This brief book combines theory, hands-on activities and the experience of a proven entrepreneur. With its questioning style, high-quality enrichment materials, and real-life experiences, this book will help readers learn through its use of chapter objectives, exercises, case studies, checkpoints, chapter summaries, and review questions. The book covers: Entrepreneurship: Concepts and Issues; Sources of Venture Ideas: Entrepreneurship on the Internet; Market Research and Analysis; Refining the Venture Idea: Testing, Fit, and Feasibility; Startup Alternatives: Home-Based, Franchises, and Existing Businesses; Financing the Venture and more. A practical book for anyone interested in entrepreneurship.
While not quite retirement age, I have almost 40 years experience as a management and strategic consultant and entrepreneur, and fifteen of those years as an academic Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor. I received a Ph.D. in 1968.
Until recently, I was the Owner/President for 20 years of a distribution company that I founded. I sold it to a regional chain.
I have two books for sale on Amazon:
Co-Author, 'Raising Entrepreneurial Capital' (Elsevier, 2004)
Author, 'The Entrepreneur's Fieldbook' (Prentice Hall, 1999)
My primary academic interest is entrepreneurship and family business, and I have a web site with a lot of related information and useful resources at www.jbv.com. Also check out my 'wiki' at entrepreneur.swiki.net, even if you don't know what a wiki is.
My business was located in St. Tammany Parish, LA. While there I was elected a Parish Councilman, and for a while was executive director of a state party. Currently, my political interests are expressed largely in my blog, nobulletin.blogspot.com.
Drop me a line from one of these sites.
