TeamWork
Starting tomorrow 1 May, Jeff will be picking up blogging duties for a week or so while I’m off to Texas to look @ Gulf Coast towne houses and other places to go in the winter when it’s cold in Indiana. I’m certain he will fill you with a unique Purdue student perspective.
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Entrepreneurs Need to Understand
Primary Research
 
Primary research is central to the successful introduction of the vast majority of innovative product/services. It involves more than the typical “focus group” approach to the gathering of data. The links below provide a vast amount of information related to research, and are provided as a reference point for all [...]

Purdue University
Intro to Entrepreneurship & Innovation Class, Spring 2007
An important part of our intro course is going through the steps of construction of a business plan. To the typical dead tree version, I suggested students also mock up web sites in support of their business conceptualizations. Please see the links in the Zoho table below [...]

Hope For The Less Endowed
(With Brain-Power that is - Beachbum read on..)
But first, I strongly suggest readers vector to the comment Beachbum made on this past Wednesday’s post - the YouTube video has lessons for many disciplines, including those interested in entrepreneurship -> look @ it. And now, the rest of the story for today:
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More Companies Seeking Green $$$$$
ONLINE publishers are strapping on their Birkenstocks.
Buoyed by the breakaway success of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the film documentary of Al Gore’s environmental lecture, publishers like The Washington Post, National Geographic and others are increasing their offerings of “green” content, hoping to attract readers and advertising revenues from manufacturers and retailers who [...]

More On Green Entrepreneurs
There is opportunity in being green - read on–

BUSINESSES BIG AND SMALL LEARNING THAT ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLIENESS CAN TURN A PROFIT

By Scott Duke Harris
Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News

On any given day, hundreds of cars, trucks, SUVs and vans herd toward the gas pumps at the Costco in Santa Clara, where on Thursday even [...]

Today is last day of the Purdue ENTR200 classes I teach.
The short clip below is for the students. It is hosted on blip.tv:
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If you would like to see what we will be doing the last day of class go here, and log in as guest, then go to the bottom to today’s [...]

There’s Got to be a Better Way!
Today I started working on a project I have been putting off for some time. Starting with Purdue’s Maymester class in Intro to Entrepreneurship & Innovation (ENTR200K), I intend to video the lectures and make same available online. Seems straightforward - set up someone to run a video camera, [...]

Wireless Electricity Ex Ante
BeachBum suggested (correctly BTW) that Tesla investigated the wireless transmission of electrical power eons ago. This is true, but like many “inventions,” his work never took off during his lifetime. The following link provides more background on Tesla and what he was all about. (See here and here.)
Prediction Markets
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More About Wireless Power
but first, a new survey plug-in
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BeachBum in Friday’s Comments correctly points out the direction current technology is taking wireless transmission of power may not be parsimonious. For those who do not have the advantage a Purdue-based engineering background (slam!), The Law of Parsimony (wiki definition here) states:
“All things being equal, the [...]