“My friend Noam Wasserman at Harvard Business School has spent years researching startups. His work is great, because he actually does real, quantitative research on the kinds of things that everybody has opinions about.” To Read More
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Avoiding Founder Failure: 26 Quick Tips and Real Data
Dharmesh Shah of OnStartups.com: List of 26 Tweet-able Tips for Founding a Startup (based on The Founder’s Dilemmas) To Read More
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4 Top Myths About Start-up Pay
I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Here’s what entrepreneurs think they know about startup pay-and what actually happens. Entrepreneurial decision-making is often guided by anecdotes, rules of thumb, and intuition. Sometimes that’s because entrepreneurs don’t have…
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Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
Eighty years ago, Ralph Heilman, the dean of Northwestern University’s School of Commerce, wrote an article entitled, “Can Business Be Taught?” His answer: yes. Take the lessons about what works and what doesn’t, analyze and organize them, and then teach…
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Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?; by: Noam Wasserman for Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Noam argues that the question isn’t can entrepreneurship be taught, but rather how should it be taught. To Read More
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Publisher’s Weekly: The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
A “seminal work on the startup phase of the entrepreneurial venture…[based on] a decade of research on common issues faced by founders.” An “illuminating and captivating read.” To read more
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