I have been teaching a course in entrepreneurship for four years at FIU. When I began I looked at a lot of course syllabus from leading universities, but found that a lot of the material was of little value to future entrepreneurs. I was forced to begin developing the course material on my own. Over the years I have refined the material and learned a lot about entrepreneurship. However, I am constantly on the look out for new ideas and good information on key concepts such as customer need, disruptive business models, scaling the business and the stages of business development. The stages of business development is a topic that I am very interested in but basically neglected by academics and entrepreneurs. (Would make a superb Ph.D thesis.)
One of the best sources of information on entrepreneurship--no laughing--is actually Twitter. The wide range of people--from students to professors to entrepreneurs to complete nuts--actually provides consistently good information not only on the most recent Guy Kawasaki post but also on great stuff from the past that I have missed. Every morning now starts with #entrepreneurship on Twitter.
One of the keys to successfully building a business is that when you find something that works you beat it to death to get the maximum benefit. For example, if a blouse sells well, you find six ways to sell the blouse again with slight differences (long sleeves, different buttons, different collar treatment, etc.) I have done this with Twitter. I now read the tags #emprendedor and #entreprenariat. The Spanish tag is particularly good and has also exposed me to a lot of interesting new web-based businesses I probably would not have seen otherwise. The French tag is a bit thin but the French Canadians have some terrific posts.
I am thinking of adding the Portugese and Italian tags for entrepreneurship as soon as I find the words for entrepreneurship ;) I don't read these languages but I can usually get the gist.
If you are interested in a particular subject, try the Twitter tag for it.
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