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.


Serial Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Noah Alper of Noah's Bagels

  Noah Alper is best known for the business that bears his name: the West Coast chain Noah's Bagels. But he has started and exited several other businesses, including Bread & Circus, an East Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Catherine Buday

Building a Company Step By Step, Ch. 1: How Startups are Different

EIX will feature interviews that explore the principles outlined in Steve Blank and Bob Dorf's book, "The Startup Owners Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company." This interview Read More...

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Author: Jon Eckhardt

Generous Entrepreneurs Giving Back With Donor-Advised Funds

Many entrepreneurs and business owners who've made it want to share their success with others. Donor-advised funds provide a simple way to give back to the world. With these funds, which are often Read More...

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Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Foundations Give Entrepreneurs a Channel for Doing Good

Like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, many successful entrepreneurs think about their legacy to the world. Family foundations give them a way to use their wealth Read More...

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Author: Kimberly Eddleston

We Talk with Wes Schroll, CEO of Fetch Rewards, Softbank's latest Unicorn

On April 1, Madison, Wisconsin-based company Fetch Rewards became a unicorn, with a  $210 million  investment round lead by SoftBank VisionFund 2. EIX Editor in Chief Jon Eckhardt Read More...

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Author: Jon Eckhardt

Learn From Leaders: Famous Founders' Best Advice for New Ventures

  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...

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Authors: Daniel Forbes and Jon Eckhardt

Family Firms Can Optimize Women's Strengths

Family businesses are far ahead of non-family businesses in letting women help shape important decisions, but both the family firms and the women themselves must make some changes in order to Read More...

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Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Learn from Leaders #5: Growing the Business

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

Category: Interviews

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Jon Eckhardt

Learn from Leaders #4: Building a Team

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

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Authors: Daniel Forbes and Jon Eckhardt

Learn From Leaders #3: Advisors and Mentors

  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 Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Jon Eckhardt and Daniel Forbes