Academic spin-offs : the role of routinized behaviours in new venture success / / Ziad El-Awad |
Autore | El-Awad Ziad |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 658.421 |
Soggetto topico |
Entrepreneurship
New business enterprises Venture capital |
ISBN |
9783031222849
9783031222832 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter one: Academic spin-offs and their role in society -- Chapter two: Routinizing behaviors in academic spin-offs -- Chapter three: Routinizing behaviors as a multilevel learning process -- Chapter four: Routines and the critical role of the venture team -- Chapter five: Routines for efficiency or change! -- Chapter six: learnings and implications for your business. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910674345103321 |
El-Awad Ziad | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Advances in Crowdfunding : Research and Practice / / edited by Rotem Shneor, Liang Zhao, Bjørn-Tore Flåten |
Autore | Shneor Rotem |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Springer Nature, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXVI, 531 p. 32 illus.) |
Disciplina |
658.421
650 |
Soggetto topico |
New business enterprises
Business enterprises—Finance Finance Small business E-business Electronic commerce E-commerce Start-Ups/Venture Capital Business Finance Finance, general Small Business e-Business/e-Commerce |
Soggetto non controllato |
Start-Ups/Venture Capital
Business Finance Finance, general Small Business e-Business/e-Commerce Entrepreneurship Corporate Finance Finance IT in Business Entrepreneurial Finance Social Entrepreneurship Crowd wisdom crowdsourcing Alternative finance Open Access Corporate finance Small businesses & self-employed E-commerce: business aspects |
ISBN | 3-030-46309-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: From Fundamentals to Advances in Crowdfunding Research and Practice -- 2. Crowdfunding Models, Strategies, and Choices Between Them -- 3. The Global Status of the Crowdfunding Industry -- 4. Lending Crowdfunding: Principles and Market Development -- 5. Equity Crowdfunding: Principles and Investor Behaviour -- 6. Reward-based Crowdfunding Research and Practice -- 7. Donation Crowdfunding: Principles and Donor Behaviour -- 8. Ethical Considerations in Crowdfunding -- 9. Legal Institutions, Social Capital, and Financial Crowdfunding: A Multilevel Perspective -- 10. History of Crowdfunding in the Context of Ever-Changing Modern Financial Markets -- 11. The Fintech Industry: Crowdfunding in Context -- 12. Crowdfunding in China: Turmoil of Global Leadership -- 13. Crowdfunding Prospects in New Emerging Markets: The Cases of India and Bangladesh -- 14. Crowdfunding in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges -- 15. Israeli Crowdfunding: A Reflection of its Entrepreneurial Culture -- 16. Crowdfunding in Europe: Between Fragmentation and Harmonisation -- 17. Crowdfunding Sustainability -- 18. Crowdfunding in the Cultural Industries -- 19. Civic Crowdfunding: Four perspectives on the definition of civic crowdfunding -- 20. Crowdfunding Education: Objectives, Content, Pedagogy, and Assessment -- 21. The Future of Crowdfunding Research and Practice. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910416122303321 |
Shneor Rotem | ||
Springer Nature, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence, and growth [e-journal] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : Elsevier |
Soggetto topico |
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship - Research New business enterprises |
ISSN | 1074-7540 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003321229707536 |
Amsterdam : Elsevier | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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African Diaspora Direct Investment : Establishing the Economic and Socio-cultural Rationale / / edited by Dieu Hack-Polay, Juliana Siwale |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 pages) |
Disciplina | 332.6730967 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies of Entrepreneurship in Africa |
