TY - BOOK AU - Hisrich,Robert D. AU - Peters,Michael P. AU - Shepherd,Dean A. TI - Entrepreneurship / SN - 0073210560 U1 - 658.421 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Boston : PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin, KW - New business enterprises KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Business planning KW - Business enterprises KW - Finance N1 - 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 ER -