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The Resource Center has all the info you'll need From content to user feedback, the resource center has the information you need for every level of the entrepreneurial process.
A sample Sales/Service Process and ideas for developing your own sales process serve as a guide as you plan for sales growth.
Alec Dingee, Chairman and Co-Founder of MIT Mentoring Services shares his insight to how investor's view the current economic climate. Review his research: 2009 is a period of historic economic turmoil and uncertainty. The Bad News: Investors Hate Uncertainty.
This tool will help you develop and practice giving a compelling venture presentation.
There are many ways to read financial statements. This information will add understanding to your own reading of your financial statements.
This article provides insight into fast growth company potential investors--venture capitalists.
This article provides several looks at simple depreciation, including one entrepreneur's example.
Julie Atherton, a communications expert at Hill and Knowlton, discusses the pros and cons of whether corporations should adopt blogging as a communications tool. She notes a corporation's ultimate decision on blogging should be based on knowing its own culture and how that culture is perceived by its customers.
This article discusses the steps involved in the process of raising money from the first handshake to the cash-in-hand.
This tool and sample provides a systematic way to expand a marketing strategy into specific tactics and activities for implementation.
The report, “The Grass is Indeed Greener in India and China for Returnee Entrepreneurs,” is based on a survey of U.S.-educated Indian and Chinese professionals who had returned to their home countries and started businesses. These respondents cited economic opportunities, favorable conditions for starting a business and the speed of professional growth as the leading motivations for returning home. Family ties also played a significant role in attracting the entrepreneurs back to their native countries.
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