Publisher Description
Build a world-class business with a clear blueprint to success
Entrepreneur: Building Your Business From Start to Success is your guidebook to achieving entrepreneurial success. Whether you're an existing business owner seeking to increase your reach, or a budding entrepreneur ready to take the next step, this book provides invaluable guidance from experts who have made it happen time and time again. A simple step-by-step process will help you translate your ideas into effective business plans, raise the capital needed to start and grow your business, build a winning team, and leave the competition behind. Drawing upon their experience founding more than thirty companies, the authors share their entrepreneurial wisdom and reveal the real-world techniques that lead to success.
With a pragmatic and personal approach, the authors explore the personal characteristics that are vital to achievement; managing stress, withstanding heavy workloads, and coping with potential health concerns are subjects often overlooked in the pursuit of business achievement. Addressing the link between business concerns and personal welfare, the authors offer suggestions on how to most effectively reconcile entrepreneurial drive with personal well-being.
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About the Authors
Lars Tvede, a Danish national, holds a master’s degree in engineering and a bachelor’s degree in international commerce. He spent eleven years as derivatives trader, portfolio manager, and investment banker before moving to the telecommunication and software industries in the mid 1990s, where he cofounded and seed-funded a number of high-tech companies. He returned to the financial industry at the start of 2005 to become general partner and fund manager in the Swiss hedge fund company Provalue. Tvede has published several books on general economics, marketing, telecommunication, and trading, including the bestseller The Psychology of Finance. He now lives in Zug, Switzerland.
Mads Faurholt is a serial entrepreneur who has started more than twenty companies in the financial, technology, marketing, HR, and education fields. Previously, he was Global Partner and Managing Director at the German internet giant Rocket Internet, Head of Asia in the world’s fastest-growing company, Groupon, and management consultant at McKinsey. Mads received his bachelor’s degree from Copenhagen Business School, which he completed in the shortest amount of time ever (one year and nine months), and his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.