Mistakes happen. If you’ve been in business for a while, you know by now that mistakes are part of the process. New businesses and startup companies are slowly learning this. Nobody is perfect, but some mistakes happen on a larger scale than others. But here’s the thing: lots of these mistakes can be avoided. Read more about How to Avoid a Plateau by Avoiding These 8 Business Mistakes[…]
Transparency and accountability are critical to attracting more private capital and enabling government policies for impact investing, say two practitioners. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton How Impact Investing Could Move from the Margins to Mainstream
Three Philadelphia startups competed for investors in ‘The Pitch’ podcast, which recorded its first live event recently at Wharton. Who will win? Source: Knowledge @ Wharton Don’t Call It ‘Shark Tank’: Competing for Capital on ‘The Pitch’
A new book by Wall Street Journal reporters Bradley Hope and Tom Wright details the lavish life of Malaysian financier Jho Low, mastermind of the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund scandal. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous: The Rise and Fall of Jho Low
Your domain name is very important. It would be a mistake to gloss over the process of coming up with a name. If you take your project seriously, then you need to start off on the right foot with your name. After all, it’s going to be with you for the lifetime of whatever Read more about How to Buy a Domain Name[…]
AI has the potential to boost medical outcomes while lowering costs in the U.S. health care system. In this opinion piece, experts propose one way of implementing AI using a work systems model. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton How AI-based Systems Can Improve Medical Outcomes
Every business needs to be active on social media to be relevant in today’s digital world. So if your company is on social media, it’s a safe bet that you’re uploading photos to your profile on a regular basis. Pictures and other visual elements will improve your marketing strategy. But it can be challenging Read more about 12 Tips for Taking Better Marketing Photos for Your Social Media Campaigns[…]
Quick Sprout is reader-supported. That means we use affiliate links. When you click, we sometimes earn a commission. Learn more. Dropshipping is when you sell a product that’s shipped directly from the manufacturer to your customer. It is never held by you in a warehouse or a spare bedroom, and you’re not responsible for Read more about The Best Dropshipping Companies[…]
Thomas Steenburgh, a marketing professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, was inspired by his early career at Xerox to discover why firms with stellar sales and R&D departments still struggle to sell new innovations. The answer, he finds, is that too many companies expect shiny new products to sell themselves. Steenburgh Read more about 660: Why It’s So Hard to Sell New Products[…]
The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Huawei, is only the beginning of what is clearly becoming the U.S. government’s war on the Chinese tech firm, writes Wharton dean Geoffrey Garrett in this opinion piece. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton Making Sense of the War on Huawei