Tag: Entrepreneurial

Financing the Entrepreneurial Venture A Casebook


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English | June 4, 2024 | ISBN: 1839991488 | 862 pages | PDF | 26 Mb
Financing the Entrepreneurial Venture focuses on financial management within entrepreneurial firms. Most of these are young firms, although some are more established. The book examines these firms at all phases of their life cycle, from the initial idea generation to the ultimate harvesting of the venture. The book covers firms in a diverse set of industries including high technology, low technology and services. A significant fraction of the cases focus on non-U.S. ventures. Additionally, the issues of gender and diversity are addressed in a number of settings.

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Sport Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Technology Innovation Perspectives


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English | ISBN: 9819789222 | 2024 | 118 pages | EPUB | 314 KB
This book explores how the sport industry can be considered as an ecosystem due to the variety of different factors interacting to provide value to society. This book focuses on sport ecosystems as a way to understand technological developments such as the digitalization trend. By doing so, it focuses on the interlinkages between different entities in a sport context including profit and non-profit entities. This book takes a new and innovative perspective to how sport is conducted. This book will be among the first to specifically focus on the ecosystem environment as a way of understanding the flexibility and adaptability of those involved in sport.

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New Frontiers in Entrepreneurial Fundraising Going Beyond the Equity or Debt Dilemma


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English | August 19, 2023 | ISBN: 3031339932 | 177 pages | MOBI | 1.55 Mb
This book on entrepreneurial fundraising combines rigor and applicability to train current and prospective entrepreneurs in the financing processes. Through its diverse set of chapters, it reviews the latest financing tools and dynamics, the most pressing dilemmas as well as practical examples of ideal methods in the economic-financial management of startups. This book analyzes the financing methods available to entrepreneurs from a practical perspective. Expert authors also present insights on topics such as the role of incubators and accelerators in entrepreneurial fundraising; crowd-based entrepreneurial fundraising instruments; factoring, leasing and confirming for entrepreneurs; government grants, subsidies, and tax reliefs; business angels and venture capital firms; access to capital markets through initial public offerings; and financing with crypto-assets. The book concludes with a discussion on emerging issues in the entrepreneurial finance paradigm, namely transparency and legitimacy and corporate governance in startups; and, additionally, provides a practical toolkit for fundraising, with the main mistakes, how to win over investors, success stories, and resounding failures. The editors, with extensive experience in advising entrepreneurs from a professional and academic perspective, have made a considerable effort to draw a learning roadmap that can be especially useful for entrepreneurs. Therefore, the resulting book may be of great interest to entrepreneurs and anyone interested in learning more about the financing process for entrepreneurs.

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Take a Chance! 101 Entrepreneurial Lessons for Making It Big [Audiobook]


Free Download Take a Chance!: 101 Entrepreneurial Lessons for Making It Big (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2LM2817 | 2024 | 9 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Larry Gaynor
Narrator: Trevor Lawless

You’re An Entrepreneur. You’ve either started or are thinking of starting your own business. Or you’re all in and need to take a chance. Then this book is for you. Starting a business is brutal. 70% of businesses fail after five years and only 25% of businesses make it to 15 years or more. What if you had a crystal ball to guide you through your business cycle so you didn’t make the same mistakes as everyone else? Larry Gaynor is a serial beauty entrepreneur still running TNG Worldwide since 1985. He has dealt with the biggest companies including LOréal, Unilever, Amazon and Walmart.

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