Call a Business Angel: Practical Funding and Commercial Advice for Start-Ups, SMEs and Innovators - Paperback

by Eileen Doyle (Author)

Call 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.

Author Biography

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. Eileen had an executive career in the steel, building materials, infrastructure and logistics industries and she is now a professional company director. 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.