Kay Koplovitz Shares Billion-Dollar Advice In New Book

NEW YORK, March 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Kay Koplovitz knows a few things about launching, building and leading billion-dollar enterprises. As the founder of USA Network, she is the visionary who created the business model for cable networks by introducing the concept of two revenue streams licensing and advertising. When she founded USA Network in 1977, she was the first woman to head a television network. She led it to first place in cable prime-time ratings for 14 years.

In 1998, President Bill Clinton appointed Koplovitz to chair the bipartisan National Women's Business Council. She used this platform to launch Springboard Enterprises (www.sb.co), in a move to get women entrepreneurs to "think big" about their growth companies and to raise venture capital to fund them. Springboard created a global human capital network that has become the premier platform for innovators, investors, and industry experts to meet and build great women-led businesses. The 562 women entrepreneurs who are the Springboard network have raised over $6.6 billion for their technology and life science companies. Their secret sauce is captured in this insightful new book for and by entrepreneurs, Been There, Run That (Rosetta Books, 252 Pages, Cloth, $30, ISBN: 978-0-795-34489-3).

"This is what I want for entrepreneurs," writes Koplovitz in the book's preface, "especially for women: to believe in themselves, to dream bigger, reach higher, to achieve success beyond their wildest expectations. That's why Springboard was founded. That's why we've assembled our entrepreneurial experts and asked them to spill their stories, lessons, and advice onto these pages."

Indeed, Koplovitz's book introduces dozens of talented entrepreneurs who've launched and built new and disruptive ventures. Been There, Run That features 50 actionable chapters in eight sections, covering all aspects of new venture creation, including: thinking big and starting small, virtual A-team building, cultivating capital, and the value of personal advisory boards.

She notes that in founding Springboard in 2000, there was no roadmap for building and scaling successful businesses in the new tech economy and certainly few women among the ranks of the most successful entrepreneurs and venture investors. Now 15 years later, Springboard entrepreneurs have raised billions to stoke their company's growth, built enduring brands such as iRobot/Roomba, Minute Clinic, Constant Contact, ViaCord, Blurb, and Zipcar; and generated impressive returns to their investors.

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