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  title info:
    title: Finding Fertile Ground
    sub title: Identifying Extraordinary Opportunities for New Ventures
  name:
    name part: Shane, Scott
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Safari, an O'Reilly Media Company
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2004
    edition: 1st edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
  abstract: "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, Found…
  note: Shane, Scott.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Boston, MA : Safari, Available via World Wide Web. 2005.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  identifier: 9780131423985
  identifier: 0131423983
  identifier: https://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record creation date: 100513
    record change date: 20260129230354.8
    record identifier: in00004129328