Knowledge & Advice
A selection of insightful and valuable resources for helping entrepreneurs understand how to develop ideas and build successful businesses.
Books
Entrepreneurs Guide to Customer Development (on Amazon)
Crossing the Chasm (on Amazon)
Four Steps to the Epiphany (on Amazon)
Good to Great (on Amazon)
Predictably Irrational – Good insight into why often ROI is not enough (on Amazon)
Tech Start-up Blogs
Steve Blank – Serial Entrepreneur turned Business Professor
Sean Ellis – Early Stage Technology Marketing Professional
Basil Peters – Angel Investment Expert and Adviser
Eric Ries – Entrepreneur and author – founder of lean start-ups
Education
Stanford ecorner – Selection of speakers on various entrepreneurial topics
MIT – Sloan Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Innovation course material from open courseware system
PDMA Product Management Study Guide - Product management association
Pragmatic Marketing – World’s most popular product management training
Selected Articles and Presentations
Knowing Your Target Market (.ppt) – Presentation
Everyone I Spoke With Loved the Idea - Its not enough that prospects love your idea
Choosing Ideas – Thoughts on deciding to act on your idea
A Business Plan or a Journey to Plan B – The best idea isn’t usually the one you started with
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
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