Download or read book Entrepreneurship as Experience written by Michael H. Morris and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do entrepreneurs create ventures or do venture experiences create entrepreneurs? The authors of Entrepreneurship as Experience propose that the answer is 'both'. This important volume examines how individuals experience the creation of a venture as it happens and how that experience determines the types of entrepreneur and venture that ultimately emerge. In essence, entrepreneurship is an experience consisting of large numbers of key events such as a first sale, hiring a first employee, losing a big account events that are processed and made sense of by the entrepreneur. They produce cognitive, emotional and physiological responses, which impact decision-making and behavior. The result is an experience that is purposive, diverse, uncertain, ambiguous and transformative and unique to each individual. Here, the authors argue that as experience unfolds both entrepreneur and venture are being constructed and emerge in unique forms. This experiential view introduces an entirely new lens through which entrepreneurship can be examined. Entrepreneurship as Experience comprises chapters dedicated to sociological, anthropological and psychological research related to human experiencing; the volume presents a new frame for understanding the role of emotions and feelings in venture creation and lays out a conceptual framework for understanding how real-time experiencing informs the entrepreneurial process. New insights are provided regarding how the entrepreneurial mindset and an entrepreneurial identity are formed, and why entrepreneurs take on certain traits and develop certain competencies. Further, the authors put forth new approaches to conducting research on the entrepreneurial experience. Students advanced as well as undergraduate and scholars of entrepreneurship, innovation, strategy and management will find themselves turning often to the ideas and research presented here.
Download or read book Cultural Entrepreneurship written by Annette Naudin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious working conditions. Drawing on interviews conducted with cultural workers, Cultural Entrepreneurship focuses on how individuals articulate their experience of entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries. Noting the importance of place, the local cultural milieu is examined as a means of situating entrepreneurial practices through cultural and enterprise policies, local networks, and significant relationships. Within this framework, the cultural entrepreneurs’ stories reveal means of subverting or re-interpreting identities and the possibility for ‘rethinking cultural entrepreneurship.’ Aimed at researchers, academics and students investigating cultural entrepreneurship, cultural policy and cultural labour, Cultural Entrepreneurship will additionally be of value to creative industry consultants, cultural policymakers, and those setting up creative enterprises. Researchers from fields such as geography, investigating different aspects of the cultural industries in relation to cultural policy and place, will also find this book to be a useful contribution.
Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Experience written by Ryan Van Zee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience entrepreneurship by starting a small business. This book is designed for college learning. Through the steps of this book, and the direction of a professor, you will start and run a small business, thus, giving you real experience with business.
Download or read book Women and Global Entrepreneurship written by Maura McAdam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship in context has been described as the third wave in entrepreneurship research. Accordingly, specific socio-economic, political, market, and institutional contexts are key to fostering, enabling, and enacting entrepreneurial activity and behaviours. These contexts shape everyday entrepreneurship experiences. This book is based on the premise that how gender is articulated within the entrepreneurial debate has to acknowledge context. However, context is not a construct that only applies to those economies and situations that differ from the presumed norm of Western developed nations. Adopting a more critical appraisal of how context is positioned within current theorizing around gender and entrepreneurial behaviours offers potential to progress debate whilst acknowledging that competing and contrasting contextual influences require clearer recognition. This book, therefore, has the potential to unearth credible and robust approaches to further examining contextualisation and women entrepreneurship that advances new insights. By exploring and examining how contextual influences shape women’s entrepreneurship, this book challenges the assumption that women entrepreneurship is the same throughout the world. It will be of value to researchers, academics, and students with an interest in entrepreneurship, political economy, economics, and public policy.
Download or read book UX for Lean Startups written by Laura Klein and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p>Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes to get your product to market. No prior experience in UX or design is necessary to get started. If you’re an entrepreneur or an innovator, this book puts you right to work with proven tips and tools for researching, identifying, and designing an intuitive, easy-to-use product. Determine whether people will buy your product before you build it Listen to your customers throughout the product’s lifecycle Understand why you should design a test before you design a product Get nine tools that are critical to designing your product Discern the difference between necessary features and nice-to-haves Learn how a Minimum Viable Product affects your UX decisions Use A/B testing in conjunction with good UX practices Speed up your product development process without sacrificing quality
Download or read book The Experience Economy written by B. Joseph Pine and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text seeks to raise the curtain on competitive pricing strategies and asserts that businesses often miss their best opportunity for providing consumers with what they want - an experience. It presents a strategy for companies to script and stage the experiences provided by their products.
Download or read book Disciplined Entrepreneurship written by Bill Aulet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 Steps to Success! Disciplined Entrepreneurship will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great entrepreneurs aren’t born with something special – they simply make great products. This book will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehensive, and proven 24-step framework that any industrious person can learn and apply. You will learn: Why the “F” word – focus – is crucial to a startup’s success Common obstacles that entrepreneurs face – and how to overcome them How to use innovation to stand out in the crowd – it’s not just about technology Whether you’re a first-time or repeat entrepreneur, Disciplined Entrepreneurship gives you the tools you need to improve your odds of making a product people want. Author Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship as well as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For more please visit http://disciplinedentrepreneurship.com/
Download or read book Disrupted written by Dan Lyons and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes readers inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups. For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong? HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place ... by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: The party began at four thirty on Friday and lasted well into the night; "shower pods" became hook-up dens; a push-up club met at noon in the lobby, while nearby, in the "content factory," Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on "walking meetings," and Dan's absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had "graduated" (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, and literally old enough to be the father of most of his co-workers, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball "chair."
