The Entrepreneurial Effect Practical Advice from Your Own Virtual Board of Advisors

Product Description The Entrepreneurial Effect is a collection of advice articles by successful high technology entrepreneurs, based on their experiences. Every budding entrepreneur seems to imagine a series of lunch dates with the most successful entrepreneurs in technology and other sectors of the Ottawa area Silicon Valley north. What skills are seen as needed to be successful in starting, growing and managing technology-based business in the 21st century? Every business seems to have some technology base and every entrepreneur needs the skills, knowledge and experience detailed in these lessons from the most successful people in this area. Lessons include management, marketing, planning, people, sales, technology, public relations, financing, outsourcing, alliances, risk management, and many others. When you want to be the best, learn from the best, and this book is your opportunity with 32 of the best lessons in entrepreneurship. Review Aimed at educating a new crop of technology entrepreneurs, this book targets two timely questions: 1. How do we get entrepreneurs to build the next generation of tech businesses? 2. How do we innovate to create the jobs and economy of the future, while reducing risk? Entrepreneuring is inherently risky but essential for the future of jobs and the economy of any modern nation. The entrepreneurial effect is that communities with networks of motivated and capable entrepreneurs create more jobs, more wealth, and the vibrant, innovative culture needed for a sustainable future. The foreword by Sir Terry Matthews, chairman of Mitel, describes his approach to serial entrepreneurship and why entrepreneurs and this book are important for Canada and our future. Articles include Denny Doyle on planning, Antoine Paquin on venture investing, Rob Ashe on transforming business, Ottawa tech lawyer Deborah Weinstein on advisors, alliances and exiting. Other articles cover sales, research and development, innovation, governance, leadership, financing, management and much more. --Guy ThisdelleWhy another business book? In this case, because anyone wishing to start, grow or survive as a technology entrepreneur needs all the advice he or she can get. It is even better when that advice is from those who have been successful in this difficult, competitive and fast-moving business area. The Entrepreneurial Effect bills itself as your virtual Board of advisors and certainly it has the names to go with this claim, with contributions from Terry Matthews, founder and chairman of Mitel, Rob Ashe of Cognos/IBM and Antoine Paquin of Rho Capital. Do yourself a favour and don't neglect the other 27 successful tech entrepreneurs in this valuable book. Its strength is the diversity and authority of the contributors and it is well worth the reasonable price. --Ross Cheriton About the Author Contributin author-entrepreneurs include: Terry Matthews, Tamas Michel Koplyay, Jean-Pierre Levy-Mangin,Li Li, Denny Doyle, James Bowen, Ray Novokowsky, Eli Fathi, Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu, Rob Ashe, Adam Chowaniec, Deborah Weinstein, Ken Wigglesworth, Dave Curley, Andrew Moffat, Margo Crawford, Peter Sommerer,Patrick DiPietro, Nathan Rudyk, Tony Bailetti, Brian Hurley, Jeffrey Dale, Lance Laking, Bernard Herscovich, Mike Gassewitz, Bernie Ashe, Donna Price, Debi Rosati, Antoine Paquin, Irving Ebert & Bruce Lazenby