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By James C Wetherbe on Wed Jun 25 2025

Smith died June 21, but the 11 management practices he encouraged at FedEx provide timeless wisdom for entrepreneurs and their ventures. EDITOR’S NOTE: FedEx Founder and Executive Chairman Read more

By Richard Eisenberg on Thu Dec 15 2022

Over the years, Noah Alper, 75, has started and run five businesses and a nonprofit school. Four of his ventures — including Noah's Bagels and the natural food and housewares chain Bread & Circus, Read more

By Daniel Forbes and Jon Eckhardt on Wed Mar 10 2021

Over the past several years EIX editors have interviewed the founders and CEOs of groundbreaking companies, and we've published videos of those conversations on our site. Recently we re-edited those Read more

By Jon Eckhardt and Daniel Forbes on Thu Feb 11 2021

This is the third video in our exclusive series called "Learn from Leaders," featuring advice for early-stage entrepreneurs and innovators from founders and CEOs of groundbreaking companies. Each of Read more

By Jon Eckhardt and Daniel Forbes on Wed Jan 27 2021

Over the past several years EIX editors have interviewed famous and noteworthy founders and CEOs of groundbreaking companies, and published the videos of those discussions on our site. We re-edited Read more

By Daniel Forbes and James C Wetherbe on Wed Dec 30 2020

"If you want to lead, I would pay close attention to Dick's model...and if you are lucky enough to work for someone like this, you just won the lottery!" -- Brad Anderson In honor of Dick Schulze's Read more

By Catherine Buday and Jon Eckhardt on Wed Oct 28 2020

MAJOR TAKEAWAYS: Make sure you totally understand an industry before you get into it. Don't assume that somebody with equity in your company will work harder. Compliment your competitors in front of Read more

By Jamie D. Collins on Thu May 21 2020

Entrepreneurs often face critical decisions for their firms in the midst of considerable uncertainty and great risk. Effective crisis management requires that decision makers make choices even when Read more

By Konstantin Guericke on Wed Aug 30 2017

EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay by one of five co-founders of LinkedIn, the 500 million-member social network for professionals, is part of our EIX feature entitled “The Entrepreneur Essay.” Read more

By Richard Schulze and Kimberly Eddleston on Wed Jan 25 2017

Most businesses say that they put the customer first. Yet customers today are more ready than ever to bolt. The changing fortunes of even venerable chains such as Macy's and Sears shows that no Read more