Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

• Startup vs Lifestyle Business - Explained
• Is Entrepreneurship a Gamble?
• Master Checklist for a Startup Venture
• Lifestyle Business vs Startup Venture - Explained
• Building Business Credit - Explained
• Requirements for a Business License - Explained
• Business Permits and Occupational Licenses
• Register a Business Name - Explained
• Establishing a Business Bank Account - Explained
• Business Plan Outline - Overview
• Business Plan - Executive Summary
• Business Plan - Company Description
• Business Plan - Market Analysis Section
• Business Plan - Competitive Analysis
• Business Plan - Marketing Plan
• Business Plan - Operations Section
• Business Plan - Management and Organization
• Business Plan - Financial Projections Section
• Business Plan - Appendices
• Business Plan - Final Modifications
• Methods of Innovation
• Ideation and Innovation - Explained
• Entrepreneurs Identify Opportunities - Explained
• Needs vs Wants (Customers) - Explained
• Entrepreneurs versus Inventors - Explained
• Prior Experience in Entrepreneurship - Explained
• Generating Ideas through Brainstorming - Explained
• Basic Types of Brainstorming - Explained
• Ideation Best Practices - Explained
• Turn a Business Idea into Business Plan
• Testing A Concept for Value
• Coming Up With Business Ideas - Explained
• Critical Points About Entrepreneurship
• Determine Market Size - Explained
• Customer Priority - Explained
• Product Development Process - Explained
• Alpha Test (Product) - Explained
• Minimum Viable Product & Feedback Loop - Explained
• Beta Testing a Product - Explained
• Should You Tell People Your Business Idea?
• Intellectual Property Considerations - Product Development
• What is Business Strategy?
• Concept Test a Value Proposition - Explained
• Porter's Generic Strategies - Explained
• Bowman's Clock - Strategy
• SWOT Analysis - Explained
• TOWS Analysis (Strategy) - Explained
• PESTEL Factors - External Analysis
• Porter's Five Forces - Explained
• Competitive Advantage - Explained
• Other Elements of an Operational Plan
• Situation Analysis - Entrepreneurship
• Marketing Ps - Placement
• Marketing Ps - Packaging
• Marketing Ps - Process
• Action Plan - Part of a Marketing Plan
• Financial Analysis of Business Idea (Overview)
• Financial Analysis of an Idea
• Constructing a Business Model - Explained
• Business Model vs Business Plan - Explained
• Business Presentation Components - Explained
• Investor Pitch - Presentation Format
• Investor Pitch - Presentation Content
• Investor Pitch - Style Guide
• Investor Pitch - Slide 1: The Company Logo
• Investor Pitch - Slide 2: The Business Team
• Investor Pitch - Slide 3: Problem or Need Statement
• Investor Pitch - Slide 4: Your Solution
• Investor Pitch - Slide 5: The Market
• Investor Pitch - Slide 6: The Business Model
• Investor Pitch - Slide 7: Your Advantage
• Investor Pitch - Slide 8: Competition
• Investor Pitch - Slide 9: Marketing and Sales Plan
• Investor Pitch - Slide 10: Financial Forecast
• Investor Pitch - Slide 11: Milestones and Funding
• Investor Pitch - Slide 12: Capital and Valuation
• Investor Pitch - Slide 13: Questions
• Startup Budget - Explained
• Forming a Business Team Overview
• Founders and New Employees - Business Teams
• Early Employees and Contractors
• Ownership and Control of Founders - Explained
• Rights of Owners - New Businesses
• Organizational Documents (Business) - Overview
• Choose a Business Location - Explained
• Lease or Purchase of Real Estate - Explained
• Closing a Business - Explained
• Selling a Business - Explained
• How to Select a Business Entity
• Elements of Operational Plan
• Initial Board Actions - Explained
• Business Capitalization (Funding Process) - Explained
• Intellectual Property in a New Business - Explained
• Considerations When Starting a Business - Explained
• Strategic Planning - Explained
• Core Competency - Explained
• Ansoff Matrix - Explained
• Growth Strategy - Explained
• Diversification Business Strategy - Explained
• Vertical and Horizontal Integration Strategies - Explained
• Customer Centric Strategy - Explained
• Blue Ocean Strategy - Explained
• BCG Matrix (Growth-Share Matrix) - Explained
• GE - McKinsey Matrix - Explained
• Overfished Ocean Strategy - Explained
• Stability, Expansion, and Retrenchment Strategies - Explained
• Advantages and Disadvantage of VC Funding - Explained
• Early Exit (Startup) - Explained
• Early Stage (Business) - Explained
• Elevator Pitch - Explained
• Gap Analysis - Explained
• Differentiation (Strategy) - Explained
• Disintermediation (Strategy) - Explained
• First-Mover Advantage - Explained
• Horizontal Integration - Explained
• Hedgehog Concept - Explained
• Affinity Diagram - Explained
• When to Incorporate Your Business
• Bootstrapping - Explained
• Backward Integration - Explained
• Bass Diffusion Model - Explained
• Benchmarking - Explained
• Business Model Canvas - Explained
• Commoditize (Product) - Explained
• Cottage Industry - Explained
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) - Explained
• In-sourcing vs Outsourcing - Explained
• Incubator - Explained
• Lean Strategy - Explained
• JOBS Act - Explained
• Long Tail (Strategy) - Explained
• Loss Leader Strategy - Explained
• Razor Blade Business Model - Explained
• Software as a Service (SAAS) - Explained
• Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) - Explained
• Product Life Cycle - Explained
• Business Analysis to Develop a Strategy - Explained
