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
1 - Entrepreneur’s Primer
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
Entrepreneurship is the recognition and pursuit of opportunity without regard to the resources you currently control, with confidence that you can succeed, with the flexibility to change course as necessary, and the will to rebound from setbacks.
Bob ReissEntrepreneur’s Diary
I remain grateful for some good early advice. I had several inventions that had been taken to financial success by others. The benefactors sometimes said thank you. This made me all the more eager to take one of my own ideas to the real world. I had convinced myself that financial success and glory eagerly awaited me.
About fifteen years ago, I launched my first major entrepreneurial effort that revolved around proprietary technology used to produce seafood indoors in an environmentally responsible manner at a competitive price. The market for such a technology had to be huge I kept reminding myself, because seafood was (and still is) a significant contributor to the U.S. trade deficit.
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- The Entrepreneurial EngineerHow to Create Value from Ideas, pp. 1 - 27Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013