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Here are about 50 business development ideas. Some are ours, some are from the writing of others. We've avoided ideas from overrated business books.

Business ideas for growth

Understand the "chasm" concept in company growth: Beware of Web 2.0 crossing the chasm

Cross the "chasm": Commercialisation strategy and business valuation multiples: 15 questions

Consider use of venture capital in Australia: Fund raising success stories in 2006 AVCAL report

Plan the market entry of your product or technology: Music formats and law: commercialisation of 45-rpm records  

Look for market gaps: Is Australian cheese properly branded? and Liquor sector trends and statistics for 2007

Improve your IP monopoly: The joy of IP strategy - top 10 questions list

Make something old new again: Striking gold with kiwifruit and Learning from the wine world of Max Schubert

Consider the trajectory of your industry: Your future is already here

Form a collaboration: Reducing obstacles for collaboration formation

Review your business structure: Restructuring co-operatives is hard work

Join an industry cluster: Australian wine industry clusters, economics and branding

Think longer term: Changing views on time and the epidemic of short termism

Business ideas for sale and survival 

Do stuff to increase the value of your business: 51 hints to achieve your premium business sale price    

Estimate the value of your business: Business valuation with price earnings multiples

Look after your people: "People and IP are our greatest assets"

Train your people to be entrepreneurial: Special Collection: Entrepreneurship Toolkit

Prepare for a business sale: Four tasks to increase values or prices in business transactions

Prepare for a collaboration: Preparing for a business for sale or collaboration [PDF]  

Prepare for a business exist: Preparing a business exit strategy and Valuation of businesses

Use design briefs as a project management tool: Use design briefs to shape your projects

Improve your branding: Integrated, differentiated and creative brand strategy

Revitalise innovation in your company: Innovation fatigue and its causes

Set and maintain consumer price expectations: Perceptions of value on 42nd Street

Recruit of internet talent: Think digital, think future proofing and The war for Internet talent

Learn to work with the insolvency profession: Secret business failure business

Codified knowledge (or the lack of it) may lead to your ... Paydays, Maydays and Judgement Days   

Business ideas in internet trends

Use video on the internet: Internet video advertising statistics and law

Use e-commerce: Shopping list for e-commerce

Start a blog: Blogs that work in the "attention economy"

Look for the long tail in your business: The Long Tail versus the Hit Industry Typology 

Add social networking to your online mix: Wisdom for Commercialisation of Social Networking Websites

Boost your business strategy online: Make the Web grow your business, ask us how

Consider marketing via SMS: SMS revenue models and e-marketing legal compliance

Consider marketing via mobile phones: Content licensing for mobile commerce [Update 1]

Intellectual property law concepts for commercialisation

Build intellectual property: Striking gold with kiwifruit 

Learn from success stories in commercialisation: 7 commercialised IT technologies

Integrate and refine your IP strategy: A recipe to make a high net worth celebrity chef

Take a position on digital rights management: Grappling with fallacies: music formats and DRM

Understand commercialisation: Defining Commercialisation  

Understand innovation: Innovation defined and redefined 

Review available options for business finance: Business Finance Selection Tool  

Grow your business with intellectual property: Intellectual property you can eat and drink

Look at IP from three perspectives: How to say "intellectual property" in three languages

Recognise the implications of open source: The benefits of free and open source software

Recognise the rise and rise of confidential information: Is your company's knowledge about IP woeful?

Recognise the shift in IT from copyright to patents: Fox in Socks: A parable for 30 years of IP for IT

Recognise the rise and rise of patents: National and international patent application numbers and Patent infringement damages skyrocket and "Making it under US patent litigation"

Ways to use lawyers more productively

Prepare before you call a lawyer: What to do before calling a business lawyer

Understand what lawyers do: Are managers from Earth and lawyers lost in space?

Brainstorm entrepreneurial ideas: Entrepreneurship elevator speech

Ensure advice is integrated: "I'd like to thank my lawyer"
Check what lawyers do: Winning a business case against legal opinion