22 CLEARING THE HURDLES: WOMEN BUILDING HIGH-GROWTH BUSINESSES
Resources
Whatever your business vision, you will need the resources to realize
it. Resources provide the fuel to convert business concept to reality.
They make it possible to translate an idea into tangible goods and ser-
vices and to deliver them to the marketplace. Resources include the
entrepreneur’s personal reserves of human, financial, and social capi-
tal. The financial capital—money from self, family, and friends; credit
from vendors, banks, commercial lending organizations, and private
individuals; and equity investments from angels or venture capital-
ists—often provides the means to engage additional human, physical,
and technological resources. The entrepreneur’s social capital—her ...