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210 Entrepreneurship Articles
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Welcome to Hypercompetition—Competitive Advantage at its Fastest
knowledge.emory.edu— — “Welcome to the brave, new business world of hypercompetition, where the competitive advantages you enjoy today may vanish with breathtaking speed and frequency”
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What Are Brands Good For?
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“This article discusses the strategic functions performed by brand names. Brands are an indispensable part of modern business.”
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Does Success in Tech Ventures Follow from Better R&D? Think Again
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “The importance that companies attach to continually improving their technology is widely known.”
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Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
hbswk.hbs.edu— — “Building sufficient cash reserves to launch a business and managing subsequent fundraising are challenges for every entrepreneur, but they are particularly daunting tasks for women.”
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Family Business: Why Firms Do Well When Founders Are at the Helm
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Despite the lack of independent directors on their boards and voting power for minority shareholders, family-run companies are still the better bet for all stakeholders as long as the firm’s founder is involved as chief executive officer or chairman”
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In Asia, the Venture Capital Business Has Two Sides
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “While Asian entrepreneurs are eager for venture-capital investments from firms in the United States and Western Europe, and Western investors are ready to enter the booming Asian economies, for now the two sides often circle each other warily or, at best, proceed awkwardly”
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Why Global Business Needs Kinder, Gentler Entrepreneurs and Leaders
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Most images of entrepreneurship tend to focus on the vision and guts involved in getting ventures off the ground”
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Why Some Start-ups Choose Cooperation over Competition
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “When faced with the challenge of commercializing its AIDS drug, Trimeris Inc., a small biotech company based in Durham, N.C., didn’t hire a sales force or sink money into marketing”
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Rules to Live By, and Break, According to Staples Founder Thomas Stemberg
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Thomas Stemberg, founder and executive chairman of Staples, an office products retail chain, doesn’t buy one piece of advice that is often given to aspiring entrepreneurs:”
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Bottom-Up Economics
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“Iqbal Quadir is best known as the founder of GrameenPhone, Bangladesh’s largest phone company in terms of subscribers.”
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Prototyping with Style
digital-web.com— — Article by Jeff Lash in Digital Web Magazine, July 25, 2003, giving advice on how to do web interface prototyping.
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Canada Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2003 Report
gemconsortium.org— — “Canada remains one of the most dynamic G7 nations with 8.0% of its adult population engaged in entrepreneurial activities in 2003.”
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Missouri Rural Entrepreneurship Initiative
international-rural-network.org— — “Interest is growing in rural entrepreneurship, but there is much to be learned about what communities can do to increase the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity”
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The Psychology of Success
inc.com— — “They’re hyperconfident risk-takers. They make big decisions on the fly but often fail to see the big picture. They’re charismatic visionaries who don’t play well with others. That’s the stereotype of successful entrepreneurs.”
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How to Better manage Your Cash Flow
entrepreneur.com— — From Entrepreneur.com, four steps that will help you keep track of the money coming in and out of your growing company.
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How to Prepare a Market Analysis
edwardlowe.org— — “Investigation and analysis of your competition and potential customer base are major components of a comprehensive market analysis. This checklist of resources for gathering market data provides perspective regarding common market research tools and methods.”
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Cognition, creativity, and entrepreneurship
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“Cognitive approaches to creativity are discussed as they relate to an important task of entrepreneurs: generating novel and useful ideas for business ventures.”
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Social Entrepreneurs: Playing the Role of Change Agents in Society
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Ian MacMillan, director of Wharton’s Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center, defines social entrepreneurship this way: “It’s a process whereby the creation of new business enterprise leads to social wealth enhancement so that both society and the entrepreneur benefit.””
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New Definitions of Social Entrepreneurship: Free Eye Exams and Wheelchair Drivers
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Social organizations increasingly look to business for ways to make the world a better place, but it has not been easy for the growing social entrepreneurship movement to bridge the divide between doing good and doing well, according to J. Gregory Dees, an authority on this type of enterprise. ”
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VillageReach Measures Its Success in Smiles
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “During the devastating floods that swept through Africa back in 2000, Blaise Judja-Sato traveled to Mozambique to assist in the country’s relief efforts”