Moving From R D Development To Production And Sales In Start Up Companies

Author : Porath, Amiram
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799856870

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Moving From R&D Development to Production and Sales in Start-Up Companies by Porath, Amiram Pdf

For most companies, the move from a start-up engaged in research and development into a full-fledged company with production and sales is a difficult process. However, there are some strategies to overcome these challenges, though each has its advantages and drawbacks. To fully understand the dynamic landscape startup companies face, further research on these strategies is required. Moving From R&D Development to Production and Sales in Start-Up Companies summarizes the process of moving from research and development to production and sales from a multi-dimensional perspective and focuses on key points within the field to support businesses such as best practices and tactics to make this transition as smooth as possible. Covering topics such as business strategy, leadership, innovation, production, and company growth, this reference work is ideal for business owners, executives, entrepreneurs, managers, marketers, sales professionals, researchers, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Author : Tom Eisenmann
Publisher : Currency
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593137024

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Why Startups Fail by Tom Eisenmann Pdf

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Author : CFA Institute
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119850625

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Alternative Investments by CFA Institute Pdf

The complete guide to alternative investments, from experts working with CFA Institute Alternative Investments is the definitive guide to understanding non-traditional asset classes. Alternatives are a disparate group of investments that are distinguished from long-only, publicly traded investments in stocks, bonds, and cash (often referred to as traditional investments). Alternative investments include real estate, commodities, infrastructure, and other non-traditional investments such as private equity or debt and hedge funds. They are attractive to investors because of the potential for portfolio diversification resulting in a higher risk-adjusted return for the portfolio. Alternative Investments and its accompanying workbook (sold separately) lead students and investment professionals through the many characteristics of non-traditional assets, including: Narrow specialization of the investment managers Relatively low correlation of returns with those of traditional investments Less regulation and less transparency than traditional investments Limited historical risk and return data Unique legal and tax considerations Higher fees, often including performance or incentive fees Concentrated portfolios Restrictions on redemptions (i.e. “lockups” and “gates”) CFA Institute is the world's premier association for investment professionals, and the governing body for the CFA® Program, CIPM® Program, CFA Institute ESG Investing Certificate, and Investment Foundations® Program. Those seeking a deeper understanding of the markets, mechanisms, and use of alternatives will value the level of expertise CFA Institute brings to the discussion, providing a clear, comprehensive resource for students and professionals alike. Whether used alone or in conjunction with the companion workbook, Alternative Investments offers a complete course in alternative investments and their role in investment management.

Author : J. G. Wissema
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781848446182

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Towards the Third Generation University by J. G. Wissema Pdf

The book is very well-structured. . . [It] provides a timely contribution to a conversation with a long history, and debates over the nature and purpose of the university seem certain to figure prominently in educational discourse for many years to come. Peter Roberts, Journal of Educational Administrative and History Drawing from experience as a professor in innovation and entrepreneurship and as a consultant to universities, Wissema offers deep insights into management of the modern universities. The book is well-written and all those university administrators who wish to transform their universities into entrepreneurial universities would find the book very useful. Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration In Central and Eastern Europe, universities are struggling to adapt to the new economic and institutional situations. The concept of the Third Generation University is powerful in giving direction. In addition, the book offers much practical advice, taken from the author s experience as a consultant to universities. Marjan Bojadzhiev, University American College Skopje, Macedonia Although the quality of university management makes or breaks the effectiveness and efficiency of a university, most university managers come unprepared to the job while only few books and courses in the subject are available. This book offers, amongst other things, welcome insights into the issue of university management. In Wageningen, the concept of the Third Generation University has proven to be inspiring, challenging and operational. It enabled us to develop science for Impact for a variety of new stakeholders. M. Kropff, Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands This book demonstrates that universities are subject to fundamental change, evolving from science-based, monodisciplinary institutions into transfunctional, international know-how hubs named third generation universities or 3GUs. J.G. Wissema explores the combination of forces that propel this dramatic change, tracing the historic development of universities, and exploring the technology-based enterprises, technostarters and financiers for start-ups and young enterprises that are the main partners of these 3GUs. He goes on to illustrate that universities play a new role as incubators of new science- or technology-based enterprises and take an active role in the exploitation of the knowledge they create. The book concludes with suggestions regarding the way in which changes in the university s mission should be reflected in subsequent organisational changes. Offering practical advice on the route forward for universities, and elucidating the role of education in entrepreneurship, this unique book will prove invaluable to academics and practitioners who seek to implement and facilitate changes for 3GU status. It will also appeal to students and researchers with an interest in business and management, education, entrepreneurship and public policy on education.

