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27 Opportunity recognition Resources
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Finding and Evaluating an Idea
gsb.stanford.edu— — “Often the hardest part about starting a new business is coming up with a good idea. What environmental clues should you look for to help make the process easier?”
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Trends and Opportunities in Consumer Internet
gsb.stanford.edu— — “Panel include management team members from Ebay, Paypal, Youtube,and Facebook and include factors such as success factors and innovation”
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Trends and Opportunities in Mobile Technologies
gsb.stanford.edu— — “Moderator: Janice Roberts, Mayfield Fund, Joel Jewitt, Good Technology, Jim Madsen, NextWave Wireless, Dipchand Nishar, Google Inc, Scott Raney, Redpoint Ventures”
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Identifying Retail Opportunities
gsb.stanford.edu— — “This panel gives suggestions on potential opportunities for businesses in the retail sector”
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An 'Idea Journal': Better Ideas, Brain RAM Upgrade
mpdailyfix.com— — “The first and best tip I can offer to anyone wanting to be more creative and innovative is to start carrying and Idea Journal”
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All Politics Is Local, and So Are Sales Leads: The Birth of an Internet Search Company
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “ That’s where Wharton undergraduate student and future Natpal CEO Nate Stevens realized that Internet search wasn’t exactly friendly to small businesses looking for sales leads”
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Opportunity Recognition as Pattern Recognition: How Entrepreneurs "Connect the Dots" to Identify New Business Opportunities
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“How do entrepreneurs identify opportunities for new business ventures? One possibility, suggested by research on human cognition, is that they do so by using cognitive frameworks they have acquired through experience to perceive connections”
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Strategic intuition: The key to innovation
gsb.columbia.edu— — “Combining ideas from military history, cognitive psychology and modern neuroscience, strategic intuition offers a four-step method for identifying and capturing opportunity”
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Conference Asks: What Drives Innovation?
gsb.stanford.edu— — “The impact of the internet on industry and society is still unfolding, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the Roads to Innovation Conference, and it offers huge opportunities (Video available)”
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Identifying HealthCare Opportunities
gsb.stanford.edu— — “This panel gives suggestions on potential opportunities for businesses in the healthcare sector”
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Identifying Energy Opportunities
gsb.stanford.edu— — “This panel gives suggestions on potential opportunities for businesses in the energy sector”
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Identifying Education Opportunities
gsb.stanford.edu— — “This panel gives suggestions on potential opportunities for businesses in education.”
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Finding the Idea
gsb.stanford.edu— — “This short video gives suggestions on how to find an idea for a new venture”
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Identifying the Idea
gsb.stanford.edu— — “The hardest part about starting a new business is often coming up with a good idea”
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Demographics: The Population Hourglass
fastcompany.com— — “It’s the futurist’s first rule: You can’t understand the future without demographics. The composition of a society-whether its citizens are old or young, prosperous or declining, rural or urban-shapes every aspect of civic life…”
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Paul Bennett: Design is in the details
ted.com— — “Showing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn’t have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems”
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Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
hbswk.hbs.edu— — “What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior research associate Lauren Barley recently interviewed four venture capitalists…”
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Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
hbswk.hbs.edu— — “What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship…”
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Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional
ted.com— — “In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can’t.”
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Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
ted.com— — “Jimmy Wales assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating, and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished encyclopedia of the future.”