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Do Family Meals Fuel Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses?

Should families talk about their business during mealtime? On the one hand, some argue that mealtime should be about the family, with time being devoted to building family bonds and personal Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How All Kinds of Businesses Can Use AI Productively

This video, also available as a podcast, explores how entrepreneurs, family businesses, startups and others can tap into artificial intelligence to digitize parts of their business and legacy, Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Mat Hughes

Family Meals Ignite the Entrepreneurial Spirit

The family often has a strong influence on whether or not someone becomes an entrepreneur. Because they shape values, education, and experiences, families are often referred to as the "oxygen that Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Diversify Your Family's Risks by Returning to Its Entrepreneurial Roots

Family enterprises are the backbone of the world’s economy and critically important to the economic growth and development of every nation. On average, they outperform publicly owned non-family Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Serial Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Noah Alper of Noah's Bagels

  Noah Alper is best known for the business that bears his name: the West Coast chain Noah's Bagels. But he has started and exited several other businesses, including Bread & Circus, an East Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Catherine Buday

Generous Entrepreneurs Giving Back With Donor-Advised Funds

Many entrepreneurs and business owners who've made it want to share their success with others. Donor-advised funds provide a simple way to give back to the world. With these funds, which are often Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

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

How Women Can Make it in the Ultimate Man's World

More women around the world are launching their own companies, especially as the pandemic has displaced many of them from corporate work. These women already face more hurdles than men do in Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Sumaya Hashim , Lucia Naldi and Magdalena Markowska

How to Launch an Intergenerational Small Business in Midlife

This article is part of  America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the  Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation  and  EIX.  When Jordan Taylor was a Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

A Road Map for Resurgence

The end of the year is typically a time to for EIX and familybusiness.org to showcase their best-read articles from the past year in several broad themes: evaluating opportunities, financing, Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Daniel Forbes