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Yukichi Fukuzawa was one of the most effective business entrepreneurs in early modern Japan. He was the inspiration of the Yokohama Specie Bank, without which the Japanese could not have set up a sound banking system. It is no surprise that Fukuzawa is featured on the Japanese Y10000 bank note.

Most small businesses cite lack of capital is a major constraint on growth. This title focuses on non-bank sources of capital since banks only lend to companies that fit a very narrow profile. It covers topics such as: capital sources entrepreneurs can tap when they are too small or unusual for banks, angel investors and venture capital, and more.

Using narrative examples of innovators and companies worldwide, he introduces the characteristics of successful path creators that overstep the boundaries set by knowledge maps to open up new, unprecedented routes and connect them each other.

This book analyzes two opposing currents in business thinking: the tug of war between strategic and financial considerations. It dissects their differences and develops an approach that reconciles the two conflicting schools of thought.

Addresses the central factors in economic development - entrepreneurship, innovation and organizational learning - as regional phenomena.

Captures the insights of leading academics and practitioners based on decades of research around the globe on factors of success and failures of private wealth, over time. It presents a deep and broad approach to understanding why and how wealth is created, managed and preserved over generations.

This remarkable new work reconciles two distinct disciplinary fields; the study of culture and the study of markets, to expand our understanding of the world of markets and business enterprise.

For many entrepreneurs there is a mystique about finance -starting, growing and selling new ventures is tough enough. Yet with some focused financial knowledge you can run your company with less cash, grow it more quickly and make more money when it is sold. This book makes the dry world of finance easy to understand and relevant to entrepreneurs.

The Strategy Planning Process

This tells the story of the development of the private equity industry in Germany. It is the first comprehensive history of the private equity industry for any country, revealing the vicissitudes of private equity investing, warts and all. It is an engaging chronicle for anyone interested in the industry or the modern German economy.

The creation of innovative products and services by entrepreneurs is often cited as one of the key strengths of the current American economy. Academics and executives alike are beginning to recognize the advantages of innovation and real-time experimentation over traditional strategic planning processes. This book deals with this topic.

For the very first time, this book offers a complete overview the topic and its foundations of international entrepreneurship. With an in-depth analysis of the different theoretical foundations, it uses important empirical analysis and useful case studies to propose a new theoretical framework and interpretative modelling.

Moves beyond the narrow, prescriptive focus on the 'how' employed by other textbooks, and places equal emphasis on the 'why' - all the time considering the role of enterprise, entrepreneurship and small business in the world we live in.

Written by a leading light on the topic, this text examines the processes by which small businesses identify new opportunities, evolve appropriate marketing strategies, develop new products and services and launch these into the market.

Disintegrated or distributed innovation, collaborative innovation, collective invention, collegial innovation, free innovation, open knowledge disclosure, free knowledge disclosure: are these all the same thing?

A theoretical and empirical investigation of how economics can contribute to our understanding of entrepreneurship.

What motivates someone to become a social entrepreneur? What are the competencies needed to be effective social advocates and agents for change? This book answers these questions in an accessible and practical way, providing comprehensive guidelines, numerous examples, and sources of information and training.

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Drawing on surveys and interviews, this book examines the social and economic relations of first-generation Latino entrepreneurs. It explores social patterns between and within groups, situating immigrant entrepreneurship within concrete geographical, demographic and historical spaces.

A principal theme of the book is a plea for ' real venture capital', with the venture capitalist adding substantial value to companies and their founders through a wide knowledge of business, in contrast to the purely financial skills required in other sectors of the private equity field, such as leveraged buy-outs.

Intends to establish a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship. This book focuses on the nature and role of the entrepreneur, and of entrepreneurship. It exposes the many different facets of entrepreneurship.

What inspires people to leave certainty behind to pursue their vision through creativity and entrepreneurship? The authors, entrepreneurial researchers at Nyenrode Business University, explore entrepreneurship through the lens of human behaviour.

A quick and easy formula for selling your product, your service, yourself, that gets results. guaranteed Whatever you have to sell, be it product or service, this book will show how to create the perfect presentation and nail the sale.

Offers insights into the motivations of the Victorian women who opted to pursue enterprises of their own. This book argues that industrialization inaugurated a commercial and retail revolution that is responsible for the creation of niche markets and service industries, expanding the variety of opportunities for women.