Optimism & the New Venture Creation Process…
In 2011 I wrote an academic paper entitled Entrepreneur Optimism and the New Venture Creation...
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Category: Entrepreneurship
An Offer of Help
The events we currently face, mean that we all need to pull together and help each other. There...
Read MoreKeys to Action – Business Planning & Action
There is some evidence that suggests that the relevance and importance of business planning is not always clear and understood. If you are driving to a location that perhaps you have never been to before, or your memory is...
Read MoreWhat’s the difference between a Ponzi Scheme and Air Australia?
It occurred to me today when I was reflecting on the Air Australia failure that there is an argument that this business failure is similar to the end result exhibited by failed Ponzi schemes. Let me be clear that I am not...
Read MoreKeys to Action – Understand Your Customer
How well do you understand your customer? What is the value you are providing to you customer, or indeed, the pain you are solving for them? Despite the fact that our businesses are dependant on customers for revenue, it is...
Read MoreNever loose sign of the importance of people in your business!
Businesses are simply clusters of people. We have staff, customers and suppliers. Despite the fact that these are often organisations don’t forget that these organisations exist as much as anything because of their people....
Read MoreKeys to an Action Orientated Business
What do we mean by an action-orientated business? There is no doubt that business planning is important to the success of a business venture, however too often planning either gets in the way of taking action, or is disconnected...
Read MoreThe Lawn Mowing Plumber
Entrepreneurship reveals itself in many different ways. I ran into an enthusiastic young man over the weekend who had great delight in sharing his story of his newly established lawn mowing business. A plumber during the usual...
Read MoreExpect the unexpected
Today’s earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, reinforce the need to be prepared and indeed, to expect the unexpected. Sucessful ventures, as much as they can be, should be prepared for ‘events’ that can...
Read MoreEntrepreneurial emergence in Australia
The Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, QUT is conducting the Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence research project, or CAUSEE. It is Australia’s largest nascent entrepreneurship research...
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