Campus Entrepreneurship

Today’s WSJ has an interesting article about a small business/entrepreneur in trouble. It turns out the story by Simona Covel is worth reading as it highlights how an entrepreneur made it through some tough times by radically shifting his core products.
As noteworthy as the article and the insights it provides are, the section that it [...]

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Just a reminder that the finals of the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Business Plan Competition are tomorrow (April 26th). The finals are open to the public from 1-5 pm in the ICC Auditorium on the Georgetown University Campus in DC. I will be blogging live (assuming the wifi works) from the event. Between 4 and 6 finalists [...]

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It doesn’t matter what your business is, you must cultivate your brand and protect it. Here is (via Eric Bramlett.com) a brand (real estate agent) that has made some interesting brand decisions. What do you think?

I haven’t checked it out yet, but part of me thinks this is a scam. Either way, the guy might [...]

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Well, this posting doesn’t say that, but over at the WSJ Wealth blog is a fascinating post on how few of the ‘rich’ inherited their money. While it doesn’t say that most made their money through entrepreneurship, my hunch is few earned their wealth through salaries alone. Many may have made it through stock options [...]

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I  drop by Mark Cuban’s blog a few times a month to see what he is talking about. Sometimes it is really technical stuff about HD TV and other things he is involved with. His post of January 3, 2008 is called, “The Sport of Business” and it is a great piece on why business [...]

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I spent much of the holidays frantically trying to launch a business (incorporating, calling web contractors, graphic designers, networking, dealing with the funding issue, etc.) and also putting together a business plan — for internal use and also for communicating what I am doing (via a 2 page exec summary) to potential partners, vendors, etc. [...]

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Great article passed along to me by a colleague, Jill Rough, at George Mason University. This piece, from Jeffrey M. O’Brien of Fortune, explores the ‘PayPal Mafia’ (the founders and early funders of PayPal) and their exploits. As you can see, Stanford and University of Illinois continue to play a central role in their activities. [...]

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From The Cheap Revolution blog, 20 great entrepreneurial quotes. Here are a couple from their post.
#4: The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning - to create a product or service to make the world a better place - Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur, investor, author
#14: An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little [...]

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What are your thoughts? The US Dept of Commerce is focusing on entrepreneurship and is launching a new site (c below), in partnership with the Kauffman Foundation. Here is the press release. Taste a bit:
The partnership will create a comprehensive Web-based resource to advance entrepreneurship. Accessible at www.Entrepreneurship.gov, the site will serve as an [...]

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Not sure how many of you are planning on raising money from investors, but Tim Berry offers 10 basic rules for valuation. It may seem simple, but definitely worth a look. Here is #7:
Analysts often apply formulas. The most common formula is called “times profits” because it multiplies profits times some number. Another common formula [...]

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