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Moneyball Movie

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10 Things You Can Learn about Sports and Business from Moneyball What the Ottawa Senators did Right to Make the Playoffs 12 out of 13 Years Television’s Golden Age could be Ahead not Behind I am an Aaron Sorkin fan from his days writing A Few Good Men, The American President and, of course, The [...]

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IOE, Institute of Entrepreneurs

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IOE5100, Advanced Business Models Exploriem.org’s Institute of Entrepreneurs presents IOE5100, Advanced Business Models for Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs and Artpreneurs, an MBA level course (For available dates and times as well as more information, please contact: Ms. Theresia Scholtes, tscholtes @ exploriem.org or @tclsholtes) Come study with Prof Bruce, a leader in designing and building business models [...]

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70 Ways to Raise Bootstrap Capital

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There are certainly hundreds or even thousands of clever techniques entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs are using to raise cheap/free capital, aka bootstrap capital. No list is ever going to be complete. But here is our summary of what people are doing these days to self-capitalize their new products/services/enterprises. If you would like to add to our [...]

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Institute of Entrepreneurs

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Introduction Exploriem.org is launching the Institute of Entrepreneurs (IOE) this year. Why? To bring advanced research, education and mentoring to student entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs from self-capitalized and forward-looking enterprises across Canada and around the world. IOE provides access to research, education and a network of high achievers that you just can’t get anywhere else. The [...]

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Is Corporate Planning Obsolete?

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I was recently asked about helping a fast-growing, local tech company with their ‘corporate planning process’ as they prepare for a possible IPO. As readers of this blog will know, I am not a huge fan of Business Plans or a Corporate Planning Process, per se—in my view, corporations and their ecosystems are changing way [...]

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Negative Cost Selling a Mobile App

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Put Leverage in Your Biz Model What’s the most common reason a municipality or non-profit turns down a project? “We don’t have the budget for that!” There was a time not too long ago (circa post WWII) when municipalities thought of things like roads, sewers, power lines and water mains as investments; today, they think [...]

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Strategic Investor

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Introduction One of the most overlooked sources of self-capitalization (bootstrapping) for new enterprises is the strategic investor. What is a strategic investor? Ans: someone who has a strategic interest in your success. How do you find them? Ans: look through your value chain. Check out your supply chain, your customers (and their customers too), would-be [...]

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How to Get Sponsors For Practically Anything

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How to Find Launch Clients Useful Co-opetition Strategic Investors Social Norms v Commercial Ones For entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs working with NGOs, Not-For-Profits and Charities, getting sponsors is always top of mind. But I have found that you can get sponsors for practically anything. When I worked with the NHL’s Ottawa Senators, a (hopefully) for-profit business, [...]

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