Victoria Platt, of Williamette Management Associates, gave a presentation at the 2006 SLA conference titled Tackling the Hard to Find Industries: Professional Sports Franchises are our Playground. I did not attend the conference, but I can appreciate seeing the slides available online. The slides offer tips for researching the sports industry and list key resources for finding information.
Business 2.0 has a 16-step guide to “How to Build a Bulletproof Startup.” According to the guide, the authors
wanted you to have all the benefit of hard-earned experience without having to actually endure the pain of making your own mistakes. We spoke to dozens of experts — seasoned entrepreneurs, early-stage investors, venture capitalists, and first-time CEOs — to understand what they’ve learned about the art of getting a new company off the ground. Then we set out to create a set of blueprints describing just how to do it.
The guide covers the following areas:
The complete guide is available here as a PDF.
Ohio Country Profiles are published by the Office of Strategic Research, which provides “data and analysis on the Economic, Industrial, and Demographic trends of the State of Ohio, its businesses and its people.” The 2005 profiles contain “50,000 facts from over 50 sources.” The profiles can be found by selecting your county on this page. If you’re looking for information about Athens County, take a look at the 6-page Athens County Profile. All profiles are in PDF format.
This resource has also been added to the Biz Wiki. You can find it in the Biz Wiki by simply searching for Ohio, or visit this direct link to the resource.
Business 2.0 has published its 2006 list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies. The full list contains the Company Name which links to a snapshot, the industry sector, the 3-year revenue growth, and the 2005 stock return.
For those students looking for a job, CNN Money has a list of companies with the Most Entry-Level Jobs. Good news for business majors, as the survey found “college seniors who majored in marketing, business, management, accounting, computer science and communication are among the most in demand.”
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