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By James Beal and David Deeds on Tue May 03 2022
A University of New Hampshire Team, shown here with Best Buy Founder Dick Schulze at right, won first place for their business idea, Hydrophos Solutions. MINNEAPOLIS -- e-Fest 2022 came to an Read more |
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By David Deeds on Tue Apr 26 2022
With E-Fest 2022 less than a week away, excitement is building as the 25 finalist teams, all undergraduate innovators, gear up for a chance to win part of the $215,000 prize purse. This will be the Read more |
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By Kimberly Eddleston on Wed Apr 20 2022
Around the globe, family businesses are grappling with the effects of inflation, now at its highest level in 40 years. A recent NFIB report noted that over 30% of business owners feel inflation is Read more |
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By James Beal on Fri Apr 01 2022
TOP 25 FINALISTS ANNOUNCEMENT MINNEAPOLIS, April 1, 2022 -- Drumroll please...EIX proudly announces the Top 25 Finalists for e-Fest � 2022! We are so happy to be returning to Minneapolis and the Read more |
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By Sara Stern on Fri Mar 04 2022
Imagine this not so uncommon family business situation. In a f ourth-generation family business, the transition between the previous generations always went from the father to son in the business: Read more |
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By David Goetz and Melissa Parks on Wed Feb 09 2022
At dinner recently, a friend (Dave’s) began to kvetch about her adulting son. He had lived with her and her husband for a year after college. Finally, the grumpy, underemployed ingrate had moved Read more |
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By David Deeds on Fri Feb 04 2022
Mat Hughes (left) is now Senior Editor of familybusiness.org and David Townsend (right) is Senior Editor of EIX. As readership continues to rise dramatically year after year, EIX.org and Read more |
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By David Deeds on Tue Jan 25 2022
Family enterprises are the backbone of the world’s economy and critically important to the economic growth and development of every nation. On average, they outperform publicly owned non-family Read more |
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By Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD on Mon Dec 20 2021
Entrepreneurs face many challenges when building a new company from an innovative idea -- financial pressures, networking for seed money, satisfying venture investors who have their own expectations Read more |
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By Daniel Forbes and Jon Eckhardt on Fri Dec 17 2021
The year-end is traditionally a time for setting new goals for the coming year, but if we've learned anything from 2020 and 2021 it's that our best-laid plans must be flexible. The continued Read more |
