Using AI to Grow Your Business
//October 16, 2023 - Issue #99
Leveraging Generative AI Tools Like ChatGPT for Startups and Small Business Growth These breakthroughs have the potential to optimize processes, enhance customer engagement, and drive growth -- but they also bring legal and security risks.
AI and ChatGPT Will Revolutionize Customer Discovery In some markets, such as e-commerce, it’s going to happen way sooner than you think.
Editor's Pick
Theodore L. Waldron
Steve Jobs
In telling the story of Jobs’ catastrophic failures and monumental successes as an entrepreneur and an executive, Walter Isaacson depicts how one of history’s most successful entrepreneurs thought, felt, and acted throughout his career. He also highlights Jobs’ rare proficiency in creating needs that did not previously exist, forever changing how we interact with technology.
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 2011
From Chalkboards to Chatbots: The New Age of Entrepreneurial Education Let's encourage students to see the possibility, and to approach using AI thoughtfully and critically. Prepare them for a future where it's even more central.
AI Won't Replace Innovators and Fresh Thinking Tom Davenport, an acclaimed author of AI books, and Glenn Leibowitz, recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice, say AI and ChatGPT are no substitute for original thinking.
How All Kinds of Businesses Can Use AI Productively This video, also available as a podcast, explores how entrepreneurs, family businesses, and others can use artificial intelligence in practical ways.
Digital Transformation: Can Your Business Keep Up? Even tech-savvy startups can be blindsided. More than technology, what matters now is your organization, your culture, and the speed at which you're able to act.
Growing Your Business With Generative AI Think of AI as a co-pilot to handle mundane tasks. The work that requires creativity, emotional intelligence, empathy, or trust will still be the province of humans. 
EIX's Editorial Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI Tools You are welcome to use these tools to help draft, revise, and/or expand on submitted articles -- but make sure you understand our rules. 
How AI May Change Entrepreneurship David Townsend From coming up with an idea to creating a marketing plan, artificial intelligence adds a whole new element to starting a business.
Family business mergers enjoy greater harmony and better financial performance than mergers involving non-family firms. Read more...
A study of 13,500 family firms shows that nearly half of heirs don’t know where the assets are -- and 3 in 5 wouldn’t know what to do if the founder died suddenly. Read more...
Using AI can be risky in settings where confidentiality is key, but it can be indispensable in developing innovative services that clients expect. Here's how to harness it safely. Read more...
Consider one if your family business has 15 or more relatives involved, or multiple generations. Read more...
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