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Entrepreneurial Finance

Smith and Smith apply current thinking in the areas of valuation, real options, and the economics of contracts to new venture decision making. Readers learn to think of new ventures as portfolios of real options, value financial claims of the entrepreneur and venture capital investors, and structure financial contracts in light of new venture information problems. They also learn to use simulation and scenario analysis to evaluate the implications of uncertainty and financial decisions. * Stresses the importance of strategy in new venture planning. * Develops real-world context through relevant examples. * Spreadsheet modeling and simulation using custom software provides hands-on learning.

Entrepreneurial Management in Small Firms

Examining the crucial role of innovation and entrepreneurship in achieving growth and ongoing success in the small business sector, this book carefully examines the processes by which small businesses identify new opportunities, evolve appropriate marketing strategies, develop new products and services and successfully launch these into the market.<P> The text:<P> - Includes a dedicated chapter on social entrepreneurship and family firms<P> - Explores issues of Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility<P> - Packed with supporting "real world" case studies including Apple's iPod, Facebook, Starbucks and YouTube to illustrate how entrepreneurial firms succeed. <P> - Learning features including learning aims, summaries, points for discussion, and further reading. <P> - Companion website with instructors' manual and PowerPoint slides and access to full-text journal articles for students. <P> Visit the Companion website at www.sagepub.co.uk/chaston

Entrepreneurship: Building a Business

Glencoe Entrepreneurship: Building a Business© 2011 teaches students the business and academic skills they need to build and manage a successful 21st century business. There is extensive coverage of successful young entrepreneurs and web-based businesses as well as traditional "brick and mortar" businesses. The development of a business plan is emphasized.

Entrepreneurship: A Process Perspective (2nd Edition)

Current, comprehensive, and cutting edge, ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A PROCESS PERSPECTIVE equips potential entrepreneurs with the tools and insight for success. With solid theory and relevant examples, this thorough resource covers the entire process of building a business. Seasoned instructors and entrepreneurial authorities, Professors Baron and Shane deliver a practical, applied process approach with a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on knowledge from the studies of economics, psychology, and other areas. The book begins with recognizing opportunity and building a team, and then moves through assembling finances, the business plan, legal issues, marketing, growth, and exit strategies. Rather than getting bogged down in excessive discussions of theory, Baron and Shane use real-world examples to illustrate how students can apply chapter concepts to their own business ventures. Thoroughly updated and revised based on student and professor feedback, the second edition adds a chapter on legal issues specific to entrepreneurs--including intellectual property considerations--and an appendix on key accounting principles entrepreneurs should know. A new chapter on growth strategies for new ventures is coupled with a chapter on managing new ventures for growth. In addition, new boxed features shed light on common myths and misperceptions about entrepreneurship. The book is also packed with hands-on applications--including a case written specifically for each chapter--giving students experience putting text concepts into real-world action.

Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures

This book helps teach the Entrepreneurial Process through Real-World Examples and explores the allure of entrepreneurship, teaching students how to successfully launch and grow their own business. Using real business profiles of inspiring young entrepreneurs, the text engages students through relevant examples they can easily relate to. <p><p> The 6th Edition examines entrepreneurship through an easy, four-step process that clearly outlines both the excitement and difficulty of launching a new company. Careful to identify failures as well as successes, the text is a guide to starting a new business.

Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures

'Entrepreneurship' introduces readers to the process of entrepreneurial success and shows them how to be effective every step of the way.

Entrepreneurship: Ideas In Action (Introduction to Business)

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Entrepreneurship: Ideas in Action

It's well known today that becoming a business owner is a career option. ENTREPRENEURSHIP: IDEAS IN ACTION 5E provides you with the knowledge needed to realistically evaluate your potential as a business owner. This text encourages you to examine all the major steps involved in starting a new business: Ownership, Strategy, Finance, and Marketing. As you complete the chapters, you develop a business plan and learn what it takes to get an entrepreneurial venture off to a good start. Market research, budgeting, selecting a business location, and financing the business are covered using real-life examples that you can easily relate to. Information on online research, including online business planning, is also included.