• Small Business Job Protection Act - Explained
• Self Employed Contributions Act (SECA) - Explained
• Strategic Analysis - Explained
• Central Driving Forces Model - Explained
• Small Business Innovation Development Act - Explained
• Social Venture - Explained
• Niche Market Strategy - Explained
• Strategic Investor or Acquirer- Explained
• Time to Market - Explained
• Synergy - Explained
• Unicorn (Company) - Explained
• Vertical Analysis (Common Size Analysis) - Explained
• Boil the Ocean - Explained
• Corporate Defense Management - Explained
• Collaborative Commerce - Explained
• Value Added (Strategy) - Explained
• Vertical Integration - Explained
• Small Business Innovation Research Act (SBIR) - Explained
• Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company - Explained
• Balanced Matrix Organization - Explained
• Brassboard Configuration - Explained
• Brownfield Investment - Explained
• Bottom Up Forecasting - Explained
• Basing Point Pricing System - Explained
• Aggregator Model - Explained
• Offensive Competitive Strategy - Explained
• Ideation - Explained
• Manufacturing Production (Strategy) - Explained
• Price War - Explained
• Value Proposition - Explained
• Growth Company - Explained
• Growth Curve - Explained
• Commercialization - Explained
• Turnkey Business - Explained
• S-Curve - Explained
• Barriers to Entry - Explained
• Barriers to Exit - Explained
• Scalability (Scalable) - Explained
• Six Forces Model - Explained
• Acceptance Testing - Explained
• Acceptance Risk (Strategy) - Explained
• Lanchester Strategy - Explained
• Strategic Alliance - Explained
• Breadboard Configuration - Explained
• Intrapreneur - Explained
• Bleeding Edge - Explained
• Monetize - Explained
• Organic Growth vs Inorganic Growth - Explained
• Mobile First Strategy - Explained
• Pyramid Scheme - Explained
• Pyrrhic Victory - Explained
• Feasibility Study (Business) - Explained
• Pitchbook - Explained
• Network Effect - Explained
• Consortium - Explained
• Assortment Strategy - Explained
• Low-Cost Production - Explained
• Freelance Economy (Gig Economy) - Explained
• Company Lifecycle - Explained
• Click and Mortar (Business Model) - Explained
• Contestable Market Theory - Explained
• Asset Acquisition Strategy - Explained
• Diffusion of Innovations Theory - Explained
• Coopetition (Value Net Model) - Explained
• Mission Statement - Explained
• Values Statement - Explained
• Setting Company Goals - Explained
• McKinsey's 7s Model - Explained
• Industry Lifecycle Analysis - Explained
• Corridor Principal - Explained
• Types of Business Strategy - Explained
• Strategic Management - Explained
• Organizational (Corporate) Strategies - Explained
• Intended, Deliberate, Realized, and Emergent Strategies - Explained
• Mintzberg's 5Ps of Strategy - Explained
• Concentration Strategy - Explained
• Internationalization Strategy - Explained
• Cooperative Strategy - Explained
• SPACE Analysis - Explained
• Developing an Operational Plan - Explained
• Where to Form a Business - Explained
• How to Fund a Business - Less Common Methods
• Competition Profile Matrix - Explained
• Competitive Strategy - Explained
• Internal Resources and Capabilities (Strategy) - Explained
• What is a Startup Founder?
• Can I Kick Out a Co-Founder?
• Compensating Employees - Explained
• Startup Advisors & Equity Compensation - Explained
• Registered Agent in Delaware - Explained
• Preparing a Business for Equity Investment
• Where do New Businesses Come From?
• Benefits of Getting Acquired vs IPO - Explained
• Innovation Strategy - Explained
• Functional Strategy - Explained
• Operational Strategy - Explained
• Developing a Business Strategy - Explained
• Window of Opportunity - Explained
• Wicked Problem - Explained
• VMOST (Strategy) - Explained
• Value-Reporting Framework - Explained
• Value Creation Index - Explained
• Value Disciplines - Explained
• Value Engineering - Explained
• 3 As - Validated Learning in Lean Startups - Explained
• Resource Based View (Strategy) - Explained
• Modes of Management (Strategy) - Explained
• VRIO Analysis (Strategy) - Explained
• Internal and External Factor Evaluation Matrix - Explained
• Mintzberg's Modes of Strategic Decisions - Explained
• Mintzberg's Five Configurations of Strategic Management - Explained
• Business Activity Monitoring - Explained
• Strategy Diamond - Explained
• Action-Profit Linkage - Explained
• Eclectic Implementation Model - Explained
• Strategy Implementation - Explained
• Mintzberg's Schools of Strategic Management - Explained
• Mintzberg's Design School of Strategy
• Planning School (Strategy) - Explained
• Positioning School (Strategy) - Explained
• Entrepreneurial School (Strategy) - Explained
• Cognitive School (Strategy) - Explained
• Learning School (Strategy) - Explained
• Power School (Strategy) - Explained
• Culture School (Strategy) - Explained
• Environmental School (Strategy) - Explained
• Configuration School (Strategy) - Explained
• Game Theory (Strategy) - Explained
• Rätselvermehrung - Explained
• Transformative Business Model - Explained
• Market Orientation - Explained
• 3 Horizons of Growth (McKinsey) - Explained
• 3 Dimensional Business - Explained
• Thinker's Keys - Explained
• Stakeholder Mapping - Explained
• Naming You Business
• Manufacturing Functions - Explained
• Shipping and Logistics Functions - Explained
• Payment and Credit Policies
• Vision Statement - Explained
• Bankruptcy as a Business Exit Strategy
• Public Offering as an Exit Strategy
• Private Equity as an Exit Strategy