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Startup Stories: Lessons for Everyday Entrepreneurs Kindle Edition
Entrepreneurs are everywhere!
After more than twenty years of living and working with entrepreneurs on four continents, Professor Steve Phelan hasn’t seen it all, but he has seen a lot! In Startup Stories, he distills his wisdom on how to become a successful entrepreneur into sixteen chapters, supported by the stories of everyday entrepreneurs he has met over the years.
Most books on entrepreneurship try to teach you how to become an extraordinary entrepreneur, the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. The problem is there are only 2,000 billionaires on the planet, so the odds are slim that you will be joining their ranks. Instead, this book shows you how to make the most of being an everyday entrepreneur. Everyday entrepreneurs don’t make the headlines, but almost half of the population will be quietly involved in an entrepreneurial activity at some stage in their lives. This book is for you.
The book begins by framing entrepreneurship as a series of progressively challenging levels. Personal entrepreneurs use their entrepreneurial spirit to achieve their goals while working for others. Nascent entrepreneurs are in the process of birthing a business. Lifestyle entrepreneurs enjoy the autonomy of working for themselves but like to keep things small. Employer entrepreneurs, on the other hand, rely on hiring family members and other employees to boost revenues and results. Growth entrepreneurs would like to grow their business into a major concern, while super entrepreneurs are already operating in the billion-dollar range.
Dr. Phelan examines the advantages, challenges, and opportunities of operating at each level. The result is a very human, very readable book that combines true stories with sound principles that are guaranteed to inspire and inform regardless of where you choose to start your entrepreneurial journey.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 11, 2020
- File size1828 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B08CTG9RG2
- Publication date : July 11, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 1828 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 200 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,057,329 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,907 in Startups
- #2,409 in Starting a Business (Kindle Store)
- #3,983 in Starting a Business (Books)
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About the author
Dr. Steven Phelan was born in Australia, where he attended Ballarat High School. After graduating with honors from the University of Melbourne, he worked in strategic planning at Telecom Australia and Ansett Airlines.
After completing a PhD in computational economics, he held tenure track appointments at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where he also served as Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship.
In 2010, he was recruited to the east coast as executive director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rowan University in New Jersey, before being appointed Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Fayetteville State University, part of the University of North Carolina system.
While at FSU, he served as fund administrator for a local angel investment group, created a program on business and economic development for the US Army Special Operations Command, and headed the MBA program. As Provost Fellow for Academic Innovation he was responsible for leading a dozen strategic initiatives for the university.
In July 2021, Dr. Phelan was appointed as Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Michael A. Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship & Hospitality at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.
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