Benefits of Corporate Entrepreneurship

By On May 15, 2012 · 3 Comments

A solution to grow and continuously develop large companies In the late 1980’s many large corporations saw themselves being overtaken by much smaller firms due to their innovations and efficiency. This caused concern in all the quarters and forced management of large corporations to take some quick steps to keep their top positions in the [...]

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What is Entrepreneurship?

By On May 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Hammad Siddiqui My friend – Hammad Siddiqui from Pakistan, always keeps the pressure on me for writing a new blog. Almost every other day I receive an email from him announcing his new blog and in between the lines I can see his smirking face asking me, “if I can do it why can’t you”.  [...]

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Key Ingredients for Successful Business Start-up

By On March 28, 2012 · 1 Comment

Thanks once again for all the encouraging email, messages and tweets on my previous blog on Business Idea Generation and Evaluation. Your comments encourage me to write more as well as provide excellent ideas on topic to write these blogs and conduct discussions with eminent professors and renowned entrepreneurs. During the last month or so, [...]

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Business Idea Generation and Evaluation: The Start of an Entrepreneurial Journey

By On March 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I attended two mega entrepreneurship events last week, the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC 2012) and BiZ2012. At both the events Sir Richard Branson was the keynote speaker. He and other speakers emphasised upon the importance of idea generation and opportunity recognition. “Innovate, innovate, and innovate! Generate ideas and act on the best one after evaluating [...]

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Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC 2012) – 11 Lessons to be Learnt

By On March 14, 2012 · 1 Comment

I am in Liverpool this week, attending the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC-2012) – “the largest gathering of start-up champions from around the world”.  According to the official website, “It’s about unleashing potential and the will to win, inspiring people to realise their ambitions, and exciting them to make it now.” Yesterday (March 13) was a [...]

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Entrepreneurship – The buzzword for the Third Millennium

By On March 8, 2012 · 2 Comments

Entrepreneurship – The buzzword and the catchphrase for the third millennium – everyone is talking about it,  specially after the creation of entrepreneurial icons such a Steve Jobs, Richard Branson,Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg ( in the last few years) by the modern media. The media tells us that entrepreneurs are those who “take risk, [...]

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How to grow a small business? Principles and Features explained

By On August 26, 2011 · 6 Comments

Thanks for such a positive response to my previous blog on “How to grow a small business…”. A couple of you emailed that the blog only discussed the issues and problems for growth but there’s a need to “give solutions” as well and I should help existing and/or potential entrepreneurs in this regard. So is [...]

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How to grow a small business? Factors affecting growth

By On August 20, 2011 · 4 Comments

Thanks to all those who either commented on my previous blog or emailed me with their feedback and suggestions! Many of you asked about the phenomenon of growth in enterprises, and encouraged me to write about ‘how to grow a small business’. There’s no doubt that one of the main objectives of any entrepreneur is [...]

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Small Business Failure – Most Common Reasons

By On July 7, 2011 · 7 Comments

I have been teaching, coaching and training a number of aspiring small business owners/entrepreneurs. Some enter into business some don’t. Generally speaking those who enter into small businesses do not plan well and once in trouble start looking for quick fixes. Recently I met with a young and quite influential entrepreneur who acquired a degree [...]

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I am a blogger now!

By On June 11, 2011 · 7 Comments

“Social media has changed the dynamics of learning. Knowledge is being shared and disseminated in real time. If following can’t convince you, be ready to miss the chance to reach millions”: Social Media is the #1 activity on the web| 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated [...]

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