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Kirby, David A.

Entrepreneurship / David A. Kirby - London : McGraw-Hill/Irwin, c2003, 2009 - xxv, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The entrepreneurial perspective -- The nature and importance of entrepreneurs -- The entrepreneur and intrapreneurial mind -- The individual entrepreneur -- International entrepreneurship opportunities -- Creating and starting the venture -- Creativity and the business idea -- Legal issues for the entrepreneur -- The business plan: creating and starting the venture -- The marketing plan -- The organizational plan -- The financial plan -- Financing the new venture -- Sources of capital -- Informal risk capital and venture capital -- Managing, growing, and ending the new venture -- Entrepreneurial strategy: Generating and exploiting new entries -- Strategies for growth and managing the implications of growth -- Accessing resources for growth from external sources -- Going public -- Ending the venture.

ISBN: 0077098587 (alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
New business enterprises.
Entrepreneurship.
Business planning.
Business enterprises--Finance.
Success in business.

LC Class. No.: HD62.5 / .H577 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 658.421 / KIR