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1 - Entrepreneur’s Primer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2014

Michael B. Timmons
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Rhett L. Weiss
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Daniel P. Loucks
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
John R. Callister
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Entrepreneurship is the recognition and pursuit of opportunity without regard to the resources you currently control, with confidence that you can succeed, with the flexibility to change course as necessary, and the will to rebound from setbacks.

Bob Reiss

Entrepreneur’s Diary

I remain grateful for some good early advice. I had several inventions that had been taken to financial success by others. The benefactors sometimes said thank you. This made me all the more eager to take one of my own ideas to the real world. I had convinced myself that financial success and glory eagerly awaited me.

About fifteen years ago, I launched my first major entrepreneurial effort that revolved around proprietary technology used to produce seafood indoors in an environmentally responsible manner at a competitive price. The market for such a technology had to be huge I kept reminding myself, because seafood was (and still is) a significant contributor to the U.S. trade deficit.

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The Entrepreneurial Engineer
How to Create Value from Ideas
, pp. 1 - 27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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References

Reiss, Bob, Low Risk High Reward (New York: The Free Press, 2000), p. 6Google Scholar
Headd, Brian, “Redefining Business Success: Distinguishing between Closure and Failure,” Small Business Economics 21 (2003): 51–61CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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