The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 23, 2023

The researchers look particularly at refugees that establish a business in their adopted homeland, and how providing support for these refugee entrepreneurs can produce a ripple effect that spreads throughout the community. The first was obviously the economic benefits produced via the introduction of new products and services.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur Retail Construction Participative 118

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2022

When we talk of entrepreneurs there is a tendency to think in terms of Hernan Cortes, the famous Spanish explorer who burned his ships upon landing in Mexico in order to convince his men that there was no turning back. “ There is value in gaining concrete evidence, real-time market feedback, that your product or service works.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Hedge Long-term Commitment 111

Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Recently, I have been encouraged by conversations with several young entrepreneurs who are tapping into the power of human connection and creating ways to bring people together. They’ve identified market segments that could benefit from better connection and crafted a customer experience using products and services to meet that need.

Entrepreneur 170

Entrepreneur Market Segmentation Power Stress 170

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As a female entrepreneur, it is essential to understand the capabilities of technology in order to connect with customers and cultivate meaningful relationships. Through various innovations, businesses can respond quickly to customer inquiries without the need for additional staff or resources.

Technology 113

Technology Entrepreneur Customer Loyalty Audience 113

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 15, 2024

. “In the second study, we gave the participants several scenarios related to owning a business, and those who were overconfident—once again, men and women alike—were more likely to introduce a really risky, highly innovative product with a slim chance of success,” the researchers conclude.

Entrepreneur 59

Entrepreneur Policies Participative Innovation 59

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 27, 2021

One might imagine that such intrinsic motivation is even more prevalent among social entrepreneurs, who by their very definition are focused primarily on improving various social, environmental, or cultural issues. ” Missionary entrepreneurs. ” Missionary entrepreneurs. .” ” Missionary entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur 82

Entrepreneur Motivation Incentives Proposal 82

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 2, 2022

The entrepreneurial learning curve is often an extremely steep one, with entrepreneurs picking up the tools of the trade at a rapid pace as they try to grow their businesses. The delayed product launches don’t appear to suggest that learning is happening in many startups today. Pivoting successfully. Slack timekeeping.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Learning Curve Incubator Project 98

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 9, 2023

While Winston Churchill was famously supposed to have remarked that we should never waste a crisis, the reality is that during recessions, firms often tighten their belts and reduce the amount they invest in innovation. “We examine innovation following the Great Depression using data on a century’s worth of U.S.

Innovation 99

Innovation Crisis Finance Banking 99

Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

I've learned that from my nearly forty years of working with scientists and clinicians to transform inventions into successful commercial products. works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. His new book is Can't Tame a Mongoose: Memoir of a Genomics Entrepreneur.

Tips 340

Tips Due Diligence Biotechnology Entrepreneur 340

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

The deluge of easy money into the sector has prompted many would-be entrepreneurs to take their eye off the ball, and whereas Peter Drucker famously said that the only real purpose of a business is to create a customer, the current entrepreneurial landscape allows founders to get rich without worrying too much about that.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Agility Document FAQ 113

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 12, 2023

A recent study from the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business at Waterloo highlights how female entrepreneurs still tend to benefit from partnering with experienced men rather than going it alone. When experienced female entrepreneurs pair up with an experienced male entrepreneur, the benefits don’t materialize.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Team Analysis Document 92

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Startups are renowned for their creativity and innovation, but this can often dry up once the unique pressures of going public are imposed on a firm. Research from Duke University explores why some companies have managed to remain innovative after going public while others have struggled. Free from pressure.

Innovation 88

Innovation IPO Short-term Resistance 88

Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Uptime : A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing by Laura Mae Martin Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the “new way of work” work for you, providing actionable steps to optimize your productivity, accomplish more, prevent burnout, and cultivate a harmonious work-life balance.

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Books Leadership Mentor Crisis 277

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 16, 2013

The best way to discover them is to ask those who have overcome the odds to tell their stories, and that’s what the Oregon Entrepreneur’s Network (OEN) did last week here in Portland, inviting 15 Oregon entrepreneurs to speak at their first OEN Summit.

Entrepreneur 378

Entrepreneur Apparel Ryan Software 378

Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

W E LIVE IN the age of the entrepreneur. Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation.

Innovation 222

Innovation Organization Bottom-up Airlines 222

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

It was a fitting tribute to the man who personified invention and innovation. So, let’s take a moment and consider four things about innovation that you can learn from Thomas Edison. Innovation Is A Team Sport. Edison knew that when it came to innovation, lots of minds and skillsets were better than one. Try, Try Again.

Innovation 197

Innovation Diversity Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 197

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 25, 2012

Since I moved to Portland about 16 months ago, I’ve hung out with a lot of entrepreneurs, in coffee shops all over town. I was a “corporate guy” for so many years (28 to be exact), and while I thought I knew what it was really like to “think like an entrepreneur”, it turns out I really didn’t know.

