New Venture Creation or The Tools of Government

New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century

Author: Jeffry A Timmons

This market leader covers the process of getting a new venture started,growing the venture,successfully harvesting it and starting again. The "workbook" contains tools and concepts entrepreneurs need to know prior to and while taking the start-up plunge. A new chapter (5) and 9 new text cases are highlights of the revision.

Table of Contents:

Part 1 The Opportunity
1. The Entrepreneurial Revolution
2. The Entrepreneurial Process
3. New Ventures Ideas - Opportunity Recognition
4. Screening Venture Opportunities
5. The Internet - the Entrepreneurs Dream
Part II - The Founders
6. The Entrepreneurial Mind in Thought and Action
7. The Entrepreneurial Manager
8. The New Venture Team
9. Personal Ethics and Entrepreneur
Part III Resource Requirements
10. Resource Requirements
11. The What, Whether, and Why of the Business Plan
Part IV Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
12. Entrepreneurial Finance
13. Obtaining Risk Capital
14. The Deal: Valuation, Structure and Negotiation
15. Obtaining Debt Capital
Part V Start-Up and After
16. Managing Rapid Growth
17. The Entrepreneur and the Troubled Company
18. The Harvest and Beyond

New interesting book: Your Backyard Herb Garden or Simple Chinese Cooking

The Tools of Government: A Guide to the New Governance

Author: Lester M Salamon

The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services-but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving public problems presents many new important issues.
Comprehensive in scope, this new book offers a first hand look at the challenges faced by contracting out to nonprofit and profit sectors for grants, insurance, regulation, vouchers, cooperative arrangements, tax data, grants-in-aid, and others. The chapters examine over 20 different tools in use today and summarizes their basic features, patterns of usage, key tasks, political and substantive rational, and the major management challenges that each one poses.
International in coverage and application, this book is ideal for students, teachers, and scholars in public administration, management, public policy, economics, political science, and nonprofit management; managers and heads of state, local, and federal agencies; executives in foundations and other nonprofit organizations; and academic, government, and research libraries.