Soggetto topico |
International business enterprises
New business enterprises Project management Small business Employee health promotion International Business Start-Ups/Venture Capital Project Management Small Business Employee Health and Wellbeing |
ISBN | 3-319-72047-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction; Dieu Hack-Polay & Juliana Siwale -- Part I. Diaspora Direct Investment: Rationalities and Impact -- 2. Understanding Diaspora Transnationalism; Osa-Godwin Osaghae -- 3. Diaspora Investment and African National Economics: Case Studies; Gift Mugano -- 4. Mapping of Diaspora Direct Investment: Critical Areas of Investment; Juliana Siwale -- 5. Compassionate investment? Diaspora Contribution to Poverty Alleviation in Francophone West Africa; Dieu Hack-Polay -- Part II. Management of Diaspora Businesses -- 6. Diaspora Networks: A Social Capital Source for Entrepreneurship in Low-Income and Emerging Economies; Amon Simba & Nathanael Ojong -- 7. Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship: Do Local Social Networks in Home Country Matter?; Olu Aluko & Walter Mswaka -- 8. Diaspora Businesses in Africa: Survival and Sustainability; Sombo Muzata Chunda -- 9. Management of Diaspora Businesses: Issues and Learning; John Opute -- 10. Gender and Diaspora Investment: What Do We Know?; Roda Madziva, Juliana Siwale & Juliet Thondhlana -- 11. Skilled Migrant African Women of Faith and Diaspora Investment; Juliet Thondhlana & Roda Madziva -- 12. Conclusion; Juliet Siwale & Dieu Hack-Polay. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910298192303321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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AI Startup Strategy : A Blueprint to Building Successful Artificial Intelligence Products from Inception to Exit / / by Adhiguna Mahendra |
Autore | Mahendra Adhiguna |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : Apress : , : Imprint : Apress, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 pages) |
Disciplina | 006.30681 |
Soggetto topico |
Artificial intelligence
New business enterprises |
ISBN | 1-4842-9502-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Fundamentals of AI Startup -- Chapter 2: AI Startup Landscape -- Chapter 3: Product Market Validation for AI-First SaaS -- Chapter 4: Product Market Validation for AI as a Service (AlaaS) -- Chapter 5: AI Product Strategy -- Chapter 6: Human-Centered AI-Experience Design -- Chapter 7: Human-Centered AI Developer Experience Design -- Chapter 8: Building AI Platform -- Chapter 9: Go-To-Market Strategy for AI Startup -- Chapter 10: AI Startup Exit Strategy. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910736981403321 |
Mahendra Adhiguna | ||
Berkeley, CA : , : Apress : , : Imprint : Apress, , 2023 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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All in startup : launching a new idea when everything is on the line / / Diana Kander ; foreword by Steve Blank |
Autore | Kander Diana |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.1/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Entrepreneurship
New business enterprises |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-118-85767-4
1-118-85776-3 |
Classificazione | BUS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
All in Startup: Launching a New Idea When Everything Is on the Line; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; A Letter from Thom Ruhe: Vice President of Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation; Introduction; Chapter 1: First Appearances Can Be Deceiving; Chapter 2: You're Not Fooling Anyone; Chapter 3: You Can't Sell Anything by Doing All of the Talking; Chapter 4: It's How Well You Lose, Not How Well You Win, That Determines Whether You Get to Keep Playing; Chapter 5: The Real Pros Don't Play Every Hand; Chapter 6: Vanity Metrics Can Hide the Real Numbers That Matter to Your Business
