目录 PART I The Entrepreneurial Mind for an Entrepreneurial World
1 The Global Entrepreneurial Revolution for a Flatter World 3 Entrepreneurship Flattens the World 3 Two Nobel Prizes Recognize Entrepreneurship 5 A Macro Phenomenon 5 Entrepreneurship: 40 Years as a Transformational Force 6 Four Entrepreneurial Transformations That Are Changing the World 7 Entrepreneurship as the New Management Paradigm 7 Entrepreneurship as a New Education Paradigm 8 Entrepreneurship as the New Not-for-Profit and Philanthropy Management Paradigm 10 Entrepreneurship beyond Business Schools 11 The Energy Creation Effect 11 The Road Ahead 12 The Genie Is out of the Bottle 13 Entrepreneurship: Innovation + Entrepreneurship = Prosperity and Philanthropy 13 New Venture Formation 14 The Entrepreneurial Revolution: A Decade of Acceleration and Boom 22 Education 22 Policy 22 Women 23 Minority Groups 23 Youth Entrepreneurship 23 Entrepreneurs: Americas Self-Made Millionaires 24 A New Era of Equity Creation 24 Building an Enterprising Society 26 Chapter Summary 28 Study Questions 28 Internet Resources for Chapter 1 28 Mind Stretchers 29 Exercise 1: Visit with an Entrepreneur and Create a Lifelong Learning Log 29 Exercise 2: The Venturekipedia Exercise—Time Is Everything! 31 Case: ImageCafé 33
2 The Entrepreneurial Mind: Crafting a Personal Entrepreneurial Strategy 41 Entrepreneurs Are Leaders 41 Three Principles for Entrepreneurial Leadership 42 Timeless Research 43 Converging on the Entrepreneurial Mind 45 Desirable and Acquirable Attitudes, Habits, and Behaviors 45 Seven Dominant Themes 46 Entrepreneurial Reasoning: The Entrepreneurial Mind in Action 54 The Concept of Apprenticeship 55 Shaping and Managing an pprenticeship 55 Windows of Apprenticeship 56 The Concept of Apprenticeship: Acquiring the 50,000 Chunks 57 Role Models 58 Myths and Realities 58 What Can Be Learned? 58 A Word of Caution: What SATs, IQ Tests, GMATs, and Others Dont Measure 61 A Personal Strategy 62 Entrepreneurs Creed 62 Chapter Summary 63 Study Questions 63 Internet Resources for Chapter 2 64 Mind Stretchers 64 Exercise 1: Crafting a Personal Entrepreneurial Strategy 64 Exercise 2: Personal Entrepreneurial Strategy 67 Case: Lakota Hills 88
PART II The Opportunity
3 The Entrepreneurial Process 101 Demystifying Entrepreneurship 101 Classic Entrepreneurship: The Start-Up 102 Entrepreneurship in Post–Brontosaurus Capitalism: Beyond Start-Ups 102 “People Dont Want to Be Managed. They Want to Be Led” 102 Signs of Hope in a Corporate Ice Age 103 Metaphors 103 Entrepreneurship = Paradoxes 104 The Higher-Potential Venture: Think Big Enough 105 Smaller Means Higher Failure Odds 106 Getting the Odds in Your Favor 107 Threshold Concept 107 Promise of Growth 108 Venture Capital Backing 108 Private Investors Join Venture Capitalists 108 Find Financials Backers and Associates Who Add Value 109 Option: The Lifestyle Venture 109 The Timmons Model: Where Theory and Practice Collide in the Real World 109 Intellectual and Practical Collisions with the Real World 110 Value Creation: The Driving Forces 110 Change the Odds: Fix It, Shape It, Mold It, Make It 110 Recent Research Supports the Model 116 Chapter Summary 117 Study Questions 118 Internet Resources for Chapter 3 118 Mind Stretchers 118 Case: Roxanne Quimby 119
4 Clean Commerce: Seeing Opportunity through a Sustainability Lens 127 Clean Commerce Is an Opportunity Sea Change 127 Clean Commerce and the Sustainability Lens: Seeing and Acting on New Opportunities and Strategies 128 Defining the Concept: How to Look through a Sustainability Lens 129 Weak Ties 129 Systems Thinking 129 Thinking Like a Molecule 129 Value-Added Network 131 Be Radically Incremental 131 Illustrating the Concepts: Green Cleaning 132 Illustrating the Concepts: NatureWorks 133 The E-Factor 134 Drivers of New Entrepreneurial Opportunities 134 Implications for 21st-Century Entrepreneurs 136 Chapter Summary 136 Study Questions 137 Internet Resources for Chapter 4 137 Mind Stretchers 137 Case: Jim Poss 138
