This section provides resources to help you generate a business idea.
See also the UA Libraries' How do I pick a topic for my research assignment?
For additional resources, visit the The Idea section on the Entrepreneurship guide.
The 100 Greatest Ideas for Building the Business of Your Dreams
How do you rate your job satisfaction? Are you bored by the repetitive nature of your work? Are you tired of the eccentricity, and occasional madness, of the big company you work for? Are you beset with internal politics and meetings, bloody meetings and fed up with it? If so youre probably one of the millions of people who dream of running their own business. But what exactly is the business of your dreams? Do you imagine that sooner or later, youll sell a business to new investors and leave yourself able to retire early in a state of blissful financial independence? Or maybe youd rather imagine yourself famous; or maybe just want to improve the way you live. Whatever the case, the time to start planning for the big leap into your own business is now. The 100 greatest ideas for building the business of your dreams will help you answer many of the questions. It will help you to think about the skills and experience you will need when the big day comes. All great businesses are 90% inspiration. The 100 greatest ideas for building the business of your dreams will help you find yours.
The Agile Start-Up: Quick and Dirty Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know
An inspiring and impactful compilation of the most important lessons of entrepreneurship The tools of a digital age make it easier than ever to start a new business. And with billion-dollar IPOs and acquisitions making weekly headlines, the potential rewards are enormous. But even with all of the advantages and resources that today's entrepreneurs have access to, the likelihood of any one business succeeding is slim. That's why you need the simple, clear lessons found in The Agile Startup. Engaging and informative, The Agile Startup doesn't offer step-by-step instructions on how to build a better mousetrap. Instead, it shows you how to build companies that continually adapt to the "real" world. Along the way, you'll discover you're not alone in your entrepreneurial endeavors, and that almost every challenge a startup can face has already been faced, and overcome, by someone in the past. Contains lessons culled from decades of creating successful companies, which includes possessing a flexible mindset Provides valuable insights, based on a market-driven philosophy, regarding launching and managing products, businesses, and brands Written by two authors who have a combined sixty-plus years of startup experience and understand the reasons behind their successes and failures A companion Website contains supplementary material that allows you to learn in a hands-on fashion long after closing the book The journey of a startup is daunting. Think about everything that has to be overcome and you'll quickly see that the odds are stacked heavily against you. But with The Agile Startup as your guide, you'll learn exactly what it takes to succeed in your entrepreneurial endeavors.
Entrepreneurial strategy: starting, managing, and scaling new ventures
This open access book focuses on explaining differences amongst organizations regarding various attributes, forms, and outcomes. By focusing on the how of new venture creation and management to produce well-established organizations, the authors aim to increase our understanding of the antecedents of most management research assumptions. New ventures are the source of most newly created jobs generated in an economy, new industries and markets, innovative products and services, and new solutions to economic, social, and environmental problems. However, most management research assumes a well-established organization as the starting point of their theorizing. Building on the notion of guided attention, it details how entrepreneurs can allocate their transient attention to identify potential opportunities from environmental change and how entrepreneurs allocate their sustained attention to form beliefs about radical and incremental opportunities requiring entrepreneurial action.
Lean Startups for Social Change
For years, the lean startup has been revolutionizing both new and established businesses. In this eye-opening book, serial social entrepreneur Michel Gelobter shows how it can do the same for nonprofits. Traditionally, whether creating a new business or a new program, entrepreneurs in all sectors develop a plan, find money to fund it, and pursue it to its conclusion. The problem is, over time conditions can change drastically--but you're locked into your plan. The lean startup is all about agility and flexibility. Its mantra is "build, measure, learn": create small experimental initiatives, quickly get real-world feedback on them, and use that data to expand what works and discard what doesn't. Using dozens of social sector examples, Gelobter walks you through the process. The standard approach wastes time and money. The lean startup will help your organization vastly increase the good it does.
Profit: Plan For It, Get It - The Entrepreneurs Handbook
If you want to take your business to the next level, then this book could lead you there. You most likely have a love for whatever area you have chosen as a focus for your business. This is a great start. However, many small business owners do not have the business and management background to make that business as profitable as it could be. In consulting with many of these small businesses, I found that a few simple business practices could be very beneficial to their growth. In this book, I will try to share some of these practices with you. This book is designed to help an entrepreneur increase his profit by introducing how he can use a simplified profit-and-loss statement of four to ten items as a tool to analyze his business from a financial perspective. He will be shown how he can use these items in a formula to help him plan and make decisions for future growth and profit. We will discuss skills and practices that have been used to improve sales, management, leadership, and planning skills. This book is designed to help you improve your profitability.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration: see Food tab for information about recalls, foodborne illness, labeling, dietary supplements, biotechnology, and more
U.S. Department of Agriculture: topics include climate solutions, food safety, and energy
Browse The New York Times: see Climate & Environment, Food Safety
Key Resources on Antibiotics, Superbugs, and Industrial Farming: from The Pew Charitable Trusts
The 10 Principles of Food Industry Sustainability
Advances in Food Security and Sustainability
The Digital Agricultural Revolution: Innovations and Challenges in Agriculture through Technology Disruptions
Food Industry Design, Technology and Innovation
The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Safety Protocols in the Food Industry and Emerging Concerns
Emerging Issues in the Water Environment during Anthropocene: A South East Asian PerspectiveThe Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Potable Water: Emerging Global Problems and Solutions
The Science of Water
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