A Recipe For Entrepreneurial Success

Using the metaphor of a successful catering business built by Chris Wilton, use this checklist for a recipe for success for any entrepreneurial business.

Value Facilitation in Contract Negotiations

Follow these principles in addition to the checklist provided in the Downloadable Tool section. Business negotiations are searches for shared value. Divergent thinking is a…

Complexity and Continuous Innovation

Follow the checklist on the graphics. Approach ideas with an experimentation attitude and be dynamic. Follow the checklist on the graphics. Approach ideas with an…

Austrian Business Model

Understand and define subjective value, facilitate value for specific customers, exchanging value with customers in the market, and keep up with value agility – refining…

Ecosystem-Based Strategy

First shift your focus from the firm to the business ecosystem. Second, observe the ecosystem as a network that is constantly creating and changing values.…

Contextual In-Depth Interview Method

When collecting qualitative information from customers and consumers, it’s important to locate the conversation in the relevant context without making it feel like an interview…

Recipe for Entrepreneurial Success

Follow the steps in this recipe when you’re thinking of starting a business. Follow the steps in this recipe when you’re thinking of starting a…

Pricing

Set your prices, observe how your customers respond, then change prices accordingly. Pricing is an experiment. Set your prices, observe how your customers respond, then…

STARS

Who am I? What do I know? Who do I know? What are my resources? These are questions suggested to entrepreneurs by effectuation theory. It…

Alertness, Discovery, and Capabilities

How to start, grow, and manage a business using alertness, discovery, and capabilities-based strategy. How to start, grow, and manage a business using alertness, discovery,…

8 Traits Of Austrian Entrepreneurs

Use this self-assessment tool to determine if entrepreneurship is right for you. Use this self-assessment tool to determine if entrepreneurship is right for you.

Rokeach Value System

A classification of values to help you populate the means-end chain. A classification of values to help you populate the means-end chain.