
The High-Tech Entrepreneur's Handbook
How to start and run a high-tech company
Jack Lang(Author)
FT.com (Publisher)
Published on 2. November 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-273-65615-9 (ISBN)
Description
Turn your high-tech idea into a high-profit business The High-Tech Entrepreneur's Handbook is a practical, hands-on guide designed specifically for people with a business idea, but little managerial experience. It takes you step-by-step through the key stages of setting up and running a high-tech enterprise, whether that's starting your own company or taking control of a project or department within a larger company. Based on a highly successful Cambridge University business studies course, from a Department that has generated at least one self-made millionaire a year, the book is a straight-talking, jargon-free guide that delivers the core background information necessary to create and run a successful enterprise. Technology, regardless of how good it is, forms only a small part of bringing a project to a successful and profitable conclusion. This is the book that explains the rest of the equation. Key areas discussed include:
getting started - developing and protecting your idea
writing the business plan
money and legal issues
managing projects, people and products
marketing and selling
growth and exit.
getting started - developing and protecting your idea
writing the business plan
money and legal issues
managing projects, people and products
marketing and selling
growth and exit.
Reviews / Votes
"Jack has created a pot pourri of business ideas and experience. It is an ideal starter for the budding entrepreneur. The exercises at the end of each chapter are especially useful to aid thinking and reach conclusions." Robin Saxby, Chairman, ARM Holdings plc "Jack's book is a distillation of knowledge about starting and growingcompanies. The UK and Cambridge have seen a dramatic growth in entrepreneurial
companies and culture, but there is still a way to go. We still lag well
behind other places, like Silicon Valley, although Cambridge now has its
first few home-grown billion-pound companies Reading this book will help
you to build strong enterprises, whether you are just starting out or
are already some way down the track, or even just taking on new
challenges within an organisation in these difficult times. I wish that
this had been available when I was starting out. Strongly recommended." Hermann Hauser, Cambridge University
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-273-65615-9 (9780273656159)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jack Lang is chief technologist at ntl. He is also a successful serial entrepreneur, with high-tech and Internet companies. Jack is member of the University of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre, where he gives an acclaimed Business Studies course which generates one or two self-made millionaires every year. This book has been developed from the course.
Content
1. Getting Started 2. Money and legal affairs 3. People, projects and products