40 Reasons Why Most Entrepreneurs Do Not Know What They Are Doing
Why in the age of knowledge are startups falling short?
“Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing,” wrote Peter Drucker in his 1985 book Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
We live in an age where access to knowledge—through books, podcasts, and LLMs—is at an all-time high, yet more startups are not translating into more scaleups. Why is this?
Professor Joe Haslam of IE Business School is a six-time co-founder with a research focus on how startups and SMEs scale. Join him as he presents 40 Reasons Why Most Entrepreneurs Do Not Know What They Are Doing.
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Co-founder and Chairman of hot.co.uk
Professor Joe Haslam is the Executive Director of the Owners Scaleup Program at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. This is a program specially designed for small and medium sized companies that want to scale. He is also the presenter of the High Impact Online Program “Scaleup! How to Successfully Manage Growth” and the Academic Director of the Global Scaleup Program, a joint course offered by IE with the American University of Beirut.
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