Entrepreneurship

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A number of different methods have been used to describe growth-oriented entrepreneurship; however, there is a consensus that there is a particularly desirable form of entrepreneurship that seeks to create and scale up businesses that will drive productivity growth, create new employment, increase innovation, promote business internationalization, and achieve sustainable economic growth.
This book provides an extensive introduction to research on growth-oriented entrepreneurship and continues with an assessment of attempts to create the appropriate frame- work conditions for growth-oriented entrepreneurship to flourish, including financial support; government policies and programs; education and training; and more. The final chapter looks at growth- oriented entrepreneurs in practice as they work to launch and grow emerging companies. This book is a unique compendium of research and analysis on an important segment of entrepreneurship, which will be useful to entrepreneurs, academics, and policymakers.

Founders

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A founder is a person who assists in the formation of a new business and then continues to devote a significant amount of time and resources to the operation of business once it has been formed, often becoming one of the officers and directors–founders play a pivotal role in the success of any new business.
This book delves into the motivational traits of prospective entrepreneurs, the role that entrepreneurs play in launching new businesses, the pre-formation duties and liabilities of founders, and their relationships and agreements with other members of the founding group. The book also examines the role that founders have on the organizational culture of their firms. This book is a must-have guide for anyone thinking about launching a new business, for attorneys and other professionals providing advice to their clients, and academics teaching entrepreneurship classes.

Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurship

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A number of different methods have been used to describe growth-oriented entrepreneurship; however, there is a con- sensus that there is a particularly desirable form of entrepre- neurship that seeks to create and scale up businesses that will drive productivity growth, create new employment, increase innovation, promote business internationalization, and achieve sustainable economic growth.
This book provides an extensive introduction to research on growth-oriented entrepreneurship and continues with an assessment of attempts to create the appropriate frame- work conditions for growth-oriented entrepreneurship to flourish, including financial support; government policies and programs; education and training; and more. The final chapter looks at growth- oriented entrepreneurs in practice as they work to launch and grow emerging companies. This book is a unique compendium of research and analysis on an important segment of entrepreneurship, which will be useful to entrepreneurs, academics, and policymakers.

Creating a Successful Consulting Practice

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Most people develop specific skills through education, training and experience. A lot of those people have a desire to market those skills to those who need them. Starting a consulting practice is often a gratifying and fulfilling means of taking those sought after skills to market.
Starting a consulting practice allows an individual to work for individuals and companies that are likely to value the skills and experience offered. Theoretically, the individual is in control of the work hours and the types of jobs that are accepted. As one might suspect, as consultants gain clients and grow their companies, the control of the consulting company’s time and resources must be managed carefully.
To start a consulting company in a way that has the greatest chance to succeed over the long term requires attention to building the practice one project at a time. Each project should be subjected to a process that will have the best chance of yielding a successful outcome.
The purpose of this book is to take the reader through each step of building a consulting practice by understanding how to acquire and execute a consulting project. By creating successful projects, a consultant can build a reputation, acquire more projects and create a successful consulting practice.”

The Tax Aspects of Acquiring a Business, Second Edition

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The Tax Aspects of Acquiring a Business is a guide writ- ten to the tax considerations that must be weighed when acquiring an existing business, whether the business is conducted as a proprietorship, partner- ship, limited liability company, S corporation, or a C corporation. The book looks at the transactions from the point of view of the seller as well as the buyer. This symmetrical view is presented because the tax effects on the seller will influence the acceptable terms for the deal.
The book describes the tax consideration in quantifiable terms by demonstrating the actual calculations that must be made to evaluate the after-tax consequences of the terms of an acquisition agreement. The changes in the law that were made by the 2017 Tax Act are incorporated in the book.

T-Shaped Professionals : Adaptive Innovators

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“The purpose of this book is to provide both academic and industry perspectives on T-shaped talent as a framework to develop the next generation workforce. This book will include a number of chapters from the authors of this book (Y. Moghaddam, H. Demirkan and J. Spohrer), and edited chapters from a number of additional experts who have been working on next generation of workers.

