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11 Opportunity recognition Articles
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An 'Idea Journal': Better Ideas, Brain RAM Upgrade
mpdailyfix.com— — “The first and best tip I can offer to anyone wanting to be more creative and innovative is to start carrying and Idea Journal”
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Opportunity Recognition as Pattern Recognition: How Entrepreneurs "Connect the Dots" to Identify New Business Opportunities
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“How do entrepreneurs identify opportunities for new business ventures? One possibility, suggested by research on human cognition, is that they do so by using cognitive frameworks they have acquired through experience to perceive connections”
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Strategic intuition: The key to innovation
gsb.columbia.edu— — “Combining ideas from military history, cognitive psychology and modern neuroscience, strategic intuition offers a four-step method for identifying and capturing opportunity”
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Conference Asks: What Drives Innovation?
gsb.stanford.edu— — “The impact of the internet on industry and society is still unfolding, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the Roads to Innovation Conference, and it offers huge opportunities (Video available)”
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Demographics: The Population Hourglass
fastcompany.com— — “It’s the futurist’s first rule: You can’t understand the future without demographics. The composition of a society-whether its citizens are old or young, prosperous or declining, rural or urban-shapes every aspect of civic life…”
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Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
hbswk.hbs.edu— — “What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior research associate Lauren Barley recently interviewed four venture capitalists…”
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Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
hbswk.hbs.edu— — “What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship…”
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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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Exploring Business Opportunities
smallbusinessbc.ca— — “There is a big difference between a business idea and a business opportunity. An idea is an opportunity only if it has a chance to succeed.”
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Finding Fertile Ground: Identifying Extraordinary Opportunities for New Ventures
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “If you are thinking of starting a new technology company, you can and should examine how favorable different industries are to new firms”
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Toys and Spinning Brushes: How John Osher Found His Way to Profits
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Osher and several partners developed the SpinBrush in 1999 and then, in 2001, sold it to Procter & Gamble for $475 million”