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11 Strategy Resources
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Defining the Minimum Winning Game in High- Technology Ventures
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“The article proposes a means of organizing strategic business planning in ventures in the high-technology industry. There is an overall lack of such planning in high-technology start ups, which tend to originate in an innovation created by a single visionary entrepreneur.”
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Wine Entrepreneur: Quality Wine at Costco Prices
feedroom.businessweek.com— — “Cameron Hughes doesn’t own any grapes, but his name graces the label of tens of thousands of cases of wine”
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How to Change the World: Defensibility
blog.guykawasaki.com— — “Blog reader Curtis Thompson asked me a very good question a few days ago: What should an entrepreneur say when she’s asked what makes her company defensible”
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Competition Demystified
gsb.columbia.edu— — “Anyone running a business knows that competition matters and that strategy is important.”
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Strategy for a dynamic world
gsb.columbia.edu— — “Is the concept of sustainable competitive advantage still relevant in today’s business environment”
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How Can Start Ups Grow?
hbswk.hbs.edu— — “Start-ups often lack vital resources, must compete against established companies, and have little or no track record with which to woo customers and investors. So how do those one-out-of-ten firms grow into successful, sustained enterprises?”
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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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Know Thyself and Niche Thyself
edcorner.stanford.edu— — “A simple chart illustrates his point – how to be the creator of a unique product or service and is valuable to a customer”
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Will Your Company's Capabilities Lead Directly to Profits? Think Again
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Their report, based on several years’ worth of project-level data from a leading Indian software services firm, suggests that a firm’s capabilities (its core competencies) are largely context-specific, and that they should be studied both at the level of the firm and the industry.”
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Integrating entrepreneurship and strategic management actions to create firm wealth
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“Creating wealth is at the heart of both entrepreneurship and strategic management. For general managers and entrepreneurs, a keen interest is to learn how to apply entrepreneurial and strategic tools, techniques, and concepts in ways that help the firm create increasing amounts of wealth.”
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From initial idea to unique advantage: The entrepreneurial challenge of constructing a resource base
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“Strategies for attaining competitive advantages emphasize developing and configuring existing resource strengths into a valuable and unique resource base. But what if you do not yet have a legacy of resource strengths?”