Product Description: Entrepreneurs often struggle with many aspects of business: planning and financing company growth, creating a company vision, recruiting, leading, and managing people, as well as personal costs. In Lessons from the Edge, more than 50 business owners and entrepreneurs offer a wealth of real-life stories--in their own words--that provide rare insights about keeping a company healthy and growing...read more

Product Description: In 1980, only 10 business incubators existed in the United States. By 1995 there were nearly 500, and a new incubator is opening every week. Despite the rapid growth, the success of business incubators has been mixed at best. Growing New Ventures, Creating New Jobs provides sponsors, boards, and the management teams of business incubation programs with proven strategies for enhancing the creation and development of new ventures and ensuring the success of programs that support business growth and development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Describes the growing popularity of mergers between small and large companies in order to compete more successfully in the business world. The author describes how the marketing skills and distribution capacity of a major firm can enhance the innovative and specialized approach of a small company...read more