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MBAs and Entrepreneurship: Spring Events at The University of Texas at Austin
It’s spring and there’s a tour-de-force of entrepreneurship events at The University of Texas at Austin. Results show management experience, including MBA’s on management teams, produces positive...
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Innovation: The CEO’s Age
New research on company innovation and a CEO’s age has been published. Previous research in this area had focused on geography and shown that liberty, the ability to work where you want and do what you...
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Definitions: Alternative Assets and Institutional Venture Capital
Alternative assets are long-term, private transactions with liquidity measured in years and sometimes decades, compared to classic investments of cash, stock and bonds with instant liquidity. This lack...
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Creativity: How to Spur It
How do you get the creative juices flowing? What kind of environment produces creative results? Are any of the methods believable? Here’s a list with links to the research backing each item. In the...
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Disruptive Innovation: Cameras
Many have claimed the disruptive innovation title and have been covered in this blog (Are Peanut Butter Pap-Tarts Really an Innovation?) – and claiming it is clearly a contra-indicator of having it....
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Trendspotting: Brookings Institute Report Shows Declining Entrepreneurship
According to a recent report from the Brookings Institute, for the first time in 30 years there are more businesses shutting down than starting in the United States. The trend line from the report...
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Innovation: The Xstat Medical Device
Some of the most innovative products come from practical, often gritty beginnings, providing an elegantly simple solution to a significant problem. RevMedX is this kind of company, focused on...
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Strategy: Why Your Idea Doesn’t Matter and a Chapter Download
How does a company like Dell thrive in the PC industry, while IBM, who pioneered the space, fails? How does a legacy airline like Southwest Airlines become the most profitable in the United States,...
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Chapter Download: You Don’t Know Your Customer As Well As You Think You Do
This is the second chapter download from “A Good Hard Kick in the Ass” I’m making available for your summertime reading list. This was by far the most popular chapter in the book, and spawned my second...
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Minimalist Travelling Tips from Entrepreneur Magazine
As many of you know, I do a lot of international and domestic travel. It turns out there is a use for all those accumulated travel experiences besides just getting to teach and consult all over the...
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