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What I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Business

I really fundamentally did not know much — or anything — about any of the businesses I started. Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Richard Eisenberg

Entrepreneurial Brinkmanship: Lessons Learned from Best Buy and FedEx

It is during this time when leaders must combine the art of brinkmanship with entrepreneurship. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: James C Wetherbe

RX for Success: Former MinuteClinic CEO Linda Hall Shares her Stories

Were there telltale signs early on in your life that demonstrated an interest in entrepreneurship? Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Linda Hall

LegalZoom Co-Founder: Trick Yourself to do the Impossible

I don't know anyone, I don't know a single person who succeeded at entrepreneurship and doesn't have Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Nicholas Vitalari

YOXO Founder Discusses the Serious Business of Play

I've also been named a Schulze distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship by the Richard M. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Daniel Forbes

How Best Buy Engages Employees in Putting Customers First

Most businesses say that they put the customer first. Yet customers today are more ready than ever to bolt. The changing fortunes of even venerable chains such as Macy's and Sears shows that no Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Richard Schulze and Kimberly Eddleston

Learn From Leaders: Developing an Idea

  Over the past several years EIX editors have interviewed famous and noteworthy founders and CEOs of groundbreaking companies, and published the videos of those discussions on our site. We Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Jon Eckhardt and Daniel Forbes

Green Giant: Grocer Scott Nash on Organic Growth

EIX's Dave Feldman talks with the founder and CEO of Mom's Organic Market, whose business started in his mother's garage and has grown like a beanstalk.  A self-described former "juvenile Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Dave Feldman

LinkedIn CoFounder: Start with a Team, Not an Idea

EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay by one of five co-founders of LinkedIn, the 500 million-member social network for professionals, is part of our EIX feature entitled “The Entrepreneur Essay.” Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Konstantin Guericke

Paychex Founder Tom Golisano's Advice for Innovators

MAJOR TAKEAWAYS: Make sure you totally understand an industry before you get into it. Don't assume that somebody with equity in your company will work harder. Compliment your competitors in front of Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Catherine Buday and Jon Eckhardt