What Every Engineer Should Know About Starting a High-Tech Business Venture

By Eric Koester and Philip A Laplante

Written for the engineering and technical entrepreneur, this step-by-step guide offers advice on everything, starting with the initial decision to leave your employer. It contains tips on how to gain access to technologies and talent, anticipate and eliminate problems, and guard intellectual property. This complete handbook covers topics including how to hire, fire, and compensate employees, as well as how to handle contracts, leases, loans, and product warranties.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420076973
• ISBN13: 9781420076974
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.7"