The successful entrepreneur’s guide to accelerating growth Daring to Compete offers real-world strategies to accelerate the growth of your business and secure your place as a market leader. This expert guide is the result of years of comprehensive research and experience from global professional services organization EY, originator of the celebrated “Entrepreneur Of The Year” program. Employing its worldwide reach and extensive network of successful entrepreneurs, EY has developed a model of sustainable business development―“The 7 Drivers of Growth TM .” This innovative and highly effective approach to strategic growth is an invaluable resource for high-growth businesses, entrepreneurs, and start-ups. Favoring practical strategies over abstract theories, this book provides clear guidance on the Customer; Funding and Finance; Transactions and Alliances; Risk; People, Behaviors, and Culture; Digital Technology and Analytics; and Operations. This book brings the application of these drivers to life by featuring insights from Entrepreneur Of The Year award-winning entrepreneurs from a wide range of industries and geographic locations. These entrepreneurs share how each driver functions in actual business situations and present first-hand advice on their application and implementation. Planned and sustainable growth is a challenge faced by businesses every day, from developing ventures to leading enterprises. Effective entrepreneurs embrace the drivers of growth and recognize what areas require sharper focus. This book allows you to identify and apply these elements in your own business―facilitating optimal outcomes and accelerating growth. This indispensable guide enables you to: Implement a proven business model to compete more effectively and achieve market leadership - Gain the knowledge and confidence to face challenges, anticipate, and overcome obstacles - Access research, tools, and services to accelerate growth and compete on a global scale - Learn invaluable market leadership strategies from a team of highly successful entrepreneurs Developed from the real-life stories of EY Entrepreneur Of The Year winners, this book is an inspirational and informative must-read guide to business growth and market leadership. Daring to Compete is an invaluable resourcefor both aspiring and experienced entrepreneurs and established business leaders seeking to become more entrepreneurial. Growth is a source of ongoing challenge for businesses on their journey from start-up to market leader. Daring to Compete draws on the research and expertise of both the global organization EY and the renowned EY Entrepreneur Of The Year program. EY's research is based on thousands of interactions with international entrepreneurs over many decades. Throughout the book, the authors review EY's findings and detail an actionable model called "The EY 7 Drivers of Growth ™ ." The book explains how to negotiate the essential elements required for sustainable growth: customers; funding and finance; transactions and alliances; risk; people, behaviors and culture; digital technology and analytics; and operations. While the customer is first and foremost on the list of growth drivers, entrepreneurs must invest significant time and capital in the other six drivers in order to ensure success. Written for high-growth businesses at all stages of development, Daring to Compete surveys the real-world tactics and approaches that accelerate growth and secure your position as a market leader. Daring to Compete is filled with inspirational stories of EY Entrepreneur Of The Year winners offering a unique opportunity to learn from some of the 's best entrepreneurs. Their stories reveal how to compete more effectively, innovate, diversify and seize on the exciting opportunities that are available as a result of industry convergence and new technologies. More importantly, these outstanding entrepreneurs explain the ways they have adopted the EY 7 Drivers of Growth ™ to help guide their companies to sustainable success. Daring to Compete contains the information, strategies, and the proven model that will give you the knowledge and confidence to fast-track growth and compete on a global scale. PRAISE FOR DARING TO COMPETE "This book is a rare glimpse into the minds and hearts of entrepreneurs from around the world. Anyone contemplating the creation of a business would benefit from reading it." Doug Ortega, Executive Director, Strategic Alliances Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) "There's nothing like hearing directly from those 've done it and this book is packed with stories of some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world who've turned their ideas into market-leading companies. Daring to Compete is for all the makers, doers and dreamers who are starting or growing a business." Wendy Guillies, President and CEO, Kauffman Foundation " Daring to Compete is a great read for entrepreneurs at any stage of development. Thos