Call a Business Angel
Practical Funding & Commerical Advice for Start-Ups, Smes and Innovators
Author: Dr Eileen Doyle
Call a Business Angel by Dr Eileen Doyle delivers a concise and clear overview of the key business tools start-ups and SMEs need to understand and implement to give them the best chance of building a successful business.
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Call a Business Angel by Dr Eileen Doyle delivers a concise and clear overview of the key business tools start-ups and SMEs need to understand and implement to give them the best chance of building a successful business.
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You don t need an MBA or hours of study to benefit from Eileen s shared knowledge, just the tenacity to give it a go, which is one of her core messages persistence and discipline are essential keys to success.
Jordan Green, Founder/President, Melbourne Angels; Founder/Chairman Emeritus Australian Association of Angel Investors; Trustee Angel Resource Institute (USA); Chairman Asian Business Angel Forum Eileen s commonsense approach to complex business issues helped transform a 100-year old hierarchical organisation into today s simplified, market-facing, customer-centric CSIRO. Dr Larry Marshall, CEO, CSIROCall a Business Angel provides a commonsense approach to complex start-up and SME business issues. Many businesses fail not because of a poor idea but because of poor analysis and execution.In this practical guide, Dr Eileen Doyle provides proven insights and the quality basics of how to analyse ideas and turn them into sustained business success. It is the must-have how to book for start-ups and SMEs, written by one of Australia s leading commercialisation experts.Critic Reviews
'You don't need an MBA or hours of study to benefit from Eileen's shared knowledge, just the tenacity to give it a go, which is one of her core messages - persistence and discipline are essential keys to success.' - Jordan Green, Founder/President, Melbourne Angels; Founder/Chairman Emeritus - Australian Association of Angel Investors; Trustee - Angel Resource Institute (USA); Chairman - Asian Business Angel Forum
'Eileen's commonsense approach to complex business issues helped transform a 100-year old hierarchical organisation into today's simplified, market-facing, customer-centric CSIRO.' - Dr Larry Marshall, CEO, CSIRO
About the Author
Dr Eileen Doyle has had an extensive career in large corporations that has spanned more than three decades. She has a PhD in Mathematics and Statistics and started her career in a technical role in industry, but quickly moved to management.
In 1993 she was Australia s first Fulbright Scholar in Business Management where she completed an International General Management Program at Columbia University in New York and worked for Paine Webber Investment Bank.She had an executive career in the steel, building materials, infrastructure and logistics industries and she is now a professional company director.She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of their National Governance Committee. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. She was Chairman of Port Waratah Coal Services and Deputy Chairman of CSIRO. Her present roles include Director, Oil Search Ltd, Boral Ltd, GPT Group and The Hunter Angels Trust.She has also had a long history as a business angel and working with inventors and small businesses to introduce and grow their products. She is a Founding Fellow of the Australian Association of Angel Investors. She has combined her knowledge and discipline from large corporations with her experience with start-ups to write her book Call a Business Angel.Many entrepreneurs and small businesses fail not because of a poor idea but because of poor analysis and execution. Call a Business Angel is designed to complement the great innovation and free thinking that exists in small, growing companies by providing useful advice and tools that give them a much greater chance of being successful. All the innovators, entrepreneurs and start-ups with a great idea or new invention, need to read this book. There are 'business angels' out there looking to support you to commercialise your business venture, you just need to know where to look and how to hone a winning pitch. In her practical book, experienced angel investor Dr Eileen Doyle explains: The innovation ecosystem and where angel investing fits in The disciplined approach you need to adopt when you are seeking investors How to get your pitch right to secure funding The additional support business angels offer, over and above financial investment, such as mentoring and advice * The value of strategic advice and business planning - and much more. Packed with toolkits and case studies, Call a Business Angel is intended to inspire you on your journey from idea creation and pitch to sustainable commercialisation.
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