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Can e-Publishing Overcome Copyright Concerns? - New York Times

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blog.pmarca.com: The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6

In this series of blog posts, I will walk through all 25 of the biases Mr. Munger identifies, and then adapt them for the modern entrepreneur. In each case I will start with relevant excerpts of Mr. Munger's speech, and then after that add my own thoughts.

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Microfinance’s Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico - New York Times

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Marginal Revolution: My micro-credit essay with Karol Boudreaux

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Windfalls of War - The Center for Public Integrity

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The Entrepreneurial Mind: Cynicism about Free Enterprise

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CoolPeopleCare | But What If I Love Entrepreneurship?

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The Remarkablog But What If I Love Entrepreneurship?
by Sam Davidson (Thursday, December 20, 2007) But What If I Love Entrepreneurship?
Should I do what I love or do what I am? But what if I want to make my passion my profession? Yesterday, I highlighted Penelope Trunk's recent condemnation of the career advice, "Do what you love." In its place she suggests that people "Do what they are." I agreed.

But I soon began to think about entrepreneurs. Many people embrace the notion of entrepreneurship in order to do what they love. They start jobs and companies in order to turn their passion into their profession.

So are they being misguided? Should they be steered away from trying to base a business on something they love?

Or should every entrepreneurship course be prefaced with Penelope’s advice, steering budding starters away from basing a concept on a love and instead basing it on who they are?

Or, by only changing one word in a tired maxim, is Penelope really just saying the same thing?
post by brianddrpm on 2008-04-01 00:41:11

Passion is never enough for the entrepreneur. Jeff Cornwall and I talked over coffee recently about the intersection of passion and entrepreneurship. Jeff definitely believes that passion is important, but it's equally important to make sure that there's a market for your new venture and a margin by which you can generate money. After all, you can be your own biggest fan, but if no one's buying what you're selling, you won't be able to do much of anything else.
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- This would seem to apply even more so to social-entrepreneurs as the people who need their service are often not able to pay or at least bootstrap the enterprise.
  posted by brianddrpm on 2008-01-02 00:08:37

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Intuit Future of Small Business Report

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Institute for the Future

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MIT World » : A Genius for Change, and the Passion to Do It

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Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty

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Indeed, Schumpeter was among the first to lay out a clear concept of entrepreneurship. He distinguished inventions from the entrepreneur's innovations. Schumpeter pointed out that entrepreneurs innovate, not just by figuring out how to use inventions, but also by introducing new means of production, new products, and new forms of organization. These innovations, he argued, take just as much skill and daring as does the process of invention.
Under perfect competition all firms in an industry produced the same good, sold it for the same price, and had access to the same technology. Schumpeter saw this kind of competition as relatively unimportant. He wrote: "[What counts is] competition from the new commodity, the new technology, the new source of supply, the new type of organization... competition which... strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms but at their foundations and their very lives."
Most economists accept the latter argument and, on that basis, believe that companies should be able to keep their production processes secret, have their trademarks protected from infringement, and obtain patents.
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- The question, especially in the digital age, is how long and under what conditions such a monopoly should be extended.
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Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism — HBS Working Knowledge

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Creative Destruction's Reconstruction: Joseph Schumpeter Revisited - ChronicleReview.com

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The average literate Americans know of three 20th-century economists: John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and Alan Greenspan
post by brianddrpm on 2008-02-11 03:00:55

Schumpeter saw farther: that market capitalism destroys its own earlier generations. There is, he wrote, a constant "process of industrial mutation — if I may use that biological term — that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. It is what capitalism consists in, and what every capitalist concern has got to live in."
It is important to stress that a Schumpeterian entrepreneur is not an inventor, but an innovator.
He did not think governments could maintain enough social insurance to counter the destructive part of capitalism without strangling the sources of rapid growth. But why Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy places so much blame on "democracy" is unclear to me: Oligarchs fear change at least as much as democratic electorates do.
One great test of our era will be whether creative destruction can flourish alongside public order and political liberty. If not, we're in big trouble. But if so — and I'm an optimist on the point — the results could be a marvel.

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Open Innovation

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Mill, Principles of Political Economy, Book II, Chapter XV: Library of Economics and Liberty

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Information Arbitrage: Creative Destruction: Solving Problems through Innovation

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When Your Product Becomes a Commodity — HBS Working Knowledge

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Confusing Means and Ends

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So on this theme I offer you one of the funniest, albeit somewhat depressing due its truth, videos I have seen in a long time: Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scale via YouTube.
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- This brings up a number of issues that have been dealt with under the fair use posts and creative destruction posts.
  posted by brianddrpm on 2008-01-10 05:25:12
Jeff, this sures feels like another bubble. I spoke with a Web entrepreneur yesterday who is getting some good traction with his free add-on for blogs. When he mentioned that his investors were likening his product to the next Google and that it could be worth billions, I quickly ended the conversation. $50 million -- even that seems outlandish, but at least I can understand the logic of a sales price that is consistent with other sales of like Web products. But billions? What are these people thinking?

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January 15, 2008 08:48 AM
The goal of entrepreneurship is not simply to find the next big thing to lure venture capital or make a mad dash to a public offering. It is to create a venture that creates income and wealth for the entrepreneur and allows the entrepreneur to pursue other goals in life through this economic activity, be it creating more jobs in a better place to work, offering a better product to the customer, or making the world a little better place. The goal of entrepreneurship should be to build a good business -- with legs -- that will help build this entrepreneurial economy.

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ChangeThis :: The Art of the Start

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gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": how to be creative

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Can e-Publishing Overcome Copyright Concerns? - New York Times

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