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From Riches to Rags and Back: One Entrepreneur's Heartfelt Journey

Many entrepreneurs dream of the day when their hard work pays off with riches and financial security.  For Grant Muller, that day came before he was age 30, when the startup he was involved in Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Grant Muller

Entrepreneurship in an Era of Digital Transformation

  Entrepreneurs face many challenges when building a new company from an innovative idea -- financial pressures, networking for seed money, satisfying venture investors who have their own Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD

Today's Innovators Can Prosper by Building a Better Tomorrow

About a decade ago Josh Tetrick, after doing charity work in sub-Saharan Africa for the UN and teaching there as a Fulbright Scholar, decided to channel his idealism into a company.  He Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Chunka Mui

Research With a Twist: Podcast Pairs Insights with Beer, Wine and Spirits

Sitting at a local brewery with Brad Werner , my colleague at Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, I was excited to dive into a white paper on advancing entrepreneurship Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Jeffrey York

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

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

eFest2018 Winner is Making Life More Colorful for Diabetics

Meghan Sharkus of ExpressionMed, the eFest2018 grand prize winner, has made it her mission to make life more fun and fashionable for diabetics who must wear insulin devices every day. The colorful Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

Georgia State Team is e-Fest 2019 Grand Prize Winner

To learn more about eFest, EIX's competition for undergraduate business ideas, click here . MINNEAPOLIS, April 14, 2019 -- We are very pleased to announce the results of our 2019 Schulze Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

Startup Founders: You Can't Get Back Family Time

Steve Blank has had a celebrated career as serial entrepreneur and founder of the Lean Startup movement, which for the first time gave startups a methodology for success. Best known as the Father of Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Catherine Buday and Steve Blank

Why You Should Have a Lawyer on Your Startup Board

In 1979, Personal Software began selling Visicalc, the first personal computer spreadsheet. Visicalc was so compelling, people bought Apple II computers just so they could use Visicalc, making it the Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Dustin Slade