Interviews
Face-to-face or virtual interviews captured in video, audio or by written means can be invaluable tools for learning about and understanding how successful people considered and took effective action in their life situations.
Interviews are usually conducted by editors of EIX and follow a straightforward format of questions. However, we encourage any member of the EIX community to make an interview proposal. We want to avoid having an interview conducted and then not accepted by EIX. Accordingly, we ask that interviews go through a proposal step before the interview is conducted, using the EIX interview format.
The construction industry remains stubbornly a male-dominated field, but Emily Bittenbender of Bittenbender Construction is giving it a new face and a new approach to managing. At age 29 she Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Donna De Carolis
Much has been written about how family businesses can have transition problems when the founder's children take over. Best Buy founder Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson of the Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson
EIX's Dave Feldman talks with the founder and CEO of Mom's Organic Market, whose business started in his mother's garage and has grown like a beanstalk. A self-described former "juvenile Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Dave Feldman
Jeff Freeland Nelson has some unusual advice for young people wanting to become entrepreneurs: major in theater instead of business. It will teach you how to make things, work with others creatively Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Daniel Forbes
When Marnie Abramson started her own environmental consulting business, sustainability was not yet on the radar with most companies. In fact, her partners were asked, "Why are you partnering Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Dave Feldman
Starting with his first business mowing neighbors' lawns, serial entrepreneur Mike Dulworth relished the freedom of being his own boss. He also preferred solitary sports such as tennis and Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Nicholas Vitalari
More than 20 years ago, Steven Aldrich showed the Mosaic Browser to his father, noted entrepreneurship professor Howard Aldrich. It was a time when Steven was imagining a future in helping Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Howard E. Aldrich
Poornima Vijayashanker is the founder of Femgineer, an educational business that empowers forward-thinking techies of all backgrounds and promotes inclusiveness in the high-tech industry. She Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Matt Younkle's earliest commercial venture -- a product called "TurboTap" that poured beer faster -- almost didn't happen. His first product demo for Anheuser-Busch did not go well. But Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Jon Eckhardt
Seth Goldman, founder and "TEO" of Honest Tea, believes in market-based solutions to social problems. In this discussion with Dave Feldman, he talks about how he integrates his business Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Dave Feldman