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  1. Innovation in family business

  • Prof. Alfredo De Massis
• 34 min
  2. Entrepreneurship: an activity and a way of life

  • Prof. Nicos Nicolaou
• 47 min
  3. Entrepreneurial opportunities

  • Prof. Jon Eckhardt
• 28 min
  4. Cognitive foundations of entrepreneurship: creativity and opportunity recognition

  • Prof. Robert A. Baron
• 30 min
  5. What entrepreneurs need to know before they start

  • Prof. Sharon Alvarez
• 39 min
  6. Creating and deploying the entrepreneurial team

  • Prof. Ted Baker
• 31 min
  7. Financial resources for the new venture

  • Dr. Gary Dushnitsky
• 49 min
  8. Accounting for entrepreneurs: key principles and essential practices

  • Dr. Michael Kraten
• 47 min
  9. Financial resources: how to manage them

  • Dr. Michael Kraten
• 41 min
  10. Writing a business plan for a new venture

  • Prof. Evan Douglas
• 49 min
  11. Legal issues relating to new ventures: protecting your intellectual assets

  • Prof. Andrew Sherman
• 32 min
  12. Strategy: planning for competitive edge 1

  • Dr. Gary May
• 26 min
  13. Strategy: planning for competitive edge 2

  • Dr. Gary May
• 37 min
  14. Growing entrepreneurial businesses

  • Prof. Edward D. Hess
• 21 min
  15. Exit strategies for entrepreneurs

  • Dr. Basil Peters

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Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. Does the team matter?
3. What is commonplace? (1)
4. What is commonplace? (2)
5. The ideal team
6. Functional diversity (1)
7. Functional diversity (2)
8. Background diversity
9. Individual (behavioral) attributes
10. A team too small
11. A team too large
12. Building a team
13. Know what you are looking for
14. Have a good idea (1)
15. Have a good idea (2)
16. Make them believe your "make believe"
17. Tie team members' destiny to the firm (1)
18. Tie team members' destiny to the firm (2)
19. Where to find team members?
20. Common design tensions (1)
21. Common design tensions (2)
22. Managing the team
23. The extended team
24. Evolution of the team
25. A note about big success and big money (1)
26. A note about big success and big money (2)
27. A note about lack of money
28. Human capital bricolage (1)
29. Human capital bricolage (2)
30. Human capital bricolage (3)
31. Summary (1)
32. Summary (2)

Topics Covered

• Why the team matters
• Commonplace and mistaken practices
• The ideal entrepreneurial team
• Functional diversity
• Background diversity
• Individual behavioral attributes
• Size matters: how big a team?
• Building the team
• Recruitment
• selection
• persuasion
• incentives
• Common design tensions
• Managing the team
• The extended team
• Evolution of the team
• Big success and big money
• Making do with limited resources

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Series:

• Entrepreneurship

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on November 24, 2011