academics and students alike. With its scope and focus the book breaks new ground in the management literature, and hence the author is the best example of entrepreneurship that he advocates so convincingly." Jan Oosterveld, Chief Strategist and Member of the Group Management Committee, Philips Electronics

Entrepreneurship in America

Entrepreneurship in America: A Primer for Buying & Selling Small Manufacturing Companies