The Entrepreneurial Journey

A Balanced Approach Emotional awareness is critical for entrepreneurs throughout every stage of the business life cycle. As their businesses begin and then mature, entrepreneurs face increasingly complex emotional challenges that they must navigate as they take their businesses from an idea to the maturation period of growth and expansion, to succession planning and divestiture, to the day they step aside. John Waldron has leveraged his own entrepreneurial experience and that of the hundreds of business owners he has counseled to build an essential framework that addresses the important balance between the tangible and intangible complexities of each stage of The Entrepreneurial Journey. To achieve the greatest level of success, you have to balance the technical with the emotional. The Entrepreneurial Journey will help potential entrepreneurs navigate both, so so that they may bring their businesses to their full potential.

If you spend enough time working with startups, certain recurring themes emerge. This book explores key themes by telling the stories of 17 different companies. The authors have chosen specific startups to illustrate: 1) The challenges of driving customer awareness 2) The importance of founding teams 3) The hurdles of investing in hardware products 4) The fateful role timing plays in the outcome of startups 5) The difficulties startups face getting acquired Lord, Mirabile and Mandato have been founders, senior management team members, or board members for over three dozen early stage companies. Collectively, they have decades of startup investing experience in hundreds of companies. It is rare to find so much startup experience in one concise volume, and the fascinating narrative stories of these startups and their founders make for a very enjoyable way to acquire this collective wisdom.

While most small business books cover niche components of the start-up model, From Idea to Exit takes a more comprehensive approach, tackling the entire entrepreneurial journey from the initial seed idea through a well-planned exit strategy. Through a persuasive narrative, the author draws from his own success a practical call to action for those who dream of taking that first big step. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

South-Western Publishing is pleased to present this Pre-Release edition of The Entrepreneurial Journey. Authored by Tom O'Malia, Director of the Grief Center for Entrepreneurship, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, and Margaret Whistler, Director of Operations for MedReviews, LCC. The Entrepreneurial Journey is a unique, new text in entrepreneurship that is like no other. It offers a pragmatic, how to approach and gives the rules of the road for a successful entrepreneurial venture. There are no ultimate theories or absolute rules in entrepreneurship-- just the myriad of paths that have been traveled before by successful entrepreneurs. These are presented as case studies and framed in such a way as to identify the concepts and approaches that have led to prosperity for many others.

This book discusses the various paths and decisions that the entrepreneur will experience on their journey, as well as insights and tools to prepare them for it. This book emphasizes research on inventing entrepreneurs, explaining the critical factors that spark and fuel successful entrepreneurial journeys. For the business professional interested in exploring the entrepreneurial journeys of successful entrepreneurs.

India is going through the start-up revolution today and everyone wants a share of it. Everyone wants to get into it; be it a school dropout, a college graduate, a manager who is vexed with his nine-to-five job, a senior director who now wants to cross over the stream to test waters… Entrepreneurship is such an exciting world that everybody wants to just dive in and enjoy the swim. But is it really easy to be an entrepreneur and become successful? Do you have it in you to maneuver the turbulence? The book talks about all the aspects of why you should become an entrepreneur as well as why-not. While it might be rosy from the outside, unless you are prepared for a roller coaster ride, it might put you off badly. But don’t worry; all great things are simple, including this one. Passion and Purpose are the two most important aspects that keep the entrepreneur live and kicking. You could gain an in-depth understanding of how to start your entrepreneurial journey in this book. Success is guaranteed when you focus on creating a difference to this world, the society and most importantly, your true self. The journey is all yours! This book is a one of its kind as it offers true interaction with the reader by offering both bookish as well as real-time experiences from successful entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Learn first-hand from a successful entrepreneur about assessing your skills and talent, envisioning your company, planning your path to success, and then tapping into available gaovernment agencies to make it a reality.

In a world where entrepreneurial success often seems deceptively accessible, it is not always clear what makes a person entrepreneurial. In this book, Dimo Dimov offers a reflective insight into the entrepreneurial journey, striking up a conversation about entrepreneurship in order to challenge and untangle existing preconceptions. A discussion of challenges and tensions such as idea versus opportunity, genius versus lunatic, and skill versus luck forms the foundation of the book, while the second part offers actions and considerations which can help the reader to seek opportunities in a fractious environment. The final part of the text focuses on the collective spirit in entrepreneurship, arising from the interplay between participation and outcomes. The author brings a succinct diversity to the field, making this book essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on entrepreneurship courses, as well as scholars, researchers, and practitioners looking for a new perspective on entrepreneurship.