September 2, 2010
A key component of the Art of Business is recognizing and evaluating big ideas as good opportunities. Notice that big idea ≠ good opportunity. There are many factors influencing the big idea-good opportunity diagnosis, including market readiness, growth potential, gross margins and many others. Ideas interact with real-world conditions and entrepreneurial creativity to determine opportunity [...]
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August 30, 2010
Anyone who has ever taken a motorcycle safety class has been admonished not to focus on obstacles in the road. Why? Because wherever you look, that’s where the motorcycle will go. If you want to avoid the obstacles that lay in your path, the better course of action is to focus on where you want [...]
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