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280 Business Articles
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Overcoming the Growth Plateau
chicagogsb.edu— — “The Polsky Center and the Market Strategy Group found that certain entrepreneurial practices exist that make a difference for sustaining growth in business”
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Those High-flying Angel Investors: VC Panel Talks Up Creative Financing for Start-ups
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Software manufacturing, software programs to defeat spam, new business data technology and web services are all areas of opportunity for entrepreneurs, according to venture capitalists taking part in a panel on creative financing at a recent Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference”
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Pre-startup formal business plans and post-startup performance
blog.guykawasaki.com— — “The most widely dispensed advice for would-be entrepreneurs is that they should write a business plan before they launch their new ventures. The world of entrepreneurship is awash with information on business plans”
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A Garage and an Idea: What More Does an Entrepreneur Need?
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“There exists a common belief that entrepreneurs commonly start businesses in garages (or basements or dorm rooms or kitchens). The garage entrepreneur is a highly popular contemporary legend, but not quite accurate.”
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The Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation in Stimulating Effective Corporate Entrepreneurship
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“This section presents focuses on the role of entrepreneurial orientation in stimulating effective corporate entrepreneurship. Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has two primary aims: the creation and pursuit of new venture opportunities and strategic renewal.”
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The End of Corporate Computing
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“Information technology is undergoing an inexorable shift from being an asset that companies own - in the form of computers, software and myriad related components -to being a service that they purchase from utility providers.” -
Information Technology and the Board of Directors
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“Ever since the Y2K scare, boards have grown increasingly nervous about corporate dependence on information technology.”
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Information Orientation: People, Technology and the Bottom Line
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“Information technology improves business performance only if combined with competent
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Entrepreneurs Share a Universal Hunger to Build Things
gsb.stanford.edu— — “Successful entrepreneurs share a need to build things. Speakers including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Pat House of Seibel Systems, and Donna Dubinsky of Handspring agree, the good ones stay focused and don’t listen to the naysayers.”
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Communicating with Angels
eventuring.kauffman.org— — “Communication is the vital link in building a relationship with a business partner – in this case a mentor (angel) capitalist”
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Smart Startups Don't Wait to Set Up Accounting Systems
gsb.stanford.edu— — “The question of when to set up management control systems such as financial planning and monitoring tools haunts most entrepreneurs involved in startup operations.”
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Organization & Preparation Tips
garrreynolds.com— — “Before you even open up PowerPoint, sit down and really think about the day of your presentation. What is the real purpose of your talk?”
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Top Ten Delivery Tips
garrreynolds.com— — “If I had only one tip to give, it would be to be passionate about your topic and let that enthusiasm come out. Yes, you need great content. Yes, you need professional, well designed visuals.”
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The First Five Slides: Unlocking the Story Buried in Your Presentation
sociablemedia.com— — “If you use bullet points in your PowerPoint presentations, it’s probably because writing bullets helps you to build slides quickly and reminds you to cover all the points you want to make.”
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One Size Fits One: Tailoring Technology to Consumer Needs
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “While a number of commentators these days suggest that the web could soon make newspapers, magazines and TV obsolete, Jeff Weiner, senior vice president for search and marketplace at Yahoo!, doesn’t buy it.”
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Understanding an Organization's View of the CIO: The Role of Assumptions about IT
misqe.org— — “Research in 31 departments of two large insurance companies revealed five underlying assumptions that impact the CIO’s ability to provide an effective, influential, senior executive role.”
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IT Governance is Key to Managing Expectations
itstrategycenter.com— — “To prevent a boardroom tug-of-war over IT resources, CIOs need a new approach.”
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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor United States 2004-2005 Executive Report
gemconsortium.org— — “The United States’ transition from a managerial to an entrepreneurial economy is strongly supported by the GEM National Entrepreneurship Assessment of the United States of America 2004 and 2005 Executive Report.”
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How to Research a Business Plan
bcstats.gov.bc.ca— — “Success in today’s complex economy requires a solid foundation of knowledge from which sound business decisions can be made.”
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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…”