Clearing the Hurdles Women Building High-Growth Businesses.

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Brush, Candida G. (Autor), Carter, Nancy M. (Autor), Gatewood, Elizabeth (Autor), Greene, Patricia G. (Autor), Hart, Myra M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paramus : Old Tappan : Financial Times/Prentice Hall Pearson Education [Distributor] May 2004
Temas:
Women-owned business enterprises.
Businesswomen.
Entrepreneurship.
Social Science > Women's Studies.
Business & Economics > Entrepreneurship.
Entreprises appartenant à des femmes.
women-owned business enterprises.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Women becoming entrepreneurs
  • No glass ceilings here
  • An entrepreneurial venture begins
  • Venture growth is a choice
  • Women-led ventures
  • Slow to grow
  • Are there changes in the offing?
  • Private equity : the last big hurdle
  • Angel investing
  • Venture capital
  • The hurdle analogy
  • The plan for this book
  • Notes
  • 2. Women entrepreneurs : pathways and challenges
  • The entrepreneur
  • Aspirations and goals
  • Capabilities
  • Strategic choices
  • The venture concept
  • Industry
  • Resources
  • Hurdles to overcome
  • Motives, aspirations, and commitment
  • Human capital
  • Financial knowledge and business savvy
  • Growth orientation and strategies
  • Social capital and social networks
  • Building a management team
  • Funding connections
  • Higher hurdles for women
  • Why are the hurdles higher?
  • Parents
  • Peers
  • Eduction
  • Media
  • Work experience
  • Winning the race for success
  • Notes
  • 3. Funding sources for businesses on the "grow"
  • Money and the start-up process
  • Growth capital versus start-up funds
  • A strategic approach
  • Bootstrap financing
  • Credit
  • Institutional debt
  • Equity
  • Sources of equity capital
  • Angel investing
  • Government-supported investments
  • Hybrids : government-supported venture capital
  • Venture capital
  • Notes
  • 4. Motives, aspirations, and commitment
  • The entrepreneurial choice
  • Motives for entrepreneurship
  • Women's aspirations contrast with entrepreneurial reality
  • Family role expectations
  • Women's self-expression leads to perceptions
  • Truths and realities
  • Moving beyond the expectations
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • 5. Women and human capital
  • What do resource providers look for?
  • Assumptions about women entrepreneurs
  • Sorting fact from fiction
  • Education
  • Experience
  • Overcoming the hurdle
  • Assessing your education and experience
  • Enhancing your human capital
  • School
  • Training
  • Work experience
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • 6. Financial knowledge and business savvy
  • Challenges built into the system
  • Do women underinvest in their businesses?
  • Do women have the requisite financial knowledge, skills, and experience?
  • Separating the high potential, high performers from the rest
  • The springboard survey : a study of women entrepreneurs leading high-potential enterprises
  • What can women do to clear the financing hurdles?
  • To overcome any shortfalls in initial funding
  • To demonstrate financial knowledge and management savvy
  • To overcome concerns about ability to manage risk
  • Notes.
  • 7. Growth orientation and strategies
  • Are women-owned firms smaller?
  • Why are women-owned firms smaller?
  • Why are women-led ventures perceived differently?
  • Women aren't serious about growth
  • Women are better at low-tech service ventures
  • The new generation of women entrepreneurs
  • Strategies for growth
  • Ambitious strategy
  • Deliberate strategy
  • Variable strategy
  • Maintenance strategy
  • Overcoming the high hurdles
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • 8. Building useful networks and cashing in on social capital
  • Are women unplugged from the right networks?
  • Formal networks
  • Informal networks
  • Benefits of networks
  • Network boundaries and barriers
  • The case for homogeneous networks
  • The case for heterogeneity
  • Social capital : the currency of network exchange
  • Reputation and trust
  • Spending social capital within a network
  • Some networks are like foreign countries
  • Women have diverse networks
  • Women benefit from strategic sponsors
  • Creating effective networks
  • Notes
  • 9. Women building management teams
  • Perceptions about women
  • Women don't want to share ownership
  • Women don't recognize the types of people needed
  • Women are outside the networks
  • Women just don't have what it takes to lead a growth venture
  • Fact and fiction about women and teams
  • Building a high-potential team
  • Challenges in team formation
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • 10. Networking for venture capital
  • A brief history of venture capital in the United States
  • Tracing the roots of the industry
  • The context of growth
  • Understanding the investment process
  • Risks and rewards of venture capital financing
  • The cultural context for the U.S. venture capital industry
  • Venture capital cycles
  • Building partnerships, professional staffing
  • The venture capital community today
  • Women in the venture capital industry
  • The pioneers
  • Implications
  • Getting access to venture capital investors
  • A connection or a disconnect?
  • Missing links between women entrepreneurs and venture capitalists
  • Do you know the right people?
  • Getting connected
  • Do they know you?
  • Model misfits
  • Getting to yes
  • Can women venture capitalists change the equation?
  • The research process
  • Performance review
  • What next?
  • What can you do to change things?
  • Investigate organizations that provide support
  • Build entrepreneurial connections now
  • Do additional venture capital research and make contact
  • Notes
  • 11. In conclusion
  • Note.

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