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Member Since 2014
Site Staff, Public Member, EIX Editor Emeritus
Daniel Forbes
Senior Editor for EIX & Associate Professor / Carlson School of Management / University of Minnesota
AUTHORED RESOURCES
How Entrepreneurs Can Manage Conflict in a Startup Team
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Startup conflicts can damage trust, execution and performance. Entrepreneurs can manage them better by distinguishing task conflict from relationship conflict. Read More...
How Steve Jobs Helped Expand Entrepreneurial Learning Around the World
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Books, blogs, communities and entrepreneurship programs now spread startup knowledge widely. Steve Jobs helped accelerate the technologies and culture behind that shift. Read More...
How Linda Hall Helped Turn MinuteClinic Into a Healthcare Innovation Success
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Linda Hall explains how she helped rescue MinuteClinic from financial trouble and build momentum for a new model of convenient healthcare delivery. Read More...
Why Aspiring Entrepreneurs Should Consider Studying Theater
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YOXO Founder Jeff Freeland Nelson shares lessons on creativity, product failure, angel funding and why future entrepreneurs may benefit from studying theater. Read More...
How Can We Define 'Innovation'?
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Innovation means more than having a new idea. This guide explains what innovation is, why it matters, and how it differs from and overlaps with entrepreneurship. Read More...
How 'Objectified' Helps Students Understand Product Design and Innovation
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Objectified gives students a behind-the-scenes look at ideation, product design, customer empathy and the environmental impact of everyday products. Read More...
How Minnetonka Public Schools Built a Culture of Innovation
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Minnetonka created a district-wide system that helped teachers and staff propose, test and develop ideas that improved learning and school programs. Read More...
How Entrepreneurs Create Value by Finding Overlooked Opportunities
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Large companies may overlook promising products and markets. Entrepreneurs can turn those neglected opportunities into useful products and successful businesses. Read More...
Teaching Students to Design and Commercialize New Products: A Journey in its Third Decade
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Many schools want entrepreneurship classes that are “cross-campus” and “experiential.” This class at University of Minnesota does both. Read More...
How to Encourage Scientists to Commercialize University Research
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Universities can spur more academic entrepreneurship by changing scientists’ perceptions, strengthening peer support and reducing perceived barriers. Read More...
Why VC Reputation Matters for Startup Hiring and Fundraising
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Venture capital affiliations can shape how outsiders view a startup. Employees and investors, however, interpret VC reputation in different ways. Read More...
Remembering Clayton Christensen and His Impact on Innovation
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Clayton Christensen popularized disruptive innovation and reshaped management thinking. Josh Gans reflects on the man, his work and his legacy. Read More...
Online Teaching Resources from EIX
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We have many free and peer-reviewed resources that can easily be used in an online course. Check them out here. Read More...
Virtual care startup Zipnosis aids the fight against the coronavirus
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This company has given health care systems a way to quickly reach large numbers of patients seeking answers about their respiratory health. Read More...
How MIT Helped Cultivate Generations of Entrepreneurs
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EIX talks with Prof. Ed Roberts about his new book, the genesis of blockbuster companies founded by MIT graduates, and how entrepreneurship can thrive around the world. Read More...
My Life as a Globe-Trotting Solo Entrepreneur
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Sarah Lempa discusses how she became a "company of one" and has spent the last several years building a career for herself as a freelance writer and creative media strategist. Read More...
Making Entrepreneurial Decisions in an Age of Disruption
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Entrepreneurs are accustomed to making decisions amid uncertainty. But sometimes that uncertainty can be compounded by prolonged, disruptive changes in the business environment. Read More...
Back to School: Resources for an Uncertain Time
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Colleges and universities everywhere are grappling with how to teach in fall of 2020: online only, on campus or a hybrid. These articles will help entrepreneurship educators be prepared for whatever happens. Read More...