Chapter 7: You Won't Find a Mentor if You Don't AskChapter 8: Put Your Customers and Their Needs before Your Vision for a Solution; Chapter 9: Don't Gamble-Use Small Bets to Find Opportunities; Chapter 10: Even Experts Need to Prepare for New Terrain; Chapter 11: People Don't Buy Visionary Products They Buy Solutions to Their Problems; Chapter 12: Only Customers Can Tell You if You've Found a Problem Worth Solving; Chapter 13: Hoping and Praying for Luck Is Not a Strategy; Chapter 14: It's Never Too Late to Test Your Assumptions Chapter 15: The Secret to Customer Interviews Is Nonleading, Open-Ended QuestionsChapter 16: The Only Way to Get Good at Customer Interviews Is to Practice; Chapter 17: Finding Out Your Assumptions Were Wrong Is Just as Valuable as Proving Them Right; Chapter 18: Don't Pivot to a New Idea without Testing Your New Assumptions; Chapter 19: Save Your Chips for When You'll Need the Least Amount of Luck to Win; Chapter 20: Successful Entrepreneurs Recognize Failure, Fold, and Live to Fight Another Day; Chapter 21: Test Your Assumptions before Committing Any Resources to an Idea Chapter 22: Luck Can Be Engineered if You Take Emotion Out of the EquationChapter 23: Every Successful Entrepreneur Has More Failures than Successes; Chapter 24: The Harder You Work, the Luckier You'll Get; Chapter 25: Opportunities to Find Prospective Customers Are Everywhere-You Just Have to Look; Chapter 26: The Best Feedback from Potential Customers Comes from Meticulous Interviews; Chapter 27: Recognize the Vanity Metrics to Avoid Big Losses; Chapter 28: Keep Interviewing Customers until You Find a Migraine Problem Worth Solving Chapter 29: People Can't Help Themselves from Sharing When You Bring Up a Migraine ProblemChapter 30: Stay Objective in Your Interviews Whether You Are Getting Good or Bad News; Chapter 31: Nothing Else Matters until You Can Prove That Customers Want Your Product; Chapter 32: Luck Makers Seek Out New Experiences and Find Opportunities Wherever They Go; Chapter 33: Luck Is Not a Good Strategy for Poker or Business-It's the Outcome of a Good Strategy; Chapter 34: To Prove Demand, Find the Shortest Path to the Ultimate Customer Action; Chapter 35: Prepare for Bad Luck by Building Up Reserves Chapter 36: Fear and Inaction Are the Two Greatest Threats to Your Business Idea |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458544303321 |
Kander Diana | ||
Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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All in startup : launching a new idea when everything is on the line / / Diana Kander ; foreword by Steve Blank |
Autore | Kander Diana |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.1/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Entrepreneurship
New business enterprises |
ISBN |
1-118-85767-4
1-118-85776-3 |
Classificazione | BUS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
All in Startup: Launching a New Idea When Everything Is on the Line; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; A Letter from Thom Ruhe: Vice President of Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation; Introduction; Chapter 1: First Appearances Can Be Deceiving; Chapter 2: You're Not Fooling Anyone; Chapter 3: You Can't Sell Anything by Doing All of the Talking; Chapter 4: It's How Well You Lose, Not How Well You Win, That Determines Whether You Get to Keep Playing; Chapter 5: The Real Pros Don't Play Every Hand; Chapter 6: Vanity Metrics Can Hide the Real Numbers That Matter to Your Business
Chapter 7: You Won't Find a Mentor if You Don't AskChapter 8: Put Your Customers and Their Needs before Your Vision for a Solution; Chapter 9: Don't Gamble-Use Small Bets to Find Opportunities; Chapter 10: Even Experts Need to Prepare for New Terrain; Chapter 11: People Don't Buy Visionary Products They Buy Solutions to Their Problems; Chapter 12: Only Customers Can Tell You if You've Found a Problem Worth Solving; Chapter 13: Hoping and Praying for Luck Is Not a Strategy; Chapter 14: It's Never Too Late to Test Your Assumptions Chapter 15: The Secret to Customer Interviews Is Nonleading, Open-Ended QuestionsChapter 16: The Only