Tag Archives: entrepreneurs
Three Key Business Plan Resources
People often conduct business research with the intent of using it to inform a business plan. So where should you visit on the interwebs to find a good business plan how-to? 1. The United States Small Business Administration has a
3-Day Startup
The last weekend in March, I and three of my colleagues from the UT-Austin School of Information had the distinct pleasure of volunteering as business research mentors at Austin 3-Day Startup (3DS), an educational event that gives college students ranging
Wired on Public High Techs
Last week Felix Salmon, a Reuters blogger writing for Wired Magazine’s Epicenter website, published a thorough and well-done article called For High Tech Companies Going Public Sucks. It investigates, with several examples, how the act of becoming publicly traded can
Trends Magazine
If you’re, oh say a VC firm, and therefore trying to stay- not just abreast but ahead- on the business frontier, then Trends Magazine is a good place to start. According to its About page, the Trends editorial staff of business
Venture More Than A Guess
Want to know which industry sandboxes the venture capital firms are playing in? Then download a MoneyTree Report, a three-part match made in free-data heaven among PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thompson Reuters. Every quarter Thompson Reuters surveys
Casual Friday: Live Purchasing
In case you needed another way to spend your free time, here’s one interesting way: live purchasing. The Zappos.com website has a Real-Time Order Map that it dubbed Mappos, which allows you to see what individuals (kept anonymous of course)
FedEx + Me My Story: Austin
Everyone has heard the FedEx lore: “FedEx started with nothing but one really smart undergrad, one really good term paper and one really big dream.” Now they are helping other small start-up companies with the FedEx + Me program piloted
C200: The Committee of 200
The C200 is an exclusive membership association of 400 of the world’s most successful women entrepreneurs and corporate leaders representing over 100 industries in the US, Europe, Asia, Canada and Latin America. C200 members employ more that 2.5 million people
Estrogen Based Entrepreneurs
Bizologie is proud to be a new member of Estrogen Based Entrepreneurs. Jill Murphy started the Facebook page after writing a blog post about the challenges of the entrepreneurial/creative life. One of her friends, Sara-Mai Conway, reposted it on her
