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- Journal of Small Business ManagementThe primary purpose of the Journal of Small Business Management is to publish scholarly research articles in the fields of small business management and entrepreneurship. As the official journal of the International Council for Small Business, the Journal is recognized as a primary instrument for projecting and supporting the goals and objectives of this organization, which include scholarly research and the free exchange of ideas.
- Louisiana GeauxBIZ.comgeauxBIZ is your one-stop site for launching your new business in the state of Louisiana. Create an account in order to Create a checklist to help plan, make key financial decisions and complete legal activities prior to launching your new business, Reserve a business name for your new business, Register your business with the Louisiana Secretary of State, the Louisiana Department of Revenue, and the Louisiana Workforce Commission, and File amendments, such as annual reports, with the Louisiana Secretary of State.
- LSU Innovation ParkLSU Innovation Park offers specialized business assistance to help companies further and formulate their ideas. We have a prototyping center, designated LSU student program, and available office and lab space. Innovation Park strives to assist small businesses and entrepreneurs in strategic planning, raising capital, improving operations and increasing sales. From concept to well established businesses, our highly trained staff will create a custom solution for your business needs.
- Small Business AdministrationLocate government information on starting and financing your business, creating a business plan, loans and grants, contracting, and strategic planning.
- Small Business Innovation Research Program/Small Business Technology TransferThe SBIR is a "is a highly competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) that has the potential for commercialization. Through a competitive awards-based program, SBIR enables small businesses to explore their technological potential and provides the incentive to profit from its commercialization. By including qualified small businesses in the nation"s R&D arena, high-tech innovation is stimulated and the United States gains entrepreneurial spirit as it meets its specific research and development needs."
The STTR is a "another program that expands funding opportunities in the federal innovation research and development (R&D) arena. Central to the program is expansion of the public/private sector partnership to include the joint venture opportunities for small businesses and nonprofit research institutions. The unique feature of the STTR program is the requirement for the small business to formally collaborate with a research institution in Phase I and Phase II. STTR"s most important role is to bridge the gap between performance of basic science and commercialization of resulting innovations." - Small Business Resource Guide (RedStag Fulfillment)This web page provides links to a wealth of web resources on small business topic such as things to think about before starting a business, business planning basics, location decisions, financing, and legal and tax issues.
- Small Business TrendsAccess articles on topics on marketing, management, technology, and finance.
- Strategic Entrepreneurship JournalStrategic entrepreneurship involves innovation and subsequent changes which add value to society and which change societal life in ways which have significant, sustainable, and durable consequences. The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal is international in scope and acknowledges theory- and evidence-based research conducted and/or applied in all regions of the world. It is devoted to content and quality standards based on scientific method, relevant theory, tested or testable propositions, and appropriate data and evidence, all replicable by others, and all representing original contributions.
- Ultimate Guide to Business Plans (Shopify)Access 8 chapters covering different facets of constructing a business plan: why you need a business plan, information about your company, industry and market competition analysis, marketing plan, operations plan, financial plan, and a sample business plan.
- United States Small Business FriendlinessAvailable since 2012, this annual service uses a select group of criteria to rank cities states and cities. Criteria includes ease of starting a business, environmental, licensing, and zoning.
Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses by
In Content Inc., one of today's most sought-after content-marketing strategists reveals a new model for entrepreneurial success. Simply put, it's about developing valuable content, building an audience around that content, and then creating a product for that audience. Notice a shift? Author Joe Pulizzi flips the traditional entrepreneurial approach of first creating a product and then trying to find customers. It's a brilliant reverse-engineering of a model that rarely succeeds. The radical six-step business-building process revealed in this book is smart, simple, practical, and cost-effective.
Call Number: HF5415.127 .P8498 2016ISBN: 9781259589652Publication Date: 2015-09-08
The Entrepreneur's Playbook: More than 100 Proven Strategies, Tips, and Techniques to Build a Radically Successful Business by
When failure is not an option. Big new ideas rarely make great businesses . . . Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time . . . You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do. Counterintuitive concepts like these have helped the world's best entrepreneurs succeed. Yet most of us only learn them the hard way. Len Green, an experienced investor, entrepreneur, and business professor, shares inside secrets and proven tactics for launching a business.
