According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. Despite being shocking and true, this is mostly preventable. Many entrepreneurs cite undercapitalization at the outset of starting a business as a major reason for failure. Th…
An analysis and prediction of the "new wave" of self-employment calls for Americans to wake up to the fact that commitment to a traditional corporate structure does not guarantee personal validation or financial security.
This book provides guidance on what makes a new venture more likely to attract external financing, with an emphasis on business angel investment. The author incorporates the views of business angels, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and legal advisors; draws upon the latest a…
"A group of multidisciplinary and international researchers and scholars deliver their summary and analysis of current research and their views on how gender and work intersect along a variety of societal, economic, interpersonal, and organizational paradigms."--Jacket.
Every leader needs to move people to action and align everyone's actions toward the same goal. But how is this best accomplished? Words are a leader's greatest tool, and metaphors are the most potent combination of words available. If a leader wants to be successful in communica…
In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, wie Sie sich mithilfe des Improtheaters bereits im Vorfeld auf die Selbstständigkeit einstellen können und wie Sie die Methoden anschließend bei der Gründung sowie Führung eines Unternehmens aktiv nutzen können. Denn häufig mangelt es nicht an der Id…
Although the contribution of the small enterprise to a nation’s economy, job creation and innovation is well known, comparatively little is understood on how small firms behave strategically and how the more common patterns of strategic behaviour relate to different levels of or…
The purpose of the research is to assess the influence of the entrepreneur's characteristics and strategies on the Egyptian firm's status of competitiveness. Moreover, almost all of the existing literature and empirical studies relating to SMEs issues have been staged in develop…
The issue was that small business owners faced adverse consequences due to their religious beliefs and business practices. Therefore, the purpose of this proposed qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of small business owners in the Houston, Texas are…
Adolf Meier’s Konzertante Musik für Kontrabaß in der Wiener Klassik shows how the contrabass player and composer Johann Matthias Sperger (1750–1812) participated in both the public and private arenas of high society, toured as a soloist, and played in the leading Kapelle orchest…