A Start-Up's Definitive Guide to Failure : Learning from the Most Common Mistakes Founders Make / / by Carsten A. Lexa, Émilie Nollet

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910951801803321
• Autore: Lexa Carsten A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024
• ISBN: 9783031705212; 3031705211
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2024.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Collana: Business Guides on the Go, , 2731-4766
• Altri autori (Persone): NolletÉmilie
• Disciplina: 658.11; 658.15224
• Soggetti: New business enterprises; Venture capital; Strategic planning; Leadership; Personnel management; Start-Ups and Venture Capital; Business Strategy and Leadership; Human Resource Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction - Too little attention is paid to start-up failures worldwide -- The entrepreneurial mindset - I am not an entrepreneur -- Commercial and technical knowledge - Knowledge is so yesterday -- The idea - Why it is everything and the business concept is nothing -- The product – When customers (and markets) do not know what is good for them -- Customer needs - If customers don't understand what they need, it's their own fault -- Selling - Nobody needs marketing and sales -- The Team - Don't waste time with interpersonal issues -- Leadership - Finally, let´s live the power -- Investors - Money talks -- Taking care of yourself - Ignore yourself, focus on the business -- The bonus chapter - Socially and environmentally responsible business are overrated -- The end: A few words on a closing note -- Interview with Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin: How to fail as a ; founder.
• Sommario/riassunto: Seven out of ten start-ups fail. The reasons for failure are well-known. Yet founders often fail to approach the topic of failure with the seriousness and commitment it deserves. This book aims to change that and offers a new approach for founders to “drive their start-up off a cliff.” Structured as a “how-to guide to failure,” it highlights the most common mistakes founders make, explains where they come from, and illustrates them with real-life examples. The goal of the book is to help founders make the “right” mistakes in order to fail more efficiently (and perhaps help them avoid making these mistakes in the first place). The book includes an interview with German “start-up legend” Prof. Günter Faltin.

Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England / / by Walter S H Lim

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910799500403321
• Autore: Lim Walter S. H. <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023
• ISBN: 9783031400063
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2023.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Disciplina: 822.33
• Soggetti: European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600; Religion; Literature - History and criticism; Theater - History; Early Modern and Renaissance Literature; Literary History; Theatre History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England -- 2. Dying Unshriven and the Afterlife in Hamlet -- 3. ; Temptation, Fornication, and the Fall in Measure for Measure -- 4. Biblical Faith and Radical Politics in The Winter’s Tale -- 5. Grief, Gardens, and the Staging of Tragedy in Richard II -- 6. Surety, Usury, Hazard, and Spiritual Commercialism in The Merchant of Venice.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this wide-ranging and informative study, Walter Lim throws new light on the meaning of religion in Shakespeare and post-Reformation culture. Buttressing close analysis with comparative study, Lim shows not only how Shakespeare rethinks religious concepts such as sin, salvation, and belief, but also how his plays reveal the mixture of sacred and secular perspectives that shaped early modern cultural practices, from government, commerce, and law to sexuality, radical politics, and overseas travel. -Kenneth Graham, Department of English, University of Waterloo "Walter Lim's book is an accessible and wide-ranging study of five Shakespearean plays in the context of early modern spirituality and religious controversy. His inventive placing of the plays in dialogue with other seventeenth-century texts such as Aemilia Lanyer's poetry and the Royalist volume Eikon Basilike makes this a particularly welcome contribution to the expandingcritical field of Shakespeare and religion." -Helen Wilcox, Professor Emerita of English Literature, Bangor University. This book analyzes Shakespeare’s use of biblical allusions and evocation of doctrinal topics in Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, and The Merchant of Venice. It identifies references to theological and doctrinal commonplaces such as sin, grace, confession, damnation, and the Fall in these plays, affirming that Shakespeare’s literary imagination is very much influenced by his familiarity with the Bible and also with matters of church doctrine. This theological and doctrinal subject matter also derives its significance from genres as diverse as travel narratives, sermons, political treatises, and royal proclamations. This study looks at how Shakespeare’s deployment of religious topics interacts with ideas circulating via other cultural texts and genresin society. It also analyzes how religion enables Shakespeare’s engagement with cultural debates and political developments in England: absolutism and law; radical political theory; morality and law; and conceptions of nationhood. Walter S H Lim is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Narratives of Diaspora: Representations of Asia in Chinese American Literature (2013); John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism (2006); and The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton (1998). He also co-edited the collection The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia (2010).