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Steve Blank explains why startup ethics are tested under pressure, how founders shape company culture, and what universities should teach future entrepreneurs.
Startup success can come at a steep personal price. Steve Blank discusses the toll intense founder commitment can take on spouses, children and relationships.
Teachers have discovered that the entrepreneurial process is powerful in engaging their students and, most importantly, getting them excited about their education. EDITOR’S NOTE: Doris Korda spent
Tom Golisano is the founder and CEO of Paychex, which went from a shoestring operation to a $3.8 billion company with more than 15,000 employees. His book's 184 pages are filled with lessons for new
The founder of the $4 billion payroll processing company talks with us about challenging conventional wisdom, complimenting competitors, the pitfalls of sharing equity and what he looks for as an investor.
The founder of Best Buy (and EIX and FamilyBusiness.org) has always had a passion for helping business owners succeed. He lives by these rules.
Entrepreneurship professors and other experts can take a cue from Super Bowl ads to encourage more entrepreneurs to discover and learn from their research.
The founder of Noah's and several other companies candidly discusses his hits and misses -- and shares more than a schmear of great advice for new entrepreneurs.
Innovating within an established firm isn't easy. Author Jim Euchner offers a set of complementary tools and processes to help intrapreneurs successfully drive change.
From just 20,000 views 11 years ago, the two sites have had explosive year-over-year growth.
Alliance aims to bring the research-proven insights and advice to business owners and startups.
EIX and familybusiness.org have a library of articles with research-based best practices for entrepreneurial women. Check them out here.
Familybusiness.org and EIX have dozens of articles sharing best practices for entrepreneurial women. You can find them here.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) is a leading journal in entrepreneurship research with a 5-year impact factor of 14.105. We are pleased to announce our new partnership with ETP.
You are welcome to use these tools to help draft, revise, and/or expand on submitted articles -- but make sure you understand our rules.
Over the years we've brought readers practical advice based on research: rigorous studies that analyze what truly works. These ones resonated the most.
The Best Buy founder, whose foundation underwrites the two sites and keeps their resources free to use, discusses their growth and global reach.
The Best Buy founder, whose charitable foundation supports our site, reflects on our growing reach to family business leaders around the world.
Peter Thomas made a bundle selling his software company. He now hopes to develop a profitable business model for an increasingly unprofitable industry.
The award recognizes her role in launching and growing the world's leading website for supporting and educating family businesses.
Hear stories and words of wisdom from people who left careers with guaranteed salaries for the uncertainty of business ownership.
Know how much your advice is worth, and charge the same as your competitors; decide whether to grow or keep things simple; and avoid projects that could hurt your brand.
Chris Parsons of Knowledge Architecture talks about how to minimize the financial risk when you leave salaried work, and why you do not need to be a big risk-taker to be a successful business owner.
John Eckhardt was a sought-after freelance tech consultant. To grow, he had to step back from what came naturally and hire and manage others.
Business owner, author, advisor and teacher Sabrina Horn shows how to disarm your fear and organize your risk as you go out on your own.
EliteFit.ai provides AI-powered movement assessments and fitness programs for business and public sector clients.
‘Epic Disruptions’ author Scott Anthony, a Dartmouth Professor and acolyte of the late Clay Christensen, shares surprising facts about 11 world-changing breakthroughs.
Tom Golisano is the founder and CEO of Paychex, which went from a shoestring operation to a $3.8 billion company with more than 15,000 employees. His book's 184 pages are filled with lessons for new entrepreneurs, based on what Golisano learned the hard way, and with rollicking tales of his first entrepreneurial ventures. It's a quick read that sounds more like a conversation with a very wise mentor.
By all accounts, DaVinci was a genius. But along with the Mona Lisa and Vitruvian Man, he also had a long trail of inventions that never panned out and ideas that never went anywhere. This book delves into the polymath's fascinating processes, his successes and frustrations, and holds lessons for innovators everywhere. Don't miss the last chapter, where Isaacson summarizes the key things that entrepreneurs can learn from Leonardo.
