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Articles on entrepreneurship
- "One Minute Entrepreneur" - USA Today
The secret to creating and sustaining a succesful business. - The Scholarly Apprentice - Fox Business
Self Made Entrepreneur Randal Pinkett talks about Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" and his roadmap for success. - Facebook Ignites Entrepreneurial Spirit – Wall Street Journal
Students discuss how the Facebook phenomenon has started a start-up frenzy. - College Grads: Want a Franchise with those Fries? – Wall Street Journal
Discusses the pros and cons of starting a franchise fresh out of college.
Articles on Innovation
- How to Spark Innovation - Business Week ____________ _ Why is it so hard to stimulate innovation inside big corporations, while at the same time VCs are awash in innovative business plans and people?
- Tapping the Creativity of Downtime - Wall Street Journal Web-design firm uses projects employees pursue in their spare time at work to help win new business.
- How SAP Seeds Innovation - Business Week _____________ SAP's collaborative Web sites and discussion forums give its customers ways to learn from SAP business partners as well as from each other.
- Inside the World of Blizzard - Business Week _____________ Its recent merger with Activision created the biggest player in video games. But Blizzard is much more than its mega-hit World of Warcraft.
- 33 Ways to Make Money From Games - Business Week ___ _ There are lots of ways to make money from the gaming industry. In this exclusive BusinessWeek.com slide show, Perry outlines just a few of the promising business models that can be adopted by would-be gaming entrepreneurs.
- How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory - Business Week ___ _ CEO Eric Schmidt describes the simple principles driving the company's steady stream of innovations.
Generating an Idea
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad Says: Are You Pee Wee Herman or Rambo? – Entrepreneur Magazine
- Launching a Product from Start to Finish – Entrepreneur Magazine
- Building a Strategy Pyramid – Entrepreneur Magazine
- Got a New Idea? – Entrepreneur Magazine
- Learn How to Innovate – Entrepreneur Magazine
- The First Steps to Inventing – Entrepreneur Magazine
- How to Research Your Business Idea - Entrepreneur Magazine
- Getting a Million Dollar Business Idea - Entrepreneur Magazine
- Guidelines for Choosing a Business Opportunity - Entrepreneur Magazine
- Family Owned Businesses: familybusinessmagazine.com
Business Plan
Outline
- Business Plan Mistakes - Cayenne Consulting
- Top 10 Business Plan Mistakes – Inc.com
- Sample Feasibility Plan Outline (Word Format) - IEI/Temple U.
- Sample Outline for Business Plan (Word Format) - Abram’s
- So You Wanna Write a Business Plan? - SoYouWanna.com
- Business Plans - Entrepreneur.com
- How to Write a Winning Business Plan - Business Week
- Building a Better Business Plan - Business Week
- Bplans.com
- Sample Business Plans
- Center for Business Planning
- How to Write a Business Plan Tutorial
Strategy
- Environmental Variable (in Word format)
- Industry Structural Analysis (in Word format)
- SWOT & Strategic Positioning (in Word format)
- How to Hire an Attorney - Entrepreneur Magazine
- How to Name Your Business - Entrepreneur Magazine
Financial Planning
- Cash flow & Income Statement (in Excel format)
- Financial Statement Analysis (in Word format)
- Building a Financial Projection (in Excel format)
- Financial Projection Spreadsheet (in Excel format)
- Financial Projection (in PowerPoint format)
- CCH Business Owner's Toolkit
- Glenn Kelman's Financial Model
Market and Sales
- Creating a Great Website – Cheap! – Inc.com
- How to Write a Marketing Plan – Entrepreneur Magazine
- Beyond the Press Release: The Basics of PR - Entrepreneur Magazine
- A Press Release Primer – Entrepreneur Magazine
- The Ingredients of a Press Kit – Entrepreneur Magazine
- How to Generate Publicity for Your Business – Entrepreneur Magazine
- PR Tips for Getting Your Company Written About – Entrepreneur Magazine
- Star Makers: Finding Public Relations & Advertising Agencies to Make Your Business Shine – Entrepreneur Magazine
Intellectual Property
- Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights (in Word format)
- The Importance of Patents – Boston Business Journal via MIT
- Copyright Basics – U.S. Copyright Office
- Top 10 Patent Myths – Entrepreneur Magazine
- Getting to Market: Intellectual Property – The MIT Entrepreneurs Club
- Intellectual Property 101: Patents, Trademarks, Servicemarks and Copyrights – About.com
- Basic U.S. Patent, Trademark, & Copyright Information – Pierce Law School
- Intellectual Property: The Practical and Legal Fundamentals – Pierce Law School
- Frequently Asked Questions on Trademarks – International Trademark Association
- Basic Facts About Trademarks - USPTO
Trademark FAQs - USPTO
Finding Funds and Presenting to Investors
- Obtaining a Loan for your Startup – Entrepreneur Magazine
- 50 Ways to Save Money in your Business – Entrepreneur Magazine
- The 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint - Guy Kawasaki
- Presenting to Investors - PreFlight PowerTips
- Out on a Limb: Creative Financing Options to Explore - Entrepreneur Magazine
- Your Feature Presentation - Entrepreneur Magazine
- Using Credit Cards to Finance Your Startup - Entrepreneur Magazine
- Keys to Getting Your Company Funded - Entrepreneur Magazine
- Seed Capital for Pursuing Your Dream - Startup Nation (Registration Required)
- 20 Tips for Finding Money Now - INC Magazine
- How to Finance Anything - INC Magazine
- Three Steps to Borrowing from Family or Friends - INC Magazine
- The VC on the Corner - INC Magazine
- Find an Angel Investor: Earning Your Wings - INC Magazine
- Ten Steps to Securing Venture Capital - Euclid SR Partners
- Angel Financing Do’s and Don’ts for Entrepreneurs - INC Magazine
- Can you really land Venture Capital? – Entrepreneur Magazine
- Top 100 Venture Capital Firms – Entrepreneur Magazine
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