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Bankers or Brokers? For Favored Firms, VCs Invest More than Dollars

By Emily Pahnke, Ji Youn (Rose) Kim, Michael Howard and Warren Boeker Venture capitalists bankroll invention, but is signing checks the only contribution they make to the world of innovation? Our Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Emily Pahnke

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

Who Will Be Your Competitors in the Future?

Most entrepreneurs know the competitors they face today; namely, other businesses that compete for the same customers in the same or similar markets or industries. However, many dissimilar companies Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Stephen Downing , Jin-Su Kang and Gideon Markman

A Crash Course in Hiring Your Startup's First Employees

It is always exciting when a startup grows big enough to hire beyond the founding team. It can also be frightening for the founders, because being an employer means new responsibilities: Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Gavin Williamson

Cashless Businesses Make Change

Companies that went cashless in the past few years, whether to increase the speed of transactions or reduce the theft of cash, are experiencing some whiplash. Take salad chain Sweetgreen, which Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Hanna Horvath

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The Short Version EIX.org, EIEXCHANGE.com, FAMILYBUSINESS.org, the e-Fest® Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Read More...

'Champions' Make Diverse Spin-off Teams More Successful

university-based spin-offs can be unsuccessful, as these academic entrepreneurs typically have limited social Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Kathryn Kloepfer , Roland Kidwell and Kevin Cox

Professors Share Best Practices for the Online Classroom

Regardless of whether you teach entrepreneurship, family business or a different topic, or if you have Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Non-Competes Are a Double-Edged Sword

research on non-competes unanimously found that non-competes hinder wage growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Cassandra Torgnes