TY - BOOK AU - Hisrich, Robert D. AU - Peters, Michael P.;Shepherd, Dean A. ED - ED - ED - ED - SN - 9780071273497;9780073210568 (alk. paper) SN - 2 PY - 2008///];copyright 2008.46 CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Finance KW - New business enterprises.;Entrepreneurship.;Business planning.;Business enterprises;Success in business N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The entrepreneurial perspective -- The nature and importance of entrepreneurs -- The entrepreneur and intrapreneurial mind -- The individual entrepreneur -- International entrepreneurship opportunities -- Creating and starting the venture -- Creativity and the business idea -- Legal issues for the entrepreneur -- The business plan: creating and starting the venture -- The marketing plan -- The organizational plan -- The financial plan -- Financing the new venture -- Sources of capital -- Informal risk capital and venture capital -- Managing, growing, and ending the new venture -- Entrepreneurial strategy: Generating and exploiting new entries -- Strategies for growth and managing the implications of growth -- Accessing resources for growth from external sources -- Going public -- Ending the venture; 5 ER -