文档介绍：Advances in Entrepreneurial Finance
Rassoul Yazdipour
Advances in Entrepreneurial
Finance
With Applications from Behavioral Finance
and Economics
Rassoul Yazdipour
California State University
Fresno, CA,
USA
ryazdipour@
ISBN 978-1-4419-7526-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7527-0
DOI -1-4419-7527-0
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Foreword
The study of entrepreneurship is vital to continued growth and innovation in our
society. At its most basic level, entrepreneurship is a means for individuals to lift
themselves out of poverty and to create jobs for others. The new businesses that are
started each year offer the promise of wealth and independence to the entrepreneurs
who take on the inherent risks. At a broader level, however, the entrepreneurs who
bring truly new and innovative products and services to the market offer something
even more important to all members of munity. These are the new busi-
nesses that are responsible for much of the economic growth in our economy and
the progress in our standard of living. The