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The Business Idea

The Early Stages of Entrepreneurship

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  • Essential hands-on companion for the development of business projects
  • Excellent source of inspiring for budding entrepreneurs
  • Contains strategy evaluations by the CEO of a venture capital firm
  • Uses examples and case studies to show you how to create business opportunities

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-8
  2. Back Matter

    Pages 229-232

About this book

Successful business ideas are not so much about talent as about a systematic approach. The Business Idea encourages new ways of thinking when it comes to entrepreneurship and innovation. Too many ventures originate in the solutions the entrepreneur has to offer and not in the problem the customer needs solved. Business plans done this way can often lead to disappointment. The Business Idea leaves behind this product orientated logic. The book presents new, applicable entrepreneurship methods for developing creative market insight, for identifying windows of opportunity, creating business concepts and entrepreneurial strategies for successful market entry. Entrepreneurship is a complex and risky process compared to almost everything else in business life, so it richly deserves to have its own theoretical and methodological toolbox. The Business Idea provides the tools making it of interest to anyone who works with getting an enterprise off the ground or studies entrepreneurship.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rungsted Kyst, Denmark

    Søren Hougaard

About the author

Founder and Chairman of AMS Group. Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Copenhagen Business School. Strategy advisor for top management in large national and international corporations. Former senior positions in Deloitte & Touche, Exxon Corporation and ACNielsen AIM. MsC from the Århus Business School and MBA from INSEAD. Published the textbook "Strategic Relationship Marketing" in 2002 and "Relationship Marketing" in 1998.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Business Idea

  • Book Subtitle: The Early Stages of Entrepreneurship

  • Authors: Søren Hougaard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138370

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-22663-5Published: 25 October 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06151-6Published: 14 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-26959-5Published: 20 March 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 226

  • Additional Information: Jointly published with Samfundslitteratur, Frederiksberg, Denmark

  • Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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