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When Marnie Abramson started her own environmental consulting business, sustainability was not yet on the radar with most companies. In fact, her partners were asked, "Why are you partnering with a Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Dave Feldman
Business journalism is filled with stories that lionize “born entrepreneurs” who turned a childhood business into serious money. These stories make it easy for people who think they Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Author: Ron Mitchell
Starting with his first business mowing neighbors' lawns, serial entrepreneur Mike Dulworth relished the freedom of being his own boss. He also preferred solitary sports such as tennis and Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Nicholas Vitalari
More than 20 years ago, Steven Aldrich showed the Mosaic Browser to his father, noted entrepreneurship professor Howard Aldrich. It was a time when Steven was imagining a future in helping Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Howard E. Aldrich
Introduction In October of 2014, Frances Courtepointe 1 started a Kickstarter campaign for her venture Phenom Fabrics 1 . She promised hand dyed fabric "fat-quarter" cuts - a 18” x 22” Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Authors: Eden Blair and Tanya Marcum
Poornima Vijayashanker is the founder of Femgineer, an educational business that empowers forward-thinking techies of all backgrounds and promotes inclusiveness in the high-tech industry. She was Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Matt Younkle's earliest commercial venture -- a product called "TurboTap" that poured beer faster -- almost didn't happen. His first product demo for Anheuser-Busch did not go well. But Younkle came Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Jon Eckhardt
Seth Goldman, founder and "TEO" of Honest Tea, believes in market-based solutions to social problems. In this discussion with Dave Feldman, he talks about how he integrates his business with Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Dave Feldman
Markets are a strong mechanism that force entrepreneurs to produce outputs that are useful to customers. Ironically and sadly, schools that groom future entrepreneurs too often don’t consider Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Authors: Jon Eckhardt and James C Wetherbe
Corporate funding helps make business/entrepreneurial research relevance and practicality by ensuring market value of the results (Eckhardt and Wetherbe). However, many university Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Author: James C Wetherbe