Examines the concepts and emerging issues in entrepreneurship. The text argues that venture creation requires planning and skill as well as inspiration and portrays the entrepreneur as the ultimate general manager, responsible for orchestrating the relationships among all parts of the enterprise.

The Entrepreneurial Venture (Practice of Management Series)

Business & Money

Sahlman, William A.

Management & Leadership

Harvard Business School Pr

Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures (Business Fundamentals, HBS Number: 9202)

Bhidé, Amar

Stevenson,Howard

Harvard Business School

Judging by all the hoopla surrounding business plans, you'd think the only things standing between would-be entrepreneurs and spectacular success are glossy five-color charts, bundles of meticulous-looking spreadsheets, and decades of month-by-month financial projections. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, often the more elaborately crafted a business plan, the more likely the venture is to flop. Why? Most plans waste too much ink on numbers and devote too little to information that really matters to investors. The result? Investors discount them. In How to Write a Great Business Plan, William A. Sahlman shows how to avoid this all-too-common mistake by ensuring that your plan assesses the factors critical to every new venture: · The people—the individuals launching and leading the venture and outside parties providing key services or important resources · The opportunity—what the business will sell and to whom, and whether the venture can grow and how fast · The context—the regulatory environment, interest rates, demographic trends, and other forces shaping the venture's fate · Risk and reward—what can go wrong and right, and how the entrepreneurial team will respond Timely in this age of innovation, How to Write a Great Business Plan helps you give your new venture the best possible chances for success.

How to Write a Great Business Plan (Harvard Business Review Classics)

Harvard Business Review Press

The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs.
If you read nothing else on entrepreneurship and startups, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your company for enduring success.
Leading experts and practitioners such as Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Reid Hoffman provide the insights and advice that will inspire you to:
<ul>
<li>Understand what makes entrepreneurial leaders tick</li>
<li>Know what matters in a great business plan</li>
<li>Adopt lean startup practices such as business model experimentation</li>
<li>Be prepared for the race for scale in Silicon Valley</li>
<li>Better understand the world of venture capital--and know what you'll get along with VC funding</li>
<li>Take an alternative approach to entrepreneurship: buy an existing business and run it as CEO</li>
</ul>
This collection of articles includes "Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader," by Timothy Butler; "How to Write a Great Business Plan," by William A. Sahlman; "Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything," by Steve Blank; "The President of SRI Ventures on Bringing Siri to Life," by Norman Winarsky; "In Search of the Next Big Thing," an interview with Marc Andreessen by Adi Ignatius; "Six Myths About Venture Capitalists," by Diane Mulcahy; "Chobani's Founder on Growing a Start-Up Without Outside Investors," by Hamdi Ulukaya; "Network Effects Aren’t Enough," by Andrei Hagiu and Simon Rothman; "Blitzscaling," an interview with Reid Hoffman by Tim Sullivan; "Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship," by Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff; and "The Founder's Dilemma," by Noam Wasserman.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups (featuring Bonus Article “Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything” by Steve Blank)

Review, Harvard Business

Hoffman, Reid

Blank, Steve

Andreessen, Marc

Finance

Judging by all the hoopla surrounding business plans, you'd think the only things standing between would-be entrepreneurs and spectacular success are glossy five-color charts, bundles of meticulous-looking spreadsheets, and decades of month-by-month financial projections. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, often the more elaborately crafted a business plan, the more likely the venture is to flop. Why? Most plans waste too much ink on numbers and devote too little to information that really matters to investors. The result? Investors discount them. In How to Write a Great Business Plan, William A. Sahlman shows how to avoid this all-too-common mistake by ensuring that your plan assesses the factors critical to every new venture: - The people--the individuals launching and leading the venture and outside parties providing key services or important resources - The opportunity--what the business will sell and to whom, and whether the venture can grow and how fast - The context--the regulatory environment, interest rates, demographic trends, and other forces shaping the venture's fate - Risk and reward--what can go wrong and right, and how the entrepreneurial team will respond Timely in this age of innovation, How to Write a Great Business Plan helps you give your new venture the best possible chances for success.

How to Write a Great Business Plan

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