One of the most dreaded aspects of being an entrepreneurship professor are the hundreds of times that students will come up with the same – bad – business concept when tasked with building businesses of… Read more »
Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship
Business Development Resources for New Entrepreneurs
As a sometime professor of entrepreneurship, I'm frequently approached by would-be entrepreneurs for help in fleshing out their business plans. While I enjoy doing this, it could very easily become a full-time job! I've therefore… Read more »
Columbia Faculty on “What is the Entrepreneurial Mindset”
Entrepreneurship is one of those terms that’s a bit like the old saw about art or pornography – “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it”. If you want to bring… Read more »
Venture Capitalists may not be so good at stopping failing projects after all
My colleague, Isin Guler, has just published a fascinating study in one of our more erudite management journals. In an exhaustive look at investments made by venture capital companies, she finds that as funding rounds… Read more »
Entrepreneurial Japan - that’s news!
In the February, 2007, Harvard Business Review, there is a wonderful short piece on Entrepreneurial Japan. It notes how many trends — the end of guaranteed lifetime employment, changing governance structures, the changing social attitude… Read more »
Entrepreneurial Japan – that’s news!
In the February, 2007, Harvard Business Review, there is a wonderful short piece on Entrepreneurial Japan. It notes how many trends — the end of guaranteed lifetime employment, changing governance structures, the changing social attitude… Read more »
Preparing for Startup
Rita was recently asked how people can best prepare themselves for an entrepreneurial career later on in life. Here are her suggestions: There are three things that you can do to position yourself to start… Read more »