Dario Meyer

Researcher in Entrepreneurship @fhnwbusiness, PhD Candidate @Uni_of_Essex on Entrepreneurship Education, Mentor at @tonyelumelufdn

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

What research suggests about writing business plans:

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Founders: write a business plan. Even though it will be wrong.

This paper shows the act of planning helps surface potential issues and makes a difference in the long-term. A formal business plan raises the odds of startup success by 10-15%, even controlling for everything else.

[Dr Andrea M Lane @Lane_A_M]

14th Diana international #research conference, June 3-6, 2023.
"#Women #entrepreneurship: Exploring Diversity of Experiences and Impact"

Submit your abstract by Jan 31

https://t.co/D8wJFLdZqC

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

@DomLedinger @MushtaqBilalPhD Same here, great tool, but I had a similar issue that if choossing "similar papers", it would never give me papers that are more recent than the ones in the database and only older ones. @RsrchRabbit

[Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá @seyeabimbola]

Two new @GlobalHealthBMJ editorials — inviting us to be more thoughtful about the labels we place on countries/people:

1. The use, misuse & overuse of the ‘LMIC’ category https://t.co/n8bAJ7l2Er

2. How we classify countries & people — and why it matters https://t.co/EqR05IRMni

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

"Most of what you hear about entrepreneurship is all wrong. It’s not magic; it’s not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It’s a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.” Peter F. Drucker

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

@slim_skinner @hilaryluros Thank you, exactly what I was looking for for ages!

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

The decoy effect in pricing - shifting the customer's decision basis from the actual need to the perceived value.

[Barrett O'Neill @barrettjoneill]

One company increased sales 262.5% with this pricing strategy:

The Decoy Effect.

What it is & how to use it: 🧵

[Innovation Day Upper Rhine @InnovationDayUR]

Save the date: April 12 is Innovation Day Upper Rhine - the major #innovation event that brings together #Germany, #Switzerland and #France. #InnovationDay #PFUE2022
📆 Tuesday, April 12, 2022
📍 Palais Universitaire de Strasbourg
👉 For more information: https://t.co/o5sjWotT3j

[Amy Lewin @amyrlewin]

This week 43 of the good and the great from the VC world have launched a new mentoring programme for female founders.

But... IS that what is needed?

Brilliant piece from @TessaLFClarke here arguing that it's not: https://t.co/8C3tML8jLm

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

A reminder to test your product before going to the market:)

[Calvin and Hobbes Fan Account @Calvinn_Hobbes]

Ok, I could really use one of these though 😅🤣 #CalvinandHobbes

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

@marguerite_jay @nohillside Can we read the interview online somewhere?

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

To revitalize impoverished places through entrepreneurship, we shoud focus on "scale deep" instead of "scale up" - "that is, to grow slowly and become strongly embedded into the local economy, rather than growing as quickly and broadly as possible."

[Pooja Gianchandani @theskillspundit]

HBR Research has shown that entrepreneurship training for underprivileged founders has little impact on firm profitability. Read more here:

Entrepreneurial initiatives often fail to address urgent local issues, and high-tech grow…https://t.co/ASlKEdxGdq https://t.co/6iTiUPNPMb

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

A new study by @FHNWbusiness looked a female entrepreneurship:
- The number of female founders have doubled in the past 20 years and is at 31%.
- Women prepare themselves better and found smaller companies.
- Women also earn considerably less as founders.

[FHNW School of Business @FHNWbusiness]

Eine aktuelle Umfrage zum Thema Female Entrepreneurship hat ergeben, dass die Unternehmerinnen sind in der Schweiz auf dem Vormarsch sind: https://t.co/LMGZrmsU7A
#FHNWmoments #entrepreneurship #FemaleEntrepreneurship

[Rajesh Sawhney 🇮🇳 @rajeshsawhney]

This study of 1200+ unicorn founders is so revealing

1) PhDs are far more likely to create unicorns than college dropouts despite the romance associated with dropouts.

2) Folks with just the Bachelors are the biggest chunk.

3) MBAs are about 20%. Surprised!!

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

The stories we tell about ourselves hold a lot of power. What we like, what we don’t like, what we’ve lost, what changed everything, who we are. But often, we fit the events of our lives into those stories, rather than change those stories to fit new events.
(@DidYouWriteThat)

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

Congratulations to all the #TEF-beneficiaries! Interesting fact that the grants-receiver are 68% female, compared to only 37% female applicants.
@TonyElumeluFDN

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

On NGOs and NPOs, so true unfortunately:
"A lot of these groups are not interested in solving the problem, they are interested in exploiting the problem. [...] It is a business. It is a feel-good business. (@CaptPaulWatson in @seaspiracy)

#NGO #npo #Nonprofits

[Sara Van Hoeymissen 范莎娜 @SaraVanHoey]

More than a knowledge-based economy #Botswana needs an efficiency-driven economy, government and society. No great plan can go far if people have to stand in queues from 4 am, submit countless certified copies of the same paper and make repeated follow-ups on every single matter.

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

"I think that's the essence of entrepreneurship. You start out with an idea and in the end your company value proposition looks really different to what you thought at the beginning, because you learned, you adapted"
Tobias Richter of @TRIDentalImplan on the @swisspreneur podcast

[swisspreneur @swisspreneur]

This week, @Knecker1 founder Anne Richter returns to introduce us to her husband Tobias Richter, co-founder of @TRIdentimplants. Together they make use of all sorts of tools and system to manage 3 kids and 2 startups.

Listen here: https://t.co/Q9Y3UNvt1X

[Dario Meyer @meyerdar]

@christianhirsig Just took the first retention quiz, read the book a few months ago. Great way to be reminded of the key points.