Download - UEDA Annual Summit 2014 - Awards of Excellence - Research and Analysis - Spokane's Business Library
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Spokanebusiness.orgMark Pond, Business Reference Librarian l Spokane Public
Library
Author
IT’S NOT ABOUT AN IDEA.
IT’S ABOUT MAKINGIDEAS HAPPEN.
Demographics
Industry trends
Competitive analysis
Sales lead development
Sales projections
Business plan
Spokanebusiness.org: Professional grade business research. For
free.
WHAT ARE WE DOING RIGHT? Originality
Scalability
Sustainability
Check, check, and check
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Community outreach and training.
Library acts as the crowdsourcing hub to fund other business research and information resources.
Like what? A Bloomberg terminal. eMarketer.com. Lexis-Nexis. WestLaw. Etc.
3-D printers. Laser cutters. CNC routers. A full-blown MakerSpace.
