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Creating Your Own Opportunity Filter
In other articles I’ve talked about how investors might evaluate start-up ideas. But how should you evaluate your own ideas for a start-up? If you’re like most entrepreneurs or would-be entrepreneurs...
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Infographic: Valuation – The Venture Capital Method
I created this infographic to help my undergraduate students understand the way VCs often triangulate to a pre-money valuation. This method is particularly useful for early-stage start ups where there...
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Competitive Analysis
Below are a number of articles that relate to the importance of competitive analysis as well as key considerations as you work through the process. Competitive Analysis via Entrepreneur Competitive...
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Cool Tools
One thing that’s great about my job is that I’m sort of living at the cross section of education and entrepreneurship. In seeking resources to teach entrepreneurship, I’ve stumbled across some cool...
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Entrepreneurship & Product Development
I often feel that when talking about entrepreneurship we spend a lot of time talking about coming up with a great idea and then getting it funded and then running the company. What… Read More →
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Time for Employees to Cash Out of Facebook
On Monday, October 29, the employee lock up will expire and employees will have the chance to cash out of their stock. Given that employees at start ups are often paid below market… Read More →
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Don’t Sit on Your Couch to Create Your Business Plan.
If you’ve ever told someone you have an idea for a start-up, chances are you’ve heard the question, “Do you have a business plan?” And your answer should be yes. But don’t run… Read More →
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Are You Creative?
A strong case can be made for the necessity of creativity in entrepreneurship. However, we often stop with the creative innovation associated with developing the product or service. What often gets...
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4 Steps to Creating a “Blue Ocean” Strategy
Step 1: Outline the industry and get a good feel for it’s key attributes and the intensity of the competition. Porter’s 5 Forces model can be useful for this. Step 2: Consider the… Read More →
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Entrepreneurship Articles that Might Interest You – April 1-8
I do most of my reading on the weekends. I sit down with my iPad, open up Flipboard and read articles on all kinds of topics from all around the web. Here are… Read More →
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Brainstorming and Innovation: What do they have in common?
Do you think you know how to brainstorm? Sure you do. Does it look like this? Get a bunch of people in a room with a whiteboard. Propose a problem and have everyone… Read More →
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Resources: How/Why Start-Ups Get Funded
“…..and we’re going to need to raise some money. Where should we go to find investors?” This question gets asked a lot. And unfortunately there is no one answer and … Continue reading →
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Can a University Pivot Like a Start-Up?
As institutions of higher learning we have done the research and we have the data that seems to profoundly assert that the blended F2F/online model is a better learning model. We have quantitative…...
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Possibility of Higher Education Cafeteria Model Creates Opportunities Du’Jour
My brain has been running on overload these last weeks as I’ve been participating in CFHE12 and edstartup101. And I think I’ve had a glimpse of a future . Not THE future. But… Read More →
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Crowdfunding – Where are we going with this?
As reported in Dan Primack’s email newsletter Term Sheet this morning, Indiegogo has just closed a BIG Series B: “Indiegogo, a San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform, has raised $40 million in...
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Crowdfunding Still Wild Wild West
As you know, I teach entrepreneurship and one of the classes I teach is Venture Funding. While we delve into the VC world, we know that that is not the path of the… Continue reading →
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Anger & Clarity
Yesterday, I experienced a real-time wake-up-call of how I don’t make the best decisions when I’m angry. I’m so focused on being livid, I fail to notice that other solutions are possible. I’m… Continue...
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Three Things We Don’t Teach Entrepreneurs
We do a great job teaching ideation. And founding. And finding customers. And pitching. And sources of capital. And pretty much everything you need to know up until about 10 employees. Want to…...
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What idea should we have?
I got asked this question by a group of students in one of my entrepreneurship classes a few years ago. And because ideation was part of the process I was trying to teach,… Continue reading →
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