Venturing: The Entrepreneurial Challenge (1991 - 1999)
This Emmy Award-winning series was first aired nationwide in 1992 on over 120 public television stations to overwhelming acclaim. Venturing demonstrates how small businesses get started, grow, and mature. Shot on location at dozens of companies in Vermont, Venturing combines lively interviews with company founders, investors,financiers and others with fascinating "tours" of companies in action.
Venturing #208: Doing It Right
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Four companies that are doing well, by doing the right things. (28m 22s)
Venturing #207: Buying-In/selling-Out
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Buying into a company, or selling out, is part of the normal life cycle of a venture. (26m 55s)
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The global economy has become more accessible to American businesses. (25m 42s)
Venturing #205: Using the Technology
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Innovations in production, manufacturing, and communication, that help businesses compete. (25m 36s)
Venturing #204: Competing Smart
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Business owners reveal some of the methods they use to succeed in the marketplace. (26m 48s)
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Several examples of product pioneers and how they exploited their 'first-mover' advantage. (24m 49s)
Venturing #202: Making It Work
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The challenge of getting the most from the organization. (27m 4s)
Venturing #201: Birth and Growth
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Every established business has its own "war stories." (24m 59s)
Venturing #113: The Innovators
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Achieving success presents its own challenges. (29m 8s)
Venturing #112: The Personal Side
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Functioning effectively with a partner and working in a family business. (29m 26s)
Venturing #111: Agricultural Entrepreneurs
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Today success in farming depends on an entrepreneurial focus. (29m 4s)
Venturing #110: Managing Adversity
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Businesses sometimes experience unanticipated calamities. (29m 10s)
Venturing #109: The Human Challenge
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Employees play a key role in building a successful company. (29m 24s)
Venturing #108: Managing Growth
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A company's growth can be exciting, but it is often unexpected and challenging. (28m 48s)
Venturing #101: The Fire Within
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The traits and skills that characterize today's successful entrepreneurs. (27m 39s)
Venturing #107: Financing Growth
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Entrepreneurs discuss sources for obtaining growth financing. (27m 59s)
Venturing #106: Market & Product Expansion
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Successful entrepreneurs discuss some of the ways they have expanded their products. (29m 12s)
Venturing #103: Finding Financing
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Raising the capital to start a business can be a long and arduous process. (27m 42s)
Venturing #102: Getting Started
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How to turn an idea into an actual business, develop that business and seize opportunities (28m 3s)
Venturing #105: Marketing and Sales
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Make a big splash with a small budget. Creative marketing techniques. (29m 7s)
Venturing #104: Up and Running
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Getting a company started never goes according to plan. (28m 6s)
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