This third edition prepares entrepreneurs for the rewards and pitfalls of this career choice. It explores a new theme on how to effectively manage a start-up company. Focus on Real Entrepreneurs sections highlight how entrepreneurs position their companies to meet the various marketing, financial, and technological challenges. Management Track sections present key management issues while following the development of a real company. Entrepreneurs will also find real situations and examples on which they can practice the broad range of skills required to start and build a company in today's complex world.

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This book is designed to share real entrepreneurial business experience. Included will be both long and short cases and a corresponding website. The goad is to provide a more complete understanding of the textual material and make the book as interactive as possible, encouraging internet research and study.

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"Jack Kaplan is an entrepreneur's entrepreneur. His book reflects his in-the-trenches experience and provides practical wisdom for anyone launching a company. Read this and get started right!"--Ray Smilor, Vice President, Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership "Jack is not only a successful entrepreneur, but also a student and teacher of entrepreneurship. Getting Started in Entrepreneurship is a guidebook of experience and wisdom from the inception of an idea to starting a business. This is an important book about the science of entrepreneurship."--Kevin O' Connor, Chairman, DoubleClick Inc. "If you want to start a business but have no time for an MBA, all you'll need is in this book. It's full of up-to-date, easy-to-understand information that will save you time and money. Don't put it on your shelf. Put it beside your bed for those sleepless nights that are part of the entrepreneurial journey."--Professor Murray Low, Executive Director, Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School "Jack brings a unique perspective to the world of entrepreneurship; his success in his own business has taught him what needs to be done to build a business; his years as a judge for the Ernst &amp; Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award program have given him a close-up view of how others have succeeded; and his years as a business school professor have taught him how to organize, summarize, and share that knowledge. The road to entrepreneurial success starts here; read this book!"--Ralph A. Subbiondo, Partner, Ernst &amp; Young's Entrepreneurial Services Group

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Launch this year's most important new venture--your entrepreneurial career! Few things are more exciting and challenging than starting your own business. But before you can go public, you'll need practical skills and real-world experience. That's why Jack Kaplan and new coauthor Anthony Warren take a highly applied approach to entrepreneurship. In Patterns of Entrepreneurship, Second Edition, the authors involve you in real cases, allowing you to think through various aspects of launching a new business, just as if you were running the company. They present key issues from a practitioner's point of view, and equip you with the skills, tools, and framework you need to succeed. Now revised, their Second Edition includes four new chapters: Chapter 5, Financing the Closely Held Company; Chapter 6, Equity Financing for High Growth; Chapter 8, Business Models; and Chapter 12, Communicating the Opportunity and Making a Presentation. Key features * A Focus on Real Entrepreneurs. Examples and case studies demonstrate the problems and solutions that real entrepreneurs have encountered in their own businesses. * A Clear Road Map for Success. The book's road-map framework identifies practical tasks that you will accomplish as you work through the four stages of entrepreneurship: starting the venture, financing, implementation, and launching entrepreneurial businesses. * Opportunities for Practice. Examples and exercises provide you with opportunities to apply skills before actually launching a business. * Insights from Experienced Entrepreneurs. The authors share the experience and wisdom they gained from launching their own successful ventures. * Extensive Supplemental Material. Additional cases, audio interviews, demonstrations of financial concepts, sample business plans, and legal documents are all available on the book's website.

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Warren, Anthony C.

This fourth edition prepares entrepreneurs for the rewards and pitfalls of this career choice. It explores a new theme throughout the chapters on how to effectively manage a start-up company. Focus on Real Entrepreneurs sections highlight how entrepreneurs position their companies to meet the various marketing, financial, and technological challenges. Management Track sections present key management issues while following the development of a real company. Entrepreneurs will also find real situations and examples on which they can practice the broad range of skills required to start and build a company in today’s complex world.

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Patterns of Entrepreneurship Management Fifth Edition

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Patterns of Entrepreneurship Management is the essential road-map for anyone interested in starting a new business. This text is infused with the authors' experience teaching, writing, and launching successful ventures and challenges students with real situations and examples on which they can practice the broad range of skills required to start and build a company in today's complex world.

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Patterns of Entrepreneurship Management, 6th Edition is the essential roadmap for anyone interested in starting a new venture whether for-profit or social enterprise. Featuring updated themes, new cases, and enhanced interactive learning tools, the sixth edition of Patterns of Entrepreneurship Management addresses the challenges, issues, and rewards real-life entrepreneurs encounter when starting and growing a venture in today's complex world. Using its innovative "Roadmap" approach, this practical guide enables students and aspiring entrepreneurs to design, execute, and maintain their business plan--covering every essential step of the entrepreneurial process, from turning an idea into a business model to securing funding and managing resources. To support student venture development and faculty facilitation of associated topics, the authors have added over 30 worksheets that serve as prompts to help students focus on what should be considered at each stage of venture development.&nbsp;&nbsp;For each chapter, specific "Best Practices" associated with each worksheet have been included to help students understand the theory and/or rationale behind the prompts, helping the student connect the work with where they are in the venture process.&nbsp;&nbsp; The authors draw from their extensive experience launching new ventures and educating thousands of students globally to provide a unique hands-on approach to developing the skills required to start and build a company in the modern business environment. Discussions focus on the real-life challenges facing startup founders: important issues such as how to drive continuous innovation and how to create a company culture that maximizes success.&nbsp;

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