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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 Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Daniel Forbes and Jon Eckhardt
It is well-known that only a small fraction of startups achieve long-lasting success. They often fail not because their idea is poor but because of problems executing on their idea. One area that is Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Authors: Chuck Sacco and Aasim Sani
Family businesses have unique strengths and unique problems because they blend two identities -- "family" and "business" -- whose priorities are often at odds. While the family identity nurtures Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Roland Kidwell and Kathryn Kloepfer
In 2011, I created a Law and the Entrepreneur course at Bradley University. It was the first course on its campus created for its new Turner School of Entrepreneurship. This course is exclusively for Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Tanya Marcum
Sponsored by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, and EIX.org, a non-profit online platform for entrepreneurship Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: James Beal
Startups succeed or fail for a variety of reasons: no market need, not the right team, timing, running out of cash, premature scaling and more. It is important for students to understand this so that Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Chuck Sacco
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...
Category: Commentary
Author: Konstantin Guericke
Entrepreneurs with great ideas often feel they must pull up stakes and move to a region that is known as a hub for their specific industry. But research that we published in 2012 suggests that Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl
Ritch Sorenson, Professor of Family Business at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis, once worked at a bank founded by his grandfather. When it closed, he felt a personal loss that Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Ritch Sorenson
Group work has been implemented successfully for years at the K-12 level, but has been slow to catch on within higher education. Group work, or cooperative learning, offers a host of benefits to both Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Howard E. Aldrich