The Entrepreneurial Journey

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.

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.

A Balanced Approach Emotional awareness is critical for entrepreneurs throughout every stage of the business life cycle. As their businesses begin and then mature, entrepreneurs face increasingly complex emotional challenges that they must navigate as they take their businesses from an idea to the maturation period of growth and expansion, to succession planning and divestiture, to the day they step aside. John Waldron has leveraged his own entrepreneurial experience and that of the hundreds of business owners he has counseled to build an essential framework that addresses the important balance between the tangible and intangible complexities of each stage of The Entrepreneurial Journey. To achieve the greatest level of success, you have to balance the technical with the emotional. The Entrepreneurial Journey will help potential entrepreneurs navigate both, so so that they may bring their businesses to their full potential.

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.

The Entrepreneur's Journey offers a practical, high-leverage framework that helps entrepreneurs focus on eight fundamental factors that drive business growth.

This textbook is intended for use in introductory Entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate level. Due to the wide range of audiences and course approaches, the book is designed to be as flexible as possible. Theoretical and practical aspects are presented in a balanced manner, and specific components such as the business plan are provided in multiple formats. Entrepreneurship aims to drive students toward active participation in entrepreneurial roles, and exposes them to a wide range of companies and scenarios.

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.

Destination Success is a fable told for anyone that wakes up, and heads to work wondering if there is more to life. Do you feel professionally unfulfilled? If you do, you are not alone. There is an army of people that look and act just like you. And if that describes you, then this story will be one of hope, if only to inspire you to survey your life, and make the necessary changes to elevate it. Together, we can manifest great change in your life. Winston Churchill said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Our story will be one of courage—the courage to take great risk to find great reward.