5 The Opportunity: Creating, Shaping, Recognizing, Seizing 147 Think Big Enough 147 Opportunity through a Zoom Lens 148 Transforming Caterpillars into Butterflies 148 New Venture Realities 148 The Circle of Ecstasy and the Food Chain for Ventures 149 When Is an Idea an Opportunity? 150 The Real World 150 Spawners and Drivers of Opportunities 150 Search for Sea Changes 152 Desirable Business/Revenue Model Metrics 152 The Role of Ideas 153 Ideas as Tools 153 The Great Mousetrap Fallacy 153 Contributors to the Fallacy 154 Pattern Recognition 154 The Experience Factor 154 Enhancing Creative Thinking 155 Approaches to Unleashing Creativity 156 Team Creativity 156 Big Opportunities with Little Capital 156 Real Time 157 Relation to the Framework of Analysis 159 Screening Opportunities 159 Opportunity Focus 159 Screening Criteria: The Characteristics of High-Potential Ventures 159 Industry and Market Issues 162 Gathering Information 168 Finding Ideas 168 Shaping Your Opportunity 170 Published Sources 171 Guides and Company Information 171 Additional Internet Sites 171 Journal Articles via Computerized Indexes Statistics 171 Consumer Expenditures 171 Projections and Forecasts 171 Market Studies 172 Other Sources 172 Other Intelligence 172 Chapter Summary 173 Study Questions 173 Internet Resources for Chapter 5 173 Mind Stretchers 174 Case: Burts Bees 175 Exercise 1: The Next Sea Changes 181 Exercise 2: Opportunity-Creating Concepts and Quest for Breakthrough Ideas 182 Exercise 3: Creative Squares 183 Exercise 4: Idea Generation Guide 184
6 Screening Venture Opportunities 187 Screening Venture Opportunities 187 QuickScreen 188 Venture Opportunity Screening Exercises (VOSE) 188 Exercise 1: QuickScreen 189 Venture Opportunity Screening Exercises 190 Exercise 2: Opportunity Concept and Strategy Statement 191 Exercise 3: The Venture Opportunity Profile 192 Exercise 4: Opportunity-Shaping Research and Exercise 196 Exercise 5: Customer Contact Research and Exercise 202 Exercise 6: Mining the Value Chain—Defining the “White Space” 205 Exercise 7: Economics of the Business—How Do You Make Money in the White Space? 209 Exercise 8: Capital and Harvest—How Will You Realize Dollars from the Venture? 216 Exercise 9: Competitive Landscape—Your Strategy Analysis 218 Exercise 10: Founders Commitment 227 Exercise 11: Flaws, Assumptions, and Downside Consequences—Risk Reconsidered 229 Exercise 12: Action Steps—Setting a Week-by-Week Schedule 231 Exercise 13: Four Anchors Revisited 233 Case: Globant 234
7 Opportunities for Social Entrepreneurship 245 What Is Social Entrepreneurship? 245 Types of Social Entrepreneurship 247 Social Purpose Ventures 247 Enterprising Nonprofits 247 Hybrid Models of Social Entrepreneurship 249 The Timmons Model Interpreted for Social Entrepreneurship 250 Wicked Problems and Opportunity Spaces 250 Resources 252 The Importance of the Brain Trust in Social Entrepreneurship 254 Concluding Thoughts: Change Agent Now or Later? 255 Chapter Summary 255 Study Questions 255 Internet Resources for Chapter 7 255 Mind Stretchers 256 Case: Northwest Community Ventures Fund 257
8 The Business Plan 269 Why Do a Business Plan? 269 When Is a Business Plan Not Needed? 270 Developing the Business Plan 270 The Plan Is Obsolete at the Printer 271 Work in Progress—Bent Knees Required 271 The Plan Is Not the Business 271 Some Tips from the Trenches 272 How to Determine If Investors Can Add Value 273 The Dehydrated Business Plan 274 Who Develops the Business Plan? 274 A Closer Look at the What 274 The Relationship between Goals and Action 274 Segmenting and Integrating Information 275 Establishing Action Steps 275 Preparing a Business Plan 275 A Complete Business Plan 275 Chapter Summary 277 Study Questions 278 Internet Resources for Chapter 8 278 Mind Stretchers 278 Exercise 1: The Business Plan Guide 279 E
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