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Why Many People Really Start Businesses in Retirement

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange.   Why Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Richard Eisenberg

My Life as a Globe-Trotting Solo Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship comes in different forms, and the experience of being a solo entrepreneur - or a “company of one” - is a form that’s attracting a great deal of interest today. In this Q&A Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Sarah Lempa and Daniel Forbes

Food for Thought: Starting a Side Hustle While Working Full-time

  About 44 million Americans, including many women, are exploring "sidepreneurship," or starting their own businesses while working full time somewhere else.  Done right, it can bring the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

The Causal Analysis: A Great Way to Tell the Financial Story

Entrepreneurs are often expected to present the current financial status of their enterprise to investors, bankers and employees.  In board meetings, the entrepreneur needs to explain their Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Phil Greenwood

Which Innovations Should You Keep When the Crisis is Over?

EDITOR'S NOTE: This popular EIX article, published during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, includes timely advice for emerging from any crisis. Although difficult to see at the moment, the Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Theodore L. Waldron and James C Wetherbe

Take a CLEAN Look at Your Business Post-COVID-19

EDITOR'S NOTE: This very popular article, published in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, includes timeless advice for helping startups, small businesses and family firms learn from adversity Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Dave Ketchen and Christopher Craighead

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: What They're Made of and How They Work

The success of any new business depends in part on the environment that surrounds it. In the same way that healthy plants depend on the soil and climate around them, new businesses depend on a Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Ben Spigel

Say Goodbye to Handshakes and Hugs

I sent my nephew, a hospital-based internal medicine doctor, a text to let him know I was thinking of him. At the end of the text, I added “sending a big hug,” my usual Aunt Paula Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Paula Caligiuri

How MIT Helped Cultivate Generations of Entrepreneurs

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known around the world as a center of learning and knowledge creation. But what is less well-known is the central role the university has played in Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Edward Roberts and Daniel Forbes

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting a Part-Time Business in Retirement

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange.  Part of Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Leslie Hunter-Gadsden