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If The Entrepreneurial Shoe Fits, That Doesn’t Mean You Should Wear It

Terry Starbucker

It really is essential reading for any would-be entrepreneur, because it really “lays it all out there&# – all the hurdles and “screens&# that one has to jump and pass through to conceive, plan, fund, staff, model, manage and execute (just to name a few) a new business. How are you with your personal finances?

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Managing Shareholders in the Age of Stakeholder Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

How to identify and attract investors who will support your long-term, stakeholder-focused plans.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed.

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How Corporate Venture Capital Helps Firms Explore New Territory

Harvard Business Review

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies'' walls, and internal idea contests. And corporate venture funds, if well managed, can avoid the fickleness problem that plagues independent venture capital and crowdfunding. Finance Innovation' Get a Lawyer.

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How Corporate Venture Capital Helps Firms Explore New Territory

Harvard Business Review

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies’ walls, and internal idea contests. And corporate venture funds, if well managed, can avoid the fickleness problem that plagues independent venture capital and crowdfunding. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.

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How to Attract the Right Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

Managers tasked with investor relations often believe their role is to “sell” the business — or the strategy the company pursues — with the sole goal of retaining and attracting as many shareholders as possible. We have found this is best done with a five-step approach to strategic shareholder management.

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