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Top 12 Online Fundraising Platforms for Donors & Non-Profits
Thanks to the social web, each of us has the unprecedented ability to offer not only monetary support but also the reach of our own online networks in support of a cause.
Top 10 Success Factors for Entrepreneurs (With Exercises)
What does it take to succeed as an entrepreneur and how should an entrepreneur define success?
The Influence of Information Technology on the Growth of the Microbusiness
In the last 10 years Information Communications Technology micropreneurs have entered this sector, resulting in an immediate improvement in the image of the microbusiness. But what are the distinct advantages and disadvantages of running a microbusiness? Where does it go from here?
Article written by Sarla Langdon: www.markmaid.com
COMMUNICATIONS: E-mail in the New Age of Communication
We are entering an era where companies are using social networks and text messages as the main route of communication. But wait, e-mail is not obselete! Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts shares on how to effectively use e-mail messages to reach the younger and older generations.
Skills refresher for the Busy Professional (4 of 5)
Word Cross-References
Video explaining how to use Word cross-references, reduce errors and save time!
Interview from Sunil Mittal, Chairman of Bharti group, India
Sunil Bharti Mittal started in business more than 30 years ago in Ludhiana in Northern India, borrowing $1,500 to make bicycle crankshafts. Today, he heads the $5 billion Bharti Group, whose flagship company, Bharti Airtel, is India's largest mobile phone operator.
Sunil Mittal spoke with India Knowledge@Wharton at the U.S.-India Business Council's 33rd annual meeting in Washington, D.C., about the leadership and entrepreneurial lessons he has learned during his career.
Great entrepreneurship story.
Indian Knowledge at Warton. July 2008.
Dr. Andrew Zacharakis answers to 7 questions on Entrepreneurship
Andrew Zacharakis, professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College, answers to seven questions about entrepreneurship:
- What is Entrepreneurship?
- Why is Entrepreneurship important?
- Which types of Entrepreneurships can be held in a global environment?
- Does an entrepreneur have an ethics code?
- Can Entrepreneurship be taught?
- What is the relationship between Entrepreneurship and the legislation prevailing in the society?
- What is the difference between a businessman and an entrepreneur?
UFM. Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Guatemala. 2008
How being online can help you increase your visibility?
An enormous number of information circulates everyday on internet and from all around the globe. Millions of people are accessing internet to search, share and communicate, from anywhere they are.
Why not benefiting from this traffic and increase your visibility?
How To Sustain a Social Movement After Initial Success
The Egyptians’ effective use of Facebook has given life to a slew of hopeful pages and groups throughout the region. This makes sense: Facebook, if combined with the right message, the right environment and the right people can indeed help to spark massive crowds. New technologies make it easier to get more information out to more people, more quickly. The result? Town squares and plazas teeming with protesters. Two ousted dictators and two more on the brink. Unfortunately, the quicker you mobilize, the less time there is to plan. The less the need for a traditional organization, the bigger the vacuum left after an initial big success. Whether it’s a huge protest, a victorious election, an ousted dictator or a momentous piece of breaking news, it’s more important than ever for movement builders and members to prepare for day two.
Want to be an Entrepreneur? Work for a big company first
I'm an entrepreneur and I must say that starting and running a business would have been much harder without the skill and experience I gained in a corporate environment. Would I want to work there today? No. But am I glad I once worked there? Absolutely.
Marketing tips - HP Online Classes
Check out these websites to take online courses or download templates for your business or home office.
Links to useful tips
HP published a lot of useful tips for entrepreneurs on the LIFE Program global website. Check it regularly !
So you want to become an entrepreneur? (18-lesson series)
Starting a new business? Perhaps your business is in a rut and you're in search for some advice or just want an refresher on things every entrepreneur needs to know in order to reach their potential. Whatever the case, this 18-Lesson series on how to successfully become an entrepreneur, courtesy of Srbijanka Turajlic, is now available for free here on becomelife.org!
So what are you waiting for?! Let's go step-by-step through the process of making your dream become a reality!
FINANCE: Start-Up Expenses
This Excel spreadsheet helps to identify various categories of start-up expenses and organizes them in a business appropriate manner.
Dealing with the Administration: Legal Issues (4 of 18)
The decision on what legal form of business you're going to take is going to be made by weighing the attractiveness of being in complete control of a business versus the readiness to take the risk of potential failure.
A Glimpse of the Whole Picture: The Business Plan (3 of 18)
It is almost certain that a person will never succeed in any endeavour if he or she does not aim for the stars. Your ladder to success in business is actually the business plan.
Five Biggest Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make
Jerry Kaplan talks about the five biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make:
- Having unclear goals and an unclear mission
- Trying to prove that they are smart
- Greed - doing it for money
- Hiring people that they like rather than people that they need
- Not knowing when to let go.
(Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner)
Project Management tips and tricks for Micro Entrepreneurs
The Project Management methodologies were initially introduced in very large companies. They are quite heavy and are not easy to use for micro entrepreneurs. But there are few tips and tricks extracted from those methodologies that micro business owners should be able to leverage for managing their project more efficiently.
10 Tips for Better Startup Marketing
In order for your business to avoid getting lost among the glut of content already clogging direct marketing channels, your promotions and tactics must be highly creative, contain a quality message and fit the audience you are targeting.
How to set up a Facebook Page For Your Business
There are 500 million active users on Facebook — it’s about time you get in on the action and start a Facebook Page for your business.
