Profile
Member Since 2014
Site Staff, EIX Editor, Family Business Editor
Daniel Forbes
Senior Editor for EIX & Associate Professor / Carlson School of Management / University of Minnesota
AUTHORED RESOURCES
Managing Conflict in New Ventures
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Poorly managed conflicts can derail a company. How to manage disagreements with co-founders, investors and others. Read More...
The Changing World of Entrepreneurial Learning Resources
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Blogs, online communities, formal programs and a few intangibles are helping us share ideas and strategies. Read More...
RX for Success: Former MinuteClinic CEO Linda Hall Shares her Stories
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Through tenacity, a thick skin and an outsider's perspective, she helped this now-ubiquitous company secure its early financing. Read More...
YOXO Founder Discusses the Serious Business of Play
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Jeff Freeland Nelson shares the inspiration behind his environmentally friendly toys. Read More...
How Can We Define 'Innovation'?
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Everybody wants it. But will you know it when you see it? Read More...
Teaching Innovation with the Film 'Objectified'
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The film examines the role of tangible, non-living everyday objects - from chairs to computers to toothbrushes - and the people who design them. I'd like to recommend the film Objectified as a useful Read More...
Innovation in K-12 Education: One District's Journey
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This suburban Minneapolis school district fostered employee-enabled, school-based innovation. Read More...
Entrepreneurs Can Benefit Society
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Big companies often are too busy or disinterested to develop beneficial products and services. 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...
When Do Scientists Commercialize Their Inventions? Insights From the Theory of Planned Behavior
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University administrators, tech transfer offices, and others can encourage more scientists and researchers to become more entrepreneurial. Read More...
Startups Can Attract Employees and Financing Through 'Borrowed' Reputations
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Startups need people and money. Their first venture capital partner can shape how future investors and employees perceive them. Read More...
Remembering Clay Christensen
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His idea of “disruptive innovation” described how entrepreneurs displace established, market-leading firms. 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.