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Business plan competitions are a powerful way to help nonprofits turn ideas into sustainable commercial ventures.

Content: Article | Authors: Anamaria Schindler, Andréa C. Waslander, Heinz-Peter Elstrodt | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Nonprofit | Industry: Non-Profit

According to Wharton marketing professor Leonard M. Lodish, “positioning and pricing are the most important entrepreneurial marketing decisions that you can make … Before you go out and raise a lot of money, before you invest in research and development, before you start spending serious money, you must find out if there is a demand for your product and whether or not you can price … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Leonard M. Lodish | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Marketing / Sales

Ever since Ronald Coase posed the question in 1937 -“Why do firms exist?”-, all the answers given have explained the genesis of firms o­nly in terms of the need to economize o­n costs, such as transaction costs, agency costs, and supervision and monitoring costs. In their paper “Dispersed Knowledge and an Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm”, Nicholas Dew of the Naval Postgraduate School, S. Ramakrishna … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Nicholas Dew, S. Ramakrishna Velamuri, Sankaran Venkataraman | Source: IESE Insight | Subject: Entrepreneurship

I think there are too many people who try to change consumer behavior. That’s really expensive. When an entrepreneur tells me he or she wants to educate the market, I run the other way.

Content: Quotation | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Entrepreneurship

While Business Plans For Dummies covers the strategy of putting a business plan together, Business Plans Kit For Dummies covers how to put a business plan to work! This kit covers business plans for every stage (and every type) of business: e-business, sole proprietorships, small businesses, service companies, high-tech companies, non-profits — even business plans for middle managers and restructuring a company. It emphasizes methods … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Peter E. Jaret, Steven D. Peterson | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Strategy

As a MOOT CORP judge, Rob Adams sees too many business plans written with the ink of wishful thinking. A clipboard and some astute questions are always more useful.

Content: Article | Author: Rob Adams | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Innovation

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To reap the gains and windfalls of a successful business, entrepreneurs must look to a set of attitudes they will find only within themselves.

Content: Article | Authors: Alex Rovira, Fernando Trias de Bes | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Personal Development

Scial entrepreneur is a new term, much in the news these days. Social entrepreneurs are individuals who approach a social problem with entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen. Whereas business entrepreneurs create businesses, social entrepreneurs create change. But is social entrepreneurship actually something new? What, if anything, distinguishes the social entrepreneur from other workers?

Content: Article | Authors: Howard E. Gardner, Lynn Barendsen | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility (ESG)

CORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” is the best source of free and confidential small business advice to help you build your business-from idea to start-up to success. The SCORE Association, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneurial education and the formation, growth and success of small businesses nationwide.

SCORE’s extensive, national network of 10,500 retired and working volunteers are experienced entrepreneurs … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: SCORE Association | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Reference / Search

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Why so many entrepreneurs have trouble delegating.

Content: Article | Author: Alison Stein Wellner | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management

A collection of entrepreneurship-related articles from Capital Ideas. Includes:
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Entrepreneurs: Will They Stay or Will They Go?
Research by Stanislav D. Dobrev

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Content: Article | Source: Capital Ideas | Subject: Entrepreneurship

If you experience great difficulty in raising money, it’s not because VCs are idiots and cannot comprehend your curve-jumping, paradigm shifting, revolutionary product. It’s because you either have a piece of crap or you are not effectively communicating what you have. Both of these are your fault. End of discussion.

Content: Quotation | Source: Forbes | Subjects: Communication, Venture Capital

Nineteen essential strategies for business owners. Includes How To…
…Work With a Partner (Year After Year After Year)
…Hire Wisely
…Fire Decisively
…Be a Great Boss
…Work (If You Must) With Your Spouse
…Groom a No. 2 (or, Gasp, a Successor)
…Keep an Assistant
…Star in an Ad (Without Looking Like an Idiot)
…Crack Big-Box Retail
…Spot Trouble in Your Financials
…Talk to an Investment … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Miscellaneous

Why foreign-based VCs are taking a closer look at U.S. firms.

Content: Article | Author: Michelle Leder | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

S-Corp? C-Corp? LLC? Partnership? Proprietorship? With so many choices of organizational forms, it pays to do your research before making the plunge. In the Journal of Financial Planning, Opiela discusses the choice of organizational form with financial planners. Very good! [FinanceProfessor.com Annotation]

Content: Article | Author: Nancy Opiela | Source: Journal of Financial Planning | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Finance

The renowned MOOT CORP® Competition opens its archives of award-winning business plans and presentations to create a mini-course for budding entrepreneurs to use in writing their business plans and in finding the resources to launch their businesses. The Creating a Fundable Business Plan website is part of the UTOPIA project, an ambitious new initiative designed to open The University of Texas at Austin’s doors of … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Sources: MOOT CORP, University of Texas at Austin | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, MBA Related

How can Europe breed and grow more pan-European high potential ventures?

Content: Article | Author: Hamid Bouchikhi | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, International – Europe