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.
Despite decades of striving and some progress, women still face a glass ceiling in many tradition-bound family businesses. In this interview with familybusiness.org Editor Kimberly Eddleston, Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
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...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Catherine Buday and Jon Eckhardt
Entrepreneur, philanthropist and author Simran Mohinani has great role models among her family members, who run Platinum Estates, a thriving enterprise in Europe. Mohinani has three of her own Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
You're gainfully employed with a steady paycheck, but you have a great idea for your own company. Should you quit your job to launch your venture? In this interview with EIX, "Third Shift Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Todd Connor and Daniel Forbes
Women are honing their business and technical skills in preparation for leadership, but many of them still struggle with how they communicate and present themselves. Despite their know-how they still Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Entrepreneurship comes in different forms, and the experience of being a solo entrepreneur - or a “company of one” - is a form that’s attracting a great deal of interest today. In this Q&A Read More...
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Authors: Sarah Lempa and Daniel Forbes
About 44 million Americans, including many women, are exploring "sidepreneurship," or starting their own businesses while working full time somewhere else. Done right, it can bring the Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known around the world as a center of learning and knowledge creation. But what is less well-known is the central role the university has played in Read More...
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Authors: Edward Roberts and Daniel Forbes
After years of being focused on theory, entrepreneurship research is broadening its scope to helping entrepreneurs solve day-to-day problems. In this video, Dr. Carla Pavone reflects on the evolving Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Carla Pavone
In this video, Jon Eckhardt interviews Rob Roquitte about building his pre-seed stage company that he started before the COVID-19 pandemic. Roquitte's company, eCIO , helps nonprofit Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Jon Eckhardt