As many entrepreneurs and leaders of emerging growth companies know, the capital markets have been weak for nearly three years, making it very difficult to raise the resources needed for continued growth. The few companies that have been fortunate enough to raise money during these tough times have demonstrated all...
As a kid, you may have learned that self-promotion is arrogant and tacky. For entrepreneurs, however, a major part of selling your product or service is selling yourself and your company. This can take the form of a big-budget advertising campaign, but if that is something your business can't afford,...
When a company is started, unless there is ample financing, often the owner will find himself or herself all alone for a while until sales start picking up and cash flow can support hiring help. Article examines that how does a company can get past this start-up phase, what are...
There's a ton of research on forecasting, and many studies have tested different forecasting methods to find out which are most effective. This paper takes a look at the evidence and provides some useful managerial guidelines for business forecasting. The selection tree for deciding on the best forecasting method is...
In this paper, evidence from comparative empirical studies has been looked at to identify methods that can be useful for predicting demand in various situations and to warn against methods that should not be used. In general, use structured methods and avoid intuition, unstructured meetings, focus groups, and data mining....
This paper studies the construction of confidence intervals for efficiency levels of individual firms in stochastic frontier models with panel data. The focus is on bootstrapping and related methods. A survey of various versions of the bootstrap is started. This paper also proposes a simple parametric alternative in which one...
Five Reasons To Start a Business NowRE: Five Reasons To Start a Business NowI disagree with number 5. The vast majority of new companies are not venture capital funded; they are financed by personal savings, SBA loans, and friends and family. For those company's bootstrapping their operations, its...
Uh-oh. Here's a good lesson for the day in the new world of media relations and why you must have -- or must commit to putting into place -- a blogger relations component of your media relations strategy. Seems that earlier this month, Amy Jussel, founding director of Shaping...
The Idea in Brief Most entrepreneurs want to make pots of money and run the show. But Wasserman reveals that it's tough to do both. If you don't figure out which matters most to you, you could...
April 2 is a significant date for many early-stage entrepreneurs as this is the deadline for applying to Paul Grahams Y Combinator this summer. If you dont know about Y Combinator, then I encourage you to read up on it as they are one of the few groups doing anything...
