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Jump Start: A Technopreneurship Fable
MEET RAJIN. He s a scientist who is driven by his dream of building his own technology company and decides to return to home to Asia to start his own venture. But he finds himself on shaky ground, unsure of his next step. What should he do?
Find out from the people who have actually been there and done that. Based on interviews with several of Asia s technology entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Jump Start is an engaging business fable that sums up many useful lessons for scientists and engineers who want to commercialize their technologies and start their own technology ventures. Don t sink into confusion and indecision about your new business.
Find out how to raise funds for your venture, how to sell your product, how to treat your workers and even what your attitude should be towards your business. Why let yourself be stuck on the middling ground when you can take a confident leap to become a technopreneur? Jump Start can show you how.
Find out from the people who have actually been there and done that. Based on interviews with several of Asia s technology entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Jump Start is an engaging business fable that sums up many useful lessons for scientists and engineers who want to commercialize their technologies and start their own technology ventures. Don t sink into confusion and indecision about your new business.
Find out how to raise funds for your venture, how to sell your product, how to treat your workers and even what your attitude should be towards your business. Why let yourself be stuck on the middling ground when you can take a confident leap to become a technopreneur? Jump Start can show you how.
120 pages, Paperback
Published March 20, 2009
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About the author
Dennis B. Posadas
7 books8 followersDennis Posadas is the author of Leap: A Sustainability Fable (Singapore: Pearson, 2015), Greenergized (UK: Greenleaf, 2013), Jump Start: A Technopreneurship Fable (Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009) and Rice & Chips: Technopreneurship and Innovation in Asia (Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007).
Dennis's books with Pearson and Greenleaf have been blurbed by Bill McKibben (NYT bestselling environment author), Mary Ellen Egan (Forbes), John Vidal (The Guardian), and Eric Spiegel (CEO, Siemens USA).
He blogs at www.theasianspectator.com. He has also written a few short stories and ebooks for the Kindle platform.
His published credits include Bloomberg BusinessWeek.com, Forbes Asia, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, YaleGlobal, Dartmouth Business Journal, Singapore Straits Times, Singapore Business Times, Japan Today, UCLA AsiaMedia, UPI, Carbon Trading UK, Jakarta Post, Inquirer.net and other newspapers. He was formerly a technology columnist for the Philippine newspaper BusinessWorld.
Dennis is an engineer by training and has been a technical consultant for a waste to energy company and a low carbon transport company. He has been an international fellow (Asia-based) of the Washington, DC based Climate Institute. He was formerly an Intel Corporation fellow to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Advanced Study Program, and a former Deputy Director of the Philippines Congressional Commission on S&T and Engineering.
He lives with his wife Joy and children in the Philippines.
Dennis's books with Pearson and Greenleaf have been blurbed by Bill McKibben (NYT bestselling environment author), Mary Ellen Egan (Forbes), John Vidal (The Guardian), and Eric Spiegel (CEO, Siemens USA).
He blogs at www.theasianspectator.com. He has also written a few short stories and ebooks for the Kindle platform.
His published credits include Bloomberg BusinessWeek.com, Forbes Asia, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, YaleGlobal, Dartmouth Business Journal, Singapore Straits Times, Singapore Business Times, Japan Today, UCLA AsiaMedia, UPI, Carbon Trading UK, Jakarta Post, Inquirer.net and other newspapers. He was formerly a technology columnist for the Philippine newspaper BusinessWorld.
Dennis is an engineer by training and has been a technical consultant for a waste to energy company and a low carbon transport company. He has been an international fellow (Asia-based) of the Washington, DC based Climate Institute. He was formerly an Intel Corporation fellow to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Advanced Study Program, and a former Deputy Director of the Philippines Congressional Commission on S&T and Engineering.
He lives with his wife Joy and children in the Philippines.
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