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New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century is about the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. The book presents the substantial body of knowledge about the entrepreneurial process in a pragmatic way - through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises - to help readers compress their learning curves, reduce their ultimate risk and pain, and allow them to gain more from their subsequent entrepreneurial experiences.

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PART I The Founder
Chapter 1 The Global Entrepreneurial Revolution for a Flatter World
Chapter 2 The Entrepreneurial Mind: Crafting a Personal Entrepreneurial Strategy
PART II The Opportunity
Chapter 3 he Entrepreneurial Process
Chapter 4 lean Commerce and Sustainable Enterprise Movements Are an Opportunity Sea Change
Chapter 5 Opportunity Recognition
Chapter 6 Opportunities for Social Entrepreneurship
Chapter 7 The Business Plan
PART III The Founder and Team
Chapter 8 The Entrepreneurial Leader and the Team
Chapter 9 Ethical Decision Making and the Entrepreneur
PART IV Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
Chapter 10 Resource Requirements
Chapter 11 Franchising
Chapter 12 Entrepreneurial Finance
Chapter 13 Obtaining Venture and Growth Capital
Chapter 14 The Deal: Valuation, Structure, and Negotiation
Chapter 15 Obtaining Debt Capital
PART V Start-up and Beyond
Chapter 16 Leading Rapid Growth, Crises, and Recovery
Chapter 17 The Family as Entrepreneur
Chapter 18 The Harvest and Beyond

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