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Entrepreneurship

Motivating People to Drive Innovation or New Sources of Value Creation

January 12, 2010

Last night I heard Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind and the new book Drive, speak about the most powerful wellsprings of human motivation: the intrinsic motivators autonomy, mastery and purpose. If you haven’t read Drive, here is Daniel Pink’s TEDTalk on human motivation. An entertaining 18-minute summary of what behavioral scientists know [...]

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Women: The World’s Biggest Untapped Market

November 10, 2009

How will your business address the enormous business opportunity that lies within the so-called “female economy?” Did you know that (according to the HBR, 9/09):

Women now drive the world economy.

As a market, women represent a bigger opportunity than China and India combined — more than twice as big.

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Don’t Forget Your Revenue Engine

October 29, 2009

If you’d like to increase your chances of securing financing from angels, make sure you take the time beforehand to have good answers to the questions you can expect to hear from potential investors. No matter which angel group you pitch, they’re all likely to ask similar questions. Here are some of the burning questions that they will have for you.

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