Startup Navigator: Guiding Your Entrepreneurial Journey

by Dietmar Grichnik, Manuel Hess

This core text and practical handbook presents a dynamic start-up framework with building blocks and steps to help readers to increase the success rate of their new venture. Taking a data-driven, iterative, and evidential approach, it guides readers to collect their own data at every stage, helping them to make strong business decisions based on empirical facts and develop their venture in a systematic way. Throughout the learning and venture creation process users will be supported by a multitude of handy tools and techniques. Cutting edge research is applied to practice to help users maximise their chances of entrepreneurial success and gain a critical understanding of the issues at hand.Drawing on the latest industry trends and tools, Start Up Navigator offers a state-of-the-art guide to new venture creation. It will be the ideal text for aspiring entrepreneurs keen to boost the success of their venture. It is also highly suitable for university students studying courses on entrepreneurship, new venture creation and start-up management at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA level.

312 pages, Paperback

Published October 5, 2020

About the author

Dietmar Grichnik is a German business researcher and Ordinarius Professor for entrepreneurship and technology management at the University of St. Gallen. Moreover, he is Dean of the School of Management, Director of the Institute for Technology Management, and founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship