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A guide to open innovation and crowdsourcing : expert tips and advice /

Paul Sloane, Author | [S.l.] : Kogan Page | 2011

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The hard thing about hard things : building a business when there are no easy answers

Ben Horowitz, Author | [S.l.] : Harper Business | 2014

"Horowitz tends to dispense management advice in a kind of one-two punch. First comes the self-deprecating quip about mismanagement and misery, delivered with a knowing grin and capped with a two-beat chuckle. But soon the smile will vanish, and[...]

High tech start-up : the complete handbook for creating successful new high tech companies

John L. Nesheim, Author | New York : Free Press | 2000

This revised and updated edition of Nesheim's underground Silicon Valley bestseller incorporates twenty-three case studies of successful start-ups, including tables of wealth showing how much money founders and investors realized from each ventu[...]

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High-technology entrepreneurship

R. P. Oakey, Author | London : Routledge | 2012

High-technology entrepreneurship

R. P. Oakey, Author | London : Routledge | 2012

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Hungry start-up strategy : creating new ventures with limited resources and unlimited vision /

Peter S. Cohan, Author | San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers | 2012

Cohan's strategic model focuses on six decision points where the strategy for small companies is radically different than that for large compenies: 1. Setting Goals, 2. Picking Markets, 3. Raising Capital, 4. Building Teams, 5. Gaining Market Sh[...]

The industries of the future

Alec Ross, Author | [S.l.] : Simon & Schuster | 2016

"Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years--for businesses, governments, and the global community--and how we can navigate them. W[...]

Innovation commons : the origin of economic growth /

Jason Potts, Author | New York, NY : Oxford University Press | 2019

Innovation is among the most important topics in understanding economic sustained economic growth. Jason Potts argues that the initial stages of innovation require cooperation under uncertainty and draws from insights on the solving of commons p[...]

The innovator's dilemma : when new technologies cause great firms to fail

Clayton M. Christensen, Author | Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press | The management of innovation and change series | 2016

Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products "will" get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional busines[...]

The innovator's DNA : mastering the five skills of disruptive innovators /

Jeff Dyer, Author ; Hal B. Gregersen, Author ; Clayton M. Christensen, Author | Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press | 2011

"In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators: · Associating: drawing connections between questions, problems, or ideas from unrelated fields · Questioning: posing queries that challenge comm[...]

The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution /

Walter Isaacson, Author | [S.l.] : Simon & Schuster | 2014

"Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispens[...]

The international business environment

Leslie Hamilton, Author ; Philip Webster, Author | Oxford : Oxford University Press | 2012

This book covers important features and new developments in the international environment in which companies are operating.

How to kill a unicorn : how the world's hottest innovation factory builds bold ideas that make it to market /

Mark Payne, Author | New York : Crown Business | 2014

The president of innovation consultancy firm Fahrenheit 212 describes the company's methodology for combining "magic" with money to bring to market unique products and ideas that will transform a company's business and growth

The lean startup : how constant innovation creates radically successful businesses

Eric Ries, Author | New York : Portfolio/Penguin | 2011

"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody[...]

The little black book of innovation : how it works, how to do it /

Scott D. Anthony, Author | Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press | 2017

In The Little Black Book of Innovation, long-time innovation expert Scott D. Anthony draws on stories from his research and field work with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. Anthony presents a simple definition of innovati[...]

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Managing technology-based projects : tools, techniques, people and business processes /

Hans J. Thamhain, Author | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons | 2014

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Managing technology-based projects : tools, techniques, people and business processes /

Hans J. Thamhain, Author | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons | 2014

Written by well-known author and PMP Hans Thamhain, this professional reference and textbook provides management practitioners and students of project management with the latest concepts and tools for leading technology-oriented projects. It se[...]

Minitrends : how innovators & entrepreneurs discover & profit from business & technology trends

John H. Vanston, Author ; Carrie Vanston, Author | Austin, Tex. : Technology Futures, Inc. | 2010

The moral marketplace : how mission-driven millenials and social entrepreneurs are changing our world

Asheem Singh, Author | Bristol (UK) : Policy Press | 2018

Enter the world of the social entrepreneur. A global community of doers, thinkers and leaders who mix business with grass-roots activism to make social change possible. Vinod Kapur created a new breed of chicken that feeds some of the world's po[...]

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More awesome than money : four boys and their quest to save the world from Facebook /

Jim Dwyer, Author | [S.l.] : Viking | 2014

Ambitious Max, idealistic Ilya, brainiac coder Dan, and on-top-of-everything Rafi: four New York University undergraduates who dreamed of building a social network that would give users control of their own data instead of passing it on to Big B[...]

Open innovation through strategic alliances : approaches for product, technology, and business model creation /

Refik Culpan, Author 2014

This title demonstrates the vital role and applications of strategic alliances between firms and research organizations in creating and applying knowledge for the development of new products, technologies, or business models.

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The Oxford handbook of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship

Christina E. Shalley, Editor ; Michael A. Hitt, Editor ; Jing Zhou | Oxford : Oxford University Press | 2015

Research-based investigations of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship have the potential to inform each other and enrich our knowledge of each of these areas, particularly with regard to cognitive processes and effective behaviors. Yet, [...]

How to prepare a business plan

Edward Blackwell, Author | [S.l.] : Kogan Page | 2017

An excellent business plan impresses financial backers, provides a clear blueprint for the future of your company and functions as a benchmark against which to measure future growth. How to Prepare a Business Plan explains the process of creatin[...]

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Principles of business: entrepreneurship

Salem Press | [S.l.] : Salem Press | 2017

Principles of Business: Entrepreneurship fills the need for helpful information on the founding principles of entrepreneurship--how to start a business, how to pitch your product, how to raise capital, how to market your product and so much more[...]

Risk happens! : managing risk and avoiding failure in business projects /

Mike Clayton, Author | London (United Kingdom) : Marshall Cavendish Business | 2011

Project management has become a big part of how all organizations get things done. Managers at all levels need to take on and deliver projects. The scope of these projects range from small projects lasting days to multi-million dollar projects t[...]

Risk and the public acceptance of new technologies

R. Flynn, Editor ; Paul Bellaby, Editor | New York : Palgrave Macmillan | 2007

Secrets of Silicon Valley : what everyone else can learn from the innovation capital of the world

Deborah Perry Piscione, Author | New York : Palgrave Macmillan | 2013

Offers Silicon Valley as a productive example of entrepreneurship and innovation, noting how the region has demonstrated continued growth and investor interest in spite of economic setbacks elsewhere in the world

Shadow sovereigns : how global corporations are seizing power /

Susan George, Author | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons | 2015

Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour l[...]

Smaller faster lighter denser cheaper : how innovation keeps proving the catastrophists wrong /

Robert Bryce, Author | New York (United States) : PublicAffairs | 2014

In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, reduce consumption and forswear development. But in this t[...]

The social leader : redefining leadership for the complex social age /

Frank Guglielmo, Author ; Sudhanshu Palsule, Author | Brookline (United States) : Bibliomotion | 2014

"The Social Leader structures a new approach to leadership and provides tools for leaders to understand themselves in this new era of connectedness and community."--Publisher information