Lightspeed Business: Find It, Fund It, Build It, When There's No Margin for Error

by J. Neil Weintraut (21st Century Internet Venture Partners); Christopher Barr (CNET)

• ISBN13: 9780471223368
• ISBN10: 0471223360
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Leading experts get entrepreneurs and investors up to speed on high-growth business opportunities The rules of building a new business changed dramatically with the bursting of the dot com bubble. Yet despite the ups and downs of the stock market, the time has never been riper for entrepreneurs and investors. Most industry observers now agree that the next few years will see a dramatic growth of opportunities in wireless and broadband communications, consumer and enterprise marketing, health services, and banking, just to name a few e-business sectors. But, to succeed in this new environment, you have to play by new rules, and sources of expert advice and guidance are few and far between. Coauthored by one of today's most successful and visible entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Lightspeed Business fills that information vacuum with no-nonsense advice and practical wisdom. With hard-hitting analysis, invaluable insights, and war stories gleaned from an unparalleled tenure in the trenches, the authors deliver proven money-making ideas, present new rules on how to start, finance, and invest in a successful startup, and explain why conventional business strategies are doomed to failure in this new business environment. Lightspeed Business provides everything investors need to know to recognize a big opportunity and quickly build a successful business. J. Neil Weintraut (Palo Alto, CA) is the founder and General Partner of 21st Century Internet Venture Partners. Christopher Barr (San Francisco, CA) was the founding Editor in Chief of CNET. Currently, he serves as Vice President and Editor at Large at CNET.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Anatomy 101

The Anatomy of a Start-up

The Opportunity Must Be Big

Create a Compelling Offering

The Organization

Start-Up Strategies

Equity Is Ownership

Technology

No Baggage

Start-Up Fundamentals

Speed Succeeds

Why Smarts Make All the Difference

Keep It Simple

Virtuous and Vicious Spirals

Scenario Analysis

Equity Demystified

The Arithmetic of Equity

Sources of Start-Up Capital

Putting Equity to Work

How to Tell Your Story

Sensational Start-Ups

Survive and Thrive

Further Sources

Index

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