Lightspeed Business
Find It, Fund It, Build It, When There's No Margin for Error
1st Edition
Published on 29. October 2001
Book
Hardback
XVI, 272 pages
978-0-471-41972-3 (ISBN)
Description
Leading experts get entrepreneurs and investors up to speed on high-growth business opportunities
The rules of building a new business changed dramatically with the bursting of the dot com bubble. Yet despite the ups and downs of the stock market, the time has never been riper for entrepreneurs and investors. Most industry observers now agree that the next few years will see a dramatic growth of opportunities in wireless and broadband communications, consumer and enterprise marketing, health services, and banking, just to name a few e-business sectors. But, to succeed in this new environment, you have to play by new rules, and sources of expert advice and guidance are few and far between. Coauthored by one of today's most successful and visible entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Lightspeed Business fills that information vacuum with no-nonsense advice and practical wisdom.
With hard-hitting analysis, invaluable insights, and war stories gleaned from an unparalleled tenure in the trenches, the authors deliver proven money-making ideas, present new rules on how to start, finance, and invest in a successful startup, and explain why conventional business strategies are doomed to failure in this new business environment. Lightspeed Business provides everything investors need to know to recognize a big opportunity and quickly build a successful business.
J. Neil Weintraut (Palo Alto, CA) is the founder and General Partner of 21st Century Internet Venture Partners. Christopher Barr (San Francisco, CA) was the founding Editor in Chief of CNET. Currently, he serves as Vice President and Editor at Large at CNET.
The rules of building a new business changed dramatically with the bursting of the dot com bubble. Yet despite the ups and downs of the stock market, the time has never been riper for entrepreneurs and investors. Most industry observers now agree that the next few years will see a dramatic growth of opportunities in wireless and broadband communications, consumer and enterprise marketing, health services, and banking, just to name a few e-business sectors. But, to succeed in this new environment, you have to play by new rules, and sources of expert advice and guidance are few and far between. Coauthored by one of today's most successful and visible entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Lightspeed Business fills that information vacuum with no-nonsense advice and practical wisdom.
With hard-hitting analysis, invaluable insights, and war stories gleaned from an unparalleled tenure in the trenches, the authors deliver proven money-making ideas, present new rules on how to start, finance, and invest in a successful startup, and explain why conventional business strategies are doomed to failure in this new business environment. Lightspeed Business provides everything investors need to know to recognize a big opportunity and quickly build a successful business.
J. Neil Weintraut (Palo Alto, CA) is the founder and General Partner of 21st Century Internet Venture Partners. Christopher Barr (San Francisco, CA) was the founding Editor in Chief of CNET. Currently, he serves as Vice President and Editor at Large at CNET.
More details
Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 16.1 cm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-41972-3 (9780471419723)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
J. NEIL WEINTRAUT is the founder and General Partner of venture capital firm 21st Century Internet Venture Partners. He has been immersed in the Internet since its commercialization in 1994. He pioneered and led the Internet practice at Hambrecht Quist, a leading investment-banking firm, whose work included underwriting such Internet companies as Netscape, UUNE, Lycos, CNET, Check Point Software, and Vocaltec.
CHRISTOPHER BARR, founding editor in chief of CNET, assembled the award-winning staff of editors, reporters, writers, and producers that created CNET's up-to-the-minute news and information services about computers, technology, and the Internet. He is currently Vice President and editor at large of CNET.
CHRISTOPHER BARR, founding editor in chief of CNET, assembled the award-winning staff of editors, reporters, writers, and producers that created CNET's up-to-the-minute news and information services about computers, technology, and the Internet. He is currently Vice President and editor at large of CNET.
Content
Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
PART ONE: ANATOMY 101.
1. The Anatomy of a Start-up.
2. The Opportunity Must Be Big.
3. Create a Compelling Offering.
4. The Organization.
5. Start-Up Strategies.
6. Equity Is Ownership.
7. Technology.
8. No Baggage.
PART TWO: START-UP FUNDAMENTALS.
9. Speed Succeeds.
10. Why Smarts Make All the Difference.
11. Keep It Simple.
12. Virtuous and Vicious Spirals.
13. Scenario Analysis.
PART THREE: EQUITY DEMYSTIFIED.
14. The Arithmetic of Equity.
15. Sources of Start-Up Capital.
16. Putting Equity to Work.
17. How to Tell Your Story.
PART FOUR: SENSATIONAL START-UPS.
18. Survive and Thrive.
Appendix A: Further Sources.
Index.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
PART ONE: ANATOMY 101.
1. The Anatomy of a Start-up.
2. The Opportunity Must Be Big.
3. Create a Compelling Offering.
4. The Organization.
5. Start-Up Strategies.
6. Equity Is Ownership.
7. Technology.
8. No Baggage.
PART TWO: START-UP FUNDAMENTALS.
9. Speed Succeeds.
10. Why Smarts Make All the Difference.
11. Keep It Simple.
12. Virtuous and Vicious Spirals.
13. Scenario Analysis.
PART THREE: EQUITY DEMYSTIFIED.
14. The Arithmetic of Equity.
15. Sources of Start-Up Capital.
16. Putting Equity to Work.
17. How to Tell Your Story.
PART FOUR: SENSATIONAL START-UPS.
18. Survive and Thrive.
Appendix A: Further Sources.
Index.