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SNL Humor Can Illustrate [Un]Viable Business Models

In a very funny 2014 skit from Saturday Night Live, Melissa McCarthy plays a founder with a business idea – personally eating people’s leftover pizza – and is trying to get a small business Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Danielle Ailts Campeau and Michelle Somes-Booher

Disruptors v. Defenders: Course-Length Corporate Entrepreneurship Simulation

Disruptors v. Defenders is a virtual, team-based entrepreneurship immersion simulation fueled by individual work and team coordination, spanning an entire course term. This exercise is designed to Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: John H. Wilson

Class Explores Legal Aspects of Business Entities

In 2011, I created a Law and the Entrepreneur course at Bradley University. It was the first course on its campus created for its new Turner School of Entrepreneurship. This course is exclusively for Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Tanya Marcum

The Ideal Entrepreneurship Program for High Schoolers

“Sharks? Change the channel! I don’t do sharks,” my 12-year-old self told my older brother after I saw that he had put on some show known as Shark Tank. We ended up making a compromise in which Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Marisa Patel-O'Connor

Why Do Startups Succeed or Fail: Teams, Ideas or Execution?

Startups succeed or fail for a variety of reasons: no market need, not the right team, timing, running out of cash, premature scaling and more. It is important for students to understand this so that Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Chuck Sacco