Originally found at Forbes, by Michael Blanding

Entrepreneurs aren’t short on ideas for exciting new products or companies, but they are often short-sighted when it comes to finding ways to fund and build those projects.

"There is a huge amount of discussion about how you come up with a new entrepreneurial possibility, Yelp for dogs or Uber for cats, or whatever,” says Andy Wu, assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy unit of Harvard Business School. “What’s overlooked is a comprehensive framework for how you mobilize the resources—such as financing, employees, and partners—to bring the idea to life.”

Along with colleagues David R. Clough, Tommy Pan Fang, and Balagopal Vissa, Wu recently reviewed how the entrepreneurial community thinks about acquiring resources, publishing their work in the paper, Turning Lead Into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? in the Academy of Management Annals.

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Learn more about the AOM Scholars and explore their work:

• David R. Clough, University of British Columbia
• Tommy Pan Fang, Harvard University
• Balagopal Vissa, INSEAD
• Andy Wu, Harvard University