Way to Get Good at Customer Interviews Is to Practice; Chapter 17: Finding Out Your Assumptions Were Wrong Is Just as Valuable as Proving Them Right; Chapter 18: Don't Pivot to a New Idea without Testing Your New Assumptions; Chapter 19: Save Your Chips for When You'll Need the Least Amount of Luck to Win; Chapter 20: Successful Entrepreneurs Recognize Failure, Fold, and Live to Fight Another Day; Chapter 21: Test Your Assumptions before Committing Any Resources to an Idea Chapter 22: Luck Can Be Engineered if You Take Emotion Out of the EquationChapter 23: Every Successful Entrepreneur Has More Failures than Successes; Chapter 24: The Harder You Work, the Luckier You'll Get; Chapter 25: Opportunities to Find Prospective Customers Are Everywhere-You Just Have to Look; Chapter 26: The Best Feedback from Potential Customers Comes from Meticulous Interviews; Chapter 27: Recognize the Vanity Metrics to Avoid Big Losses; Chapter 28: Keep Interviewing Customers until You Find a Migraine Problem Worth Solving Chapter 29: People Can't Help Themselves from Sharing When You Bring Up a Migraine ProblemChapter 30: Stay Objective in Your Interviews Whether You Are Getting Good or Bad News; Chapter 31: Nothing Else Matters until You Can Prove That Customers Want Your Product; Chapter 32: Luck Makers Seek Out New Experiences and Find Opportunities Wherever They Go; Chapter 33: Luck Is Not a Good Strategy for Poker or Business-It's the Outcome of a Good Strategy; Chapter 34: To Prove Demand, Find the Shortest Path to the Ultimate Customer Action; Chapter 35: Prepare for Bad Luck by Building Up Reserves Chapter 36: Fear and Inaction Are the Two Greatest Threats to Your Business Idea |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791025803321 |
Kander Diana | ||
Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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All in startup : launching a new idea when everything is on the line / / Diana Kander ; foreword by Steve Blank |
Autore | Kander Diana |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.1/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Entrepreneurship
New business enterprises |
ISBN |
1-118-85767-4
1-118-85776-3 |
Classificazione | BUS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
All in Startup: Launching a New Idea When Everything Is on the Line; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; A Letter from Thom Ruhe: Vice President of Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation; Introduction; Chapter 1: First Appearances Can Be Deceiving; Chapter 2: You're Not Fooling Anyone; Chapter 3: You Can't Sell Anything by Doing All of the Talking; Chapter 4: It's How Well You Lose, Not How Well You Win, That Determines Whether You Get to Keep Playing; Chapter 5: The Real Pros Don't Play Every Hand; Chapter 6: Vanity Metrics Can Hide the Real Numbers That Matter to Your Business
Chapter 7: You Won't Find a Mentor if You Don't AskChapter 8: Put Your Customers and Their Needs before Your Vision for a Solution; Chapter 9: Don't Gamble-Use Small Bets to Find Opportunities; Chapter 10: Even Experts Need to Prepare for New Terrain; Chapter 11: People Don't Buy Visionary Products They Buy Solutions to Their Problems; Chapter 12: Only Customers Can Tell You if You've Found a Problem Worth Solving; Chapter 13: Hoping and Praying for Luck Is Not a Strategy; Chapter 14: It's Never Too Late to Test Your Assumptions Chapter 15: The Secret to Customer Interviews Is Nonleading, Open-Ended QuestionsChapter 16: The Only Way to Get Good at Customer Interviews Is to Practice; Chapter 17: Finding Out Your Assumptions Were Wrong Is Just as Valuable as Proving Them Right; Chapter 18: Don't Pivot to a New Idea without Testing Your New Assumptions; Chapter 19: Save Your Chips for When You'll Need the Least Amount of Luck to Win; Chapter 20: Successful Entrepreneurs Recognize Failure, Fold, and Live to Fight Another Day; Chapter 21: Test Your Assumptions before Committing Any Resources to an Idea Chapter 22: Luck Can Be Engineered if You Take Emotion Out of the