Starting a Company When You Have a Day Job
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Consultant and author Todd Connor provides wise advice about leaving salaried work and keeping an eye on tomorrow, without jeopardizing your financial future. Read More...
A Road Map for Resurgence
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With a vaccine on the way, we feel the best advice for 2021 is to focus on what comes next. These articles from the past year can inform your game plan for the post-Covid world that will dawn in a few months. Read More...
Colleagues Celebrate a Leader Who Empowered Others
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What makes for a great leader, whether it's of a startup or a giant company? These tributes to Best Buy Founder Dick Schulze can point the way. Read More...
Learn From Leaders: Developing an Idea
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The founders and CEOS of Best Buy, Minute Clinic, LegalZoom and other successful companies share their advice for early-stage entrepreneurs in our exclusive video series. Read More...
Learn from Leaders #2: Getting the Financing Your Venture Needs to Survive
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In Part 2 of our exclusive video series, celebrated entrepreneurs discuss how they convinced early investors and lenders to take a chance on them. Read More...
Learn From Leaders #3: Advisors and Mentors
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Mentors and carefully chosen advisors can help founders make sound decisions. Watch and learn how these advocates helped shape MinuteClinic, LegalZoom and other firms. Read More...
Learn from Leaders #4: Building a Team
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As part of our exclusive video series, leaders of celebrated companies discuss how to attract and incentivize your startup team, and how those teams can evolve as the company matures. Read More...
Learn from Leaders #5: Growing the Business
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Once you've established a new company, how do you get it to the next level? Founders of celebrated companies share their experiences in our exclusive video series. Read More...
Learn From Leaders: Famous Founders' Best Advice for New Ventures
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These five exclusive videos focus on the critical steps in launching a company: developing an idea, getting financing, advisors and mentors, building a team and growing the business. Read More...
The New Normal: Overcoming Post-Pandemic Challenges to Survival and Growth
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How to power through this new phase of supply chain problems, labor shortages, frozen networks and the "great resignation." Read More...
Challenge for 2022: Innovating Despite Uncertainty
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Our best-read articles in 2021 overwhelmingly fell into two themes: survival, and bringing a great idea from concept to market. Read More...
Bringing Research-Based Insights to a Wider Audience: Our Partnership With Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
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Our longest partnership has brought research-based practical takeaways to practicing entrepreneurs. Read More...
A Life Linking Science and Practice: Remembering Andy Van de Ven
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This professor, author, teacher and mentor worked to build stronger partnerships between researchers and practitioners, and more supportive environments for innovators. Read More...
EIX's Editorial Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI Tools
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You are welcome to use these tools to help draft, revise, and/or expand on submitted articles -- but make sure you understand our rules. Read More...
How Scientist-Inventors Move Ideas From Lab to Marketplace
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At universities, some of the earliest and most important commercialization efforts are undertaken by the individual scientists who come up with new inventions. Read More...
Small Businesses and the Social Fabric of Urban Neighborhoods
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Many businesses must overcome operational and cultural challenges and find partners and advocates in the public and private sectors. Read More...
Top 10 Articles From 2024 Focused on Early-Stage Challenges
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Other popular themes were the challenges of AI, when to hire an attorney, and how to think strategically and communicate better. Read More...
New Partnership Will Share Research-Based Insights from Academy of Management Discoveries
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Part of our mission at EIX and FamilyBusiness.org is giving entrepreneurs access to new knowledge generated by top-notch academic research. As part of that mission, we have partnered with Academy of Read More...
EDITOR'S PICKS
Capturing Kahneman's take on entrepreneurs' biases
http://www.richardhughesjones.com/daniel-kahneman-cognitive-biases-entrepreneurs/Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, who died March 27, was well-known for his pathbreaking work at the intersection of economics and psychology, which has shed light on how people make decisions in a wide range of circumstances. In this blog post (see link), executive coach Richard Hughes-Jones captures what Kahneman has to say about the cognitive biases of entrepreneurs in particular.