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Why Human Resource Practices are Important
While it is fairly obvious how marketing, sales, product development and manufacturing contribute to an organization’s success, the link between human resources and firm success has been much more ambiguous. Measuring how the sales department affects a firm’s revenues is quite simple. But it’s much harder to measure the effects of changes in hiring, training,…
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The CrashRespond Challenge – Build an App that Sells while in School and Working Full-Time (Part 1)
This post was republished with permission from the BDEC, Irvine. This series of posts will walk you through the process of planning, market testing and developing an app. The app we’ll talk about is called CrashRespond. It will automatically detect car accidents and upon detection, send a text and email alert to up to 3…
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How to be a Good Boss
What follows is a post from Dr. Atul Teckchandani, one of the great professors teaching Entrepreneurship at CSUF. by harmonica pete One of my favorite reads is the ‘You’re the Boss’ blog. Recently, one of their bloggers, Jay Goltz, published a post titled “Do you really want to be a business owner?” that is worth a…
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Job Opening: Thoro Packaging
Job Title: Marketing Liaison Department: Marketing Reports to: President Position Summary Assist the President in the development of market strategies to favorably position Thoro in the marketplace. Create and implement marketing solutions. Consistently and efficiently provide quality information per procedures in compliance to ISO 9001:2000 standards. Responsibilities Increase brand recognition and establish Thoro as a…
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Business Plan Competition Finalist: Astral Infiniti, LLC
Even though the 2012 Business Plan Competition is now over I think it is important for you to know about the second place finisher, Astral Infiniti, LLC. Here’s some information about this impressive startup: Astral Infiniti, LLC was founded in response to the growing demand for clean, renewable energy products due to rising fuel costs.…
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Business Plan Competition Finalist: SP ZAP, LLC
Yesterday, we did a post revealing some information about one of our Business Plan Competition Finalists. And, as you may know we will be holding our first Business Plan Competition Finals this Friday, April 13th, at 1:30pm in SGMH 1502 (details). There will be some great prizes given away like an iPad and a Xbox…
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Are Business Plans Dead?
I recently participated in a global entrepreneurship conference attended by entrepreneurship academicians, entrepreneur “wannabees”, and a few “real” entrepreneurs. A vigorous discussion emerged about the value of business plans at the university versus the usage of business plans in the “real” world. The general consensus was that angel investors (i.e. angel networks), private equity investors,…