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4 Reasons Not to Launch a Startup

Good article with some cogent warnings about startups and what can happen...
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Clay Christensen's Milkshake Marketing

This is some wonderful, fresh thinking on marketing from one of my Harvard Business School professors (Clay taught our first year Operations class and he was clearly a favorite with me and my classmates)...
via http://hbswk.hbs.edu/

How Google Refined the Entrepreneurial Spirit by Applying Strategic Focus to Invent a New Industry

Good article on the formulation of the idea behind Google...
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You don't need more time

Fire adjust, fire adjust, fire adjust is always better than aim, aim, aim...
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What We Can All Learn From Amazon about Seeing Business Opportunities Others Don't See

This is a fantastic recap of why Amazon is so successful and how they continue to think entrepreneurially...
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Contests and Awards for Entrepreneurs

For all of you that want to enter a business plan contest...
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Business "Deaths" in UK Exceed "Births"

2009 was a bad year for businesses in the U.K....
via http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dailystat.php

Family Works, Again

Stay tuned for an update on the release of Family Works - Volume Two...
via http://www.franklinsprings.com/news/

Global Investment Needs May Outstrip Savings

Not surprising since there are only three ways to grow an economy: savings, foreign direct investment, or debt. And in a world that doesn't save and when investment is down and we are saturated with debt, the economy simply cannot grow...
via http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dailystat.php

DIY platform enables home-grown iPhone apps

Mobile phone apps just keep getting more and more "central" to life. Now for the entrepreneur, getting your app developed and published is easier than ever...
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