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Documenting and testing assumptions early is essential to good new-venture planning

October 27, 2009 by jmcaddell with 138 views

One of the most useful lessons in Rita Gunther McGrath’s and Ian MacMillan’s “Discovery-Driven Growth” is a basic one: when you’re planning a new business venture, your initial plans are laden with assumptions, and treating these assumptions as facts will get you in trouble. Yet it’s done all the time. This lesson was reinforced in the... [read more]

Healthcare on our Entrepreneurial Minds

July 27, 2009 by Jeff Cornwall with 160 views

The healthcare debate, especially as it will impact small business, is all the buzz in Washington and around the country. Rita Gunther McGrath has a well argued post at her blog about the impact of higher taxes needed to pay for socialized healthcare and the inevitable regulatory burdens that it will create. Here is an excerpt: Well,... [read more]

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