Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- 1 Entrepreneur’s Primer
- 2 Recognizing Opportunity
- 3 Defining Your Opportunity
- 4 Developing Your Business Concept
- 5 Creating Your Team
- 6 Creating Your Company
- 7 Financial Accounting
- 8 Business Plans, Presentations, and Letters
- 9 Fund-Raising
- 10 Rules of Investing
- 11 Negotiation
- 12 Management
- 13 Project Scheduling: Critical Path Methods, Program Evaluation, and Review Techniques
- Appendix
- Index
- References
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- 1 Entrepreneur’s Primer
- 2 Recognizing Opportunity
- 3 Defining Your Opportunity
- 4 Developing Your Business Concept
- 5 Creating Your Team
- 6 Creating Your Company
- 7 Financial Accounting
- 8 Business Plans, Presentations, and Letters
- 9 Fund-Raising
- 10 Rules of Investing
- 11 Negotiation
- 12 Management
- 13 Project Scheduling: Critical Path Methods, Program Evaluation, and Review Techniques
- Appendix
- Index
- References
Summary
Where Are We Going?
If you ask a group of engineers, most of them would probably tell you that they have thought about starting a business. Most did nothing. Some others did some research and preliminary planning. Some of these then invested some personal funds in creating the shell of a company in some legal format. A rare few took their companies forward to the point that they became operational businesses.
Most of us will see opportunities to start a business. This book is for those among us who are contemplating the start of a business and those that may have already taken that big first step. As teachers and successful entrepreneurs, our goal in writing this book is to help you the reader maximize your chances of entrepreneurial success. You will find guidance, instruction, and practical lessons that will assist you, the prospective entrepreneur, with your first steps toward realizing a dream.
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- The Entrepreneurial EngineerHow to Create Value from Ideas, pp. xvii - xxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013