Planet Entrepreneur

The World Entrepreneurship Forum's Guide to Business Success Around the World

Steven D. Strauss

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781118789520
• eBook ISBN: 9781118810750
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Entrepreneurship
• Index: Business

How to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, begin a successful venture, and change the world for the better

We are living in a world of incredible challenge and changes, and for both the entrepreneur and potential entrepreneur alike, this also means it is a world of ample opportunities. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of e-commerce and social media, there are now, today, more markets, tools, and opportunities for entrepreneurs than ever before. Even better: we are now also living in a world more predisposed to entrepreneurial solutions than ever, and we need those solutions—not just to create the Next Big Thing, but to solve the Next Big Problem. Every issue that individuals, communities, and nations face offers the entrepreneur the chance to make a difference. For anyone ready to embark on a mission to solve problems, create communities, build businesses, tap technology, and think entrepreneurially, this new world is teeming with opportunities for success.

• Uses real-life examples to explain the full extent of today's global entrepreneurial revolution and its vital importance for our future
• Explains where the emerging markets are and how to tap into them to achieve success
• Offers insights on the global entrepreneurial revolution, the future of financing, the rise of the self-employed army, the transformation of innovation, and the view from the "bottom of the pyramid"

Learn how the worlds' best entrepreneurs are starting profitable businesses, innovating, or creating organizations to alleviate social needs across the globe. Planet Entrepreneur teaches how anyone can develop an entrepreneurial mindset, begin a successful venture, and change the world for the better. This is the Era of the Entrepreneur.

Index

A

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

ABI Research

ACA. See Angel Capital Association (ACA)

Academic environments

“Accidental entrepreneurs,”

ACE. See Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE)

ACG. See Association for Corporate Growth (ACG)

Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE)

Adams, Jim

Adams, Marian

Adaptasertao.net

AdSense

Adventure:

entrepreneurship as

love of

Africa:

celebrities in

entrepreneurship in

free aid in

Goods for Good (GFG) in

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

Agarwal, Nikhil

Agenda

Agents of change

Aharoni, Amit

Air travel

Alcoa

Ali, Asad

Altuntas, Baybars

Amazon.com:

development of

e-commerce and

Internet businesses

Ambiguity, tolerance of

Amul

Angel Capital Association (ACA)

Angel investors. See also Investor(s)

angel networks

demos and

digital businesses and

due diligence and

entrepreneur and

exit strategy

IT/mobile technology and

language and

losing

negotiation and

offers from

overview

pitches/presentations to

program types and

researching

types of

AngelList

APEC. See Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

Apple:

iPhone

iPod

Apps, mobile

Arab Spring

Arab world

Archer, Howard

Argentina

Arkansas Aviation Sales

The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship (Singh)

Ashoka

Ashoka Fellows

Asia, crowdfunding in

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

Aspiration marketing

Association for Corporate Growth (ACG)

Atamer, Tugrul

Audience, listening and

Australia

Authenticity

Autodesk

B

Backyard Brains

The Balkans

Bangladesh

Banking. See also Payment options

angel investors and

central banks

microloans

Bankk, Grameen

Base of the Pyramid (BOP):

aspiration marketing and

collaboration, cross-sector

collaborative companies and

future and

new equilibrium and

overview

“poverty penalty” and

product design for

top of pyramid and

BAU. See Business-as-usual (BAU)

Bechtolsheim, Andy

Bell, Alexander Graham

Benefit corporations

Berlin Wall, fall...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• About the World Entrepreneurship Forum
• World Entrepreneurship Forum's Founding Members Definition
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Author Note
• Section I: The New World
• Section II: Explorers of the New World
• Section III: The Toolkit
• Section IV: Joining the Entrepreneurship Revolution
• Index