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Effectual Entrepreneurship
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ABSTRACT
What are you waiting for?
Whether you’re dreaming about starting a business, learning about entrepreneurship or on the brink of creating a new opportunity right now, don’t wait. Open this updated bestseller. Inside you’ll find everything you need, including:
- a new and popular way to learn about and to practice entrepreneurship.
- new practical exercises, questions and activities for each step in your process.
- specific principles derived from the methods of expert entrepreneurs.
- over seventy updated case briefs of entrepreneurs across industries, locations and time.
- new applications to social entrepreneurship, technology and to large enterprises.
- plentiful connections to current and foundational research in the field (Research Roots)
- brand new chapter on "The Ask" - strategies for initiating the process of co-creating with partners
- data that will challenge conventional entrepreneurship wisdom
- a broader perspective on the science of entrepreneurship
In this vibrant updated edition, you will find these ideas presented in the concise, modular, graphical form made popular in the first edition, perfect for those learning to be entrepreneurs or those already in the thick of things.
If you want to learn about entrepreneurship in a way that emphasizes action, this new edition is vital reading. If you have already launched your entrepreneurial career and are looking for new perspectives, take the effectual entrepreneurship challenge! this book is for you. If you feel that you are no longer creating anything novel or valuable in your day job, and you’re wondering how to change things, this book is for you.
Anyone using entrepreneurship to create the change they want to see in the world will find a wealth of thought-provoking material, expert advice and practical techniques in these pages and on the accompanying website: www.effectuation.org
So, what are you waiting for?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
PART I What we know about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship
chapter 1|9 pages
Roadmaps, myths, and the Bahamas
chapter 2|9 pages
Good ideas are everywhere
chapter 3|9 pages
Most ventures require little startup capital
chapter 4|16 pages
Fail cheap and learn quickly
chapter 5|12 pages
The plunge doesn’t have to be a plunge at all
part |1 pages
PART I I How (expert) entrepreneurs think
chapter 6|14 pages
Prediction, risk, and uncertainty
chapter 7|10 pages
Opportunities are created as well as discovered
chapter 8|13 pages
Managing uncertainty through control
chapter 9|14 pages
The effectual logic of expert entrepreneurs
part |1 pages
PART III The nuts and bolts of venturing: Effectuation in action
chapter 10|14 pages
The bird-in-hand principle: Start with what you have
chapter 11|12 pages
Transforming means into something valuable
chapter 12|13 pages
The affordable loss principle: Risk little, fail cheap
chapter 13|9 pages
Using slack for bootstrap financing
chapter 14|9 pages
The crazy quilt principle: Form partnerships
chapter 15|13 pages
Asking potential partners to make commitments
chapter 16|14 pages
The lemonade principle: Leverage surprise
chapter 17|7 pages
Putting it together: The effectuation process
part |2 pages
PART I V I am an entrepreneur now: How far can I go?
chapter 18|18 pages
Ownership, equity, and control: Manage stakeholders
chapter 19|16 pages
Business plans and business models
chapter 20|14 pages
The venture grows up: Create an entrepreneurial culture
part |1 pages
PART V Applications of effectuation