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Restaurant Icon Frank DePasquale Shares Recipe for Success

Boston restauranteur Frank DePasquale has built his empire with this recipe: Learn as much as you can from other entrepreneurs and those who work for you. Listen to your customers. Hug your Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Trust But Verify: How Startups Can Build Healthy Strategic Alliances

Outsourcing is growing trend for startups. Since new ventures often lack resources, they can augment their capabilities by working with other companies -- often much less expensive than hiring staff Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: John Friar , Kimberly Eddleston , Tucker Marion and David Deeds

Social Entrepreneurship Deserves Better Research

Social entrepreneurs have become celebrated members of the humanitarian community. Using creative thinking and sound business principles, they are tackling vexing social problems such as poverty, Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: Brett Smith

Entrepreneurship in the Laboratory Can Save Lives

“ Entrepreneurship starts with the discovery of an economic opportunity, which is preceded by a conjecture of the relative value of resources” (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000) The above quote could Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Phillip Phan

How Eric Martell Cooked up a 'Digital Food Court'

Eric Martell co-founded EatStreet as a 19-year-old to create a "digital food court" and online ordering for mom-and-pop restaurants serving hungry college students. His startup has now grown to 110 Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Cabbies and Capital: Migrants are Re-shaping the Developing World

Let’s not bury the lead: Today, the richest, most daring and influential group of venture capitalists in the world are migrants from developing countries. That’s right, migrants -- the cabbie Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Paul Vaaler

Gimme Shelter: ABODO's Slocum Talks About his Apartment-Hunting Breakthrough

Alec Slocum started his smartphone-based apartment-hunting service, ABODO, after being frustrated in his own search for shelter. He sat down recently with Jon Eckhardt to talk about how he launched Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Jon Eckhardt

The Odyssey of Isomark's Life-Saving Technology

Joe Kremer's company, Isomark, provides life-saving technology that can detect potentially deadly illnesses early through a simple breath test. In this interview Kremer talks about how Isomark was Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Jon Eckhardt

What Venture Capital Can Do for Your Company

  The financial market can be daunting for new entrepreneurs. Anyone who tries to be a part of it without understanding how it works, the players on the buy and sell sides, and their economic Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Eapen Chacko

Want to Give Your Entrepreneurship Students Real-World Experience? Try Consulting Projects

How many professors can say that students talk about what they learned in their class during a job interview? Or that their students routinely save small businesses from the brink of bankruptcy? Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Laura Beohner and Kimberly Karter