New Venture creation : Entrepreneurship for the 21st century Stephen Spinelli and Robert J. Adams

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents pt. I. The founder. The global entrepreneurial revolution for a flatter world -- The entrepreneurial mind: crafting a personal entrepreneurial strategy -- pt. II. The opportunity. The entrepreneurial process -- Clean commerce is an opportunity sea change -- The opportunity: creating, shaping, recognizing, seizing -- Screening venture opportunities -- Opportunities for social entrepreneurship -- The business plan -- pt. III. The founder and team. The entrepreneurial leader and the team -- Ethical decision making and the entrepreneur -- pt. IV. Financing entrepreneurial ventures. Resource requirements -- Franchising -- Entrepreneurial finance -- Obtaining venture and growth capital -- The deal: valuation, structure, and negotiation -- Obtaining debt capital -- pt. V. Start-up and beyond. Leading rapid growth, crises, and recovery -- The family as entrepreneur -- The harvest and beyond.

New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century is about the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. The book presents the substantial body of knowledge about the entrepreneurial process in a pragmatic way -- through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises -- to help readers compress their learning curves, reduce their ultimate risk and pain, and allow them to gain more from their subsequent entrepreneurial experiences.