Call Number: HD62.5 .G728 2017ISBN: 9780814438176Publication Date: 2017-03-09
Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2017 by
The publication is produced by the OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Program based on official statistics. The 2017 edition features a new trends chapter, which also introduces recent developments related to the emergence of the "gig economy" and the use of digital tools by micro-enterprises. The web site provides access to the editions from 2011 forward.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9789264279926Publication Date: 2017-09-28
Essentials of Entrepreneurship by
Entrepreneurs are, in essence, individuals who take action to convert their ideas into reality. Doing so involves completing many steps; Robert Baron describes these steps, and provides guidance for performing them successfully.
Call Number: HB615 .B384 2014ISBN: 1783471786Publication Date: 2014-03-28
Fail Fast or Win Big: the Start-up Plan for Starting Now by
Entrepreneurs have long been taught that to be successful, they need to spend months perfecting a business plan and finding investors before they can finally launch their business. But with the marketplace changing at lightning speed, this notion is not only outdated-it's costly. There's no point to building a business in a bubble.Today's entrepreneurs must embrace the idea of "failing fast.' They need to connect with real customers and determine quickly whether their idea is worth pursuing, needs new direction, or should be abandoned altogether.
Call Number: HD62.5 .S3547 2015ISBN: 9780814434789Publication Date: 2015-02-18
Fundamentals for Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur by
This is the complete, up-to-date guide to creating a successful new venture. Using real-life examples, it helps you assemble every piece of the puzzle: you, your team, your opportunity, your business concept and revenue model, your resources, and your successful launch, execution, and growth. The authors illuminate entrepreneurial mindsets, motivation, attitudes, and leadership, and cover the entire process of starting a company, from idea through your first four years of operations.
Call Number: HB615 .B71145 2016ISBN: 013396681XPublication Date: 2015-11-17
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.
Call Number: HD62.5 .R545 2014ISBN: 9780307887894Publication Date: 2011-09-13
Narrative and Numbers: the Value of Stories in Business by
Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that the power of story drives corporate value, adding substance to numbers and persuading even cautious investors to take risks. In business, there are the storytellers who spin compelling narratives and the number-crunchers who construct meaningful models and accounts. Both are essential to success, but only by combining the two, Damodaran argues, can a business deliver and sustain value.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780231542746Publication Date: 2017-01-10
Originals: How Non-conformists Move the World by
Grant examines how people can champion new ideas--and how leaders can encourage originality in their organizations. With Give and Take, Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation's most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions.
Call Number: HD53 .G742 2016ISBN: 9780525429562Publication Date: 2016-02-02
Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by
Winning today isn't about beating the competition at the old game. It's about inventing a whole new game--defining a new market category, developing it, and dominating it over time. You can't build a legendary company without building a legendary category. If you think that having the best product is all it takes to win, you're going to lose. In this farsighted, pioneering guide, the founders of Silicon Valley advisory firm Play Bigger rely on data analysis and interviews to understand the inner workings of "category kings"-- companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, Uber, and IKEA--that give us new ways of living, thinking or doing business, often solving problems we didn't know we had. In Play Bigger, the authors assemble their findings to introduce the new discipline of category design.
Call Number: HF5415.153 .R3534 2016ISBN: 9780062407610Publication Date: 2016-06-14
Power of Little Ideas: A Third Way to Innovate for Market Success by
Conventional wisdom today says that to survive, companies must move beyond incremental, sustaining innovation and invest in some form of radical innovation. "Disrupt yourself or be disrupted!” is the relentless message company leaders hear. The Power of Little Ideas argues there’s a "third way” that is neither sustaining nor disruptive. This low-risk, high-reward strategy is an approach to innovation that all company leaders should understand so that they recognize it when their competitors practice it, and apply it when it will give them a competitive advantage.