Entrepreneur 419

Entrepreneur BHAG Learning-by-Doing Productivity 419

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 29, 2021

Being an entrepreneur is undoubtedly a stressful experience as you struggle to develop a product or service that is attractive to the market with minimal resources and little in the way of income. The research explores some strategies that can be deployed to help entrepreneurs cope with those stresses.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Stress Proposal Reference 119

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While attending events like HIMSS, there is a distinct sense of so-called “make and sell” involved, with companies certain that if they can only make a nice enough product that it will inevitably transform healthcare for the better. All of these things take time, energy, and money. .’s

Innovation 95

Innovation Technology Incubator Entrepreneur 95

Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice.

Blue Ocean Strategy 271

Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Books Leadership 271

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. New products and services can be “knocked off” or copied. It’s a big competitive edge.

Innovation 59

Innovation Agility Strategic Planning Core Competence 59

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO.

Entrepreneur 325

Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 325

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Creating world-class products and services is a discipline that some organizations seem to master, and others struggle to achieve. Radhika Dutt presents a different approach in her book Radical Product Thinking. Radhika’s experience building products in numerous industries is evident in every chapter. Radhika Dutt.

Productivity 106

Productivity Products Development Short-term 106

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Female entrepreneurs often have to work against the odds in order to succeed, with various societal factors working against them. The research examines the Product Hunt platform, where entrepreneurs can test out their concept among early adopters, who offer feedback on whether the product is good or not. Gender gap.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Sample 107

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

The answer is probably ‘yes’, and the most successful entrepreneurs know that. Could you be a better entrepreneur? No entrepreneur knows everything, though many of them give that impression. That could affect the productivity levels of your workplace, so don’t underestimate the importance of talking to your workers.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Delegation Learning-by-Doing Training 105

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Succession Self-aware Storytelling 65

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2020

One of the biggest challenges that you will face as an entrepreneur is identifying various means to expand your business, but that does not mean it is highly impossible. Growth is a significant indicator that your business is on the right track and involves taking more risks, developing innovative ideas, and identifying the right audience.

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur Strategy Franchising Media 132

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

We live in an age where you can cut it out as an online entrepreneur online with the rising number of business opportunities cropping up in the digital space. Well, the answer to being a successful internet entrepreneur is in being innovative and ready to adapt. Design unique products and services.

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Strategy Succession Due Diligence 73

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This emotional shutoff valve could make him callous, but it also made him a risk-seeking innovator. “He Entrepreneurs are actually not risk takers,” says X.com CFO Roelof Botha. This led him to develop what he called an “idiot index,” which calculated how much costly a finished product was than the cost of its basic materials.

CFO 350

CFO Sharpe Engineering Learning-by-Doing 350

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 8, 2020

In a recent article I explored some of the unique challenges facing female entrepreneurs who continue to battle explicit and implicit discrimination over and above the existing challenges of running a startup. New research was undertaken in association with the World Bank to test the most effective means of training entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur 85

Entrepreneur Succession Mentor Training 85

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Eisenmann introduces the Diamond-and-Square framework to help aspiring entrepreneurs know whether they have actually identified an attractive opportunity and determine what types of resources are required to successfully capitalize on it. Premature scaling of marketing and product development efforts is a widespread cause of startup failure.

Early Adopters 204

Early Adopters Entrepreneur Mass Marketing Marketing 204

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As a leader, you have the power and influence to help your team members develop new habits that can make them more productive. As hard as it is for us doers to believe, all the evidence says that maximum effectiveness and innovation start with…STOPPING. Make sure they also have time in their schedules to stop and think.

Tactics 236

Tactics Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing 236

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2023

When we think of innovation, we often do so through the lens of “creative destruction” The phrase, which was memorably coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter, suggests that innovation typically happens when an incumbent is gazumped by a new upstart. ” What is non-disruptive innovation? INSEAD’s W.

Mauborgne 52

Mauborgne Innovation Disruptive Innovation Blue Ocean Strategy 52

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

As an entrepreneur, I have worked tirelessly to regain some semblance of comfort and financial security. You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. It is an opportunity to create and be innovative.

Entrepreneur 150

Entrepreneur CFO Maturity Long-term 150

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2022

The INSEAD paper suggests that the focus on the business model also prompts entrepreneurs to place more emphasis on the idea itself and less on the business, and especially its structure. A common thread among the entrepreneurs was to try and solve problems with as little effort as possible., Lack of focus.

Business Model 93

Business Model Entrepreneur Organization Agility 93

Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

If you can simply accelerate the current activities, products and strategies that your business implements, will that help you win in the future? Or, think about innovation. Everyone knows innovation is important. But again, if you can innovate successfully, is that enough? Every executive knows that speed is important.

Agility 150

Agility Attrition Innovation Market Segmentation 150