Author : Willem Molle,Julia Djarova
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781848447417

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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Innovation by Willem Molle,Julia Djarova Pdf

The tasks confronting European governments intent on innovation will need to shift from simple quantitative measures of how much (R&D, etc.) to how good such magnitudes are in augmenting competitiveness from quantity to quality. In this book, the editors and their contributors move the debate on to concerns over the effectiveness of innovation. This is not just a matter of making linkages among increasingly diverse players, but of making these linkages themselves effective. The book takes an important step forward for innovation policy at all levels, from regional to global. Nick von Tunzelmann, University of Sussex, UK The limits of established innovation processes have become clear as nations increasingly champion innovation as a tool of the ever-important knowledge economy . This timely book analyses the effectiveness of innovation efforts, presenting challenges to the traditional approaches whilst developing more contemporary theories. Focusing on the interplay between three key players knowledge organisations, firms and the public sector this insightful volume will be invaluable to a wide-ranging audience including researchers, practitioners and students of science and technology, business and management, public policy and European studies.

Author : Louis E. Boone,David L. Kurtz,Brahm Canzer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119812630

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Contemporary Business by Louis E. Boone,David L. Kurtz,Brahm Canzer Pdf

Student-friendly, engaging, and accessible, Contemporary Business, 19e equips students with the skills to assess and solve today's global business challenges and succeed in a fast-paced environment. Designed to drive interest in business, our newest edition offers a comprehensive approach to the material, including a variety of resources to support today's students. Its modern approach, wealth of videos, relevant and up-to-date content, and career readiness resources keep your course current and engaging.

Author : Bohuslava Mihalčová,Petra Szaryszová,Lenka Štofová,Michal Pružinský,Barbora Gontkovičová
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429888366

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Production Management and Business Development by Bohuslava Mihalčová,Petra Szaryszová,Lenka Štofová,Michal Pružinský,Barbora Gontkovičová Pdf

Trends in economic development rely on increasing human knowledge, which stimulate the development of new, sophisticated technologies. With their utilization production is raised and the intent is to decrease natural resources consumption and protect and save our life environment as much as we can. At the same time, increasing pressure is observed both from competition and customers. The way to be competitive is by improving manufacturing and services offered to the customer. These are the major challenges of contemporary enterprises. Organizations are improving their activities and management processes. This is necessary to manage the seemingly intensifying competitive markets successfully. Enterprises apply business-optimizing solutions to meet new challenges and conditions. This way ensuring effective development for long-term competitiveness in a global environment. This is necessary for the implementation of qualitative changes in the industrial policy. "Process Control and Production Management" (MTS 2018) is a collection of research papers from an international authorship. The authors present case studies and empirical research, which illustrates the progressive trends in business process management and the drive to increase enterprise sustainability development.

Author : Robert D. Hisrich
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483392219

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International Entrepreneurship by Robert D. Hisrich Pdf

Combining comprehensive coverage with a wide variety of real-life cases, International Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a Global Venture gives entrepreneurs the tools they need to successfully launch international ventures in today’s hypercompetitive world. Bestselling author Dr. Robert D. Hisrich helps students and entrepreneurs develop global business plans, select international opportunities, and determine the best entry strategy. The text also covers practical considerations such as legal concerns, the global monetary systems, global marketing, and global human resource management for entrepreneurs. The fully updated Third Edition provides increased attention to culture and reflects recent changes in our increasingly globalized world. Readers will also be exposed to new cases featuring international activities of entrepreneurs and ventures throughout the world.

