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Seven Legal Pitfalls Your Startup Should Avoid

  Fail fast is a catchy phrase intended to suggest moving on quickly if a business idea flops. It should not be taken as a license to recklessly trip over basic legal, regulatory, or fundraising Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Author: Paul Swegle

3 Profitable Home Businesses Launched in the Pandemic

Podcast producer Glen Munoz This article is part of  America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the  Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation  and Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Margie Zable Fisher

Small Businesses to Start in 2021

Seth and Mark Samuelson are reaping profits from the gardening trend   |  Credit: courtesy of Seth and Mark Samuelson This article is part of  America's Entrepreneurs , a Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Nancy Collamer

Smart Move for Your Home Business: Hiring a Virtual Assistant

This article is part of  America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the  Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation  and  EIX.  Six months after Tamara Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

Media Attention Helps Private Equity Firms Attract Resources

New firms can attract resources by sending out signals about their quality. They do this because a new firm’s quality is often uncertain and hard to observe. But we don’t know much about what Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Tom Vanacker

Paychex Founder Tom Golisano's Advice for Innovators

MAJOR TAKEAWAYS: Make sure you totally understand an industry before you get into it. Don't assume that somebody with equity in your company will work harder. Compliment your competitors in front of Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Catherine Buday and Jon Eckhardt

Reciprocity: Matching 'Asks' and 'Resources' for Entrepreneurs

Every entrepreneur knows that a large part of their success depends on their ability to find advice, connections, and resources that will help them on their journey (Davidsson & Honig, 2003; Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Corey Breier

How MIT Helped Cultivate Generations of Entrepreneurs

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known around the world as a center of learning and knowledge creation. But what is less well-known is the central role the university has played in Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Edward Roberts and Daniel Forbes

The 5 Mortal Sins of New Product Development

Sometimes an innovator or new company has an idea for a product that seems to have blockbuster potential -- only to fizzle and flop.  Why does this happen? In this interview with EIX's Kim Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Scholars Should Study Everyday Entrepreneurs, Not Gazelles

Alongside the business media, academic research on entrepreneurship has been consumed by Silicon Valley mania, caught up for decades in the wild hype over startup “unicorns” and “gazelles.” Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Howard E. Aldrich and Martin Ruef