TY - BOOK AU - Spinelli, Stephen AU - Timmons, Jeffry A. TI - New venture creation (2003, 6 ed.) SN - 9780071232722 PY - 2003/// PB - McGraw-Hill KW - HB Economic Theory. Demography KW - New business enterprises KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - manuals KW - Entrepreneurship N1 - entrepreneurship for the 21st Century; The entrepreneurial revolution - The entrepreneurial process - The opportunity: creating, shaping, recognizing, seizing - Screening venture opportunities - Entrepreneurs and the continuing internet revolution: the expanding frontier - Franchising - Entrepreneurial mind in thought and action - The entrepreneurial manager - The new venture team - Personal ethics and the entrepreneur - Resource requirements - The business plan - Entrepreneurial finance - Obtaining venture and growth capital - The deal: valuation, structure, and negotiation - Obtaining debt capital - Managing rapid growth: entrepreneurship beyond startup - The entrepreneur and the troubled company - The harvest and beyond - Crafting a personal entrepreneurial strategy; S2 B2 PBT P1 Global Entrepreneurship N2 - New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century is about the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. The book presents the substantial body of knowledge about the entrepreneurial process in a pragmatic way - through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises - to help readers compress their learning curves, reduce their ultimate risk and pain, and allow them to gain more from their subsequent entrepreneurial experiences ER -