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Communicating Your Business Idea (1) – The Business Plan

The business plan has been treated in an endless number of publications. So why do I? Because I believe there is a lack of focus in a lot of what is written about business plans. The important things are often lost in the details. In fact, a business plan can be very brief.

I have seen compelling business plans in the form of a few PowerPoint slides, a couple of scribbled pages, and a brief video. What matters is having all the required ingredients (or a road map for getting them), not the exact form of communication. William A. Sahlman [1]

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“Globalisation and the Labour Market: A Social Solution to the Crisis”, with Robert Pollin

On Tuesday June 30, I attended a conference organised by the Invisible University (Universidade Invisivel) and the  University of A Coruña (UDC) – Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence: Institutions and Law of the European Union, in cooperation with MNCARS and the Nomadic University (Universidad Nómada). The keynote speaker, Robert Pollin, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), addressed the current economic crisis and possible solutions.

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