Trends Entrepreneurs Should Follow:
The Trend of Small Retail Moving to the Web
By Anita Campbell on June 14, 2007
Retail Trends
The Discovery Channel’s brick-and-mortar retail stores are all closing. Discovery Communications will retain its online store, as online sales are up 144% in 2007.
Why? Cost savings. A Washington Post article points out:
“We [...]

Set up a free, web conference page in minutes with Web 2.0 tools
 
Set up a web page with tables, click on a few URLs, copy and paste some code, and you have an instant web conference room, with voice, text chat, and slide-sharing in a matter of minutes. Free. Point to this when someone [...]

A Picture Is Worth…
 

Great Entrepreneurship Story!
Dutch start-up Happy Shrimp is Europe’s first tropical shrimp farm, located in the very non-tropical port of Rotterdam. Promising fresh
(‘superfresh’) shrimp, aimed at local restaurants, the business is taking on low cost shrimp farming in Asia. It does so by smartly capitalizing on trends that the competition may find hard to latch [...]

Many Entrepreneurial Opportunities!
The arrival of flexible chips — a summary
By Dan Kaplan 06.22.07
The flexible chips industry doesn’t grab a lot of headlines, but it is bringing together nanotech, biotech, and other technologies to possibly usher in some revolutionary new products.
We’ve been quietly checking up on some of the venture-backed companies in this area, including NanoGram, [...]

Entrepreneurship In Virtual Worlds
 
The following article is provided as background for a theme that will be followed and expanded on in this blog; starting new businesses in virtual worlds such as Second Life.
 
Virtual worlds creating new sales opportunities

By Mark Boslet
Mercury News

Article Launched: 06/23/2007 01:49:11 AM PDT
 
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Rolex Test
 

Weak Signals = Entrepreneurial Opportunity
 
Read the following article from one of Purdue’s own, and think about how it applies directly to entrepreneurial activity:
 
Expert: Effective managers tune in to weak signals

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Becoming aware of emerging trends in the workplace before they become obvious is necessary in today’s rapidly changing business environment, says a [...]

Tuning Your Pitch
To really deliver a knock-out pitch, an entrepreneur should have an understanding of how their business model works, and frame their presentation squarely within it. This allows them to anticipate the questions that investors are likely to ask before they ask them. Although these mental models can vary from individual to individual, there [...]

Remember zentation? Here’s Guy Kawasaki’s version.

Guy Kawasaki - The Art of Innovation
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Guy Kawasaki at the 2007 Event Marketer Conference