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The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses 1st Edition

by Amar V. Bhide (Author)

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What is this mysterious activity we call entrepreneurship? Does success require special traits and skills or just luck? Can large companies follow their example? What role does venture capital play?

In a field dominated by anecdote and folklore, this landmark study integrates more than ten years of intensive research and modern theories of business and economics. The result is a comprehensive framework for understanding entrepreneurship that provides new and penetrating insights. Examining hundreds of successful ventures, the author finds that the typical business has humble, improvised origins. Well-planned start-ups, backed by substantial venture capital, are exceptional. Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Sam Walton initially pursue small, uncertain opportunities, without much capital, market research, or breakthrough technologies. Coping with ambiguity and surprises, face-to-face selling, and making do with second-tier employees is more important than foresight, deal-making, or recruiting top-notch teams.

Transforming improvised start-ups into noteworthy enterprises requires a radical shift, from "opportunistic adaptation" in niche markets to the pursuit of ambitious strategies. This requires traits such as ambition and risk-taking that are initially unimportant. Mature corporations have to pursue entrepreneurial activity in a much more disciplined way. Companies like Intel and Merck focus their resources on large-scale initiatives that scrappy entrepreneurs cannot undertake. Their success requires carefully chosen bets, meticulous planning, and the smooth coordination of many employees rather than the talents of a driven few.

This clearly and concisely written book is essential for anyone who wants to start a business, for the entrepreneur or executive who wants to grow a company, and for the scholar who wants to understand this crucial economic activity.

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Oxford University Press
Publication date

October 16, 2003
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English
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9.06 x 1.11 x 6.03 inches
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432 pages
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"After this impressive study reviews the difficulties and risks involved in starting new businesses, it provides well selected examples of both successes and failures. Bhide's description and analyses of the continuing evolution of growth is placed in a broader historical setting, one that is related to more general economic and sociological analyses and theories. The book should be required reading for entrepreneurs at all stages in the development of their enterprises."-- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Isador Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus Harvard Business School "Required reading for entrepreneurs at all stages in the development of their enterprises."--Alfred Chandler, Harvard Business School

"With the analytic rigor of a scholar and the practical insight of a savvy investor, Amar Bhide explores the most important aspects of entrepreneurship: how and why some businesses prosper and evolve while others atrophy. And unlike most research on entrepreneurs, Bhide explains how what's good for small business is good for big business and good for America."--Richard F. Cavanagh, President and CEO, The Conference Board

"Anyone who wants to start or grow a business should read this book. It combines rigorous analysis with data and field research on hundreds of new ventures. As a third generation entrepreneur, I found Bhide has accurately captured the challenges entrepreneurs face and their free-wheeling strategies for success."-- Dan Bricklin, Co-creator of VisiCalc, Co-founder of Software Arts, Software Garden and Trellix

"I cannot say enough about The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses. It is, in my estimation, the single most significant contribution to our understanding of entrepreneurship to date. It illuminates what lies at the very heart of capitalism itself--the process by which men and women transform human capital (daring, imagination, resourcefulness) into financial capital (wealth). The only negative thing I have to say about this remarkable book is, 'damn, I wish I had written it myself.'--George Gendron, Editor in Chief, Inc. Magazine

"A good deal of what Mr. Bhide says is contentious. But the strength of his book is that it hands us large quantities of empirical and awkward fact. Any future theorizing about the role and nature of the entrepreneur must take it into account."--Financial Times

"This groundbreaking work shows the complementary roles held by innovative startup companies in areas with high uncertainty and little financial investment and by more established companies, which focus on large-scale projects with more certain payoffs....Offering a wealth of avenues for future research as well as insights for potential entrepreneurs, this book is sure to be cited for years to come."--Library Journal

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The first major study of entrepreneurs and the nature of the opportunities they exploit

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (October 16, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195170318
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195170313
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.43 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.06 x 1.11 x 6.03 inches

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Amar Bhidé, Schmidheiny Professor at the Fletcher School, has served as Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a proprietary trader at E.F. Hutton. Bhidé is a founding member of the Center on Capitalism and Society, editor of Capitalism and Society, and has written about the financial crisis in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Forbes.

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The academic bible on entrepreneurship

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2008

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Entrepreneurship had long been neglected by academics and Bhide changed that with this classic book forever. While a bit outdated and of limited practical value, any serious entrepreneur will find loads of basics / fundamentals in the world of entrepreneurship.

Bhide's concept of 'Investment, Uncertainty & Profit' is in my opinion a principle of entrepreneurship worth the price of the book. The concept has been used a lot and probably the best re-use / improvement was written by Keith McFarland in 'The Breakthrough Company', chapter Upping the Ante.

This is a major book that changed the academic and professional work on how we think about entrepreneurship. Thus, many books have been using Bhide's finding extensively including 'Extradordinary Entrepreneurship', which is to me the finest and very best book for any hands-on entrepreneur.

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John S Wren, MBA+++ Since 1979 business consulting to help clients start, grow, and flourish. (303)861-1447

Required reading for entrepreneurs and those who give them advice.

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2012

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This book continues to be the best ever written for those of us who want to learn the truth about how new businesses really start and grow, who try to be helpful to startups and small business owners.

To help spread the word, some of us have formed the new, free Small Business Chamber of Commerce to cooperate with local chambers across Colorado and eventually beyond to offer an alternative to the unhelpful SBA venture capital approach to startup. For more see our website SmallBizChamber(dot)org or our Facebook Page Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber

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Rodrigo Viana Silva

Entrepreneurship

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2009

An excelent buy, helps a lot to understand not how to be an entrepreneur, but how to avoid mistakes taken by new-entrepreneurs.
A must read, in terms of developing our career, in a start-up time!

Essential reading for entrepreneurs, VC, and Fortune 500 execs focused on innovation.

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2021

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Amar builds a convincing case re: key distinctions between promising start-ups, VC-backed start-ups and Fortune 500 new product launches.

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A scholarly look at the reality of growing businesses

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2000

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This is not a breezy get-rich-quick look at how to start and grow a business. And don't expect a list of truisms like: plan your work, work your plan. No, this is an exhaustive exploration of the secret lives of successful small businesses.
If you can wade through its sometimes text book-like prose, you will come away with some tremendous insightful nuggets. Bhide does a great job of blowing away some generally held myths about business creation and the men and women behind growing companies. Bottom line: don't stereotype them.

7 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2017

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Perhaps the best and most important business book ever written. I buy it for bosses and colleagues.

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Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2001

The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses When Jann Wenner launched Rolling Stone magazine, he did no market research and considered himself merely an "amateur journalist." When Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft, they had no business plan, only a brainstorm that they should write a program in the BASIC computer language. Such seat-of-the pants planning is typical among entrepreneurs, says author Amar Bhide. Successful entrepreneurs don't need unique ideas and long resumes, Bhide writes. Rather, they must be able to adapt quickly to changing business conditions, and they must enter industries in a state of upheaval, where established players are lacking. Bhide offers a revealing look at the characteristics that make for successful start-ups. In spite of his often-dense prose, Bhide gives plenty of real-world examples to illustrate his concepts. We [...] recommend this book to entrepreneurs and to those thinking of starting their own companies.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012

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I chose it as a recommendation, and it came as expected. Looking forward to reading it fully and following its advice.
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