Download or read book Entrepreneurial Leap written by Gino Wickman and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've thought about starting your own business . . . but how can you decide if you should really take the leap? There's a lot on the line, and you have to ask yourself difficult questions: Do I have what it takes? Is it worth it? And how the hell do I do it? You need answers, not bullshit. This book has them. Entrepreneurial Leap: Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Entrepreneur? is an easy-to-use guide that will help you decide, once and for all, if entrepreneurship is right for you—because success as an entrepreneur depends on far more than just a great idea and a generous helping of luck. In this three-part book, Gino Wickman, bestselling author of Traction, reveals the six essential traits that every entrepreneur needs in order to succeed, based on real-world startups that have reached incredible heights. If these traits ring true for you, you'll get a glimpse of what your life would look like as an entrepreneur. What's more, Wickman will help you determine what type of business best suits your unique skill set and provide a detailed roadmap, with tools, tips, and exercises, that will accelerate your path to startup success. Packed with real-life stories and practical advice, Entrepreneurial Leap is a simple how-to manual for BIG results. Should you take the leap toward entrepreneurship? Find out today and let tomorrow be the first step in your new journey, whatever shape it may take.
Download or read book Examining the Financial Payoffs to Prior Entrepreneurial Experience written by Xian Cao and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation includes three essays with an attempt to understand the financial payoffs to prior entrepreneurial experience. In essay one, we re-visit the important relationship between prior entrepreneurial experience and the probability of switching into entrepreneurship from wage employment using two different models: logistic regression - a standard statistical model commonly used by management scholars and random forests - a powerful machine learning tool for analyzing big data. Through comparing the findings of these two models, essay one reconciles the theoretical and empirical uncertainty on this relationship. It also illuminates the benefits of using contemporary approaches to handle big data in re-visiting fundamental questions in entrepreneurship. In essay two, we examine the relative financial payoffs to prior entrepreneurial experience inside versus outside the entrepreneurial context. Testing from a sample of entrepreneurs who were at risk of making a career choice between serial entrepreneurship and wage employment, our study shows that the financial payoffs to prior entrepreneurial experience can be extended, and much higher, in serial entrepreneurship than in wage employment. By doing so, it holds a host of novel implications for understanding the motivation of entrepreneurship and also adds to the research of serial entrepreneurship. In essay three, we argue that the matching model, which suggests individuals self-sect themselves into a career with relative advantages, may help explain serial entrepreneurship. Through decomposing prior entrepreneurial experience into venture success experience, venture managerial experience and venture industry experience, we find partial supports for this argument. Essay three then enhances our understanding for the motivation of serial entrepreneurship.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship and the Experience Economy written by Daniel Hjorth and published by Copenhagen Business School Press DK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together a range of empirical studies, which disclose and substantiate the so-called experience economy with a particular focus on its entrepreneurial aspects. This book elaborates and clarifies the entrepreneurial nature of the experience economy.
Download or read book The Entrepreneur Within written by Alex F. DeNoble and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt inspired to introduce a new business idea within your organization? Maybe you see new market opportunities or ways to improve existing operations, but you struggle to find your voice. This book contains inspirational stories about everyday people who work inside of existing organizations. While behaving like entrepreneurs, they managed to navigate corporate roadblocks to bring ideas to fruition. Here you will learn about: The importance of framing ideas in ways that make sense to decision makers. Impactful approaches for obtaining buy-in from key stakeholders. Effective strategies for implementing your project. Entrepreneurship represents a mindset anyone can learn to cultivate. These amazing stories will inspire you to seek challenges and identify opportunities to make the entrepreneurship experience a reality in your life. Become a difference maker in your organization and successfully build your career along the way!
Download or read book Habitual Entrepreneurs written by Deniz Ucbasaran and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habitual Entrepreneurs examines the scale of habitual entrepreneurship and uses insights from human capital theory and cognitive theories to present a theoretical case for distinguishing between different types of entrepreneurs with reference to their prior business ownership experience.
Download or read book The Founder s Dilemmas written by Noam Wasserman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.
Download or read book Make It Happen written by AM. Emer. L Murray Gillin and published by Pageturner Press and Media. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make-It-Happen is a unique book, which creatively addresses the question of how the entrepreneurial process acts as a key contributor to a fulfilling and productive Personal Entrepreneur Ecosystem (PEE). As a scholarly practitioner of entrepreneurship and innovation, I articulate how the four levels of PEE-formation years, career development, national leadership, and international collaborations-are integrated across the generations, industries and sectors, education systems, and cultures with a values-based challenge. With these four levels, readers will see today's big issues as opportunities to network and innovate in creating a better society and world. Whether your interests lie in becoming an entrepreneur or developing an entrepreneur mindset, Make-It-Happen: Entrepreneur Mindset-A Lived Experience demonstrates how this mindset can be used by us all in ensuring our lives are well-lived.
Download or read book Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2020 An OECD Scoreboard written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 9th edition of the Scoreboard on Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs report provides data from 48 countries around the world on SME lending, alternative finance instruments and financing conditions, as well as information on policy initiatives to improve SME access to finance.
Download or read book Research Handbook of Women s Entrepreneurship and Value Creation written by Yousafzai, Shumaila and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Handbook highlights the importance of women as agents of change, acknowledging women entrepreneurs’ efforts and supporting their value-creation activities. With important implications for policymaking, contributing authors direct attention to and provide evidence for the positive contribution of women entrepreneurs to the economy, regardless of their businesses’ size and formal status.