EquationChapter 23: Every Successful Entrepreneur Has More Failures than Successes; Chapter 24: The Harder You Work, the Luckier You'll Get; Chapter 25: Opportunities to Find Prospective Customers Are Everywhere-You Just Have to Look; Chapter 26: The Best Feedback from Potential Customers Comes from Meticulous Interviews; Chapter 27: Recognize the Vanity Metrics to Avoid Big Losses; Chapter 28: Keep Interviewing Customers until You Find a Migraine Problem Worth Solving Chapter 29: People Can't Help Themselves from Sharing When You Bring Up a Migraine ProblemChapter 30: Stay Objective in Your Interviews Whether You Are Getting Good or Bad News; Chapter 31: Nothing Else Matters until You Can Prove That Customers Want Your Product; Chapter 32: Luck Makers Seek Out New Experiences and Find Opportunities Wherever They Go; Chapter 33: Luck Is Not a Good Strategy for Poker or Business-It's the Outcome of a Good Strategy; Chapter 34: To Prove Demand, Find the Shortest Path to the Ultimate Customer Action; Chapter 35: Prepare for Bad Luck by Building Up Reserves Chapter 36: Fear and Inaction Are the Two Greatest Threats to Your Business Idea |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822214603321 |
Kander Diana | ||
Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Angel investing : the Gust guide to making money and having fun investing in startups / / David S. Rose ; Reid Hoffman, foreword |
Autore | Rose David S. |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.15224 |
Soggetto topico |
Angels (Investors)
Investments Venture capital New business enterprises |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-118-90113-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: How I Became An Angel Investor; Part I The Basics of Angel Investing; Chapter 1 The 25 Percent Annual Return: Why Everyone with Six Figures to Invest Should Consider Angel Investing; What Exactly Is Angel Investing?; Can You Really Make 25 Percent a Year?; Who Can Be an Angel?; ...And Who Should Be an Angel?; Getting Started in Angel Investing; Risks in Angel Investing; Types of Angel Investors; Chapter 2 Plus, It's Really Fun!: The Nonfinancial Rewards of Being an Angel; Keeping Up with the World
Entrepreneurship without the Responsibility The Joy of Giving Back; The Social Side of Angel Investing; Chapter 3 The Portfolio Theory of Angel Investing: Why Every Angel Needs to Invest in at Least 20 Companies; Truth 1: Most Startups Fail; Truth 2: No One Knows Which Startups Are Not Going to Fail; Truth 3: Investing in Startups Is a Numbers Game; Truth 4: What Ends Up, Usually Went Down First; Truth 5: All Companies Always Need More Money; Truth 6: If You Understand and Follow Truths 1 to 5, Angel Investing Can Be Very Lucrative Chapter 4 The Financial Life of a Startup: Where Angels Fit in the Big Financing Picture Financial Stages of a Startup; Part II The Nuts and Bolts; Chapter 5 Develop Your Deal Flow: Sourcing and Identifying High-Potential Opportunities; Personal Connections; Angel Groups; Meetups; Business Plan Competitions; Startup Conferences and Launch Events; Accelerator Demo Days; Online Deal Sources; Deal Brokers; What to Expect When You Meet a Founder; Chapter 6 Bet the Jockey, Not the Horse: Evaluating the Entrepreneur and Picking the Right One to Back; What Makes a Great Entrepreneur? Are Startups a Young Person's Game? How Young?Serial Entrepreneurs versus First Timers; What About Tech Savvy?; What About Education?; Warning Signs of a Weak Founder; Chapter 7 Here Comes the Pitch: Listening to the Story Does It Make Sense for Your Portfolio?; Strength of the Management Team; Size of the Opportunity; Product or Service; Other Issues; Where Is My Money Going?; Materials You Should Expect to See During the Pitch Process; Summary Financials; Chapter 8 Look Under the Hood and Lead a Deal: Coordinating Due Diligence and Running the Show; Leading a Deal Chapter 9 Valuations and Expectations: Discovering the Secret Economics of the Angels The Four Simple Numbers: Basics of Investment Math; How Much Should You Invest?; What Target Rate of Return Should You Aim For?; What Is the Company Worth When You Invest?; How Do Initial Valuations Affect an Angel's Ultimate IRR?; Changing Valuations During a Round; Chapter 10 Investment Rounds and Their Forms: Common Stock, Convertible Notes, or Preferred Stock?; How Equity Investments Work; The Discounted Convertible Note; Fine Points of Investing in Discounted Convertible Notes Chapter 11 The Art of the Angel Deal: Negotiating a Win/Win Relationship with Your Entrepreneur |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465011403321 |
