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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.
Use this tool to evaluate growth opportunities based on your vision, business growth readiness, and market potential for opportunities you have already identified.
This article discusses the sources of equity capital for entrepreneurs starting and growing new ventures.
The questions in this tool will help entrepreneurs evaluate their business's environment, including the industry, competition, and market.
This tool will help you compose a brief, compelling elevator pitch.
It is easy for entrepreneurs to get lost in the details of running a business. This article proposes eight key steps that will help any entrepreneur concentrate on what's important in achieving success.
A due diligence checklist can provide a comprehensive assemblage of company information an entrepreneur needs in advance to negotiate their company's sale effectively. This checklist is used by Corey Schwartz, entrepreneur and finance expert, in his negotiations to buy and sell companies.
Use this tool to identify your major customer groups, their distinguishing characteristics, and the market research needed to develop a customer profile.
This tool leads entrepreneurs through a process of identifying and clarifying personal goals. These goals are then extended into a vision for the business.
This tool will help entrepreneurs identify their three-year vision by first reviewing core values and the company's mission statement and then describing the business in the future.
This information will help you discover and document your workflow--how the work flows from Point A to Point Z, who touches it, what happens to it, and how you will know it is complete.
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