Book description
Create a world-changing venture.
Henry Kressel and Norman Winarskytechnologists, inventors, and investors with stellar track recordsprovide a guide for those who wish to create a market-leading company that will have a real impact: a disciplined and staged approach they have used to launch, invest in, and develop scores of highly successful companies.
If You Really Want to Change the World leads entrepreneurs through the critical stages of venture development, from concept to acquisition or public offering to maintaining a rich culture of innovation in the company. It is a guide by innovators for innovators, with approaches that are practical and timeless.
Drawing on the authors’ experiences as well as those of their partners from around the world, Kressel and Winarsky share the stories of their triumphs and misses, demonstrate their method in action, and inspire their readers in the process. There are more opportunities now than ever before to build breakthrough companies that touch millions of lives. If this is your goal, let this book be your guide to creating world-changing ventures.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- ONE: Against Failure
- TWO: The Framework for Creating and Building a Great Venture
- THREE: Breakthrough Market Opportunities
- FOUR: The Team
- FIVE: The Seven Ingredients in a Great Business Plan
- SIX: Choosing Investors and the Board of Directors
- SEVEN: Execution
- EIGHT: Five Fatal Mistakes of Start-Ups
- NINE: Managing Success at the Crossover Stage
- TEN: Ensuring the Future
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors
Product information
- Title: If You Really Want to Change the World
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2015
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781625278302
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