Entrepreneurship: Ideas In Action (Second edition)

Entrepreneurship: Ideas in Action takes students through the entire process of running their own business. Creating a business plan is covered extensively and a business plan project is in every chapter. New Deca Prep features are added to help with competitive events preparation. Loaded with activities, computer applications, Internet activities, and an enhanced web site, this text will get users ready to launch their business ideas.

Entrepreneurship: Ideas in Action

It's well known today that becoming a business owner is a career option. ENTREPRENEURSHIP: IDEAS IN ACTION 5E provides you with the knowledge needed to realistically evaluate your potential as a business owner. This text encourages you to examine all the major steps involved in starting a new business: Ownership, Strategy, Finance, and Marketing. As you complete the chapters, you develop a business plan and learn what it takes to get an entrepreneurial venture off to a good start. Market research, budgeting, selecting a business location, and financing the business are covered using real-life examples that you can easily relate to. Information on online research, including online business planning, is also included.

Entrepreneurship: Owning Your Future, 11 ed.

Written by an award-winning expertdemystifies the process of starting a business by presenting difficult economic, financial and business concepts in a manner easily understood by beginners. This book addresses the demands of integrating workplace relevant activities to meet academic standards. Placing an emphasis on developing business plans, it can be used as a professional resource for anyone looking to start their own business.

Entrepreneurship: Starting And Operating A Small Business

For courses in Entrepreneurship, Small Business Management, and Starting a Business. A Comprehensive, Practical Approach to Starting a Business For fledgling entrepreneurs and business readers, Entrepreneurship: Starting and Operating A Small Business untangles the complex economic, financial, and professional considerations surrounding business ownership and operations. In its Fourth Edition, Entrepreneurship takes a critical look at contemporary entrepreneurial successes, allowing readers with a range of business interests to engage with and draw insight from the text. Balancing real-world case studies with thoughtful instruction, Entrepreneurship leads readers to develop their business plans step by step, at the end of each chapter. This approach allows readers to internalize different aspects of business ownership at a self-guided pace.

Entrepreneurship: Owning Your Future, High School Version

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Entrepreneurship

The CBSE's Entrepreneurship curriculum for classes XI and XII, stands out for its strong dynamism, continuous evolution and development. Since 2001, the curriculum has been changed by adopting the functional approach. In the current climate of psychological, social and economic changes, society is influenced by explosive knowledge creation and exponential technology growth. Thus the need to modify and infuse changes in the Entrepreneurship Curriculum at +2 level is a necessary step in the upgradation and updation of the existing curriculum.

Entrepreneurship (8th Edition)

The 8th Edition of Entrepreneurship, by Robert Hisrich, Michael Peters and Dean Shepherd has been designed to clearly instruct students on the process of formulating, planning, and implementing a new venture. Students are exposed to detailed descriptions of 'how to' embark on a new venture in a logical manner. Comprehensive cases at the end of the text have been hand-picked by the authors to go hand-in-hand with chapter concepts. The superb author team of Hisrich, Peters, and Shepherd draw from their distinct backgrounds to create a book that addresses the dynamics of today's entrepreneurial challenges. From Bob Hisrich's expertise in global entrepreneurship to Mike Peter's background as a both a real-life entrepreneur and academic to Dean Shepherd's current research on cognition and entrepreneurial mindset, this book balances the crucial line between modern theory and practice.

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management will give students the information and decision-making skills necessary to start a small business and make it grow. It also benefits students who don't start or run their own businesses. It gives employees a look at the business arena and helps all students understand their roles as consumers. There is special emphasis on developing a Business Plan.

