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How Resourcefulness Can Help Your Business Survive Major Disruptions

How Resourcefulness Can Help Your Business Survive Major Disruptions

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Since some of us are still locked down, we may as well have some fun perfecting one of the two most commonly heralded ingredients of entrepreneurial success, resourcefulness. The other one is tenacity, and together they make an unbeatable duo that most successful...
Solve Business Problems with What You Have at Hand

Solve Business Problems with What You Have at Hand

EMPATHY IS THE GOLDEN THREAD

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

We recently had the opportunity to speak to the Aalto Fellows, a group of the top students from Aalto University in Finland. They were in Silicon Valley for the entrepreneurial tour and we caught up with them at Stanford University. What was most impressive about this...
Entrepreneur – The Top 4 Reasons Startups Fail, According to 14 International Accelerators

Entrepreneur – The Top 4 Reasons Startups Fail, According to 14 International Accelerators

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Contributed Article

As speakers, advisers and trainers in the entrepreneurial space, we’ve been particularly excited by our December survey of the principles of 14 international accelerators. We wanted to know, from their point of view, what were the key factors in startup success … and...
The 4 Core Competencies of the Barefoot Startup

The 4 Core Competencies of the Barefoot Startup

4 STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

If you managed to survive the entrepreneurial process from ideation to monetization and you were asked to boil it all down into core competencies, what would you say? How would you even begin? We faced this exact challenge. Our employees, business associates and...
5 Ways to Get Good Ideas Out of Your People

5 Ways to Get Good Ideas Out of Your People

IT TAKES MORE THAN MONEY

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Companies ask us, “How can we get the entrepreneurial spirit?” The real question should be, “How did we lose it?” When their founders started in that garage or basement so long ago, there was no question in their minds, if they didn’t make sales, they’d go out of...
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