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Is Structure Good or Bad for Startups?

After the emergence of the Lean Startup, many entrepreneurs choose to test the market for their product and run a lot of experiments before scaling their businesses. At the same time, some take a Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Andrea Contigiani

a16z Brings Thought Leadership to the Valley

Back in the depths of the Great Recession, two World Wide Web pioneers set up shop on Menlo Park, Calif.’s venture capital enclave, Sand Hill Road. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of early Web Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Robert Buday , Charles Eesley and James C Wetherbe

Getting Married? Protect Your Business Venture With a Prenup

A prenuptial agreement (prenup) is a legal contract between prospective spouses to modify the terms of their marriage that would otherwise be governed by state law. Although a prenup does not mean Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: James Hoffman and Dwight Kealy

Marketing Strategies for a New Entrepreneur

Editor’s note: In this series, Next Avenue will follow Patricia Wynn as she embarks on becoming an entrepreneur with her North Carolina lifestyle assistant business. Future installments will note Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Leslie Hunter-Gadsden

Field of Dreams: Exploration of Entrepreneurial Possibilities

For several decades, entrepreneurship scholarship has been fixated on understanding the “the processes of discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities” (Shane & Venkataraman, Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Michael Lounsbury and Tim Hannigan

Measuring Your Social Impact: What the Research Says

Consumers, policymakers and society at large are caring more and more about businesses' commitment to loftier causes than just making money, such as social justice, the environment, and the welfare Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Hans Rawhouser , Michael Cummings and Scott Newbert

Building a Company Step by Step Ch. 11: Product and Company Positioning

  EIX is featuring 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." Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Building a Company Step By Step Ch. 10: Get Out of the Building and Sell

  EIX is featuring 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." Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Entrepreneurship in an Era of Digital Transformation

  Entrepreneurs face many challenges when building a new company from an innovative idea -- financial pressures, networking for seed money, satisfying venture investors who have their own Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD

Building a Company Step by Step, Ch. 8: Introduction to Customer Validation

  EIX is featuring 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." Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Jon Eckhardt