The ISSIP BEP T-Summit collection aims to offer insights and practical wisdom easily applicable to the workplace. The context in which service is designed, delivered and experienced has been changing fundamentally. With exponentially growing and evolving technology-enabled, service transformations and innovations (e.g. IBM, Rolls-Royce, Amazon, Google, Lego, Disney, Tesco, iTunes, Uber, Smart Phones, Etsy, AirBnB, eBay).

With this project, we envision to capture the latest thinking, experiences and results, and to publish a collection of practical, focused, easily digestible short papers in the increasingly important area of T-shape talent development, which integrates a variety of disciplines – including areas in engineering, social sciences and management – to focus education, research and practice on an expanding innovation economy.”

Business Analytics: A Data-Driven Decision Making Approach for Business, Volume I

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Business Analytics: A Data-Driven Decision Making Approach for Business—Part I provides an overview of business analytics (BA), business intelligence (BI), and the role and importance of these in the modern business decision-making. The book discusses all these areas along with three main analytics categories: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics with their tools and applications in business.

This volume focuses on descriptive analytics that involves the use of descriptive and visual or graphical methods, numerical methods, as well as data analysis tools, big data applications, and the use of data dashboards to understand business performance.

The highlights of this volume are:

  • Business analytics at a glance
  • Business intelligence (BI), data analytics
  • Data, data types, descriptive analytics
  • Data visualization tools
  • Data visualization with big data
  • Descriptive analytics—numerical methods
  • Case analysis with computer applications

Click Here to download the additional material including statistical concepts for regression, computer instructions to run the models using Excel and MINITAB software, and all of the data files.

Global Women in the Start-up World: Conversations in Silicon Valley

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Global Women in the Start-up World: Conversations in Silicon Valley is a selection of interview-driven stories told by the Polish female founders who successfully made it to Silicon Valley.
This book is written with the focus on female founders because although women are playing an increasingly important role in the technology and business worlds, they still face unique challenges and hurdles, which can be particularly acute in the fast-paced startup environment.
The interviewees came from Poland to Silicon Valley and succeeded. They built their networks, followed their dreams, and mastered the art of running a global company. Silicon Valley can be intimidating but with this book as a guide one can navigate the most challenging aspects of being a woman in the startup world. The stories in the book also prove that foreign startup founders are welcome in Silicon Valley and can achieve global success. It doesn’t matter what country you are from—you can build your startup in any country: some of the interviewees live and work in Poland, while others decided to move abroad.Translated by Anna Samborska and Clay Young.

Location Analytics for Business: The Research and Marketing Strategic Advantage

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It’s estimated that 80 percent of an organization’s data contains location attributes, but many don’t understand how to unlock the potential of this data for their organizations to make better decisions. You have just been handed the keys by finding this book.
Readers will unlock these methods by learning about location analytics as well as taking a deep dive into the Planned GroceryR platform created in part by the author. The Planned GroceryR location analytics platform has been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal (twice), Forbes, Bloomberg, and Business Insider. A sampling of clients of Planned GroceryR include: Philips Edison and Company, Just Fresh, Slate Retail REIT, Wegmans, and Whole Foods.
The practical information in this book is designed to prepare you to recognize and take advantage of situations where you and your organization can become more successful using location analytics. This will be accomplished by taking you through an explanation of the fundamentals of location analytics, by looking at various case studies, by learning how to identify and analyze spatial data sets, and by learning about the companies that are doing interesting work in this space.

A Primer on Consumer Behavior : A Guide for Managers

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At its most fundamental level, marketing is about influencing the decision making and behavior of customers. Profitable businesses are built on an understanding of their customers and the creation and delivery of products and services that meet the needs of these customers. This book is intended to provide a quick, highly accessible introduction to key issues and concepts necessary for understanding market demand, designing successful products and services, and for creating effective marketing programs.
The focus of the book is on information likely to be most useful to a practicing manager rather than the student or scholar who is seeking a deep understanding of consumer behavior. For this reason, the book includes “points to ponder” that link basic concepts to marketing practice. The final chapters of the book also point the reader to a variety of additional resources for learning more about consumer behavior in general and consumers in specific markets.