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How Important is Market Research? - Click To Read Article
Where is market research most effective? Developing products or investigating business models? Some observations following attendance at a seminar where the organisers did not practice what they preached.
Enterprise Fellowships for Students? - Click To Read Article
The New Yorker Magazine describes Peter Thiel as the most successful technology investor in the world. He has currently set up the Thiel Fellowships of $100,000 for undergraduates to set up new technology companies. In this blog I suggest that the PhD Fellowships set up by the London Business School by Adjunct Lecturer Jon Bates is a better structured concept
Don Quixote as an entrepreneur - Click To Read Article
Some thoughts on Don Quixote as an entrepreneur and Sancho Panza as a venture captial investor
Lessons from Solar - Click To Read Article
Why every entrepreneur and venture capital investor should read Solar, the latest novel by Ian McEwan.
Lesson 5 Grab the Golden Ring - Click To Read Article
The fifth and final lesson taken from 25 years in the venture capital industry and based on my talk 5000 business plans, 50 deals, 25 write-offs. In this lesson I describe how three people (including yours truly) failed to grab the golden ring in the merry go-round of life.
Lesson #4: What Stage Entrepreneur Are You? - Click To Read Article
The three stages of business growth and how important it is for the entrepreneur to realise at what stage he should be concentrating
Lesson #3 Know The Game Part II. - Click To Read Article
The follow up to part I http://www.evancarmichael.com/Leadership/6509/Lesson-3-Know-The-Game-Part-I.html The most important lesson an entrepreneur can learn
Lesson #3 Know The Game Part I - Click To Read Article
Lesson #3 of Chris Golis's talk 5000 Business plan, 50 deals, 25 write-offs lessons learned from 25 years as a venture capitalist. It is 1986. I had been a VC for two years in Sydney and was making my first visit to Silicon Valley. How I finally learned the game.
Lesson #2: Lease the Pencils - Click To Read Article
Lesson #2 of Chris Golis's talk 5000 Business plan, 50 deals, 25 write-offs lessons learnt from 25 years as a venture capitalist. Money talks but cash screams.
Lesson #1: Does Your Business Have an SCA? - Click To Read Article
The first of 5 key lessons that every budding entrepreneur shoul learn. The five lessons are taken from Enterprise and Venture Capital: A Business Builders' and Investors' Handbook 5th Edition Allen & Unwin 2009 by Christopher Golis. The book is based on his 25 years as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist and his talk 5000 Business Plans, 50 deals, 25 Write-offs which he regularly gives to entrepreneurial workshops.
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About the Author: Christopher Golis RSS for Christopher's articles - Visit Christopher's website Chris Golis graduated in 1967 from Cambridge University in Experimental Psychology and Economics. Over 100 Nobel Prize winners have been to Cambridge, nearly twice that of any other university. In 1973 he graduated with distinction with an MBA from the London Business School, recently ranked #1 in the world by the Financial Times. Until 1980 Chris worked in the IT industry with IBM, KLM, ICL, GEC, and TNT progressing from systems programmer to salesperson to divisional General Manager. Chris then changed careers and became a merchant banker morphing into an early stage venture capitalist for 25 years and starting five VC funds raising over $150 million and closing over 50 corporate finance transactions. He is one of the few people in Australia who have successfully grown companies that have made significant capital gains for their owners including Scitec, Neverfail SpringWater and VeCommerce. Chris is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Institute of Management, and the President of the Cambridge Society of NSW. He has written three books. Click here to visit Christopher's website   Lesson 4 What Stage Entrepreneur Are You Don Quixote as an entrepreneur Lesson 3 Know The Game Part II Enterprise Fellowships for Students Lessons from Solar |
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