Case Study 1: IT Tools (7 of 18)
As promised, in this lesson we will look back at the business plan made for Cupcakes&Friends in order to learn what IT tools have been used and how they were applied.
Marketing: What is a PEST Analysis?
It's very important that an organization considers its environment before beginning the marketing process. A good environmental analysis should be continuous and feed all aspects of planning.
Warming Up: Learning the Language (2 of 18)
Upon establishing your own business you will inevitably learn a number of business terms, but the question is, "Will this be enough?"
Skills refresher for the Busy Professional (3 of 5)
Use Excel Gantt charts in your project
Video teaching you how to use Gantt charts for your projects!
Three criteria for a successful high-tech start-up
Marc Andreessen shares his three criteria for a successful high-tech start-up:
- Market: Big market (existing or new)
- Product: Fundamental technology or economic change that justify the creation of a new company: the new product will have to be 10x better than what already exists in the market.
- Team: Outstanding funding team
Mark Andreessen states that if there is one of those three criteria to compromise, it would have to be Product.
Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner. May 12, 2010.
Cash Flow: Accounting (11 of 18)
Cash flow is what we know as the difference in the amount of cash available at the beginning of a period (opening balance) and the amount at the end of that period (closing balance). This week we'll look into why you need to keep one of these!
Balance Sheet: Accounting (10 of 18)
Running a business requires you to keep track of what your business owns (assets), how it pays for them, what it owes (liabilities) and what amount is left after satisfying the liabilities. Introducing the Balance Sheet...
MARKETING: 6 Smart & Effective Email Marketing Tactics
Although consumers’ communication habits have evolved with the rising popularity of social media and smartphones, brands are still turning to their dependable friend — email — to attract and retain customers and boost their bottom lines.
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Did you ever realize what the use of simple computer tools could bring to your business ?
If you are a micro-entrepreneur, no need for you to search for rocket science solutions. Basic mastering of very common tools such as a spreadsheet can greatly ease your life when the time has come for you to work on your accounting duties for example.
5 tips on how to use technology to improve your time management
In this new era in which people work all day in front of computers, it’s easy to be distracted with something on the web, instead of working. In today’s workplace it’s absolutely fundamental that you can differentiate yourself not only by your knowledge but also in your ability to manage your time and keep your deadlines.
The idea is that you work smarter, not harder!
The Final Touch (18 of 18)
We're nearly there! Don't miss this last lesson on how to boost your sales through eBusiness and design your very own website!
Marketing: Place and Promotion Place (17 of 18)
This lesson covers two more essential marketing strategies: How will you find your customers, and how will your product/service be distributed?
Marketing: The 4 P's (16 of 18)
How can we blend our marketing mix by using the '4 P's?' You're guaranteed to learn something you didn't already know!
How to Drive Growth in a Downward Economy
Dennis Jarrett has driven the growth of his business to make them the #1 Fastest Growing Franchise in the country in less than 10 years. Dennis feels that the key factors for this growth include value, quality, reliability and their commitment to environmental stewardship, which continue to drive the company today.
Dennis Jarrett, Co-founder of Stratus Building Solutions, joins Brent Leary to get an inside look at how to grow a quality business that has one important ingredient – staying power.
Running the Business: Internal Organization (5 of 18)
Defining the internal core of your business should not be overlooked but often is. Understand the complexities and potential traps in designing your internal organization.
Communications: 10 Principles of Successful Business Blogging
Great business blogging can add value to your business, create loyal customers and build trust in potential clients. On the other hand, bad business blogging, or inconsistent business blogging, can have a negative impact on your brand. Keeping the points below in mind should help ensure your business blog is working effectively to draw clients in, not push them away.
Finding Your Feet: Preparing to Enter the Business World (1 of 18)
So you want to start a business? Great! Here are some things that will help you get going...
LicenseToTeach: The Basics of MS Office 2007!
How does MS Office 2007 differ from the 2003 edition? Are there new features that I may not be aware of? What is the ribbon?
Changing Education Paradigms
This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.
RSA Animate, posted Oct. 14th, 2010, http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/
HP LIFE Program Video
HP Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs (HP LIFE) is a global program for training students, aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners to harness the power of IT to establish and grow their business.
Tips for the Entrepreneur
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, gives several tips for entrepreneur
- Don't settle. It is very important to find great people you are compatible with.
- Be an expert in all aspects.
- Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.
- Don't be afraid to solve a hard problem.
- Don't pay attention to the VC bandwagon. Don't start a company just because some "space is hot".
- Have a really good idea, regardless of the funding.
May 2002, Stanford University
An Entrepreneur's Check-list
Steve Blank talks about the check-list an entrepreneur worries about, when doing a start-up. Here below are the points he mentioned in this video.
- Opportunity (where does the idea come from?)
- Innovation (where is the innovation?)
- Customer (who is the user/player?)
- Competition (who is the competitor/complementor?)
OPERATIONS: IT Security Basics (3 of 3)
The security of business IT systems has never been so important. Businesses rely more and more on IT to support their activities, and this makes them increasingly vulnerable to threats from hackers, viruses and even their own staff.
OPERATIONS: IT Security Basics (2 of 3)
The security of business IT systems has never been so important. Businesses rely more and more on IT to support their activities, and this makes them increasingly vulnerable to threats from hackers, viruses and even their own staff.
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