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The Zen of Business Plans

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Guy Kawasaki, American marketing specialist, author and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, through a short blog post, shares nine suggestions of how to create a good business plan. He analyses the topic from different perspectives that range from the “why” to the “how”. If you want to found your own business, and you want to be successful, Kawasaki is the right person to learn from.

Zoom Case Study MC 4 – Matabooks Entrepreneurship

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In this short interview, the founder of the “Matabooks” start-up that produces vegan books made of grass-paper, explains how he became an entrepreneur and the challenges he faced and overcame on the way. It is a useful resource for people interested in starting their own business and who wish to learn from stories of creative and social entrepreneurs that encountered certain challenges and found ways to tackle them.

Three Simple Steps To Identify Your Life Purpose And Leverage It In Your Career

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In this short article, the Senior Contributor to Forbes magazine, Kathy Caprino, describes a three-step process for finding your life purpose in order to help you define your career path which gives meaning to your life. To achieve this, she encourages you to ask yourself a set of questions and explains common misconceptions that people have about this.

Introduction to Crowdfunding

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As traditional grants for artists become scarce, creative people are coming up with new ways to raise money. Crowdfunding is a popular new online fundraising technique that you can use whether or not you have non-profit status. Although successful crowdfunding requires a significant investment of time and effort, it can work well if you have strong online networks of fans and friends that you are willing to ask for money.

How to Use a SWOT Analysis for Non-profits

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A website with a concise overview of how a SWOT analysis works, what it entails, and how it can be beneficial to people in the non-profit sector. For those working in the CCS on their own projects and events, this is a useful tool to know how to allocate their resources best.