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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

Growing a Venture With Private Equity: A Buy-and-Build Approach

It requires significant leadership experience and a track record of originating deals and integrating Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Author: Ted Clark

What to Know Before Starting a Franchise Business

Instead, transferable skills in things like leadership, marketing, project management, customer service Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Beau Henderson

The Ideal Entrepreneurship Program for High Schoolers

(Social Entrepreneurship), an elective class through another student-led program known as LEAD (Leadership Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Marisa Patel-O'Connor

Learn From Leaders: Famous Founders' Best Advice for New Ventures

  Over the past several years EIX editors have interviewed the founders and CEOs of groundbreaking companies, and we've published videos of those conversations on our site. Recently we re-edited Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Jon Eckhardt

How 'Job Creators' Think

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

Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge Highlights e-Fest® 2018

Sponsored by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, and EIX.org, a non-profit online platform for entrepreneurship Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

'Home Field Advantage' Works in Business as well as Baseball

Entrepreneurs with great ideas often feel they must pull up stakes and move to a region that is known as a hub for their specific industry.  But research that we published in 2012 suggests that Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl

Non-Competes Are a Double-Edged Sword

Among these luminaries, Elon Musk pioneered SpaceX and assumed leadership at Tesla. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Cassandra Torgnes

Disruptors v. Defenders: Course-Length Corporate Entrepreneurship Simulation

Thought Leadership Media – Create some kind of value artifact to establish your credibility in the industry Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: John H. Wilson