I recently participated in a global entrepreneurship conference attended by entrepreneurship academicians, entrepreneur “wannabees”, and a few “real” entrepreneurs. A vigorous discussion emerged about the value of business plans at the university versus the usage of business plans in the “real” world. The general consensus was that angel investors (i.e. angel networks), private equity investors, [...]
October 2011
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October 23, 2011
Are Business Plans Dead?
Posted by csufblogger under Business Plans, Financing Your Business, John Bradley Jackson1 Comment
October 11, 2011
What Kind of Life Do You Want to Lead?
Posted by csufblogger under Atul Teckchandani, Goals, Mission and PurposeNo Comments
One of the best entrepreneurship classes I ever took ended with the professor asking each of us to write our obituary. The assignment instructions are below: Write your own obituary. Assume you die of natural causes on your 70th birthday and a close friend is asked to summarize your life in 300 words or less. [...]
October 6, 2011
CSUF Grad Launches Social Networking Site
Posted by csufblogger under John Bradley Jackson, Social Media1 Comment
CSUF grad, Serge Bronstein, has launched a new social networking website called “Inspyte.” His competition? Oh, just the usual suspects including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Google+. Serge is not worried about the web giants since their tools have grown overly complex and seem to be fascinated with pummeling the user with new features and functions [...]
