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Finding Fertile Ground: Identifying Extraordinary Opportunities for New Ventures
- By Scott A. Shane
- Published Jul 19, 2004 by FT Press.
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Provides a complete framework for targeting new businesses with the greatest growth potential like Google, Genentech or Tivo
- Explains why the highest rate of success for new businesses is in new technology applications and helps you identify your best market opportunity--and be the first to exploit it.
- Selected by Wharton School Publishing to be included in the series
- "... a great, courageous effort." --J. Engel,Center for Entrepreurship,U of Ca.,Berkeley
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- Copyright 2005
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-142398-3
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-142398-5
"This book provides a strong foundation for impending entrepreneurs to aid in
determining the possible positive outcomes of the venture."
—Marcy Freed, President, VitalStim, Inc.
"This book deals very bravely with the opportunity of technology entrepreneurship. This is a great, courageous effort."
—Jerome S. Engel, Executive Director, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of California, Berkeley
"Finding Fertile Ground provides a terrifically engaging perspective on the mindset
of the successful entrepreneur. Scott Shane's well-structured analysis and thought-provoking conclusions give would-be entrepreneurs a great set of tools to use in assessing opportunities and risks. I highly recommend this as a 'must-read' for
anyone considering starting a new venture."
—David Courtney, Executive Vice President and Board Member of TiVo, Inc.
"Truly great technology startup opportunities are very rare and therefore very hard to identify. Scott Shane's new book is unique because it helps technology entrepreneurs systematically analyze their idea, step by step through ten major screens, much like the prospector screens away dirt to expose any nuggets of gold. It is a must read for entrepreneurs determined to build only great high tech businesses."
—Ian C. MacMillan, Academic Director: Snider Entrepreneurial
Research Center, Sullivan Professor of Management
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"If you don't have the money to pay for this book now, give the bookstore an IOU.
Your chances of being able to pay it back with high interest will rise with every chapter. The author and I share two core beliefs: the critical importance of selling, and the need for potential entrepreneurs to be tech savvy, even if they are not techie."
—Kenneth P. Morse, Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
The author of over 50 scholarly articles on entrepreneurship and innovation management,
Dr. Shane's books include A General Theory of Entrepreneurship, Foundations of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship: A Process Perspective, and Academic Entrepreneurship. He edits the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Division of the leading scholarly journal, Management Science. Dr. Shane holds a Ph.D. from
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Most efforts at starting a new business fail. But yours can succeed if you find the right
business opportunity and understand the key success factors. This book shows how.
If you're starting a business, your best odds of success are in high technology industries: not just computing and telecom, but also biotech, aerospace, electronics, manufacturing and materials, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, robotics, and other knowledge-intensive fields. This book is the first complete framework for entrepreneurs who want to start high technology businesses.
The author identifies the key factors associated with long-term success. You'll discover how to identify market opportunities and competitor weaknesses, evaluate customer needs, manage risk and uncertainty, predict product adoption and diffusion, structure your organization, and protect intellectual property. Along the way, Shane shows how to account for crucial issues such as network externalities, and the emergence of dominant designs and technical standards.
Unlike other books on entrepreneurship, this one offers solutions specifically targeted at high tech startups. There's no better way to find your best opportunities.
Indispensable tools for every high-tech entrepreneur, manager, and investor
The right market and more: what it'll take to be "the next Google"
Assess the market potential for products nobody's even imagined before
Beat the biggest players—from the smallest garageOvercome your largest, most established competitors
Create powerful barriers to entry and imitationKeep your markets to yourself—no matter how big they grow
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. Selecting the Right Industry.
2. Identifying Valuable Opportunities.
3. Managing Technological Evolution.
4. Identifying and Satisfying Real Market Needs.
5. Understanding Customer Adoption.
6. Exploiting Established Company Weaknesses.
7. Managing Intellectual Property.
8. Appropriating the Returns to Innovation.
9. Choosing the Right Organizational Form.
10. Managing Risk and Uncertainty.
Conclusions.
Index.