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  • The Modern Business Plan

    The historical approach for entrepreneurs has been to first generate an idea, then do some market research, then write a business plan, then attempt to raise some money, then build a product or service and then try to sell what was built. Their business plan will often be structured like this: Cover sheet Table of…

  • Startup Strategies and the Casino Floor

    I’m embarking on teaching a new course this fall called “Ready, Set, Fail”.  It’s a course about entrepreneurial failure, but what it’s really about is how to learn from failure and how to use risk mitigation strategies to reduce the likelihood of startup failure.  – While doing some research for the course, I came across…

  • Entrepreneurship culture

    I was fortunate to recently deliver a keynote address to a top accounting firm about creating an entrepreneurship culture inside their organization. The idea was to help them think through what it takes to deepen their client relationships by developing new services and business models.  I drove home the point that startups have an advantage because they are creating…