Author : Consultant Lisa M. Balbes Sole Proprietor, and Technical Writer Balbes Consultants
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199774919

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Nontraditional Careers for Chemists : New Formulas in Chemistry by Consultant Lisa M. Balbes Sole Proprietor, and Technical Writer Balbes Consultants Pdf

A Chemistry background prepares you for much more than just a laboratory career. The broad science education, analytical thinking, research methods, and other skills learned are of value to a wide variety of types of employers, and essential for a plethora of types of positions. Those who are interested in chemistry tend to have some similar personality traits and characteristics. By understanding your own personal values and interests, you can make informed decisions about what career paths to explore, and identify positions that match your needs. By expanding your options for not only what you will do, but also the environment in which you will do it, you can vastly increase the available employment opportunities, and increase the likelihood of finding enjoyable and lucrative employment. Each chapter in this book provides background information on a nontraditional field, including typical tasks, education or training requirements, and personal characteristics that make for a successful career in that field. Each chapter also contains detailed profiles of several chemists working in that field. The reader gets a true sense of what these people do on a daily basis, what in their background prepared them to move into this field, and what skills, personality, and knowledge are required to make a success of a career in this new field. Advice for people interested in moving into the field, and predictions for the future of that career, are also included from each person profiled. Career fields profiled include communication, chemical information, patents, sales and marketing, business development, regulatory affairs, public policy, safety, human resources, computers, and several others. Taken together, the career descriptions and real case histories provide a complete picture of each nontraditional career path, as well as valuable advice about how career transitions can be planned and successfully achieved by any chemist.

Author : Amiram Porath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : High technology industries
ISBN : 1799856852

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Moving from R&D Development to Production and Sales in Start-up Companies by Amiram Porath Pdf

"This book focuses on the characteristics of start-ups that differentiate them from other companies"--

Author : United States. Domestic and International Business Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Franchises (Retail trade)
ISBN : UIUC:30112101878731

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Franchise Opportunities Handbook by United States. Domestic and International Business Administration Pdf

This is a directory of companies that grant franchises with detailed information for each listed franchise.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Franchises (Retail trade)
ISBN : OSU:32435029885084

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Franchise Opportunities Handbook by Anonim Pdf

This is a directory of companies that grant franchises with detailed information for each listed franchise.

Author : United States. International Trade Administration,United States. Department of Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Franchises (Retail trade)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU60379618

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Franchise Opportunities Handbook by United States. International Trade Administration,United States. Department of Commerce Pdf

Author : Ulrich Jürgens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783662042557

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New Product Development and Production Networks by Ulrich Jürgens Pdf

Prof. Jürgens is renowned for his scientific work in such fields as human resources, work organization and organization of production and development, especially for automotive industries. In this publication, authors from different countries discuss models of integration in development and production as realized in practice. Of interest to those practitioners who need to develop benchmarks for their own development and production.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design,Committee on New Directions in Manufacturing
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309165921

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New Directions in Manufacturing by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design,Committee on New Directions in Manufacturing Pdf

The processes and techniques of manufacturing have changed substantially over the decades and that evolution continues today. In order to examine the potential impacts of these changes, the Department of Commerce asked the NRC to design a workshop to focus on issues central to the changing nature of manufacturing. The workshop brought together a number of experts to present papers about and to discuss the current state of manufacturing in the United States and the challenges it faces. This report presents the results of that workshop. Key challenges that emerged from the workshop and that are discussed include understanding manufacturing trends; manufacturing globalization; information technology opportunities; maintaining innovation; strengthening small and medium-sized enterprises; workforce education; and rising infrastructure costs.