The Entrepreneurial Venture or Womens America

The Entrepreneurial Venture

Author: Michael J Roberts

Newly updated, this comprehensive text covers basic concepts and emerging issues on entrepreneurship. Emphasizing that new venture creation requires planning and skill as well as inspiration, these readings - by leading academics and practitioners - portray the entrepreneur as the ultimate general manager, responsible for orchestrating the relationships among all parts of the organization. Profiles and examples from a variety of companies and fields illustrate the diverse, imaginative ways in which entrepreneurs think and act. The readings provide a practice-oriented grounding that can function alone or be interwoven with case studies and other material. Professors will find this revised edition invaluable for the richness and timeliness of the selected pieces. The accompanying questions will provoke new ideas and fuel classroom discussions. The Entrepreneurial Venture, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for entrepreneurs. It can be used as both a handbook and an authoritative source of reference.

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First published in 1983 and updated almost yearly since then, this handbook and text covers basic concepts and emerging issues relating to entrepreneurship. Contributors discuss theory and practice and provide profiles and examples from various companies and fields as illustration. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Entrepreneurship - What is it?
1	A Perspective on Entrepreneurship	7
2	Entrepreneurship Reconsidered: The Team as Hero	23
3	Capital Market Myopia	35
4	The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer	65
5	Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay	80
6	The Road Well Traveled	94
7	Making Business Sense of the Internet	101
Pt. 2	Strategies and Tactics for Starting, Acquiring, and Growing the Venture
8	Developing Start-up Strategies	121
9	Some Thoughts on Business Plans	138
10	How to Write a Winning Business Plan	177
11	Purchasing a Business: The Search Process	189
12	Attracting Stakeholders	211
13	Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups	223
14	The Financial Perspective: What Should Entrepreneurs Know?	238
15	Venture Capital	262
16	Aspects of Financial Contracting in Venture Capital	304
17	The Legal Protection of Intellectual Property	326
18	The Horse Race Between Capital and Opportunity	335
19	Strategy vs. Tactics from a Venture Capitalist	351
20	The Challenge of Growth	361
21	Managing Transitions in the Growing Enterprise	377
22	Building the Self-Sustaining Firm	392
23	Going Public	404
24	Why Sane People Shouldn't Serve on Public Boards	441
25	How Small Companies Should Handle Advisers	450
26	Bankruptcy: A Debtor's Perspective	459
Pt. 3	Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Larger Company
27	Tough-Minded Ways to Get Innovative	481
28	Discovery-Driven Planning	493
29	Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave	506
30	Managing for Creativity	521
31	The Business of Innovation: An Interview with Paul Cook	537
Pt. 4	Entrepreneurship in the Nonprofit Sector
32	Virtuous Capital: What Foundations Can Learn from Venture Capitalists	555
33	Starting a Nonprofit Venture	566
34	Surviving Success: An Interview with the Nature Conservancy's John Sawhill	580
	Index	595

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Women's America: Refocusing the Past

Author: Linda K Kerber

Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its sixth edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent events in American women's history. It provides many new selections from leading theorists and historians and restores several readings that were cut from the fifth edition. Successfully classroom-tested, these new essays offer more material on the impact of ethnicity in American culture, the roles that women have played in the creation of male-dominated structures, and the international dimensions of women's lives. The book covers such diverse groups as Christian Indian women in colonial America, African-American women in post-Civil War Atlanta, young Jewish labor organizers in turn-of-the-century New York, new arrivals to San Francisco's Chinatown, Japanese-American women during World War II, and Chicana feminists. The introductory essay has been revised and the bibliography has been updated to take into account the growing body of contemporary literature in the field. Women's America is an essential text for courses in women's history and an ideal supplement for more general survey courses on American history.