Rose David S. | ||
Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Angel investing : the Gust guide to making money and having fun investing in startups / / David S. Rose ; Reid Hoffman, foreword |
Autore | Rose David S. |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.15224 |
Soggetto topico |
Angels (Investors)
Investments Venture capital New business enterprises |
ISBN |
1-118-90121-5
1-118-90113-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: How I Became An Angel Investor; Part I The Basics of Angel Investing; Chapter 1 The 25 Percent Annual Return: Why Everyone with Six Figures to Invest Should Consider Angel Investing; What Exactly Is Angel Investing?; Can You Really Make 25 Percent a Year?; Who Can Be an Angel?; ...And Who Should Be an Angel?; Getting Started in Angel Investing; Risks in Angel Investing; Types of Angel Investors; Chapter 2 Plus, It's Really Fun!: The Nonfinancial Rewards of Being an Angel; Keeping Up with the World
Entrepreneurship without the Responsibility The Joy of Giving Back; The Social Side of Angel Investing; Chapter 3 The Portfolio Theory of Angel Investing: Why Every Angel Needs to Invest in at Least 20 Companies; Truth 1: Most Startups Fail; Truth 2: No One Knows Which Startups Are Not Going to Fail; Truth 3: Investing in Startups Is a Numbers Game; Truth 4: What Ends Up, Usually Went Down First; Truth 5: All Companies Always Need More Money; Truth 6: If You Understand and Follow Truths 1 to 5, Angel Investing Can Be Very Lucrative Chapter 4 The Financial Life of a Startup: Where Angels Fit in the Big Financing Picture Financial Stages of a Startup; Part II The Nuts and Bolts; Chapter 5 Develop Your Deal Flow: Sourcing and Identifying High-Potential Opportunities; Personal Connections; Angel Groups; Meetups; Business Plan Competitions; Startup Conferences and Launch Events; Accelerator Demo Days; Online Deal Sources; Deal Brokers; What to Expect When You Meet a Founder; Chapter 6 Bet the Jockey, Not the Horse: Evaluating the Entrepreneur and Picking the Right One to Back; What Makes a Great Entrepreneur? Are Startups a Young Person's Game? How Young?Serial Entrepreneurs versus First Timers; What About Tech Savvy?; What About Education?; Warning Signs of a Weak Founder; Chapter 7 Here Comes the Pitch: Listening to the Story Does It Make Sense for Your Portfolio?; Strength of the Management Team; Size of the Opportunity; Product or Service; Other Issues; Where Is My Money Going?; Materials You Should Expect to See During the Pitch Process; Summary Financials; Chapter 8 Look Under the Hood and Lead a Deal: Coordinating Due Diligence and Running the Show; Leading a Deal Chapter 9 Valuations and Expectations: Discovering the Secret Economics of the Angels The Four Simple Numbers: Basics of Investment Math; How Much Should You Invest?; What Target Rate of Return Should You Aim For?; What Is the Company Worth When You Invest?; How Do Initial Valuations Affect an Angel's Ultimate IRR?; Changing Valuations During a Round; Chapter 10 Investment Rounds and Their Forms: Common Stock, Convertible Notes, or Preferred Stock?; How Equity Investments Work; The Discounted Convertible Note; Fine Points of Investing in Discounted Convertible Notes Chapter 11 The Art of the Angel Deal: Negotiating a Win/Win Relationship with Your Entrepreneur |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786817803321 |
Rose David S. | ||
Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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