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How Do You Know When It's Safe to Quit Your Day Job?

On November 29, Rewire hosted a Facebook Live Q&A entitled, "How Do You Know When It's Safe to Quit Your Day Job?," led by David Deeds, Schulze Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Talk With Real Customers Before the Launch

As online crowdsourcing has shown, people will support a proposed business or cause that moves them. For entrepreneurs, the ability to test a proposed product or service's uniqueness and appeal has Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Dan Holland

How Can We Define 'Innovation'?

Innovation is a kind of Holy Grail in the world today. Companies strive for it, consumers often reward it, and policy-makers say we need more of it. But many people still find themselves asking, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Daniel Forbes

Retooling Products to Reach New Markets: The Lindt Candy Dilemma

OVERVIEW The purpose of this exercise is to help entrepreneurship students understand the importance of retooling products to reach new markets. In this exercise students are required to generate and Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

A Father/Son Sitdown: Howard and Steven Aldrich

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

The Spectacular Rise of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

Emerging economies typically get a boost when their homegrown industries partner with multinational giants on research and innovation. Such strategies have lifted the fortunes of China, Malaysia and Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Kristin Brandl , Ram Mudambi and Vittoria G. Scalera

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

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

Ann Winblad, Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist

In a candid interview with EIX's David Deeds, Ann Winblad, co-founder and managing director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, shares her war stories -- including her earliest entrepreneurial Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: David Deeds

Navigating the Business Model Maze

By William Schulze, Robert Wuebker, and Gerry Campbell Innovative business models are wonderful … but using the wrong business model to re-imagine your business can be dangerous! A look at business Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Bill Schulze