Getting Started as an Entrepreneur

Getting Started as an Entrepreneur is a brief introduction to the basics of starting your own technology-driven business. Written in concise, simple language, the book is a quick read that you can absorb in a couple of hours. The book emphasizes both traditional and social entrepreneurship as exciting paths for start-up entrepreneurs. With inspiring profiles of entrepreneurs whose work provides models of creative thinking and ideas that make a difference in the world, this book will help you follow your entrepreneurial passion! Opportunity Entrepreneurship Is Defining the Opportunity Social Entrepreneurship Why Be a Social Entrepreneur The Idea Factory Evaluate Your Idea Your Intellectual Property Profile: A Sense of Success Profile: Ideas on Wheels Market Identifying Your Customers Evaluating the Market Reaching the Customer Start Spreading the News Show Me the Numbers The Competition Profile: Cleaning Up Profile: Marketing to the Poor Team Teams Make It Happen The Layers of a Team Building a Healthy Team Networking Incubators Profile: Choosing Team Players Profile: The Right Team Plan Business Plans Tips & Tricks Business Models Measuring Your Success Presenting Your Plan Licensing as Part of the Plan Profile: Innovation in the Bag Profile: Open to Learn Company Getting Started What Makes it a Company Nuts and Bolts of Company Formation For Profit or Not Legal Structures Profile: A Failure Success Story Profile: Chemical Attraction Money Bootstrapping Finding the Money Debt and Equity Your Equity Circle Pieces of the Pie Social Money Profile: Waiting a While Profile: Student-Run, Their Way See Also The Maryland Entrepreneur's Guide __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__ Business G 75%