America's Most Successful Startups: Lessons for Entrepreneurs

ISBN-13: 9783409114097 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 170 str.

Max Finger; Oliver Samwer

Opis

Leaving school and standing at the threshold of the next stage in our life, through this study we have had the chance to take a glance at the 21 st century. We hope to be able to communicate some of those impressions to a wider audience through this book. For entrepreneurs, the book develops a series of concrete propositions which provide hands on lessons for creating a successful venture. Thus we hope that this book will be used again and again as an Entrepreneur's Handbook. If we have done our job well, it will soon be full of underlinings, marginal notations and highlighting. It is meant to provide useful advice for people like us, people who want to be entrepreneurs. The book documents empirical research bearing on the question of how to start, build and grow a successful venture. The research is based exclusively on interviews with America's most successful high-tech startups in Silicon Valley and Massachusetts. In these interviews we came across the most tremendous people, entrepreneurs of the 21 st century, first-tier venture capitalists, investment bankers, lawyers and technologists. People who will be driving the economy of tomorrow."

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- I. Creating a Business.- 2. The Opportunities.- 3. The Homework.- 4. The Window of Opportunity.- 5. The Background of the Entrepreneur.- 6. The Founders.- 7. The Role of the Founder.- 8. The Ideal Startup.- II. Launching the Business.- 9. The Location.- 10. The Advisors.- 11. The Support Players.- 12. Intellectual Property.- 13. The Funding.- 14. The Culture.- 15. The Management Team.- 16. Technology and Market Orientation.- 17. The Flexibility.- 18. The Focus.- 19. The Execution.- 20. The Network.- III. Growing the Business.- 21. The Partners.- 22. The Game for Mindshare.- 23. The Breakthrough.- 24. The First Customers.- 25. The Competition.- 26. The Growth Management.- IV. The Entrepreneur.- 27. The Motivation.- 28. The Doubts.- 29. The Sacrifices.- 30. The Qualities of an Entrepreneur.- 31. Summary.- 32. Appendix.

O autorze

Max Finger und Oliver Samwer studierten Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Wissenschaftlichen Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU), Koblenz.