The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs.
If you read nothing else on entrepreneurship and startups, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your company for enduring success.
Leading experts and practitioners such as Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Reid Hoffman provide the insights and advice that will inspire you to:
Understand what makes entrepreneurial leaders tick
Know what matters in a great business plan
Adopt lean startup practices such as business model experimentation
Be prepared for the race for scale in Silicon Valley
Better understand the world of venture capital--and know what you'll get along with VC funding
Take an alternative approach to entrepreneurship: buy an existing business and run it as CEO
This collection of articles includes "Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader," by Timothy Butler; "How to Write a Great Business Plan," by William A. Sahlman; "Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything," by Steve Blank; "The President of SRI Ventures on Bringing Siri to Life," by Norman Winarsky; "In Search of the Next Big Thing," an interview with Marc Andreessen by Adi Ignatius; "Six Myths About Venture Capitalists," by Diane Mulcahy; "Chobani's Founder on Growing a Start-Up Without Outside Investors," by Hamdi Ulukaya; "Network Effects Aren't Enough," by Andrei Hagiu and Simon Rothman; "Blitzscaling," an interview with Reid Hoffman by Tim Sullivan; "Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship," by Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff; and "The Founder's Dilemma," by Noam Wasserman.
Название: Challenges of corporate entrepreneurship in the disruptive age ISBN: 1787544443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787544444 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 107050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Today`s age of disruptive technology is a strategic game changer for most organizations. Unpredictable market conditions create unprecedented challenges for simple organizational survival, let alone avenues for innovation and growth. This volume explores this dynamic environment in which corporate entrepreneurship strategies are pursued.
Автор: Rose David S. Название: The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to Scalable, High-Growth Business ISBN: 111916379X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781119163794 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 28510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 25 Steps to Found and Scale a High-Growth Business The Startup Checklist is the entrepreneur`s essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start.
You might love the idea of creating and growing an aligned business, but how do you actually do it?
When you work for yourself there are constant challenges, decisions to make and directions you could go. If you lose connection to yourself and your own sense of alignment, you can easily get pulled off course.
As an experienced Kinesiologist, I can guide you to a greater connection to your own alignment.
The main character in this story - Anna - is not me, she's not one of my clients, but really, she could be any one of us.
As you read her story, you'll see aspects of your own journey mirrored and will learn the steps to take back your power, create boundaries, take action and come back to your centre.
Part story and part guidebook on how to create more alignment in your business, Align + Attract will inspire you, motivate you, and help you attract clients and gain clarity about what you really want in your own business.
Real-world tools to build your venture, grow your business, and avoid mistakes
Startup, Scaleup, Screwup is an expert guide for emerging and established businesses to accelerate growth, facilitate scalability, and keep pace with the rapidly changing economic landscape. The contemporary marketplace is more dynamic than ever before--increased global competition, the impact of digital transformation, and disruptive innovation factors require businesses to implement agile management and business strategies to compete and thrive. This indispensable book provides business leaders and entrepreneurs the tools and guidance to meet growth and scalability challenges head on.
Equal parts motivation and practical application, this book answers the questions every business leader asks from the startup ventures to established companies. Covering topics including funding options, employee hiring, product-market validation, remote team management, agile scaling, and the business lifecycle, this essential resource provides a solid approach to grow at the right pace and stay lean. This book will enable you to:
Apply 42 effective tools to sustain and accelerate your business growth
Avoid the mistakes and pitfalls associated with rapid business growth or organizational change
Develop a clear growth plan to integrate into your overall business model
Structure your business for rapid scaling and efficient management
Startup, Scaleup, Screwup: 42 Tools to Accelerate Lean & Agile BusinessGrowth is a must-read for entrepreneurs, founders, managers, and senior executives. Author Jurgen Appelo shares his wisdom on the creative economy, agile management, innovation marketing, and organizational change to provide a comprehensive guide to business growth. Practical methods and expert advice make this book an essential addition to any business professional's library.
Автор: DiResta Renee Название: Hardware Startup ISBN: 1449371035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781449371036 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 33780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Thanks to the decreasing cost of prototyping, it`s more feasible for professional makers and first-time entrepreneurs to launch a hardware startup. But exactly how do you go about it? This book provides the roadmap and best practices you need for turning a product idea into a full-fledged business.
Автор: Sethi, Anil Название: From science to startup ISBN: 3319304224 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319304229 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 30740.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book charts the experiences, pitfalls and knowledge behind leading scientific ideas to successful startups. Starting with personal qualities of an entrepreneur, Anil Sethi discusses successful ideas, technology evaluation, team formation, patents and investor expectations.
Автор: Aspan Maria Название: Startup Money Made Easy: The Inc. Guide to Every Financial Question about Starting, Running, and Growing Your Business ISBN: 1400212243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400212248 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 17150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: With advice from Daymond John, Bobbi Brown, Marc Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck, Max Levchin, Alexa von Tobel, and other successful early stage startup investors, Inc. magazine shows you how to attract and wisely apply your firm`s first precious sources of cash.
So much to read, so little time? Get the key points of The Lean Startup--the bestseller about creativity, efficiency, and building a sustainable business.
Through successes and failures with tech companies, Eric Ries began to realize there was a better way to develop a startup. Using his experiences, as well as valuable lessons learned from other industries, Ries identifies the difficulties a startup faces and how to build a more efficient--and successful--business. In the end, all of his advice comes down to saving the most important resource of all: time.
This summary of that bestselling business book covers such topics as:
How to shorten project-development cycles
Validated learning and rapid scientific experimentation
Measuring progress accurately
Identifying your customers' desires
How to adapt to changing circumstances quickly
With chapter-by-chapter overviews, definitions of key terms, context and analysis, important quotes, and other features, this summary and analysis of The Lean Startup is intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
