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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 due diligence checklist can provide a comprehensive assemblage of company information an entrepreneur needs in advance to negotiate effectively. This checklist is used by Corey Schwartz, entrepreneur and finance expert, in his negotiations to buy and sell companies.
This tool will help you be prepared to share an appropriate success story about your business when reconnecting with your network.
This tool will help you be prepared to present your Unique Selling Proposition in 20 seconds or less.
This tool will help you identify current networking activity, assess its effectiveness, and identify groups that can expand and build your business network.
Considering your goals for business, this tool will help you identify operational systems necessary to support these goals.
Read the example to learn how one company documented their operation systems and workflow to reach their goal of using shared knowledge to increase sales.
This resource provides a detailed overview of option pool management from the entrepreneur's perspective.
This worksheet helps entrepreneurs facilitate strategic partner recruitment by establishing a preparatory process in advance of the first exploratory call with a partner prospect.
This tool will help you and your attorney outline the key elements of a mutual value proposition as well as anticipate and address questions that will likely be posed by prospective partners.
This tool will help establish criteria and performance standards for one job description.
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