New Venture Creation : Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century, 8th ed. is about the actual process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. It continues to be the product of experiences and considerable research in the field - rooted in real-world application and refined in the classroom. The design and flow of the book are aimed at creating knowledge, skills, and awareness. In a pragmatic way - through text, case studies and hands-on exercises - students are drawn in to discover critical aspects of entrepreneurhsip, and what levels of competencies, know-how, experience, attitudes, resources and networks are required to pursue different entrepreneurial opportunities. The Eight edition includes new cases and exercises, updated web sites, and new text material to capture the current financial, economic, technological, and globally competitive environment of this first decade of the new century.



Content :

Part 1. The entrepreneurial mind for an entrepreneurial world

Ch. 1. The global entrepreneurial revolution for a flatter world

Ch. 2. The entreprenurial mind : crafting a personal entrepreneurial strategy

Part 2. The opportunity

Ch.3. The entrepreneurial process

Ch.4. Clean commerce : seeing, opportunity through a sustainability lens

Ch.5. The opportunity : creating, shaping, recognizing, seizing

Ch.6. Screening venture opportunities

Ch.7. Opprtunities for social entrepreneurship

Ch.8. The business plan

Part 3. The founder and team

Ch.9. The entrepreneurial leader and the team

Ch. 10. Ethical decision making and the entrepreneur

Part 4. Financing entrepreneurial ventures

Ch. 11. Resource requirements

Ch.12. Franchising

Ch.13. Entrepreneurial finance

Ch.14. Obtaining venture and growth capital

Ch.15. The deal : valuation, structure, and negotiation

Ch.16. Obtaining debt capital

Part 5. Startup and beyond

Ch.17. Leading rapid growth, crises, and recovery

Ch.18. The family as entrepreneur

Ch.19. The harvest and beyond

Index