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Much has been said about the importance of “job creators,” mainly small and medium-sized startups and businesses, as engines of economic growth. Far less has been said about the thinking Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Authors: Keith Brigham , Ron Mitchell and Jeff Stambaugh
Only a small fraction of entrepreneurial start-ups go on to achieve long-lasting success. Most often, they fail not because of flawed “big ideas” but because of problems executing the big ideas. Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Brian Janz
As digital technologies continue to fuel the rise of new companies around the world, it's easy to presume that raising money is the startups’ biggest challenge. But a larger and often-overlooked Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Robert Buday
From a practitioner’s viewpoint, networking is a useful tool for entrepreneurs who wish to enlarge their span of action and save time. Admonitions to “network,” however, may not be enough. Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Howard E. Aldrich
Women who start new businesses with men have limited opportunities to move into leadership roles, according to a study we conducted at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and when they Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Howard E. Aldrich
Dick Schulze, the founder of Best Buy and EIX, shares his experiences as an entrepreneur and innovator, including how he tripled his income from his boyhood paper route; quit a retail job when his Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: James C Wetherbe
Entrepreneurial startups have the advantage of nimbleness that comes from being small and collaborative. They are a speedboat compared to the corporate barges they compete against in the early stages Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: James C Wetherbe