Entrepreneur: He Who Enters

or: Economic Alchemy

Background

At a meeting with Jim Eiffert and Rod Hainje of the Indiana Venture Center I was invited to pass along notes that I had been collecting regarding entrepreneurship, my experience (in which I mention this) with the IVC and my thoughts about starting and running businesses generally.

This wiki is simply a place to dump those and other(s') ideas on entrepreneurship.  Hopefully, the collection may someday be useful as a resource to the IVC, as grist for a book or course on entrepreneurship or simply as a place where entrepreneurs find a sympathetic ear for their personality disorder ;)

Kim Brand

August 15, 2008

Indianapolis

Links to several entrepreneurship resources can be found on my blog.

Top Five Things I wish I had known

Ad for 'Assistant Entrepreneur' I placed on Craigslist 8/22/2008.

Something about scale.

Other Resources

Things entrepreneurs can do that nobody else can do.

10 Questions you need to answer before you start a business (not finished - but interesting.)

The lopsided bargain society makes with entrepreneurs.

A Business Ownership Initiative curriculum

From a conversation with Adam re: business development 11-26-2008...

Necessary components of a business plan

1. Awareness strategvy

2. Outrageous Value Proposition

3. Urgency

Chief requirements of an Entrepreneur:

1. Hope

2. Ambition

3. Education

You are not supposed to be a 'Mother' - you are an 'Investor'

It's no longer an elevator pitch, it's an elevator tweet.