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The Principles of Entrepreneurial Progress, business school professor and entrepreneur Greg Fisher breaks entrepreneurship down into twelve concrete, actionable, easy to understand principles that can be implemented to facilitate entrepreneurial progress. These principles can be applied across a diverse range of entrepreneurial endeavors, ranging from high-growth, venture capital funded, technology ventures to self-funded, slower growth, more lifestyle oriented new business enterprises. Conveying decades of expertise and practical wisdom, this book is a business book for anyone--at any stage of entrepreneurial journey--who wants to launch, grow, and sustain their new business venture.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments: Haley Dosenbach and Ali N. Ferguson
- Introduction
- Part 1: The Value Principles
- Chapter 1: The Problem Principle
- Chapter 2: The Exploration Principle
- Chapter 3: The Simplicity Principle
- Chapter 4: The Prototype Principle
- Chapter 5: The Experimentation Principle
- Chapter 6: The Adaptation Principle
- Part 2: The Action Principles
- Chapter 7: The Hustle Principle
- Chapter 8: The Story Principle
- Part 3: The Resourcing Principles
- Chapter 9: The Control Principle
- Chapter 10: The Affordable Loss Principle
- Part 4: The Big Picture Principles
- Chapter 11: The Trajectory Principle
- Chapter 12: The Integration Principle
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
About the author
Greg Fisher is the Larry and Barbara Sharpf Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Fisher teaches in the areas of strategy and entrepreneurship, and he has won numerous teaching awards at Indiana University, the University of Washington and the Gordon Institute of Business Science. In 2014, he was named on the list of the of the "40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs under 40," and in 2016 and 2022, he was named among the "Favorite Business School Professor Teaching MBAs" by Poets and Quants website. His research has been published in top-tier management and entrepreneurship journals. Fisher is the past Editor-in-Chief of Business Horizons and serves as an associate editor for the Academy of Management Review. He also served as a field editor for the Journal of Business Venturing from 2017- 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. Prior to a career in
academia, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte in South Africa and worked as a senior manager of learning and development for Deloitte Southern Africa before founding and building a training solutions venture called Learninglab. Fisher was an expert contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine from 2006 to 2012 where he wrote over 60 feature articles.
Summary
Entrepreneurship is messy, uncertain, complex, and risky. It's virtually impossible to devise a recipe for success when developing a new venture. But it need not be. In The Principles of Entrepreneurial Progress, business school professor and entrepreneur Greg Fisher breaks entrepreneurship down into twelve concrete, actionable, easy to understand principles. These principles can be applied across a diverse range of entrepreneurial endeavors, ranging from high-growth, venture capital funded, technology ventures to self-funded, slower growth, more lifestyle oriented new business enterprises. For each of the principles, Fisher shares intriguing stories and examples that illustrate the principle, distills research that validates the principle in easy-to-understand terms, and describes how the principle can be implemented in practice. Conveying decades of expertise and practical wisdom, this engaging book provides entrepreneurs with a practical, evidence-based guide for making meaningful progress on their entrepreneurial journey.
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Whether entrepreneurs are working on effectively telling their story, prototyping their initial ideas, or facing some other quandary, Fisher offers a critically important text that explains various principles of how entrepreneurship works and offers frameworks for entrepreneurs to solve their problems systematically. The Principles of Entrepreneurial Progress is the most 'entrepreneurship' text since The Lean Startup!
