Fundamentals For Successful Entrepreneur

This is the complete, up-to-date guide to creating a successful new venture. Using real-life examples, it helps you assemble every piece of the puzzle: you, your team, your opportunity, your business concept and revenue model, your resources, and your successful launch, execution, and growth. The authors illuminate entrepreneurial mindsets, motivation, attitudes, and leadership, and cover the entire process of starting a company, from idea through your first four years of operations. You’ll learn how to recognize, define, test, and exploit opportunities; transform ideas into revenue models that earn sustainable value; demonstrate viability to funders; establish a strong ethical and legal foundation for your concept; and build a thriving team to execute on it.

A gold mine of advice and guidance from an international team of entrepreneurial all-stars From TiE, the world's largest not-for-profit entrepreneurial organization, this valuable handbook features chapters written by acknowledged experts in their respective fields. It covers all areas of vital concern to entrepreneurs-as well as the accountants, venture capitalists, and attorneys who work with them-including legal issues, venture funding, management teams, stock options, business planning, and much more. TiE is a worldwide organization founded in Silicon Valley over a decade ago and dedicated to promoting entrepreneurial ventures. Its members number 800 professionals in forty-one locations in eight countries.

24 Steps to Success! Disciplined Entrepreneurship will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great entrepreneurs aren’t born with something special – they simply make great products. This book will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehensive, and proven 24-step framework that any industrious person can learn and apply. You will learn: Why the “F” word – focus – is crucial to a startup’s success Common obstacles that entrepreneurs face – and how to overcome them How to use innovation to stand out in the crowd – it’s not just about technology Whether you’re a first-time or repeat entrepreneur, Disciplined Entrepreneurship gives you the tools you need to improve your odds of making a product people want. Author Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship as well as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For more please visit http://disciplinedentrepreneurship.com/

This is the complete, modern guide to every facet of creating a successful new venture, from identifying and evaluating opportunities to effectively exploiting them. Using examples from real-life entrepreneurs, Alan L. Carsrud guides you all nine key pieces of the entrepreneurial puzzle: the individual, entrepreneurial team, opportunity, business concept, revenue model, resource acquisition, launch, execution, and growth. Carsrud thoroughly discusses entrepreneurial mindsets, motivation, attitudes, and leadership, and covers the entire process of starting a company from business idea through the first four years of operations. You'll learn how to: Recognise, define, test and exploit business opportunities Develop business ideas into business concepts with revenue models that create value and can be profitably sustained Determine your concept's feasibility through industry, market, trend, economic, breakeven, and risk analyses Establish a proper ethical and legal foundation for the business concept Succinctly and effectively demonstrate your concept's viability to a potential funder Organise and manage human and social capital -- including resources provided by your family Throughout, Carsrud offers entrepreneurship techniques and approaches you can use in many ways: to build your own profitable new venture, create a successful non-profit, make a public agency more effective, transform your current organisation, or succeed as a self-employed professional.

Business Creativity is the first volume of a series of textbooks called Fundamentals of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, which has won multiple awards in Africa and Europe. It is a comprehensive guidebook for aspiring entrepreneurs who desperately want to acquire the critical business tools to generate a brilliant idea and turn it into an innovative start-up company.In a refreshingly enjoyable and well-illustrated how-to guide for first-time entrepreneurs... Michael C. Fanning serves up 17 bite-sized Lectures ... helping start-up founders to: -Accelerate their entrepreneurial mind-sets by providing them with proven and tested scientific methods that foster creativity in business.-Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviours that stop them from creating and maintaining sustainable enterprises.-Learn to apply various hands-on techniques to collect constructive feedback from industry experts to formulate a successful product launch.By the end of Business Creativity, first-time entrepreneurs will be educated, empowered and equipped to apply creative thinking while attempting to develop innovative products, processes and services which help carry out the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).[ Each entrepreneur purchasing this textbook through Amazon will automatically be granted access to the online course 'Business Creativity' via PhilTech Business Academy's website: https: //www.PhilTech.Academy provided that they email their proof of purchase of the textbook to this email address: [email protected] ]In order to finalize this textbook, Michael C. Fanning has traveled extensively and met with Government officials in Stuttgart, where he took part in the Autumn School for Sustainable Entrepreneurship at Social Impact Lab Stuttgart (Germany). He also worked in France for two months to refine the entrepreneurship curriculum, which makes up the full series of 8 textbooks and called Fundamentals of Sustainable Entrepreneurship. He trained and collected feedback from entrepreneurs in Gabon, Cameroon, Burundi and Nigeria.He was invited by the President of Egypt H.E Abdul Fattah El-sisi to take part in the Arab and African Youth Platform in Aswan (Egypt) where he met with the president on live Egyptian television. Further, through this presidential event, he was introduced to Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela's grandson; Zondwa Mandela who gave him a training on Social Entrepreneurship while he was in Egypt. Lastly, this book was refined even further when Michael C. Fanning had the immense privilege to take part in the 2nd edition of the Pan African Youth Forum held at the African Union's Headquarters located in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). The African Union was a great opportunity to be exposed to the 2063 Agenda, as well as the 1 Million campaign by 2021 initiated by the President of the African Union Commission; H.E Moussa Faki.

This second edition gives practical guidelines on how to develop business ideas and establish an enterprise. Drawing on their personal experience as entrepreneurs, business advisors and subject specialists, the authors look at: providing a comprehensive introduction to the world of business and its most important role player -- the entrepreneur; basic business concepts, in order to ensure understanding of the business environment and business in general; what successful entrepreneurs do and what contributes to successful entrepreneurship; the steps in the entrepreneurial process -- the feasibility study, the viability assessment and the development of a business plan; and some of the most important and essential business management functions that entrepreneurs have to address, such as marketing, finance, operations, human resources and purchasing, as these are all relevant to a start-up or new business. Using a fun and accessible approach the authors guide the reader to be positive yet critical, creative yet practical in their search for business ideas, and ultimately to thoroughly research business ideas to ensure profitability.

This book is geared toward College students, but really helpful to anyone wanting to live life to the fullest. Each chapter is structured in the same way bursting with resources. Does this mean a boring read? Read one chapter and you won't be able to put it down. Fun, informative, and real. Keep it close by your side, as it will become your companion. These real-world insights include: - Improve your "deserve it factor" - Dance with fear of failure - Fail fast, fail forward - Follow your passion, yes or no - Develop your competitive advantage - Go party

Designed primarily as a textbook for undergraduate students of commerce, this accessible and easy-to-read text gives a clear exposition of the theory and practice of entrepreneurship. It exposes the readers to the entrepreneurial culture and industrial growth in India. The intricate theories involved in entrepreneurship are explained in a step-by-step manner, supported by a large number of tables and figures. The thorough discussion on promotion of venture and raising of funds is aimed at enabling the potential entrepreneurs to set up and successfully manage their own small business units. Separate chapters on Women Entrepreneurship and Rural Entrepreneurship make this text a class apart. Besides undergraduate students of commerce, students of management and EDP trainers will also find this text extremely useful. Above all, all those who are interested in and enthusiastic about setting up their own small units will find the book quite handy.

If 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.