Entrepreneurship from Creativity to Innovation: Effective Thinking Skills for a Changing World

Entrepreneurship: From Creativity to Innovation is a unique guide for students, potential entrepreneurs and inventors, business managers, team leaders, or anyone seeking to become a more effective problem solver and innovator. It focuses on the creative thinking and problem solving skills needed to succeed in our rapidly changing, high-tech world. This "entrepreneurial" thinking will empower you to cope with uncertainty and behave with greater flexibility in your professional and personal life--these skills are for everyone! Learning is reinforced through application to communication, teamwork and above all to entrepreneurship. You will gain a basic understanding of innovation--a valuable skill in demand by employers who recognize the ability to innovate as a key for remaining competitive in the global marketplace. At a time when traditional jobs are disappearing, you will be able to recognize and profit from new opportunities.

Entrepreneurship: Student Workbook

Entrepreneurship: Ideas in Action Student Workbook.

Entrepreneurship Ideas In Action (6th Edition)

High School students today realize that becoming a business owner is a career option. ENTREPRENEURSHIP: IDEAS IN ACTION 6E provides students with the knowledge needed to realistically evaluate their potential as a business owner. This text encourages students to examine all the major steps involved in starting a new business: Ownership, Strategy, Finance, and Marketing. As students complete the chapters, they will develop a business plan and learn what it takes to get an entrepreneurial venture off to a good start. Market research, budgeting, selecting a business location, and financing the business are covered using real-life examples that students can relate to. Information on online research and online business planning is also included.

Environment: The Science Behind the Stories

"Environment: The Science Behind the Stories" is an introductory textbook that uses case studies and real data to demonstrate the role of science in identifying and solving pressing environmental problems. The book integrates case studies into the body of the text to provide a contextual framework for the science readers are learning. With only 22 chapters, this book avoids the encyclopedic approach of other textbooks on the market. A panoramic view of environmental science and issues, including the important policy, economic, and ethical issues behind the scientific ones. For college instructors, students, and anyone interested in environmental science and issues.

Environment

Environment, Tenth Edition helps students understand the connection between the core concepts of the Environmental Science and their daily lives. The 10th edition enhanced e-text features a rich, interactive collection of current case studies and in-text examples, which provides students with the tools to understand, apply, and think critically about environmental science. It also provides instructors with powerful tools to assess individual students progresses well as the class as a whole.

Environment

Environment

The key to a sustainable future lies with the students. It is their passion, their understanding of the issues, and most of all their choices that will shape the future of our planet. As it has through three previous editions, Peter Raven and Linda Berg’s Environment gives students all the skills and tools they need to make the right choices for a sustainable environment! <p><p> Covering the enormous environmental challenges facing our world today, this Fourth Edition helps readers think critically about these challenges and understand the concepts that underlie environmental problems.

Environment: For UPSC and State Civil Services Examinations (Part 2 of 2)

PMF IAS Environment 2021-22, PMF IAS Environment 2021-22 is the book by the PMF IAS team headed by Manjunath Thamminidi. It is one of the best books for aspirants preparing for the UPSC Civil Services Exam, UPSC Indian Forest Service (IFS) Exam, and State PSC Exams. Highlights of PMF IAS Environment 2021-22. Extraordinary Colorful Infographics and Maps. (You will no longer need those boring books). Colour Coding to Identify Prelims and Mains Focus Content. (Comes handy in quick revision). Lucid Language with Short Sentences. (Helps you concentrate longer). Solved Environment Prelims Questions 2011-20. Important Current Affairs from May 2019 to June 2021 Integrated Under Relevant Sections.

Environment: For UPSC and State Civil Services Examinations (Part 1 of 2)

PMF IAS Environment 2021-22, PMF IAS Environment 2021-22 is the book by the PMF IAS team headed by Manjunath Thamminidi. It is one of the best books for aspirants preparing for the UPSC Civil Services Exam, UPSC Indian Forest Service (IFS) Exam, and State PSC Exams. Highlights of PMF IAS Environment 2021-22. Extraordinary Colorful Infographics and Maps. (You will no longer need those boring books). Colour Coding to Identify Prelims and Mains Focus Content. (Comes handy in quick revision). Lucid Language with Short Sentences. (Helps you concentrate longer). Solved Environment Prelims Questions 2011-20. Important Current Affairs from May 2019 to June 2021 Integrated Under Relevant Sections.