List of Contributions

Jeff: You start with the National Business Incubation Association, which is really the global authority on the subject and the largest association of incubator professionals. NBIA has an outstanding bookstore of guidebooks at reasonable prices, and runs a couple of annual conferences that you will want ...

CAVEAT Emptor, colleagues! This Association is NOT, repeat NOT, the Academy of Management, despite its use of similar acronyms. Anyone who participates in the Association will not get credit for an Academy contribution. Personally, I think there may be an intent to deceive involved. ...

Marcos had a very interesting observation about relative perceptions of risk between grad and undergrad students (excerpted below). Some members of this list may be familiar with Harvard's admonishment of its MBAs that they should NOT launch new ventures for at least five years after ...

Marcos: I'm not inclined to follow your lead on encouraging illegal risk-taking. That's the sort of thing that gives entrepreneurs terrible reputations as people who contradict well-established social standards, i.e., fully codified legal systems. And it tends to land them in jail, broke. To me, that ...

Dear Maciej: Smart (wealthy accumulating, serial, successful) entrepreneurs do NOT take risks, at least not ones they aren't prepared to handle. Amateurs, first-timers, and ones who are unlikely to make a series of correct choices -- those are the folks taking risks -- and losing. If we are doing things ...