Call Number: HD45 .R595 2017ISBN: 9781633691681Publication Date: 2017-05-02
The Science of Growth: How Facebook beat Friendster--and how nine other startups left the rest in the dust by
The lean entrepreneurship movement has captivated Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs across the country. It's provided an agile framework to develop the right product solution for a given target market, and is now used by almost every fledgling company to do just that. The next challenge is growth - to achieve the financial returns and, more importantly, the impact they dreamed of when starting off on their adventure.
Call Number: HD62.5 .A48 2016ISBN: 9781250074294Publication Date: 2016-04-26
Social Entrepreneurship by
Outstanding social entrepreneurs inspire students, transform communities, and ignite innovative approaches to solving social needs--and although social enterprises remain small, their impact is growing globally. This timely second edition of Social Entrepreneurship has been inspired by the increasing interest both in social entrepreneurship scholarship and in entrepreneurs' power to deliver novel solutions to social issues as they endeavor to respond to increasingly complex social problems and demands for welfare at a time of government cutbacks.
Call Number: HD60 .S586 2017ISBN: 9781447331711Publication Date: 2017-02-15
The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises are Teaming up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems by
Government Alone Can’t Solve Society’s Biggest Problems World hunger. Climate change. Crumbling infrastructure. It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle these and other towering social problems. What’s required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system.The Solution Revolution brings hope--revealing just such a burgeoning new economy where players from across the spectrum of business, government, philanthropy, and social enterprise converge to solve big problems and create public value. By erasing public-private sector boundaries, the solution economy is unlocking trillions of dollars in social benefit and commercial value.
Call Number: HD60 .E337 2013ISBN: 9781422192191Publication Date: 2013-09-17
Traction: How Any Startup can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by
Most startups don't fail because they can't build a product. Most startups fail because they can't get traction. Startup advice tends to be a lot of platitudes repackaged with new buzzwords, but Traction is something else entirely. For every startup that grows to the point where it can go public or be profitably acquired, hundreds of others sputter and die. Smart entrepreneurs know that the key to success isn't the originality of your offering, the brilliance of your team, or how much money you raise. It's how consistently you can grow and acquire new customers (or, for a free service, users). That's called traction, and it makes everything else easier--fund-raising, hiring, press, partnerships, acquisitions.
Call Number: HD62.5 .W44 2015ISBN: 9781591848363Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.
Call Number: HD62.5 .T525 2014ISBN: 9780804139298Publication Date: 2014-09-16
- a16zThe a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future -- especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This podcast is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week.
- Built to SellSerial entrepreneur John Warrillow's weekly conversations with entrepreneurs who have sold their businesses.
- Fearless Launching ShowThe Fearless Launching Show is a podcast for entrepreneurs and small business owners who want to bring their most important ideas to the world.
- Forbes Under 30 PodcastsForbes Under 30 podcasts are about young innovators, disruptors and entrepreneurs. This weekly show, hosted by Steve Goldbloom, features guests who are taking big chances to achieve the not-so-small goal of changing the world.
- NHK World's Direct TalkInterviews with leaders, visionaries and pioneers who shape Asia and the world.
- Online Marketing Made EasyExpert interviews, mini execution plans, and intimate behind-the-scenes secrets from businesses launced by Amy Porterfield.
- RocketShipThese interviews with entrepreneurs dive into everything from funding to growth, culture to sales, and everything in between.
- She Did It Her WayWeekly interviews with successful female entrepreneurs. Listen to the episodes with iTunes.
- StartUpStartUp is a podcast about what it’s really like to get a business off the ground.
- Startup School RadioStartup School Radio is a weekly broadcast where you'll hear Aaron Harris, a partner at Y Combinator, get stories and practical advice from founders and investors. Learn how they got started, what went wrong, what surprised them, and what happened as their companies grew.
- Traction: How Startups StartLearn from the pros on how to get your startup business up and running.
- Women in Tech PodcastThe #womenintech Podcast is hosted by WeAreLATech's Espree Devora and features inspiring Women in Tech from Engineers, Female Founders, Investors, UX and UI Designers, Journalists all sharing their story how they got to where they are today.