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Entrepreneurship 2: Executive Summary & Business Plan

Entrepreneurship 2: Executive Summary & Business Plan

Opensourcing my entrepreneurship course notes, the second lecture of my course focus on introducing to the student: (a) the executive summary, (b) the business plan and (c) the elements that construct both documents: technology/service/product description, management team, marketing plan, market segmentation, business strategy (business model), operations plan, financials and exit strategy. This is a series...
Entrepreneurship 1: Introduction, Identifying Ideas & Business Opportunities

Entrepreneurship 1: Introduction, Identifying Ideas & Business Opportunities

The first of my course touches on the definition on entrepreneurship, the different forms of entrepreneurship, how countries measure growth of entrepreneurship activity, and the first toolkit: how to identify ideas and business opportunities. We also provide some interesting case studies for example, Aravind Eye Centre for social entrepreneurship. This is a series based on...
Thinking about Expansion out of Singapore to Asia & US

Thinking about Expansion out of Singapore to Asia & US

An interesting post from Willis Wee in Penn-Olson today prompted me to provide some perspective on the issue of expansion. The question that most people ask: if I build a start-up from a country with a very small market size (say, Singapore but it can apply from Slovenia to Monaco), where should I expand the...