Entrepreneurial Finance
Author: Chris J Leach
ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE, 3rd Edition applies tools and techniques of corporate finance to the entrepreneurial venture. It closely follows a "life cycle of the firm" approach in a very accessible and student-friendly manner. The text introduces the theories, knowledge, and financial tools needed by an entrepreneur in starting, building, and harvesting a successful venture. Leach and Melicher focus on sound financial management practices, how and where to obtain the financial capital necessary to run and grow the venture, and how and when to interact with the financial institutions and regulatory agencies central to financing ventures as they grow and ultimately look for liquidity for their investors.
Table of Contents:
Part I: BACKGROUND AND ENVIRONMENT.
1. Introduction and Overview.
2. From the Idea to the Business Plan.
Part II: ORGANIZING AND OPERATING THE VENTURE.
3. Organizing and Financing a New Venture.
4. Measuring Financial Performance.
5. Evaluating Financial Performance.
Part III: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE.
6. Financial Planning: Long-Term and Short-Term.
7. Types and Costs of Financial Capital.
8. Securities Law Considerations When Obtaining Venture Financing.
Part IV: CREATING AND RECOGNIZING VENTURE VALUE.
9. Valuing Early-Stage Ventures.
10. Venture Capital Valuation Methods.
Part V: STRUCTURING FINANCING FOR THE GROWING VENTURE.
11. Professional Venture Capital.
12. Other Financing Alternatives.
13. Security Structures and Determining Enterprise Values.
Part VI: EXIT AND TURNAROUND STRATEGIES.
14. Harvesting the Business Venture Investment.
15. Financially Troubled Ventures: Turnaround Opportunities?
Part VII: CAPSTONE CASES. Case 1: Coral Systems, Inc. Case 2: Spatial Technology.
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Leadership Lessons from a Chef: Finding Time to Be Great
Author: Charles Carroll
"Chef Charles Carroll has answered our prayers and delivered a book, a bible, a life's journal shared by a real chef in today's modern kitchen."
Chef John Folse, CEC, AAC
"From time to time, I buy motivational books for my managing partners and chefs, and this book is my all-time favorite gift. What Chef Carroll has to say is the real thing."
Johnny Carrabba, founder, Carrabba's Restaurant
A unique guide to leadership in the culinary arena, by a chef for chefs
Leadership Lessons from a Chef is about creating excellence in the professional kitchen. Here the difference between good and great comes down to the details, and attention to these details comes from the right attitude reaching across all staff. A good culinary manager, according to author and award-winning Certified Executive Chef Charles Carroll, skillfully cultivates this attitude for success, and so leads the way toward kitchen excellence.
Using stories and examples drawn from his many years' experience, Chef Carroll gives you a leader's tour through the working kitchen. Offering proven wisdom in plainspoken terms instead of abstract management theories, the practical tools and ideas found in this groundbreaking book can be used immediately to motivate and develop an effective team environment among kitchen staffs.
Leadership Lessons from a Chef features:
• Chef Carroll's formula for managing kitchen staffsSEF: Scheduling, Empowering, and Follow upand how the formula works in practice
• Take-away boxes that reinforce key points
• Chapters that progress logically, helping you evaluate and refine your goals, develop amission and principles, and implement these in a motivational and positive way
• Helpful forms for both greater efficiency and esprit de corps
• Inspiring quotations, as well as life and work tips from Chef Carroll
Whether you're a student just starting your culinary education, or an executive chef seeking to take your operation to a whole new level of excellence, Leadership Lessons from a Chef is an indispensable resource for all stages of your culinary career.
Table of Contents:
Foreword.Preface.
Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
Chapter 1: What Makes You Tick?
Chapter 2: Testing the Kitchen Atmosphere.
Chapter 3: How Is Your Attitude?
Chapter 4: Build Your Leadership Team First.
Chapter 5: What Is Your Mission?
Chapter 6: The Principles That Guide Us.
Chapter 7: Program Survival: Living It!
Chapter 8: Educational Environment.
Chapter 9: Fostering Success.
Chapter 10: How to Get People to Want to Work for You.
Chapter 11: Hire Right the First Time.
Chapter 12: Incentive Programs.
Chapter 13: Discipline and Competition.
Chapter 14: Did You Listen Well the First Time?
Chapter 15: Forms to Help You.
Chapter 16: Why Do It?
Appendix A: Certificates and Forms.
Appendix B: Life and Work Tips from Chef Carroll.
Appendix C: A Collection of Quotations.
Glossary.
Index.
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