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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Determine your Potential Market. If its market share or product offering is too strong and stable, it will be more difficult to enter the market. Part 3 Creating a Marketing Plan. If your service is seasonal, you should ask yourself when it’s best to market yourself. Part 4 Get Finance. Make a Budget.

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The Myth of the Intrapreneur

Harvard Business Review

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. It’s been promoted to workers as a way to capture the creativity and excitement of entrepreneurship, but with more resources and less risk.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value. given the nation’s advantages in creativity, software, and cloud-based business organization, even if much of the resulting new production winds up offshore.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Why not make an opposite set of assumptions, that our most human characteristics — imagination, creativity — will appear in new guises to save ourselves, our jobs, and even democracy? Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate.

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. The purpose? They host “uncomfortable alliances” amongst friends and foes.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. Not everyone should be an entrepreneur , and leaders can do much to harness their employees creative potential without forcing them to quit and create their own business. What do 70% of successful entrepreneurs have in common?