From Science to Startup: The Inside Track of Technology Entrepreneurship [Paperback]

This book charts the experiences, pitfalls and knowledge behind leading scientific ideas to successful startups. Written by one of Switzerland's top serial entrepreneurs, this book is a must-read for scientists and academicians who want to see their idea turn into a product and change the market. It is also pertinent for finance and business professionals who aspire to become technology entrepreneurs. Starting with personal qualities of an entrepreneur, Anil Sethi discusses successful ideas, technology evaluation, team formation, patents and investor expectations. To guide the entrepreneur, this book also analyzes deal closing, equity conversion and ideal exit strategies to follow. Ultimately Anil Sethi reveals the 'inside track' which helps understand what drives entrepreneurs and what they wouldn't admit.

Prologue.- Are You Meant to Be an Entrepreneur?.- Ideas to Shoot and Root for.- Technology Evaluation: Is it Ripe for Commercialisation?.- The Team - Recognising the Red Flags.- Patents: Whys and Hows, Protection Strategies for Your Innovation.- Investors: Choosing the Right Ones, Getthing Them Interested.- Chosing the Deal and Getting the Funding.- Exit: Opportunity to Convert Equity to Wealth.- Technologies That Made It - and How.- The Golden Era of Entrepreneurship: Putting it into Perspective.- The Inside Track: What Drives Entrepreneurs and What They Won't Admit.Shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year Award - Innovation and Entrepreneurship category

Anil Sethi is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ETH Zurich, and a serial entrepreneur, founder of Swiss Extension, who also founded Flisom, one of the leading flexible PV companies in the world.  Anil took the technology from an idea at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, changing it to become a real company. He then led the company as the CEO and CFO from its inception in 2005 to 2012.  He led three rounds of fl1