Mar
17
2010
New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century
Posted by Blogmaster in Entrepreneurship, tags: 21st, Century, Creation, Entrepreneurship, Venture
Product Description
This new 7th Edition of “New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century” is the most heavily revised edition since its existence, yet it still maintains the market defining “Timmons Model of the Entrepreneurial Process.” As always, Timmons and Spinelli cover the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, and successfully harvesting it. Through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises, this how-to text guides students in discovering the concepts of entrepreneurship and the competencies, skills, tools, and experience to equip students to successfully launch a new venture and recognize entrepreneurial opportunities.
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If you are an entrepreneur, don’t buy this 1998 edition, buy the 1995 version. This new edition is basically just a text book with cases and questions. It would be great for an MBA class but not someone who wanted to start their own business. The 1995 version of this book, also sold on Amazon, is fantastic for entrepreneurs. It has over 700 pages of information, worksheets and examples. Do yourself a favor, buy the older version.
Rating: 3 / 5
This book includes numerous tear-out exercises and cases. It might be appropriate for a classroom but it is not ideal for prospective entrepreneurs.
Earlier versions of this book had good material on writing a business plan and determining appropriate sources of capital and less extraneous fillers. Save yourself a lot of money and buy a more practical book on the subject or the 1995 version if you want the business plan and financing materials.
Rating: 2 / 5
Like the previous reviewer, I too purchased the 4th Edition of this text (paperback), and was extremely pleased. Before starting my current business, I consulted extensively with this text, and was pleased with its comprehensive, practical nature – covering everything from a personality assessment of one’s readiness for self-employment, to exhaustive preparation information for a business plan. The book also extensively covers financing an entrepreneurial venture, comparing both debt and equity (including Venture Capital) methodologies.
On a practical note, I also like the fact that all the pages are perforated…there have been several that I have taken out and used hands-on!
I cannot comment on the relative worth of this version vs. the newer version, as I only have the 4th edition.
Rating: 4 / 5
The seller replied the email on time. The book arrived than expected and the condition was as promised. Smooth transaction. Good seller.
Fiona
Rating: 5 / 5
I had to read this book cover-to-cover for an MBA class.
Although there is some very good information in this book, there is a *lot* of filler material. I think it would have been a much better book at about half the length or less.
During the term, I would type up reviews of each chapter for exams. I was often stunned at how little substance I was recording. Sometimes a 20 paged chapter could be condensed down to 4 or 5 points on a half sheet of paper!
The fact that it’s in black & white and light on the graphics/figures/tables didn’t help the interest level while reading.
Rating: 3 / 5