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From the basics of writing a business plan to the challenges of developing a marketing and sales program, this is the essential resource for success with a new venture Drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, this concise guide is carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience, and will prove especially valuable for the new manager.
Whether you're a budding entrepreneur or you already own a small business, The Small Business Success Guide will help you fast-track your business on the ride from good to great. The Small Business Success Guide is brimming with practical ideas and proven strategies to make your small business a winner. Including inspiration and guidance from some of Australia's leading small business experts, this handy resource has the answers to turn your dream into a profitable reality. Inside, you'll discover how to: get your business foundations right manage your people power pump up sales and marketing volumes use the web effectively take the hard work out of accounting nut out the legals and logistics.
Have you ever thought of a new product – only to see it on retail shelves or in catalogs several years later?! Those profits or royalties could have been yours to enjoy – and this book was written just for you. One reader writes, "If you read and apply this book with an intent to learn, you will literally raise millions of dollars, make hundreds of thousands, and save thousands in the process. You must have this book." Just how do you profit from your heaven-sent ideas? The Witty Inventions Series™ will show you little-known secrets about Patents Provisional Patents Trademarks Copyrights Other forms of Intellectual Property International rights pertaining to the above assets The author has years of experience helping entrepreneurs and idea people start successful businesses and bring their products to market.
Since the 1980s, the informal venture capital industry has been gaining more attention both in academic and industrial circles. The role of angel investing in economic growth and job creation is now well documented, with more emphasis given in recent years to the effectiveness of increasing the supply and demand for risk capital through entrepreneurship stimulation instruments such as business angel networks. In contrast, this paper looks at the informal venture capital industry from a gestalt perspective, where other stimulus instruments such as incubators, industrial estates and clusters are integrated with business angel networks into a single role to be played by the informal venture capital industry in the context of what is referred to here as capitermediation.
* How to evaluate the commercial potential of your idea * When to get financing for your project * How to protect your creative ideas * Step-by-step instructions to get started * Ideas to help you promote and market your product or service
This is the book that we hope will create a 1000 ventures in Australia! Australian entrepreneurs don't have a lot of time yet they urgently need sources of funding to get their growing businesses off the ground. That's why we've written this book: Time and money. We make sure that it doesn't take much time for an entrepreneur to become fully familiar with the funding environment in Australia. This book is packed with information condensed to a form that a business person can consume easily about how to secure financial backing. It is fully updated more than 300 phone numbers, 150 email addresses, and 160 Web sites for dozens of programmes and venture capitalists in Australia who have money for start-up and expanding enterprises. "If it's what you need, you'll not find a better book (any book)."
Learn what it takes to build a great business with this digital collection curated by Harvard Business Review; it contains everything you need to know about entrepreneurship, from leadership traits and a willingness to fail to financial intelligence and tips for building a business case. Includes Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs; Fail Better; Heart, Smarts Guts, and Luck; Entrepreneur’s Toolkit; HBR on Entrepreneurship; HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case; HBR Guide to Negotiating; How I Did It; and the Harvard Business Review articles “Five Stages of Small Business Growth,” and “Why Entrepreneurs Don’t Scale.”
Entrepreneurship has significant impacts on a nation’s economic infrastructure. Discovering new ways to promote entrepreneurial growth within undervalued communities can help ensure financial growth, as well as provide a boost to the current economy. Evolving Entrepreneurial Strategies for Self-Sustainability in Vulnerable American Communities is an essential scholarly resource that identifies initiatives for entrepreneurs in underdeveloped areas to utilize. Featuring pertinent topics that include poverty reduction, informal investment, and social entrepreneurship, this reference publication is ideal for academicians, students, entrepreneurs, business owners, and researchers that are seeking innovative strategies to boost the economy and provide more jobs across the nation.