Virtual Business Models: Entrepreneurial Risks and Rewards

Virtual Business Models: Entrepreneurial Risks and Rewards focuses on companies with technology development, offering inspiration, guidance, and hands-on advice on how to utilize the potential of a virtual company format.

The book provides an overview of key aspects of the company's activities, putting them into a comprehensive structure. In addition, both the rewards and risks of using the virtual company format are explored.

The virtual company format is here defined as a company with a small dedicated core staff. The company's development is performed by strategic alliances with external resource providers. In this way, the utilization of financial resources can be optimized with cost-effective product development. The book explores this concept and why it is attractive in a start-up phase for both companies who want to remain virtual and those that eventually want to develop into integrated traditional companies.

Provides an overview, and understanding of, a virtual company's key activitiesPresents tactics that encourage communication between stakeholders associated with the virtual companyAllows users to master all details, while managing key strategic issuesCovers technology development and its required special skills and competencies

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Start-up Chapter 3: Communication and control Chapter 4: Business development Chapter 5: Agreements Chapter 6: Importance of Intelligence Chapter 7: Intellectual Property - patents Chapter 8: Financials and valuation Chapter 9: Exit Chapter 10: Risks and rewards Chapter 11: Interviews Acknowledgment Glossary