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Startup conflicts can damage trust, execution and performance. Entrepreneurs can manage them better by distinguishing task conflict from relationship conflict.
Books, blogs, communities and entrepreneurship programs now spread startup knowledge widely. Steve Jobs helped accelerate the technologies and culture behind that shift.
Linda Hall explains how she helped rescue MinuteClinic from financial trouble and build momentum for a new model of convenient healthcare delivery.
YOXO Founder Jeff Freeland Nelson shares lessons on creativity, product failure, angel funding, sustainable toys and why future entrepreneurs may benefit from studying theater.
Innovation means more than having a new idea. This guide explains what innovation is, why it matters, and how it differs from and overlaps with entrepreneurship.
Objectified gives students a behind-the-scenes look at ideation, product design, customer empathy and the environmental impact of everyday products.
This suburban Minneapolis school district fostered employee-enabled, school-based innovation.
Large companies may overlook promising products and markets. Entrepreneurs can turn those neglected opportunities into useful products and successful businesses.
Many schools want entrepreneurship classes that are “cross-campus” and “experiential.” This class at University of Minnesota does both.
University administrators, tech transfer offices, and others can encourage more scientists and researchers to become more entrepreneurial.
Startups need people and money. Their first venture capital partner can shape how future investors and employees perceive them.
His idea of “disruptive innovation” described how entrepreneurs displace established, market-leading firms.
We have many free and peer-reviewed resources that can easily be used in an online course. Check them out here.
This company has given health care systems a way to quickly reach large numbers of patients seeking answers about their respiratory health.
EIX talks with Prof. Ed Roberts about his new book, the genesis of blockbuster companies founded by MIT graduates, and how entrepreneurship can thrive around the world.
Sarah Lempa discusses how she became a "company of one" and has spent the last several years building a career for herself as a freelance writer and creative media strategist.
Entrepreneurs are accustomed to making decisions amid uncertainty. But sometimes that uncertainty can be compounded by prolonged, disruptive changes in the business environment.
Colleges and universities everywhere are grappling with how to teach in fall of 2020: online only, on campus or a hybrid. These articles will help entrepreneurship educators be prepared for whatever happens.
Consultant and author Todd Connor provides wise advice about leaving salaried work and keeping an eye on tomorrow, without jeopardizing your financial future.
With a vaccine on the way, we feel the best advice for 2021 is to focus on what comes next. These articles from the past year can inform your game plan for the post-Covid world that will dawn in a few months.
What makes for a great leader, whether it's of a startup or a giant company? These tributes to Best Buy Founder Dick Schulze can point the way.
The founders and CEOS of Best Buy, Minute Clinic, LegalZoom and other successful companies share their advice for early-stage entrepreneurs in our exclusive video series.
In Part 2 of our exclusive video series, celebrated entrepreneurs discuss how they convinced early investors and lenders to take a chance on them.
Mentors and carefully chosen advisors can help founders make sound decisions. Watch and learn how these advocates helped shape MinuteClinic, LegalZoom and other firms.
As part of our exclusive video series, leaders of celebrated companies discuss how to attract and incentivize your startup team, and how those teams can evolve as the company matures.
Once you've established a new company, how do you get it to the next level? Founders of celebrated companies share their experiences in our exclusive video series.
These five exclusive videos focus on the critical steps in launching a company: developing an idea, getting financing, advisors and mentors, building a team and growing the business.
How to power through this new phase of supply chain problems, labor shortages, frozen networks and the "great resignation."
Our best-read articles in 2021 overwhelmingly fell into two themes: survival, and bringing a great idea from concept to market.
Our longest partnership has brought research-based practical takeaways to practicing entrepreneurs.
This professor, author, teacher and mentor worked to build stronger partnerships between researchers and practitioners, and more supportive environments for innovators.
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At universities, some of the earliest and most important commercialization efforts are undertaken by the individual scientists who come up with new inventions.
Many businesses must overcome operational and cultural challenges and find partners and advocates in the public and private sectors.
Other popular themes were the challenges of AI, when to hire an attorney, and how to think strategically and communicate better.
Part of our mission at EIX and FamilyBusiness.org is giving entrepreneurs access to new knowledge generated by top-notch academic research. As part of that mission, we have partnered with Academy of
Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, who died March 27, was well-known for his pathbreaking work at the intersection of economics and psychology, which has shed light on how people make decisions in a wide range of circumstances. In this blog post (see link), executive coach Richard Hughes-Jones captures what Kahneman has to say about the cognitive biases of entrepreneurs in particular.
