The Welch Legacy: Creative Destruction

“Corporations are built on the assumption of continuity; hence their focus is on operations. Capital markets are built on the assumption of discontinuity; their focus is on creation and destruction. This is the central contradiction of the life of a corporation: It cannot succeed without excellent operations, but it will fail if it focuses primarily on operations. Corporations are afflicted with the survivor’s curse: Most … [ Read more ]

Interactive Index of Economic Freedom

The Heritage Foundation, along with the _Wall Street Journal_, presents the Interactive Index of Economic Freedom, a tremendous database offering detailed reference information about economic policy for 161 countries. The search feature provides a variety of options for searching the database and organizing the results including sorting the results alphabetically or by rank. Along with a simple search, users can search by country or region … [ Read more ]

MiniPlan

Brought to you by the WSJ and Palo Alto Software. “By completing the exercises in the MiniPlan, our free initial assessment business plan program, you can test your objectives, define a mission, analyze markets, determine your break-even point… and much more. Simply sign up and start working. It’s a quick, easy way to begin down the entrepreneurial path.”

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startup.wsj.com

Startup portal powered by editorial staff of Wall Street Journal. Naturally includes news, also has databases of venture capital firms, business opportunities, capital available and capital wanted. Offers a business plan outline, email alerts and more

collegejournal.com

From the publishers of the Wall Street Journal, bills itself as the Internet’s premier free site for undergraduate, graduate and MBA students who want job-search and career-guidance information.