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What’s more important - idea or execution?

Posted on May 23, 2008 | Categorized under business basics

Once upon a time, there were two childhood friends named Tony and Carl. Both had dreams of running their own businesses. Tony had a great idea about building mindboggling toys and Carl had an equally great idea for building amazing cars. And then there was a twist in the story! As soon as they finished [...]

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Why do you wanna be an entrepreneur?

Posted on April 4, 2008 | Categorized under entrepreneurship

Why do you wanna be an entrepreneur? Sometime back, I had placed this question on various discussion boards, and that received overwhelming responses; an instance of it can be seen at a Facebook Group Discussion Board (please join our Facebook Group for more such discussions).
Well, some of the most popular answers are -

Freedom/Independence
Money
Fame
Philanthropy
Power/Influence

But (yes, there [...]

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Can business schools build entrepreneurs?

Posted on March 21, 2008 | Categorized under entrepreneurship

Can entrepreneurship really be taught inside business schools? Well, every business does need a theoretical knowledge base of accounting, finance, marketing, and public relationships; and a business school precisely provides that through a systematic process, which otherwise would take longer time. One can meet and make connections with other like minded [...]

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Who is entrepreneur, exactly?

Posted on March 21, 2008 | Categorized under entrepreneurship

It’s too basic. I agree. But not that trivial as it seems. You’d agree soon :)
Etymologically the word “entrepreneur” means - “one who undertakes or manages”. It can’t get vaguer than this. So we ask to online dictionaries. They give us back many definitions; a most common one is - “a person [...]

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